This is becoming my favorite game ever! The gameplay is so fun and the combat is so satisfying. It's not just any kind of roguelike, it's an near perfect implementation of the genre. The progression is really well made, and alongside the variability of the weapons, builds, level designs and enemies, it's the reason behind the absence of repetitiveness in the playthoughts. It's the kind of game that you can play for 15 minutes or 5 hours straight and have a very good time in both cases. The metroidvania aspects of it blends wonderfully in the game recipe, turning it into a unique experience. The soundtrack is a delight even if you listen to it many times when you die a lot. The graphics are beautiful and there is plenty of character customization. The DLCs are much enjoyable and the collaboration with other games brings many cool things inside it's world. I love playing with other games weapons like the "sting" from Hollow Knight, finding altars with references to other games that give me fun items, and being able to use Shovel Knight's or Santa Claus's skins. It's a masterpiece that I'm glad I got DRM-free and will be able to carry with me forever.
This is becoming my favorite game ever! The gameplay is so fun and the combat is so satisfying. It's not just any kind of roguelike, it's an near perfect implementation of the genre. The progression is really well made, and alongside the variability of the weapons, builds, level designs and enemies, it's the reason behind the absence of repetitiveness in the playthoughts. It's the kind of game that you can play for 15 minutes or 5 hours straight and have a very good time in both cases. The metroidvania aspects of it blends wonderfully in the game recipe, turning it into a unique experience. The soundtrack is a delight even if you listen to it many times when you die a lot. The graphics are beautiful and there is plenty of character customization. The DLCs are much enjoyable and the collaboration with other games brings many cool things inside it's world. I love playing with other games weapons like the "sting" from Hollow Knight, finding altars with references to other games that give me fun items, and being able to use Shovel Knight's or Santa Claus's skins. It's a masterpiece that I'm glad I got DRM-free and will be able to carry with me forever.
The linux version doesn't launch due to a requirement of an old libssl version to be installed on the OS that doesn't come with the game. That itself is already very disappointing and was the main reason I've refunded this game. I was able to play the windows version on linux through wine, and it was a really fun experience at the beginning. Solving the puzzles and unlocking new abilities along the playthrought gave it a nice sense of progression and variability in the first half of it. But on the final half, things got REALLY repetitive and boring, to the point that I just didn't want to play the game anymore, not even to find out what would happen in the end story-wise. Alongside it, the black loading screens between areas in the second half became PAINFULLY long. In this game, we have to move from one area to another a lot of times, so it became something like 10 or 15 seconds of waiting for 30 or 45 seconds of gameplay. This made the game stressful, mainly at the parts where I made a mistake on a puzzle or wasn't able to survive a battle and had to go through a hole bunch of areas, waiting at least 10 seconds between them just to get to the point where I already was. This game has a really innovative concept and mechanics, beautiful graphics, nice level design, good soundtrack and an interesting story background. But the lack of support, rapid gameplay core saturation and unpolished execution were the reasons that made me not be able to love it, very unfortunately.
