Dicey Dungeons

The characters and story are thin, very thin. Enemies have some sort of backstory but only through randomly occurring dialogue after beating them (10% or so), and that's it. I could forgive that if the gameplay is interesting, but it's not. After beating a round the you have to spin a wheel for your reward, which is always nothing as the wheel is rigged. Humorous after 1 or 2 times, but not if you're meant to see the same old gag over 40+ times. Gameplay wise it's all luck, and multiple levels at that. You could get or lose the wrong items at the wrong time. The wrong enemies can appear. You can just roll poorly. Winning often felt undeserved and losing rarely felt like it was your fault. Some enemies have weaknesses that are loudly spelled out before a fight, but unless you lucked into having gear that works (you rarely can have multiple equipment 'builds' in a run, you usually have whatever you picked up) it's just unactionable. To it's credit there are interesting equipment combinations and the characters spice up the gameplay, but there is very little content once you've played through each character once, and you're expected to do so 6 times (assuming you don't ever lose).

Pros: -Cute visuals -No bugs/ broken systems that I could spot -Easy to scum battles if RNG screws you -Easy to understand, even when the game is lax on explaining mechanics Cons: -The game is lax on explaining mechanics -General lack of variety (enemies, weapons, stage BGs) -All of the debuffs except one are different variations on resource denial, which is unfun in general, especially when it results in turns where you do nothing -It is possible to spec your gear into unwinabble situations with no out (fight Loud Bird with only 1 attack) -Limited player options (all items only upgrade once, no modifying the dice, very few ways to add dice) -Max battle speed is still incredibly slow -"Talking" sounds are annoying immediately, BGM and sound effects get annoying after a while -Cutscenes are repetitive and unskippable -The writers think they are far, far more clever and funny than they actually are, which makes the unskippable cutscenes worse

You've never played a dice game so well designed, I'm pretty confident about that. It's amazing on so many levels. The artstyle, the music, and most importantly: the gameplay, which is AMAZING. It's sooooo much fun, soooo much thinky, and soooo varied. The abilities are simply incredible, I don't think there is a single boring one, because even a simple one (which are very rare) have a place in this game and can prove extremely useful (simple = bigger chance that you'll have the dice to actually use them, and that's a very good thing to have sometimes). You don't want to miss out on this game, trust me.

Great game, simple premise that works well and then new levels and characters to play as which change the game mechanics in meaningful and interesting ways and keep it fresh for a long time.

Don't be fooled, this got a surprising strategic depth, it's not just RNG. And it's just plain fun and addictive!