Reviews

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  Hoppimike

  Oct 1, 2021

  Very fun - I like it! Some small criticisms: - You can fire most weapons at pretty much any speed depending on how fast you mash the fire button. It's effective but... I feel like the maximum fire rate of a weapon should have been the one achieved when you hold the button down. - There might be a small bug with the jumping that means that sometimes it registers you as being in the air when you're not, meaning that you only end up with 1 mid-air jump instead of 2. For the most part it's not a big problem until you reach the very final levels where one less jump kills you >.< It's hard to tell if it's a real bug or if it's just to do with very careful timing of jumps. - Roguelikes like this tend to require a fair bit of time per session. I never like that feeling that once I start a game, I might be committed to this "run" for some time! But... that's a subjective problem really. Overall though despite these fairly small problems it's a simple but very enjoyable game that I would recommend ^^
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  BunnehBunnBunn

  Feb 28, 2022

  This game is seriously fun! As in... Relaxing fun! Sure there are some platforming stuff and enemies throwing things at you... but... I had been looking for a game that didn't make me suffer so much to just pass a single level and here it was all along! You get a bunch of weapons, starting with two and then the rest are found in other biomes. There are six biomes with a boss in each one. Weapons can be maxed out at level 10, but they change form + upgrade at level 4 and 7. I did all of them. Because that's how fun they were! No favorites... But I did like when you use the frost weapon on a bat... Ahaha. XD Also..... The laser gun can shoot through ANYTHING! No obstruction can stop it! I am surprised the environment didn't get destroyed... o.o Oh and the music... The music is epic. I like it and sometimes you just sit there and listen to it, because that's how GREAT sounding it is. Right, this is rogue-kinda game and you DO get upgrades. Just don't buy "level up" if you are level 20 (MAX)... You level to 21 and then level down hah... The sword dash ability? If you use Rocket Launcher and it meets certain conditions... You throw out BOMB CLOUDS/EXPLOSIONS instead of the blue moon wave. :D There is also a challenge at the end too... For those who want to keep going... But you can't teleport to the end so... Keep that in mind. That BEAR is adorable!!! Love the game! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! :3 =) :D
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  ShootyMcBoomBoom

  May 22, 2022

  Holy! I lost my leg in the Vietnam war and I can stand again thanks to this game! Also my clicks per minute went up 6000000%. A revolver in my hands is no longer a revolver.....it's a minigun! Buy this game and you too shall turn into a super sayajin in permanent ultra instinct mode! Whooohoooooooo :D
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  Gloriette 80 of Partario Grozart

  Jul 13, 2022

  the dialogue is excruciatingly painful and the gameplay is lackluster and boring
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  MayDonutLover

  Nov 25, 2016

  At first, I heard a few negative things about Cally's Trials (aka, Cally's Caves 2), and I have to say, I don't see these negatives. Is it tough? Yes. Are there issues? Yes. But is it FUN? That's the big question. And I have to say, YES. You get weapons. You have a sword. You get to do a LOT of cool things, and it's a platformer, and it's great! Is the sequel better? Oh HEAVEN'S yes. But judging this game on its OWN merits, I have to give it a 7/10. I love the controller support, although some of the mappings don't feel quite natural. Even still, I have to rate this game pretty high because it's VERY fun! And the physics in the game are pretty clean!
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  dstreet319

  Dec 16, 2016

  Cally's Trials is an action platformer that has 110 levels to go through with some boss battles here and there. Even a LOT of weapons you can pick up and level up over the course of the game. The story isn't anything special, you play as this girl who's parents have been kidnapped by an evil doctor looking dude because he is evil and you have to rescue your parents. This game does start off nice but the further you go on you realize some really annoying mechanics. But then that leads to my first problem with this game... Leveling up you weapons doesn't make sense how it works, we would know that when we level up something in a game we expect that thing to be better right? However in this game you will do a lot of button mashing with certain weapons to kill off enemies fast. When you level up weapons some might have better damage and what not but you still feel like your button mashing the same amount of time you did before, and worst when you get to a certain level it changes the weapon a bit and makes it seem much better but the damage is reset to like a default state... So does this really seem like a proper "level up" system? The beginning of the game has this annoying as h*** character who plays a guitar and has to tell you everything about the game in case you haven't realized something earlier. Every time you run into this character the game cuts off into a cutscene with the character dialogue that gets annoying since it happens often that makes me want to be with Navi the Fairy from OoT instead! The character with the guitar has a store where you buy abilities like a triple jump or sword upgrade or shortcuts to certain levels. However the currency in this game is insane because everything costs a lot of coins that makes you have to grind for like 2 hr. to get one of the more expensive things. And whenever you fall on spikes, bottomless pit/water and get a game over you loose some money as well. Until the game decides to bring you to the beginning of the game to the store because you can't access the store anywhere else which is a terrible design choice for a shop in games IMO. Now to me the most BS thing with this game is that whenever you get a enough game overs you restart all the way back to the beginning of the game. Thank god you still get to keep all your weapons and certain amount of money. Though like I said the last paragraph everytime you get a game over you loose money and gets worst the more you have. The only way to warp to certain levels like I said is to buy shortcuts at the shop which cost a LOT of money and it takes forever to get a good amount of money. The one thing I really enjoyed from this game is the soundtrack which honestly is really good that I would listen too every now and again that I do recommend you pick up the soundtrack! Conclusion: Cally's Trails isn't a terrible game, it has what it takes to be a good action platformer but it fails later on into the game when you realize some stupid design choices that makes the game annoying at some points. I only suggest you pick this up if you are into this genre and what to get some easy achievements but do pick up the soundtrack cause its really good. Rating: 4/10
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  azureflame64

  Dec 21, 2017

  Cally's Trials is a typical "jump n' shoot" game that's cute but flawed. I got the game on sale so I don't feel like I overpaid for it, but $6.99 feels a little steep considering what you're getting. For starters, the plot as well as everything else as you'll see is fairly simply. The evil Herbert (whoever that is) has kidnapped Cally's parents and it's heavily implied this isn't the first time. It's up to Cally to enter the caves to defeat Herbert and rescue with support from a guitarist named Lloyd. There's a reason the story reads like this. While I'm not too upset over this...this game is technically Cally's Caves 2 which I did not know at the time as this is the first Cally's Caves game I've played. I bring attention to this because this game was released on Steam after Cally's Caves 3 which may lead some people to believe Cally's Trials is some kind of prequel set before CC3 when in reality it is a re-release of the second game which originally came out on iOS and Android. I'd prefer the game was just called Cally's Caves 2 to be upfront about what game this actually is. It doesn't help that it also creates confusion that CC2 and Trials are two different games when they are literally the same. The actual gameplay of Cally's Trials however, is straightforward and then some. Simply jump pass any obstacles and shoot enemies to clear the way. After going through an overwhelming number of rooms per stage (I'll get into this in a bit), you are confronted with a boss. You repeat this process 6 times until you reach a small number of extra rooms that are considered more challenging than anything up to that point (this translated into a few rooms that forced you to master your unlockable triple jump) with a surprise at the end....that ended up just being a promotional for Cally's Caves 3. I know I'm kinda making it sound bad, but I should emphasize that Cally's Trials is not a bad game. It just isn't a particularly stellar or groundbreaking game. In fact, I'd compared Cally's Trials to the Ratchet and Clank series as it kinda feels like what Ratchet would be like in 2D (we don't talk about Going Mobile). Cally is equipped with a sword which can be upgraded with money at Lloyd's shop. The sword can destroy projectiles and is Cally's only melee weapon. Guns were obviously the main focus as Cally has lots of them that she collects throughout the caves. Each gun can be upgraded through continuous use against enemies. The guns also transform at certain levels and gain new abilities like faster fire rate, more damage, bigger bullets, and so on. Sound familair? The guns are relatively balanced with some of the earlier ones being notable weaker which is understandable. I did find the Blade Gun and Ice Gun to be the most useful and the Spike Gun made the bees easier to deal with as well as providing some engaging platforming opportunities. I did find the Bomb Gun to be oddly underpowered considering it's the last gun in the game. The additional explosions don't do any damage and while it is the strongest gun in terms of pure damage, you can kill enemies faster with the Blade Gun or Boomerang due to simply getting in more hits at a much faster rate, That said, I'd argue the worst weapon in the game is the Laser Gun. It just kinda...exists, it's not particulary powerful, and I THINK it goes through walls, but I think that was just me exploiting some weird collisions in the game. Speaking of which, before getting into the enemies, lets cover a few oddiities in the game. You can get stuck on walls by essentially jumping into them. You aren't permanently glitched into it or anything. It just comes off as the walls and such being made of several squares and Cally can kinda stand in the walls, if that makes any sense, and occassionally needs to be nudged out. There's also a coin multiplier in the game to make buying stuff easier that doesn't really operate well. It works, but if you buy the x5 multiplier and then go back and buy the x2 multiplier...that NERFS your multiplier from x5 to x2 and it's irreversable. You need to either buy the x2 multiplier first or ignore the x2 after getting the x5. They should've made it so you couldn't buy the x5 without buying the x2 especially since this is how the game treats every other upgrade you get from Lloyd. Enemies in Cally's Trials aren't too bad, but they could use some work. I don't know if Cally's Caves 3 addresses this, but many enemies do roughly if not exactly the same thing and feel a lot like reskins than anything else. The bears, wolves, and knife bandits all walk back and forth. The bandits will stab if you get in front of this, but that isn't enough to not make it feel like there's essentially 3 versions of one type of enemy in the game. There are enemies that shoot projectiles, flying enemies, and so on so there is a bit of variety here and there, but there should have been more to them. Like, the bandits could have only taken damage in the back and deflected bullets with their knives if hit from the front. Certain enemies could have been immune to hitstun. Aside from certain enemies being sensitive to certain guns (ex: the bats can be killed in one hit by the Ice Gun), there wasn't too much done to make enemy encounters feel unique. This sadly spills into what I considering the weakest part of the game. The bosses just aren't imaginative at all. Each boss has a set pattern, walk back and forth while shooting a whole bunch of stuff (the first boss doesn't even shoot anything). You're encouraged to not just run up against a boss and attack from a distance and thanks to the angle you often enter a boss room in, the Bow feels artificially stronger since bosses tend to be centered below you and the arrows from the Bow have a downward arc. Even Herbert just hurls as many projectiles as possible while weaving back and forth across the stage. It just isn't very interesting and enemies in this game aren't exactly low on health. That's ultimately Cally's Trials biggest issue. I finished everything in around 12 hours and I can say that half way through the game, things were getting old. The repetition wouldn't be so bad if there were collectibles (something Cally's Caves 3 has) or something else of value to do, but all you ever do is gain experience to level up and money to buy more upgrades. Once you're fully upgraded, none of the chest mean anything because nothing of value is in them anymore. It's just more money. It also doesn't help that the game also wants you to buy checkpoints to reach later levels without grinding from the first cave all the way to the last boss. Even the achievements are centered around grinding. One last criticism I want to lay out here is that each "world", for lack of better words, really started to last too long. They could have taken some of the levels and split them into about 8 or so different worlds and gave them some kind of central theme other than "random part of the cave". The rooms just start to mesh into each other pass a certain point both in terms of level design and visuals. Considering that you have to start a world from the beginning if you die to an enemy, it would be nice if 5 - 10 minutes of lost time wasn't on the line. I didn't find the game to be particularly hard, but that just made it all the more clear to me how long the levels were lasting. All that said, the art is your typical pixel art style and I did like some of the animations, especially on the Knife Bandit. The music is solid though it would have benefited from being themed around the levels which themselves didn't have any themes to there designs. One of the tracks even sounds like "bad ending" or "game over" music and it just plays randomly like every other song that's just cycled throughout the game on a playlist. Sound design is perfectly fine. Nobody talks or grunts or anything though bees making a loud buzzing sound after dying was a little odd to me.
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  leonski goldberg

  Jan 26, 2018

  for less than 10 bucks its hard to go wrong. People give this game alot of unwarrented hate it is a port of a mobile version of cally's caves 2 so you have to frame that into context before talking poorly. all in all a good game not a great one but good enough 6/10
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  ThatScaryChick

  Feb 5, 2018

  Although Cally's Trials has quite a few negative reviews (and I do agree with some of them on some of the issues) I still found myself enjoying the game so far and I find it to be a cute little platformer game and was worth the 2 bucks that I spent on it.
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  Popsleo

  Mar 11, 2018

  A fun little game with weapons that level up, not very complex, maybe a little overpriced. Overall, if you just want a fun little time waster, buy it; if you want immersion or difficulty this is not for you.
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  tonydecoste

  Jun 25, 2018

  REVIEW UPDATE: This is an update to my previous review (which I left below). I initially did not like this game nearly as much as Cally's Caves 3/4 for a number of reasons, mostly the fact that there are no check point levels so if you die you get sent back to the very beginning of the game. You can purchase short cuts to the beginning of each world, but that's it. That's still kind of a gripe, but after taking advantage of an exploit at the end of world 1 I was able to quickly level up both my weapons and Cally so I had 14 hit points instead of six. Once you defeat Mama Bear and exit the level to enter world 2 go back through the door to the Mama Bear boss fight. You can just stand on the first ledge behind her and keep shooting her in the back. This feels cheap and it's definitely a form of cheating but since doing this I find the game much more enjoyable. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I think I ruined this game for myself by playing Cally's Caves 3 and 4 first. This game is okay, maybe a 4/10, which sucks because I considered 3 and 4 to be 8 or 9/10's, I loved them! After playing this one for about an hour I don't think I'll ever open it again, thankfully I got it while it was on sale.
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  -ImAl2EyEd_

  Jul 11, 2018

  I've played Cally's Cave 2 on iOS, which basically the same game. With that said I see a lot of downside in this Steam version and that ruined overall gameplay experiences. When compared to mobile version -This version have disabled the ability to teleport and buy items freely from your pause menu. -Weapons are far weaker than mobile version. -The upgrading cost are also higher. -And lastly this Steam version cost more, when you can play the mobile one for free (w/ option to remove ads for only 0.99 USD) even though a lot of DOWNGRADE I mentioned earlier.
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  unecorniu

  Sep 1, 2018

  It's like Cally's Caves 3 with better graphics. I love Cally's Caves series. Good music, lots of weapons, monsters and caves.
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  jlynn81

  May 2, 2019

  This is the First Cally's Caves game that I have tried, but It's okay for the most part. Just have beaten it. Planning to play the Sequel Cally's Caves 3 next and 4 too. Is it worth the full 6.99? Depends, it's a simple sidescrolling action game that you can get various types of weapons to combat the enemies of the game. The weapons can be updated through from Lv.1 to Lv. 10 but it's a grind for most weapons to get all of them to Lv. 10. You also can get upgrades for Health, Melee Weapon (Sword) and more. Could take you almost an hour each to get through each Biome as they have a lot of levels to get through before facing each Boss at the end of them. It's not really a difficult game. It's a good time waster. Would recommend buying it through a sale. Gameplay: 6.5/10 (For the Most part, it's a simple Action game, nothing complex, Can be grindy and repetitive due to a lot of levels to play through each Biome.) Music: 6/10 (There are a lot of tracks that play through the levels, randomly, almost like a shuffle playlist.) Replay Value: 4/10 (Only if you want to upgrade the weapons to Lv.10. but otherwise nothing much.) Worth the Price?: 6.5/10 (Length is 5-6 hours possible on a playthrough. 6.99 is okay but Recommend with a sale as it is very cheap.) Overall Rating: 6.0/10. Again, It's an okay game but is recommended through a sale if you want to buy it. I wish that we have a "Ok" or "Meh" rating. Not a full Recommend but I didn't dislike it either.
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  Dave Strider

  Jun 19, 2019

  Very fun, i'm am so happy this game was on sale. :D
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  SartNin Devyll

  Jun 30, 2019

  Easy enough, controls can be awkward sometimes (not recognizing you still have the double or triple jump, for example), recommended for that weekend when you don't wanna think so much about anything.
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  CosmicBat

  Jul 6, 2019

  Love this franchise own all of their games currently playing the 4th one. t's a fun to play platformer it's not challenging or anything but I enjoyed playing it. Cute pixel graphics, good controls and an okay plot.
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  AquaM1088

  Mar 9, 2020

  If you want to complete your Cally's Cave Collection... get it. Otherwise prepare to deal with the downgraded version of Cally's Caves 3.
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  chezwizard

  Sep 9, 2020

  Buy Cally's Caves 3 instead. Much better experience, even with it's flaws.
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  Kami Amaya

  Jan 16, 2021

  Not too difficult, had fun. Kinda wish the achievements had more variety but not a big deal.