A Lenda de Niterói

I featured this game in the fourth TEM Indie Game Contest and in the end, despite being an English speaker and not knowing what was being said, it was one of the winners and earned a donation. Congratulations on the win and thank you for all the hard work and passion you put into the project.

As for the game itself:

• The art style and quality of the graphics was fantastic. The parallaxing effects for the background really added to the scale of the environments. All of the enemy and friendly NPC designs looked fantastic. All of the animations for movement, combat, and the animals was a treat to see. You can tell the person who did it cared a lot about the game.

• The music was especially interesting. I found it pretty incredible it used authentic instruments and that all the tracks sounded so great. I constantly found myself just listening to the music and taking it all in. 

• The enemy variety was great and kept me on my toes during my time playing. You really felt a sense of progression and the difference in the environments as the enemies changed.

• The controls and variation of your movements in combat was a very welcome surprise. Movement was smooth and the animations all looked fantastic. The little details like being able to attack things below you with the front flip swing when jumping and the dodge backwards really made the combat feel more complex than just hitting the enemy until they/it are dead. It made traversing through the world feel really fluid and fun to do. With all the things tucked away you constantly find yourself thinking about how you could get to some place new.

• The fact the game is meant to show such a meaningful and valuable piece of history also meant a lot to me. Being able to learn a little bit more about the history of a place and culture I have never witnessed was extremely fascinating. Unfortunately I only know English and a pathetic amount of French so I wasn't able to read any of the information shown but you could tell just by the sheer amount there was available to read that the folks behind this game are passionate and dedicated to teaching others about the history, environment, and the animals that exist within it. 

Thank you once again for all of the time and hard work you have put into the game and congratulations on being a winner of the contest. I look forward to checking it out again when there is an English translation available to play. Good luck with the development of the game, I can't wait to see how it all turns out in the end. Cheers.