Demon with a Pickaxe

[i]Yes, but...[/i] It's a little rough around the edges. My initial impressions were largely negative as the game does have some jank, which I'll get to. But by the end of my ~2 hour playthrough, I'm considering another playthrough for the last achievement. So overall, I have a positive impression, but my recommendation only holds if you're the type of person who can look past a few little issues. First, the things I liked! [list] [*] I was pleasantly surprised by the story as I progressed through it. It's well written and narrates a characterful story behind the various statues you're destroying and why you're in this predicament. I'm curious enough to see the rest of it that I might play through it again to get the other ending! [*] It feels a tiny bit incremental in that you start off painfully slow and weak and slowly upgrade over time. By the end, you feel like a god. Overall, the meat and potatoes of the gameplay (smashing stuff) felt pretty satisfying to me! [/list] Now for the criticisms, which make or break the game for some people I imagine: [list] [*] The character controls feel a bit clunky. Pickaxe and spell animations feel confusingly unresponsive, especially in the beginning when they are painfully slow. The weird jetpack-style wing controls get some getting used to. [*] It can be a bit difficult scrambling around the rubble since the pieces can at times be awkwardly shaped. [*] You have to run back to the beginning to buy upgrades, which means you have to keep an eye on how full your upgradeable inventory is. I don't mind it because there are upgrades to your movement speed that help. Though it would be nice if the upgrades only applied to sprinting and not your normal walk speed. [*] I don't think you can save your progress. But it's pretty short! [*] When you get more powerful, breaking the more complex statues will cause a lot of lag as I guess the game computes the destruction at runtime. Dev, not sure what you're using for this, but maybe look into precomputing the destruction or threading it? [/list] Overall, I had fun with it and might play some more!