Enter Lilies is a metroidvania with animation priority in combat which makes the combat feel a bit Dark Souls-y. It feels like Hollow Knight, both due to the way it plays and the very isolated feeling. Best I can tell, your character is the only living person in the world who isn’t blighted.
Gameplay
Quick Reference
| Control | Function |
|---|---|
| A | Jump |
| B, X, Y | Assignable skills |
| LB | Heal |
| RB | Swap skill set |
| RT | Dodge/Dash/Parry |
| ⬇️ + Main attack | Ground pound attack |
| ⬆️ + Any main skill | Special attack |
Notes
- You collect skills by killing certain enemies
- Collected skills can be assigned to any of the B, X, and Y buttons. This is the primary means of character customizations. Even the games main attack can be moved to a different button or left out altogether in favor of other skills.
- Skills are divided into main and secondary skills.
- Main skills are colored purple. Most have unlimited uses and no cooldowns.
- Secondary skills are limited in uses and have cooldowns of several seconds each.
- Uses are reset whenever you rest at a bench.
- At a bench, you can assign two sets of three skills each and switch between those on the fly while away from the bench with RB.
- Benches allow for several important functions:
- fast travel to other benches
- saving
- refilling health meter, healing charges, and skill charges
- swapping out relics and skills
- Relics provide passive buffs like more health or a stronger attack
- Each relic uses a number of slots which are limited and can be increased by finding hidden items
- Map rooms are blue when they contain undiscovered elements and orange when they are completed
- Map rooms with a red dot have an unexplored exit
- RT performs a parry while not pressing any direction or a dodge or dash while pressing a direction
- Dashing in the air makes it possible to jump wider gaps
- Your character has 3 healing charges (prayers) per bench rest ^709429
- This can be increased to 4 with a relic
- Dying returns you to your last bench but doesn’t impose any other penalties