Fun little twin stick for the first little bit. But it quickly becomes a boring grind fest that's stupidly heavy on RNG luck and riddled with a terrible and slow farming mechanic that feels like on of those terrible pay to win microtransction mobile games that takes years to get most of waht you want/need unlocked. Pick it up for a buck, give it a few hours, then toss it into the trash bin. We won't even get into save game corruption . . .
I wanted to like the game. It is fun for a bit. But way too RNG heavy, and the S.U.P.E.R. S.L.O.W. crystal mining is just obnoxious. At the end of the day, there's not enough tactics or strategy involved to keep a pure RNG bullet hell game interesting, and the system is destroyed by required and slow crystal farming.
Game has potential as a Diablo replacement. Atmosphere is good, even if tutorial and beginning is abysmal. Class with skills/masteries and devotions shows good potential and flexibility. Even if they are so large as to make planning pointless for the first few play throughs till you master it. The worst: it's redistributables are corrupt beyond belief. After installing this, my computer is astoundingly unstable. What used to launch, is a crap shoot now. Computer stability has gone from unlimited to less than 24 hours, often less than 12 before requiring possibly multiple reboots. The game will run stably for a few hours. After enough reboots and relaunches. Generally, it takes me 15-30 minutes to get to run. Still bad: the graphics are terribly disappointing. Not bad, my high end 5 year old laptop has been about maxed out here. But performance running these graphics is unstable and stutters incredibly. My brand new desktop with Nvidia 980, 6 core 4ghz cpu, and 32gb ddr4 machine runs and looks worse and constantly stutters on generally high graphics, when no other game on ultra has even caused it to flinch. visuals are about Borderlands 2 level, and very disappointing for what I was expecting to be a decent 2016 level game. To contrast, Metro Redux (the original) puts this to shame in every conceivable way. Runs faster, looks better, less taxing. Again, it seems to have potential for those who are desperate for another Diablo clone, even with the ability to surpass most eventually. But as of today, it plays and feels like an EARLY BETA.
