Ascend to ZERO

It's essentially an anime minecraft bullet hell game with some interesting lore and a pleasing cyberpunk aesthetic. If you're into pixel-like bullet hell games, def give this one a try.

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I'm really split on whether to give a positive or a negative review, and as of writing this I'm still not decided. The game was fun to play at the start but later on it became repetitive with no much to do, to the point that I was farming one item just to finish the story for several hours. The criticism: 1) time stop is OP, well, as long as you're not in 3rd/4th zone where it's nerfed or fighting the final boss where it's mostly useless. It would be cool if there was something nerfing time-stop-ignoring enemies. 2} A FK TON OF RNG on top of RNG on top of RNG. and to be clear I'm not talking about RNG for tech chips, slot/gun upgrades in battle, that is mostly fine. I'm talking mainly about the insane gacha game level RNG that is there for no reason. gear - make it craftable (had to farm like 3+ hours to get one specific item) the item quality - make it upgradeable, like each level +10% instead of rerolling it sub-stats - make them selectable + upgradeable instead of rerolling in battle selection - add something like favorite weapon/tech chip etc. to make them appear more often 3) bosses - their attacks are unclear and the red warning is useless, sometimes they strike instantly, sometimes they just make some slow wave attack, sometimes they attack you even if you are outside of the area that the warning was on. And the final boss is invisible in the bunch of particles and attacks like the entire area, so you can't even dodge. Also remove the boss's invincibility windows, its annoying and can be frustrating at times. 4) Remove character dialogues - the story is not that important and it's annoying having to skip trough a dialogue after almost every run. now the good things: 1) abusing enemies with time stop is fun and I haven't seen any other game with such mechanic 2) the gameplay is sometimes more strategic rather than adhd fighting, or its just adhad, whatever you like 3) I like seeing enemies disappear just by touching them 3) some bosses are really well designed, sadly not the final one 4} the graphics, I really like it and last thing, my personal suggestion - add an endless REAL roguelike mode that would have no connection on player's progress, it would be fun to start with lv1 with basic sword/gun/whatever and get stronger and stronger while using time stops and explore original map every run. also throughout writing this I decided to give the game negative review, not because I don't like it, but because there's a lot to improve, once the devs fix it I'll update this review.