Well, there is reasons why average playing time is only 14 hours - which is extremely small for that kind of genre. I gave this game two chances for 2-3 hours and regretted it every time. Passing is very off - we have The Binding of Isaac, Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy, Hades and many other similar games with good passing. Your start can be rough, but the more you play and open items/powers - the more fun and easy first levels will be. Here you always start with shitty pew-pew staff, some bomb staff and sometimes totally useless "potion". But you can simply speedrun to the next hub and don't collect anything - great yes? No. • Yes, you can mix spells and create interesting effects... but only in the "Hub" between levels - why? • You can open new magic and staffs, but can't use even few of them from beginning a new game. Only random bad pew-pew staff. • You have ZERO progression and you are the same every new start. • You can have very bad pew staff... and you better get used for that, because game can decide to don't spawn any other staff on entire level. • Fog of war... this game is dark, and unlike Terraria this fog of war is useless - all pickups are shining thru walls and darkness and almost every enemy have glowing part. So why do we need this darkness around character? • Spawning enemies - you think that this is a safe spot? No, run here again and you will find a flying acid spiting blob. • Speacial events - hey, you dying a lot, lets make this time even harder for you! No, do not use this kind of events when player can't reach even 3 level. • Boring music + blank pixel art + repetative gameplay + wrong difficulty passing + locked mechanics just because = waste of your time. There a lot of simillar games in this genre to play, take notes and inspiration - here I see none of that here. Every time I tried to play this game - every time this game clearly hints me that she does not want to be played. Sorry, but this game needs a lots of balancing and reworks.
