There are moments in Titan Souls where everything comes together: you’ve learned a boss’ weakness and attack patterns after dodging around its arena. You struggle through the fight waiting for that moment when it exposes itself and you launch an arrow into its weak spot, taking its one health point. With the titan dead you can bask in relief.
However, those moments rise up amid hours of frustration. Titan Souls is a game for a very particular sort of player.
At first Titan Souls looks like one of the old Zelda games: you play as a small boy armed with a bow and single arrow as you explore a large open world dotted with ancient temples containing giant bosses. However, unlike Zelda, there are no items to find, easy enemies to kill, or princesses to save. Instead your task is to root out the last of an ancient race of titans and kill them, wiping them from the face of the pixel art world.