Girl Frame

Overall an enjoyable game, but with a bunch of minor issues. It has all the bells and whistles of a survivor-like game. Different characters, a ton of weapons, weapon evolutions, meta-progressions, etc. Some of things it did right: 1. indication of affected weapons before you commit to picking a buff 2. a large variety of evolution module (or weapon perks), Each weapon allows you to pick 2 of 4 different unique perks and these perks (+ fusion perk) can be inherited to its fusion version; fusion weapon also has a list of unique perks that you can choose 2 from. 2. you have the choice of fusion weapon or keeping it in its base form (called mutation, usually it provide a sort of buff to your build), 3. real time damage split so you can optimize survival by picking buffs that affect your damage the most However if there is a non-cumulative damage (something like DPS for last minute of playtime) would even be better 4. serviceable co-op. Requires a lot of polishing but it's working and you can play with friends (up to 4). I have only tried playing with 1 other friend so I cannot tell what type of chaos 4 players would have. However there are also things that could be improved, and these are the opinion of someone who beat endless mode 50+ getting the last gameplay related achievement 1. Evolution doesn't keep your original weapon type: what i mean is, you can start with a weapon with [Light][Charge][Element][Radiation][Range][Flame] and most of the possible evolution would make you lose 1 or more of these tags for a different tag. 2. Follow-up of 1. mutation (keeping a weapon at its base form after level 9) is an option, but it's a bad one because the stat provided usually aren't significant enough as is, let along that some of these global passive provided doesn't even work in late game. Some example: sniper rifle firing a round after other weapon reload, or shotgun buffing the rest of your weapon while it's reloading but a yellow buff "Lucky Reload" basically remove reloading entirely. The dev could consider changing mutation passive to fix this. 3. Sloppy translation: Evil-dispelling is exorcism, and the term get used interchangeably, this can get a bit confusing. There are some buff that affect Defense type weapon, but no weapon is labeled as Defense type, however some of the weapons are designated as Defense type, such as the shotgun and the grenade. 4. Really just lack of information from within the game. You can research Mechs in the game, and they change what your starting weapon is. These Mechs have different tiers and researching them cost different amount of different materials. However the difference between T1 and T2 and T3 are not very clearly stated in game. The higher tiers allow you to use better randomized starting buffs, but beyond that? Unclear. 5. Coomer aesthetic and even story BUT nothing beyond surface level. 6. Game is frankly unoptimized at the endgame. Literally slideshow at the end. Glad to see the game getting updated. Rating changed to reflect my optimism.