BRUTAL KATANA

A fast paced parkour game, made by John Fast. This game reminds me a lot of Neon White, but cheaper, shorter and simpler. There aren't many mechanics, but the ones that you have are fun to use, and the levels mix them well enough. You have 2 slashes to cut different types of enemies, wall run, wall jump, slide and a sort of grappling hook (which isn't used much, sadly). It's really fun to try to get the fastest clears and obtain 3 stars on every level. There are 48 levels, but they will go by really quickly. Most of your playtime will be improving your times, if you're into that. Visually, the game looks pretty simple, but nice. The music gets a little repetitive, but it's cool that you can swap between 4 types of playlists. Finally, there is some sort of story, but it's literally just "kill all enemies" and that's it. But yeah, it's a really fun game, had a great time trying to improve my parkour and slashing skills on each level!

I really want to like BRUTAL KATANA, and it's one of the million games I wish I had a mixed rating for; but it's really underwhelming because it does so much right but so much wrong. Firstly, the main general like movement is GREAT, but the wall jump literally is nothing and sucks. And this puts it down a lot because so much of the level design relies heavily on it and it incredibly slows you down for no reason, and feels terrible. There's two main enemy types in the game; left click, and right click. And that's not terrible for design, but if you have slightly bad eyesight you're ruined for this game because you can barely tell them apart, especially when you're going at a billion miles an hour. If it was literally just color coded or something, it'd be a lot better. I don't know, it's a fine game fundamentally but literally two things bring it down so much to the point of where I don't wanna.. play it. It feels fun for a bit, but I'm constantly reminded by it's drawbacks and really wish they were addressed. 5/10

It is a very unique platformer. It is relatively short, with 48 levels that you can complete in 20 minutes (if you're better than me), and 100%ing the game typically takes another 30 minutes (if you're better than me.) For its price tag its definitely a nice game to waste some time in.