Bugz Bows and Curses

I HATE BIRDS

I enjoyed the game. It appeared at a great time for me because I was looking for a game that didn't require a lot of focus. This is not a difficult game; as a matter of fact, it's too easy. I was playing late at night and I could relax and enjoy the music. I felt that the evolution of the music was a nice compliment to the game progression as I proceeded through the levels. I think that this game has good potential to have more worth that what it's currently being sold for and so I hope that the developers see what I have to say. I took notes while playing the game. I saw things that I liked, didn't like, and things that I figured could be changed. The things that I liked were the evolving music and the simplicity of the game. That's only two things, but it was good enough for me. I wanted to chill when I began playing, and I got that. It took some time to understand a couple of mechanics of the game such as the stat symbols and the curses, but in time I figured it out and as I was coming to understand the game, the music would pick up and I'm starting to become immersed now. What I didn't like about the game was after my first death, where I got decently far, I had to start over and starting over felt bland. The game overall isn't difficult. Not at the slightest. Once you have 90+ damage you can kill everything quite easily. You can remain stationary for the most part or kite backwards. It ties back into the simplicity of the game, which I like, but when a game lacks challenge you lack drive to accomplish things. Most enemies are either stationary, slowing moving around or advancing on you, and some will even flee. It feels even worse to kill these things, and so easily, because you have no story to go off on. Why am I killing all of these insects? It feels strange to walk into a room of worms, and i'm a worm myself, and then I put holes in them for no reason. It's a consistent theme throughout the game that has no story. Walk into a room and shoot the bugs. And now for the changes that I would like to see. I think it's fine if the first levels remain as they are up to level five. From then on I would like to see more aggression, fleeing, and then I would like to see the insects as more of a threat. With the worms you could have them tunnel underground and then reappear around the player. With the bees, I see that they fly through the walls, if that's intentional, but maybe they could have projectiles, maybe other insects could have projectiles. I think that the bee boss could be tankier and a special attack could be it marks you with a white powder/substance. If you do not dodge this projectile then you will be hit 100% of the time. The beetle, guardian of the shop, should have multiple forms of beetle. There can be a defensive beetle that moves slowly while its wings are folded, there can be the hercules beetle which charges faster if it continues to move in a straight line, but turns slowly. The roach boss could summon more roaches. The butterfly could fly upward out of vision, it could sprinkle down poison and you dodge the circles where the poison will fall, then the butterfly descends again. The defense/health of the insects is not balanced. The Beetle doesn't seem to grow with the player. As aforementioned, it feels as if once you gain 90+ damage the beetle is easily handled. I figure the Beetle is the shop keeper/guardian. I can take everything for free easily once I've reached 90+ damage. Now gold has become useless. I feel that my damage scaled much faster than the bosses could grow stonger defenses, if they were. What was most terrible was the part where it took more hits on the normal level bosses than it did to defeat Boss 1. I was beyond underwhelmed. There has to be more defensive abilities for the bosses. Giving them several layers of health bars would be an indication of how tough they are to the player, and if there's more urgency to protect yourself it gives a sense of challenge which could improve my attitude towards the game. This is the end of the review, I will now attach notes regarding issues that i've had or things that seemed out of place, and etc. Got achievement for clearing area 1 without killing a thing. I saw my precise location during the demo tutorial. In the early access version I cannot see my location. Alt tabbing was crashing the game. Wish there were checkpoints so that I could begin in later levels/areas. The game lacks challenge and so starting from the beginning becomes dull. Uninteresting bosses. Charger, farter, longer, and butterfly. Lack of mobility, lack of defense, try adding ads, mobility, more life bars, more attacks, more unique boss attacks Add more shop guardian varieties that also increase in difficulty. I began to enjoy the game more as I came to understand things and the music helped me to warm up to the game. "You've killed everything, good for you" appears on every interactable in the tutorial after you've killed everything. This persists into the real game. My copy of the game repeatedly crashed. Couldn't see my location on the minimap in the early access game. Show current stats on pause screen