I'm gonna be real, this game isn't terrible. There's a lot of improvements from Riddled Corpses that make the game more intuitive, but the randomized elements went a bit too hard here. Health or money should be reserved for when you've gotten all of the weapons for the six.
The two secret characters should also get new weapons, cause its not like they're really broken. They're supposed to be, but Valkyrie's healing is useless in Tier 3 when enemies are swarming you.
The randomized money in general is really bad, sometimes I'll get basically nothing from a floor and that'll brick my run. This is mostly a problem on Tier III, where enemies(that like to swarm you) hit like a truck.
There are also occasions where parts of the map are blocked off because randomized spikes were placed in the way. Your perception can be an issue as well, but later level to have more lighting, so its not so bad.
The character (Gameplay) design is also really iffy. I only really wanted to play as the female charas, so I didn't try the archer or the berserker, but I was forced to try the knight, and tried the Hero when Tier III was too difficult.
The Knight is fine, nothing special. So balanced I almost beat Tier I with just him. Of course I wanted to try the others. So I did.
The Mage is terrible, because she moved like arse and can't take hits. She's a glass canon, but she's so slow.
The Healer was also pretty bad, because she can heal herself, but she isn't doing any damage. Valkyrie is basically the Healer but much but. However, her attacks are terrible for crowd control, something you need in Tier III, at least the mage could do that.
The Hero is awful, because he summons a field that can kill enemies upon contact, BUT it doesn't work with bosses and it doesn't protect you. It also makes it hard to see crap, so it ends up being a liability when so much is on screen.
The Best Chara is the Assassin, because she's fast, has range, and her skill attacks three range, which is great for crowd control. She has low health though which sucks, but thankfully Tier III applies initial buffs. Even then, Tier III just shows how flawed the game is.
After trying Tier III so many ties, I was inspired to do this when I died to the third boss. Your boxed in and barely have an room to move as the boss sends swarms of shots at you.
The assumption is that your supposed to use the counter to weave around, but there's a delay to the reflect part of the counter, so you often end up running into the attacks you countered.
Thankfully you can still bring three potions and bosses MIGHT drop healing chests, but still, this is just annoying. I've played games like Hades or Nunholy, and those games had luck based mechanics, but as long as you were skilled, you could make it.
Demonstier takes the same content you just completed and just increases the enemies and makes them hit harder. This is called CHEAP. It highlights the problems that come with randomized elements.
I could prolly still beat it, it'll just take a while, because you also have to go back and pick up your currency. So if you die you have nothing. Its a penalty for not recognizing the bricked run, but sometimes enemies do just swarm you and that sucks.
A run can be going great, then suddenly it sucks, and when your doing the same five levels over and over, with little added and nothing to show for it, its super annoying.
In Hades, you'd get new story element. In Nunholy, the game was so easy you didn't really have to worry about that. And in Tiers I and II, its the same. Tier III, not worth it.
I can recommend the first two tiers, cause even if its not super satisfying due to how easy it is. Its better than Tier III, where you have to really get good, but also still might be screwed over by the luck.
Not sure if I wanna try to complete Tier III, because its just so painful, but also I'm so close. Its one of those things that fills you with internal pain and strife, cause you could see how to make it, but its just so cheap
also stop trying to design twin stick shooters around controllers, its never going to compare to mouse and keyboard
