Gatekeeper

Was real fun until you realize you're completely screwed by bosses with attacks that are completely undodgeable without a really low dash cd or really high movement speed.

its good

actually such a good game and insane soundtrack. 10/10

The game overall has a good vibe, feels nice for about 20 hrs before the cracks start to show. For the first part, the characters are somewhat interesting, a half is even fun. Items being locked behind achievements is classic, having to buy the items would be neat, were it not for the very slow progression towards more omni-stones. A great run with an hour of playtime grants about 20-ish, so that's either 20 commons, 6 uncommons, 4 rares or... 3 cursed items. Item combos are fun and powerful, as they should be. Now for the negatives. The map brightness is all over the place, just random at times, having to squint on one map and move away from the monitor on another is a headache. Enemy indicators are also all over the place, with the enemy design in general feeling undercooked at times. Some enemies being extremely fast would be a good way to incentivise movement, if the map was visible and you didn't bump into random objects half the time when trying to kite. The deaths in the later stages of the game, alongside loops, also feel meh. Granting the enemies double the player level in a loop is indeed one of the choices of all time, especially since OHP doesn't seem to be a concept, So, for example, the immortal rampart enemy can and will just wipe you out of existence without an indicator even when moving. I assume the primary choice was to just limit the player to no looping, but why include it then. At some points the game just becomes a blur of colors, making it very hard to navigate the screen, compounding with the other orientation issues. Risk of Rain is an obvious inspiration, give those games the extra 20-30 hours instead imo. Still fun for roguelike enjoyers, and as a reminder of how good we have it with the rogue hall of fame games. Probably will not play again after reviewing.

Feels like an unpolished, unfinished version of Risk of Rain (2).

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very fun game that is very fun to play alone or with friends, the build potential is way too fun to not mess with lol, 100% reccomend trying