Liked the first one, loving this one. Not the biggest fan of roguelikes since I dislike starting from mostly scratch and repeating the same content endlessly, but this is one of the best ones to do it. Is a bit heavy on grinding though as everything gets stupid expensive. Don't fret on "beating" the game btw as you unlock more stuff to gain resources faster.

Trash tier game. Everything is rushed for no reason and the gameplay loop is very shallow. You have about 70s to mine resources, then about 2m of defending your mech.

Nothing is explained, you're rushed to no end (even when you gain upgrades, you're given 15 seconds to make a choice!). I have no idea what the minerals do for mining at all. Apparently its also designed exactly for 4 player co op. If you're 2 people goodluck making it very far. Neither of us had absolutely no time to even try to figure something out before you're thrown into the other portion of the 'game'.

Also, the game crashed on me once just changing a game setting lol. Did 2 runs (wave 2 and wave 5 deaths). First death I had the upgrade screen plastered on the death screen and I couldn't do anything but alt+f4.

Game is like a tech demo, not even an 'alpha' or full release.

Is...ok. I don't really get why characters are like a chess piece at all. Gameplay loop is fine but I got kinda bored after doing just 4 runs and you're meant to do them a lot to farm 3000 different currencies to upgrade everything. Voice Acting is pretty subpar too.

Edit: I just noticed it said it uses ai voices to bring characters to life. Are they in the room with us? Cuz every character I interacted with so far sounds extremely flat.

Crucible is FANTASTIC! New Civs are FANTASTIC! What's not to like?

hmm...is ok. Crucible is pretty ok too!

This game is absolutely phenomenal. World hooks you in the first 30 minutes, the humor some characters have is pretty hilarious, gameplay is fun with a superb fighting system with unique characters and attacks. You can even overpower much stronger enemies if you're good enough at dodging and parrying. Spent 40 minutes on a boss doing that when he was probably 40 levels higher.

The only two negatives I see is no way to change party members mid-fight and I've had 3 crashes in 18 hours.

This is what gaming is about. Easily by GOTY. This is what FF16 should have been.

I want to like the game. It has hollow knight vibes and seems like a cool, fun little game. My main problems with the game is there is basically no direction on where to go after you complete a section, leading you to backtrack all over the place to progress a little bit before you have to do it all over again. You can't fast travel to different save points (or rather, they are all locked for me inside that area) as far as I can tell so it just isn't fun in that regard.

The second issue I have is it doesn't really tell you...well...much of anything on items. There's 2 items inside your save point area for instance and I still haven't figured out what one of them does. You can buy them for currency (which is always full from killing enemies since there's nothing to really spend them on) but there's no description of what they do so you just gotta figure it out yourself.

Also really dislike the spikes that appear literally in front of you so you have to walk slow to not get hit and get sent back to the beginning of the screen, where other things you can take a hit and just take damage but these things you take damage and you spawn back at screen start like wtf.

Too much backtracking. Why can you only teleport to the last node you've been to instead of any? Most of the time you're just wandering around without much of a clear direction of where to go.

Hitboxes are all over the place. Enemies have the reach of 5 ultrawide monitor screens. Don't perfectly parry the enemy? Half your hp gone! This game demands perfection.

Bosses kill you too easily before being able to do anything. Upgrades feel very weak (one of the first you get is to run and honestly I don't feel any faster lol) and mediocre. I've played all the souls-like main game series, including serkiro and this ain't it.

Nice art style though.

Early game can be pretty challenging and it doesn't let you change your configuration in several "surprise" battles which can get frustrating, but overall it's a great game with a solid story and cast of characters! Excellent JRPG