Maybe a bit too hectic of a game for me, guess I'm to old ;) Still pretty athmospheric, and sometimes even scary (during nights). Not a fan of all different buttons you need to have in your quick reflexes though, for all different attacks/moves/combos etc. Some mission at the beginning is annoyingly hard - you need to perform some perfect jumps to complete a couple of tasks. I've seen guys on youtube try like 10-20 times, dying and dying (and loosing XP). You'll make it eventually though, just feels like bad design to have such moments, specially that early in the game. At other places you need to climb extremely high towers, and it gets sort of like a puzzle where you need to figure out (or watch a guide) how to get to the top, and avoid falling down and dying. You often see where you can/can't jump, but some places it's hard/illogical!!! Game uses checkpoints for saves, and when you die you are spawned in closest safehouse. Some parts of the game feels a bit cheap, like there is almost no use of physics. Cloth or vegetation don't react at all when passing through, and there are no objects you can knock down and almost nothing you can destroy. I guess they put all effort in the parkour, and that's ok cause that part feels pretty good! Would have been cool though if you had to be careful, not to knock things over, to stay silent. Halfway through I'm about to quit though after a strange bug (?) occuring all the time when fighting. I have my equipment being used during fights, just by fighting (pressing LMB hectically). I don't know how many throwing stars I've lost, or how many times I've died cause my guy thrown a molotov in a close encounter, when I'm just trying to swing my weapon quickly. It sort of never happens out of combat, and I find no setting anywhere for some auto-equipment-fast-click-LMB-function... ;) Oh well, for those who want a hard/demanding game, with some nice action and XP-leveling, this is worth a try!
I gave it a try, since it was on super-sale. And it's almost playable, I maybe get 15-20fps, but that's too low even for me. So if anyone else is on an old midrange i5, with integrated HD 4600, don't buy! It looks incredible though, even with almost all settings on low, and 720p resolution. So can't blame anyone (but myself) that it isn't playable on my system (even though Alien Isolation and Far Cry 3 and Life is Strange works decent enough to play). Game seems great though, after just trying for a few minutes - that dense forest, incredible viewdistance, immersive high quality sound. No reason to try and refund this, I'll save it for some future pc upgrade. Have loads of games to play until then though... (yes, on my old HD 4600 IGP!).
I've never played any CCG-cardgames, but I thought the roguelike aspect of this game looked fun, so I decided to buy it on sale. But, very unlike traditional roguelikes, I beat this on the third or fourth run! Not at all like FTL, where you try over and over and over, 50 runs, 100 runs, and still go on to maybe finally some day beat that last level. In Slay the Spire though, a total newbie can finish it in a few runs, hardly knowing how it works. After that we are supposed to finish it again and again and again, in some ascension mode where it gets harder after every run, and see if you can reach 20 successful runs. Nah, I really don't like that idea. I would have prefered if it was just extremely hard from the beginning, like FTL or most other roguelikes. But I'm no fan or expert in cardgames like this anyway, so my review will probably only be relevant for others in my situation - someone looking for a different roguelike, thinking the cards might be fun for a change. Well, they are ... for a few hours ...
