So, since I have been playing a lot of games on Steam as well as the Meta Quest 2, I found this Indie game known as Mist Guard that caught my eye. I had a chance to play the demo of it, and I can honestly say that I wanted to play it further.
However, Mist Guard feels like a game that I have played before. As I have said before, this is an Indie game, and it feels like it is some kind of game engine calibration. In Mist Guard, you fight as this character who looks like a Playmobil toy.
For some reason, this character is in a dungeon, and has no memory of his past. Yes, it uses that lazy video game trope, and there is a voice telling the main character to escape. From there, it is about picking up a sword and attacking people who get in your way.
It’s also about getting hearts and other things similar to The Legend of Zelda games. There is even this one part where there are these spinning fan blades, which even make the same noise as the ones in the Zelda games. There’s homage, and then there’s rip-off, and I cannot tell which this is.
There was a lot of interesting fun to be had in Mist Guard, and I can’t help but wonder what is the story involved here. Perhaps there would be a lot of dungeons with cool puzzle solving stuff. As it was, it was one boss that I had to beat with a bow and arrow, and it was really hard to aim that thing.
In short, Mist Guard is one of those games that old-school gamers will love due to its praise of nostalgia. It is available on Steam now.