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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
iOS (iPhone/iPad)
Released On: Mar 24, 2011
86
7.1
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
86
91% Positive
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
9% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
86
91% Positive
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
9% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This is one of the best games of 2011. Never thought I'd be saying that about an iPhone title.
Playing Sword and Sworcery is like watching a spectacularly weird animated indie film, and we want to recognize these kinds of creative leaps on the iOS platform. We recommend picking up Sword and Sworcery for the music and visuals alone, but sometimes the gameplay isn't up to the same "mythopoetic" standards.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 60 User Ratings
7.1
58% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
20% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
22% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 60 User Ratings
7.1
58% Positive
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
20% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
22% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
This is a fantastic little game with a great pixel art style, a cool soundtrack and a tragic but enthralling story. I highly recommend it for anyone who likes fantasy style adventure games.
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All told, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery is a magnificent game. It elevates experience of play far beyond the mundane of it's peers, and at many times moves the player emotionally in entirely unexpecting ways. Though easily billed as an "art game", I think such terms belittle the events of the game. It's not a game of irony that most art games are. Rather it's a moving experience that reveals the vast majority of games to be trite, shallow, and unambitious.
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This is a unique game, both for visuals, sound and gameplay, although it is a shame it hasn't been localized to more languages.
With a beautiful soundtrack, lovely retro-visuals and a perfectly narrated story, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is a game you should absolutely own on you iPad. Maybe you'll like it, maybe not, but you can't deny the stunning quality of this act of love to the adventure genre.
Even if you find yourself irked by the tone, it is impossible to ignore the passion and creativity that went into creating Sworcery.
This self-described "meandering, mytho-poetic adventure" is a gorgeous, if sometimes aimless, step forward for independent games on the iOS platform.
Despite an amazing sound design and some gorgeous 8-bits stylized visuals, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery is less an enthusiastic and challenging videogame than an interactive story, sometimes too repetitive and flawed.
simply amazing, nostalgic, magnificence. the best ios game yet and possibly one of the best games ever. at the 4 dollar price calling it a steal is an understatement. then there's the incredible music. its basically a pink floyd soundtrack over a tolken inspired landscape with hints of myst and earthbound like charm, go buy this now.
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iOS (iPhone/iPad)
Sure, Sword & Sworcery has the whole cliche retro/hipster thing going on, but it creates ambience and executes with enough skill to not only avoid getting annoying, but to compensate for its shortcomings as a game (eg. arbitrary "puzzles"). It has been over 3 years since it was released (which is practically an eternity on mobile), but it is still something that I would recommend experiencing to anyone with an iPhone or iPad (I'd just be careful to say "experience" rather than "play".)
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It's a bad game. Feels like an alien took point'n'click adventure and tried to copy it. So some visual similarities are there, but all the essence is gone. So final product is weird and frustrating.
Pros:
* The music is nice
* Meta-comments from the narrator are funny sometimes.
Cons:
* The gameplay is just slow backtracking and weird puzzles. Puzzles are either too simple or simply illogical and weird. Like you literally need to find what clickable on monotone gray screens. The worst one was with the strings: even knowing what to do it took me 20 tries due to controls to accomplish this.
* The controls are an abomination. In 2011 people thought that touch controls overuse is interesting. But it's just frustrating. Every puzzle needs new scheme, so you're guessing which gestures to try not how to solve. And there is no consistency. And the accuracy ****.
* The art direction is at best ok. The visuals are nostalgic and nothing else. Vector sprites and pixelated world feel really disconnected (more like a beginners project than actual art). And again, all this cloned pixel trees and stones don't look beautiful or help the gameplay
* Boss battles are a drag with weird timing.
* The world is empty. There are literally 3 NPCs leaving there. And they don't even have names or faces. So you just never care.
* The references to Zelda and Mario simply make no sense in this world. But with such an awful writing what would you expect.
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Don't know what happened to my last review. However, let me summarise. This game is terrible and can hardly be called a game. The so called artwork is "nostalgic" yes, I appreciate it would have taken effort to create and that's what lured me, but really the artwork is limited to what you see in the screen grabs it is only repetitive and uninspiring once you get playing. And by playing I mean finishing the game in around an hour. Look at the walkthoughs online if you don't believe me, there really is no content to this game. The puzzles and game play verge on non-existant and are frankly completely unrelated to the plot. Think clicking inanimate items in a specific order on screen in order to solve them. The sound that is being talked up is really very average, like a student put it together with a keyboard and sound board. The high scores here should not be believed. Please don't purchase this game as I have done, I would rate atari 2600 games above this.
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iOS (iPhone/iPad)
Summary S:S&S EP is a 21st century interpretation of the archetypical old school videogame adventure, designed exclusively for Apple's iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch. It's a mix of laid-back exploration, careful investigation & mysterious musical problem-solving occasionally punctuated by hard-hitting combat encounters. S:S&S EP i...
Platforms:
- iOS (iPhone/iPad)
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Mar 24, 2011
Developer:
- Capy Games
Publisher: Superbrothers
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