Source of Madness

Starting the intro tutorial, I notice the game is looking a lot blurrier than the main menu: I quit to the main menu and now that's blurry too, checking the options I see the game has decided to switch from 1440p to 576p. I fix that, and go through the tutorial. After completing the intro tutorial and starting the run, I quickly find the first object I can interact with, a building called Tower of Knowledge. I press the interact key, what appears to be a loading screen pops up, and after a while I return to the game in the same exact spot in front of the Tower of Knowledge, nothing seems to have changed. I go on, and "fight" some monsters: I spam attacks while they flail around incoherently, no skill required, I'm not even sure if those monsters had any hitboxes considering their appendages clearly made contact with my player sprite on multiple occasions yet caused no damage. Eventually find a second object I can interact with, a Hermit walking in the background. I press the interact key, he says "Weird", I press the key to advance the dialogue, what appears to be a loading screen pops up, and after a while I return to the game in the same exact spot in front of the Hermit, nothing seems to have changed. I go on, I "fight" a different monster that grabs me (I think) and prevents me from moving while I spam attacks, and after defeating it I'm still unable to move, seemingly stuck in its corpse. Ah, and during all of this the "beautiful AI assisted art style" advertised on the store page is covered by an extremely thick blue filter, which makes it hard to see anything and cannot be disabled via any option: however, the filter is disabled when you're in the pause menu, because reasons. This wouldn't even be good as a free tech demo to showcase the AI-generated monsters, the asking price of 20 dollars is delusional.

Really was interested in this game, but didn't pay enough attention to the fact that it was a roguelike and NOT a metroidvania. With AI art assets, boring gameplay and no direction apart from move left to right just give this a pass.

Too choppy even at low resolution and minimal settings on an RX 7600 and Ryzen 7950X3D.

This game is awesome. Can be just as frustrating as rewarding.

If your tired of the same old games, this might be it. Its the most confusing and weird looking game i have ever had the displeasure of playing. The graphis is an afront to the eyes, and it plays as.. im not sure.... And yet i kept coming back for more.. i just, had to understand wth i was playing. Sadly, I had to stop as i started to fear for my own sanity!