BURGGEIST

Although perhaps not a game for everyone, I enjoyed the experience quite a lot. Even with Japanese indie game jank present, the soul of the game shines strong. The gameplay is quite unique as far as I'm aware, mixing a tower defense with a orderable bombardment unit while the player character gets their own set of skills to engage in combat yourself like The start is admittedly a bit rough as you get acquainted with the game's systems and lack of options for defending your tower well. I don't think I could personally say that the gameplay ever really [i]clicks[/i], but you do ease into the flow of it all. It does get quite fun once you get a wider variety of upgrades and abilities for traversal and dealing with enemies, you get a good sense of progression of getting more and more powerful beyond just stat raising The worldbuilding, characters and story are all rather intriguing, filled with bizarre characters in a world where the strange seems to be expected. There's almost an odd tone to it all, rather reminiscent to me of the 2003 anime adaption of Kino's Journey, with this weird sense of isolation and "distance", almost liminal in a way. I really enjoyed the tone of it all and it lent well to making an interesting world that I'd love to see more of The soundtrack is really nice as well, the calmer tracks in particular stand out and I'll definitely be adding them into my music list Overall, considering this is the work of a mostly solo dev over the course of 6 years, this is a pretty fantastic achievement, congratulations to the developer and I look forward to seeing more from you!