the concept is interesting on paper but just doesnt work in practice with what they have made. the heros are uninspired, the guns feel bad to shoot. the game somehow runs poorly and looks horrible. The movement isnt satisfying and neither is the minute to minute gameplay. I feel bad for the devs who clearly wanted to make their dream game, but I gotta be honest if you came from apex I dont look to you for good design

its good

really fun game, but the RNG is the epitome of feast or famine. and all the best items are useless unless you have an incredibly specific build, and as you unlock more items the pool gets very bloated with useless stuff. Its honestly easier to win on a fresh save. With how incredibly harsh the RNG is, anything other than the safest builds are basically a waste of time.

And yet here I am, still playing

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I can't really recommend this game in its current state. I think after some updates it could be really enjoyable, but right now it's such a slog. To get the good parts out of the way, the artstyle is fun and most of the playable characters have some fun designs. The music is nice and most of the time not grading. *sometimes* The movement feels really fluid and satisfying, though the other half of the time it's sluggish and unresponsive.

The balance of the game is very poor, in most aspects of it too. Some characters are just horrible, and basically unplayable at higher levels. So many of the weapons are ok concepts, but are either not worth getting or do literally nothing functionally different than a weapon you already have. It feels like 75% of the tomes you unlock are useless and immediately toggled off.
Many of the unlockable items have pretty cool and fun concepts, but many have very niche activation cases, while others are just a huge positive. The game also doesn't tell you how items stack, which would largely impact which one I would want if I knew. It feels like there can be no build variety, with the amount of damage items you NEED to be able to do anything. Not to mention that half of the items/tomes can’t work with a ton of the weapons.

The enemies scale way too fast to be fun, if you have an *ok* stage 1, you're going to have an extremely difficult stage 2, and probably die on stage 3 if you even get there. It feels like you NEED scaling tomes (XP/Gold/ect) or characters to make any progress, or be extremely lucky. Getting into later levels, everything becomes so expensive, getting a single chest can be a grind, especially with the bullet sponge enemies.The enemies just become so tanky, and do so much damage it's near impossible to keep up with if you don't have something going in your run. Don't even get me started on the final bosses. They are just beefed up regular bosses with annoying immune phases.

The game is also a huge grind. You have to choose between saving up to be able to earn more silver, or unlocking new things to play with. And starting out, you gain almost none. The challenges you can do to gain more (1%) are either very basic and boring or dumb super hard stuff. In Vampire Survivors, you get meta upgrades that eventually let you get better and better runs, and outside of unlocking better items and a couple more slots. There's nothing of that in this game, which there really should be, at least for gold/xp and maybe powerups. Everything is just a gamble of if you get good items or not.

Last thing really is that the humor in the game is lame as hell. Everything is cringy redditor jokes, and it get old *really* fast. It's honestly bad enough that it's almost a turnoff by itself outside of the balance issues.

I really want to enjoy the game, and I think it has some amazing ideas and potential. It's just extremely difficult to recommend it in its current state. Hopefully some patches will fix it in the future.

I'm going to miss you. It should've been OW that died in the car accident.

God forbid souls players have to engage with the games mechanics instead of min-maxing and rolling every boss

this is one of the most intricately made and captivating games ever made. A must play, I promise