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Being as NICE as humanly possible here. I really dont mean to disrespect the developers because its not my intention, but I'm sure they're well aware of this. This is basically Hades, without hit-stun on enemies, and alot more bogged down. It's interesting, It's different, It's fun, sure I can give all that to it, but I would be incredibly dishonest to say it is anything but Hades vs Hades at Home. It's definitely a walmart version of an already existing game. I would really enjoy it if it had a lot of unique powers and styles, but honestly, it's very basic to its core. I would also enjoy it more if it was MORE like Hades and non-armored enemies actually get staggered, and dashing had more I-Frames than it does, because its lacking heavily with the dash mechanic, Bigger arena's, including boss arenas, More UI visual indicators, etc.. First Major boss Big dude with an Axe, Does a whirlwind, and if he decides to start it while you're near a corner, you're basically forced to eat a ton of damage, ontop of a very small arena to begin with. The main selling point of this is Co-Op. Which is the only really hugely positive thing that can be given to it. Did you wonder what its like to Play Hades but with your Friends? This is that.... kinda, just not as good, but you can still play with friends! It's decent but I'd say this is more of a $9.99 game than a $24.99 game and I wouldn't see myself being interested in buying it with that price tag personally. Recommending SOLELY because of Co-Op and Co-Op alone. Otherwise I'd just tell you to play Hades, sorry bros. Also Wealth upgrade tree is abysmal. I would rework that entire tree. +10 gold per level for a huge amount of gems, +1 gold income from cleared rooms for tons of gems and on 3 seperate nodes. With the cost of items, this is even worse than Hades, full honest. Hades at its lowest is start with 100g lol. You also get gold from random things, gold rooms in this game are the biggest skip of my life because they are honestly so unworth it. The starting gold should be like +20-40 per node and the income should be +2-3 minimum per node. 25 hp heal costs 50 gold. New skills cost ~200 gold. Minor upgrades cost ~100 gold. This doesn't pan out properly. It's a complete and utter waste of a skill upgrade tree honestly. It should be competitive with the others. Honestly all the tree upgrades are ruthlessly expensive in comparison to the difficulty of the game. I've almost beat the end boss and I havent even gotten close to finishing a single skill tree, It requires so many runs to get so many gems, and so many other items, silk for cosmetics, shards for weapons, embers for unlocks, etc. I just dont feel like we're given enough for how much there is content wise. Kinda feels more like a mobile game than a roguelite with how much expectancy is to come for grinding out items. If I actually played with other people, we would have absolutely beat this game 100% within the first couple tries. I barely struggle solo so I cant see it being much harder with more capable bodies. Just food for thought. Would 100% consider the values being moderately increased on all the upgrade currency. People wanna unlock stuff and have fun, but it feels counter productive if you can beat the main portion of the game before getting to that point. Hades forced you to keep coming back to figure out the story, but it was a big selling point for that game, not so much story going on in this one. 4 chars, 4 weapons for each char so all those need to be unlocked then upgraded, probably 4 spells per character aswell, etc. I havent bothered with the other classes yet, just havent cared for anything but the classic sword guy.Show moreShow less
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