Eslabong

There's a ton of potential here and I'm leaving a positive review, but buyer beware: * There is extremely rapid development, on the level of 3-4 patches a day with patch notes. This is not happening via a beta branch, so regardless of when you start a run, expect drastic balance changes affecting your run during the run with nothing you can do about it short of blocking Steam updates. I haven't bothered getting out of Season 1 yet because of this, which in a game where the developer locks features like "compendium access" and "ability to play all classes from the beginning of a run" behind grinding out seasons, is bad. * Shared/Split co-op is essentially "let Player 2 manually control a fighter on Player 1's team/run", there is no option to have multiple teams in a league, and no online multiplayer version of having multiple teams in a league either. This is in a game where the majority of players seem to opt for auto battler over manually controlled combat, so for those players, co-op doesn't exist. What does exist, and oddly isn't tagged on the store page, is Async multiplayer which currently is something of a high score competition where players submit their best teams and simulate matches against each other. I don't see the appeal of a mode that rewards grind over other factors (especially with the game being so frequently rebalanced), but its something the developer is really invested in. * Volume balance is all over the place. Main menu music is blaring, combat has much louder SFX than music (there's sliders to rebalance this), but much of the non-combat music is quiet. * There's a lack of clarity in how stats work and scale. Tooltips exist, but they're often vague or unclear in what they're referring to. I still have no idea how level ups work, where they list a random +X value for stats and below them list a supposed actual stat increase. Since I don't know how stats or automatic level up stat gains scale, I can't make an informed decision nor can I judge how impactful a reroll would be. This extends to skill descriptions, which have unclear tooltipping and reference Stamina/Mana costs which for character classes are stupidly hidden behind a locked codex prior to owning the character (this is a game where you frequently shop for characters!) If a skill costs X MP but I don't know how much MP regen a class has because of a gated unlock, how can I judge how good the skill is? * I'm not a fan of the F1-F4 keys that ask the player to be actively involved in the auto battler mode of combat control. I'd rather be on the same level with the AI opponents and neither of us having control, with the pre-battle tactics and squad quality being the determining factor.