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I felt obligated to write a review due to the amount of people leaving negative reviews. Normally I don't bother to write reviews, mainly because I think that other people might have more experience writing them and can translate their opinions about the game into words better than I can. That being said, I fully completed the game and earned all achievements, so I felt like I was in a position where I could speak about the game since I've seen most of what there is to offer at this point. The game is great as it is. I absolutely love the emotion in the Portuguese voice acting, and love the game design when it comes to the power curves. I know that many have said that they don’t enjoy it, but for someone with nearly 3000 hours in Path of Exile and several thousands of hours across the rest of the ARPG genre, it was a breath of fresh air to have someone finally integrate what makes a roguelite fun into a proper ARPG. There are performance issues, there are bugs, and the power curve isn’t perfect – particularly when it comes to the campaign, but I’m not sure there’s a single game nowadays that doesn’t have issues on release, let alone issues that some player will have with any game regardless of how good the majority of players think it is. Some games also just aren’t “for” some groups of players, for whatever reason. Personally, the souls games and souls-likes aren’t for me. I don’t like the movement and the memorisation required for those games, but I recognise that and don’t leave a harmful review just because I’m not good at the game and didn’t enjoy it as much. For those leaving negative reviews because of the difficulty of the game, please just ask the community for help. It is possible to go through each act in less than 7 runs on your initial campaign run. It’s implausible, but it is indeed possible. I didn’t manage it on my first run, mainly because I used my demo save and started the game with 8 runs from the demo, so it was impossible to get those achievements without just starting over, but I did manage to achieve it on a separate save file. In order to achieve the “speed run” achievements, you need to focus less on a specific build that you want to aim for, and basically make the most of the relics that you do receive, to build the strongest build that the game has offered for you. As someone who enjoys SSF in PoE, this game is like cocaine to me. Taking away the relics and constellations I had used on a previous run to then get to go through the whole experience again from scratch (except with even more power each time due to having more constellations right off the bat from the promises in Ascensions) is EXACTLY what I didn’t even know that I wanted until I did. I love building something fresh with whatever it is that the game randomly gives to me, and I’ve enjoyed building out builds that I hadn’t even considered playing on other playthroughs. Some builds I’ve made are: double knives/reflexes crit build on my initial run, summoner old bell + catholic guard + marksmen + bigboi (swapped big boi for crits once I become invulnerable due to mana shield) for boatloads of damage (without really doing much except spamming bonks on monster’s heads) due to split shot relics affecting the catholic guard, the flame lash attack stacked with a bunch of rare relics to increase its damage, and a quill build with boatloads of projectile stacking. One thing to note that I didn’t realise until much later, much like in PoE, you can only equip one of each unique relic, but rare relics can be equipped without limits. Once I realised this, I realised that was one of the easiest ways to scale massive amounts of damage, as upgrading these tends to lead to massive damage buffs for particular skills and stacking them leads to game-breaking levels of damage. While some builds feel good with a lot of uniques to make them work, in many cases in this game, less is actually more. Finding the balance between using rare relics and using the build defining uniques is a balancing act that I didn’t recognise early enough, but it can definitely help many players to discover that and use these rare relics to upgrade their builds. The rare relics can more easily be acquired by the blessing shrines that have a glowing yellow orb in the statue’s hand, and the reroll cost is independent from the other reroll pools in each run. There’s plenty more for me to experiment with, and I’m glad I spent the time and money on this game; it was absolutely worth it for me and if you find yourself to be a similar gamer to myself, I recommend it wholeheartedly. Like I said before, there are some issues with the game, but the devs are proving themselves to truly care about the community and are quickly implementing features from recommendations by the community (such as the vengeance mode for those struggling with the power curve). One final thing is just a thank you to the dev team that built this game. Thanks so much for finally bringing a true roguelite format to my favourite game genre. It’s brilliant, and I can’t wait to see what you do to build on this fantastic base in the future.Show moreShow less
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