Hell Clock

Jogo muito bom, soulslike bem legal

[h1]Ultimate ADHD Experience[/h1] This game seem to take inspiration from many genres into 1 simple blend of fast paced roguelite arpg. I was personally trying to avoid playing ARPG for 1 year, but gave this game a try because I got impression it is casual friendly. For the story campaign, i went with veteran difficulty as i played ARPG before. At first, i didnt understand why i struggled on some floor only to learn that game relied heavily on its meta progression. Specifically relic crafting. It is awesome system that allow you tailor your build to specific skill combinations. After you get stronger, despite you have to start a run from floor, it will be much smoother as you can just breeze them through at rapid pace. The game completely changed once you reached in endgame hub with option either redo campaign in harder difficulty or play in endless nightmare. This was exactly what I wanted for. 21 level dungeon with variety of tileset and option to choose your boon and penalty whenever you go deeper. With meta progression and constellation system, you can do crazy build. Run feel fast, that I could clear in 5 minutes with tons of loots. Sadly each run felt way too repetitive and samey. Since your progression are done in town, run became simple treadmill either you kill fast, you die fast or you lost because your dmg is terrible and boss stack alot of curse on you. Blessing system from survivor-like game seem fun, but not when you get like 40 popup in 5 minutes run. It doesnt give dopamine rush RNGod luck either. Biggest gripe is layout / level design that games is so fond of corridors or small hallways. Which lead to reason why I stopped playing : graphic spam. When you combine incremental with ARPG, you get system that allow you do alot of crazy things, but at cost visual clarity. You wont able to see the enemies' ground AoE or projectiles. Even if you can tank them, curse from boss will surely 1 shot you afterward. Except you cant dodge them because boss can either spawned in tight corridors (nightmare / shrine encounter) or big arena with objects that block your path. As visual impaired person and bored with same playstyle in repetitive run, I really want to love the game but i think i have quit because im not having fun. I easily could really wrote an essay why i dislike the game, but i will leave negative review for now until hopefully dev address couple of issues mentioned on steam forum. Mostly small friction that made this game not enjoyable. I got from humble monthly, and I not willing to spend money to buy the game or DLC at current discounted price. I rather play a proper roguelike, survivorlike or arpg instead of this mismatched genre game.