HELLCARD

MUSIC sound is terrible and here is WHY! [always mute it, as I do not like to torture myslef] Short-loop fatigue – probably the closest informal term in game audio circles. A music loop is so short that repetition becomes obvious very quickly. Repetitive ostinato – if the music is built around the same repeating rhythmic or melodic figure (an ostinato). Most songs create expectation through: - verse → chorus, - tension → release, - harmonic progression, - changing instrumentation, - larger-scale structure. A 10–30 second game loop often restarts before any of those expectations can build. Instead of feeling like a complete musical phrase, your brain notices the restart itself. Once you recognize the loop boundary, it becomes difficult to ignore, which accelerates annoyance. Game audio designers often avoid this by using: - long loops (2–5+ minutes), - layered adaptive music that changes with gameplay, - horizontal resequencing (different musical segments played in varying orders), - vertical remixing (adding/removing instrument layers instead of restarting the track). And for the LOVE of GOD make better music. Reaching the Archdemon's Hell level finally made the title click. The real torture isn't the enemies—it's realizing you've been listening to the same 20-second music loop for the entire run. Maybe the real title is HELLSONG. You are welcome. I wont mind to get a key for your HELLCARD 2 in progress project. Back to the review... It's like a mix between Slay the Spire and guard defence stance out of Marvel move, to battle the rushing invaders. Epic. Let me explain. It's Singleplayer with 2 both co-op or a 3 co-op multiplayer where your progresion lets you 'fall' to the deeper layer and monsters reposition themsleves around you (to be fair, would all attack in some cases you would not survive if they would not needlesly reposition, while sometimes they do not make it even to take a turn in some cases) No idea if there is a story, more like 'Uh there is a downward spirol with loot, let's go and explore'. Levels are devided in geometricly exact division of 2 layers of cicles and each covers equal section of near and far layer. Simple and the spels have impact based on diferent characters each with strenghts and weknesses. Best way to play in terms of speed and fun is with friends That take each a role of 1 Characters. I played only 1 Multiplayer co-op. and glad I tryied that, even though usaly I do not. Both players were Mages (seem to be meta - more on that later), took us 1h of gametime to finish all 12 dungeons. In comperison, if you play solo, it took me in best case so far 3h to finish a run. By playing solo - yourself, you operate direcly one character, same as multiplayer, but also partialy leading a party of 2 controlling players. You have control over the cards they play and order, but once the fight is over, your choices in reguard of upgrades and new cards as wel as upgrades and artifacts, that is all gone. Here you are clearly at a disadvantage. Itis a time saver, but you can't search or create synergies and you will have to learn how to play with changes to the deck each time you progress. To be fair, I have played just view game and the choiced that are automated seems to work well enough toi make the characters effective and that is very important. The places you choose to visit will determin what upgrades and options you will have at the end of a dungeon from monster types to the rewards that include new cards, remove cards - to make faster deck cicleming, upgrade cards - you loose most time reading trough all the options and impacts. The more you play, you know it by heart, so that is one of the reson the multiplayer was so fast, my patint group had to wait for me on alsmot all levels playing alsmot new character is bad for teamplay and waiting time. Many thanks for the patience. Still can't comprehand the insane fast game we had. I could bearly keep up to play out my cards, made me feel realy old - like playing a speedchest with 2 Ender clones. Comunication is fun with emootes or ping to make attention to some creature, that you overoocked for using a card that will trigger a condition if played on certain mobs. And this is the main goal, knowing your cards and play to strenghts, by eliminating the mobs that target you first or make sure your defence is stronger then the predicted dmg from mobs that target you or your teammates. Constant presure. Let's talk about classes. All have unique attack mechanic, like malee haveing benefit of targeting near sector mobs compared to far, but later upgraded spells do not matter, just deremin the sector or AOE range. Ranged character has strenght in the far sectors, AOE or even impact whole dungeon or sector. In multiplayer I meet o only Mages, seems to be the clas that allows for infiner mana points - action you can take, and provide teammates with infinit number oif extra cards to play out each encounter. Very powerful combo that made the game like extpress train and provided my character of own unique class feel like an infant stepping and falling over own feet. Additional to the cards you can play I had unique class need not one but 2 additional resources - screws and cores. Those are required to be able to play out most cards. So while I struggle to gether enough resoruces they provided me with needed cards or extra mana, while also decimating the mobs. While my character can be strong in some cases, it took me long time to set up all the traps to trigger all the needed synergies compared to make ability to dish out. Interestingly I was not impressed in single play controlling a co-op mage, but oh boy was I wrong. This was humbeling exp as much fun as it was. The game is easy to pick up and if you play solo you might never see all the possible combos if you pick same choices always. But if all play same class the same way, then also you wont. There is a lot of replayability that lets you unlock cards and emotes that your characters can say in game to other players and expand your comunication choices in coop with random teammates. Even if grinding is not my thing to unlock new things, hopefully I will convince freinds to join, even though they do not like this kind of games. To the DEVELOPERS. Since you are making a new game improving on this formula, here are my thoughts. I would prefere if I can mark my cards somehow, to remember what choices I picked for upgrades or have option to auto apply from history. Having to remember all and doing it for bazilion times on repeeat will make it auto, but only if I keep playing or stick to one character. If I want to explore all options it might help if I return to a class that I have some way of knowing what I picked to remember. Same thing on multiplayer, there is no time to check all the upgrades and choices, would love to go trough the list of upgrade picks and cards played for each of co-op players (maybe I overlooked the option to do so). Sometimes cards fill your deck from all the extra scrolls as some cards place them in your deck and those cost action points so can't play out and after finish with a certain artifact [keep the current hand] wont be redrawn and you are stuck with same deck preventing you to get new cards on next turn, that are needed. I almost blocked myself from effective gameplay. Or some other class needed 2 special resoruces to either even play out cards or activate them after. While this are fun to play but sometimes was stuck as I had mana but no secondary resoruce to play out the card. Maybe at least provide a mechanic to get some basic resources from the mana that is left from last round or something.