97% upvoted on Steam

Best boss fights out of any game I've played, but everything else is just good. If you don't care about boss fights, you can probably skip this one, but if you do, play on Hard and don't use any health items - you're going to love it. I honestly feel it's underrated on here.

>anything that's not a boss if filler
Can you elaborate? There's a lot of sequence breaks in the game and finding badges and potions is challenging and rewarding. I understand how some metroidvanias have filler with non-boss sections (Touhou Luna Nights has plenty of that in my opinion), but I don't see how Rabi Ribi has that.
>barely metroidvania
I genuinely have no idea why you'd think this. Is it because it isn't themed like metroid or castlevania? That's about the only difference I can find.
Huh, strange that people here hate the artstyle so much, I think it looks fine.

>christian fundamentalist game reviewer is less reactionary than literally any big game ((journo)) website
Finally a reviewer I can trust

>I honestly feel it's underrated on here.
It really fucking is. I had the same experience as you user, except I had to use health items for the hardest bosses in the game otherwise I would've been filtered. I still did complete it on Hard first playthrough though!

Every time I see anyone hating on this game I always think that they played on a lower difficulty or just speedran boss fights. The most fun part is learning every pattern autistically and retrying over and over again. It's so fucking fun, the last Noah fight without any health items is one of my best experiences in gaming and it took me like 4 hours straight of attempts. I want another game like that so bad, when you get in the zone for a boss fight and are hyperfocused it's pure dopamine. Last time I had that was with the melee boss in Furi and I loved that game too.

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Funnily enough their reviews are pretty decent.

>finding badges and potions is challenging and rewarding
Kinda? Bosses scale with your badges/upgrades so it kinda disincentivises that. I know it's not a 1:1 scale but still.

>anything thats not a boss is filler
literally every metroidvania ever made besides maybe la mulana. At least Rabi-Ribi is better because it contains enough secrets and techniques to allow you to explore almost the entire map right from the start if you're good enough. I'm genuinely curious what other games you're comparing it to for you not to consider it top tier.

The game let you choose whether you want them to scale or not. Did you even play it?

Wait, really?! Even in hard mode?

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>fundamentalist

They actually seem to be pretty easy going. They just want to help other people not be so reactionary to things they might not understand and to make sure people know what they're getting into and are truly okay with it. It's pretty nice.

I must have chosen the more difficult option at the time then.

This choice is avaiable on all difficulty settings.

15 min long boss fights wore me out, had to drop the difficulty down and here's the funny part, the fights don't get any shorter, you just take less damage, so it's boring as fuck

but hey, if your kink is dodging bullet hell patterns for literally 15 min at a time (no exaggeration, it's that long), then sure, knock yourself out

the story/setting/characters are all otaku pandering trash though, extremely cringeworthy

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Not him, but ESA blows Rabi-Ribi out of the fucking water in regards to secrets, movement, sequence breaking, especially bosses, music, etc.

But then, it blows most things out of the water, so I won't fault Rabi for that.

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So just one game which you base mostly on aesthetical preference?

cool beans

Sell me on it

the person who made baba is you made it. this alone should tell you that it is high quality if you like metroidvanias

Since we're having a metroidvania thread, what did you think of this game?

It's apparently inspired by Zelda 2 and has 30+ hours of content. And I heard it's pretty difficult too, has a strict stamina system.

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>music
I disagree completely, Rabi-Ribi's soundtrack is better by far.

Sequel when?

Touhou Luna Nights fucking mogs this chinky shit.

GemaYue's new game is called Love Bunny, it's unclear if it's a sequel/spinoff or unrelated. But it's a Metroidvania/Danmaku game like Rabi Ribi. Hopefully it comes out soon.

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>drastically shorter
>story the same "who cares" tier
>gameplay somewhat interesting, bosses are the highlight
>piss poor exploration that is "go back to this out of the way room and double jump to get an upgrade" or "use this colored key to open this colored door"
no

it's the hardest game ever made, it's so hard even the artstyle filter retards

i thought it was great yeah

I downloaded this game because you shilled it so hard but honestly it sucks
The movement, controls and combat just feel so bad it's unplayable for me
Art is amazing though.

It's fun and brutally hard i doubt many people here beat bex and the true funal boss.
I know i didn't.

Great buy for its price. The only part really "inspired by Zelda 2" is the separation of overworld from sidescroller towns, dungeons and encounters. The item and upgrade progression is much more comparable to later Zeldas (even has the ocarina lifted straight from OoT). The combat doesn't have anything resembling the high/low attacks and blocks either. Instead it's built around stamina management with light and heavy attacks, an i-frame roll and healing items that take time to consume (surely I don't have to spell what they took inspiration from for all that).
Honestly, the one complaint that has stayed in my mind from playing it was I remember the story dragged on longer than I would have liked. I didn't see the 30-50 hour playtime estimate on the store page before I played it, but I can say it isn't kidding, and I felt like I had had my fill by the time the game pulled another "one more thing" that leads to several more dungeons.

Ladybug couldn't develop a decent map if their lives depended on it.

I played this a few years back. The boss fights were pretty damn cool but everything else was boring so I dropped it.

Is it a more metroid style metroidvania? I'm a huge metroidfag and nothing besides the actual games can scratch the itch very well for me.

great game held back by a goofy title and amateurish cover art that made a lot of people skip over it.

I beat the true final boss on Novice

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Everything other than the art, story and characters is serviceable

I meant erina not irisu.
Irisu is the normal final boss.
Erina is the true final boss but only in BEX if i remember right.

Yeah, I meant Erina the Forgotten Maiden. I beat the Halloween DLC, then Irisu, then Chapters 9-10. Working my way towards the SP bosses now. I'm pretty sure you can access the entire game at any difficulty. IIRC some bonus stuff is exclusive to Hard and above but that's it.

Irisu is the boss of the normal game. Erina is the boss of the DLC. Nothing difficulty related.

I hate Touhou's gameplay of projectile dodge thing, would I enjoy this?

Oh never mind then

Depends on why you hate Touhou's gameplay, but you probably wouldn't like it. Probably.

Yeah, objectively a good game.

If you like what you see in the video/pictures at the store, you will enjoy the game.

I love it.
Great music.
Great characters.
Fun dialog. I particularly enjoy Erina referring to "master" this and that.

I don't like Touhou's gameplay but I like RR, so maybe? The only thing in common with Touhou is the bosses' bullet hell attacks. And the increasingly silly reasons the bosses come up with for fighting you.
Unlike Touhou there's a heavy emphasis on combat (both melee and ranged) and platforming/exploring. Best way I can describe RR, based on my gaming experience, is 2D Metroidvania DMC.

It's awesome and you can get like100+ hours, unless you get filtered

There's only a few bosses that are actually that long, and they're either final bosses, or optional post game content. Most of the bosses in the main story are under 5 min.

It's surprisingly competent despite the cheap appearances, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece.

Its pronounced rabbih ribbih. Not rabee ribee you DAFT FUCKING CUNT

>its barely a metroidvania
Nigger you can't be this retarded. I bet you think the original Ori is a metroidvania, don't you?

>all those buffs
you didn't beat the game

The ultimate reddit filter game.

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>15 min long boss fights wore me out
Hate to tell you this user but you're just shit at the game. The only bosses that should come remotely close to 15 minutes are Irisu and Maiden Erina and those are both justified.

It's absolutely terrible. It was the last fucking time I ever trusted Yea Forums's pleb trash opinions.

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Try it yourself, it's good. It starts bad and gets better after the 2nd boss

One of my favorite games ever desu. Great level design, really fun boss fights, tons of content and replayability.

>chest mostly covered
>chest barely covered
Is this Steam censorship?

Also where the hell can I get this game that isn't Steam? I'm not spending money on video games