JRoguePG

The concept is there, but the unlocks arent fun. The unlocks you make arent very helpful. The classes you unlock dont change much. There are too many attack types per character. And by the time you build a class youre dead. The skills that save between runs are mostly useless. Just another dps skill to add to the 15 other dps skills you have.

This game is a lot of fun. There's more than one set of viable classes, the skill system is very interesting, and progression is noticeable. What really matters tho is learning how to use all of the abilities and gear drops you have and changing them around in each biome. You can also switch some things on the fly, which can help with surprises.

The worst instance of metaprogression being absolutely required to have any chance at all of success. I hope you enjoy spending dozens of hour-long runs never getting more than halfway through before hitting an impossible wall. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the metaprogression is handled extremely poorly. Buying the last rank of an upgrade gives you all previous ranks, but if you already bought those lower-level ranks, the resource you spent on them is wasted. For example, you could buy the first three ranks to start with more gold, and spend around 6 souls to get there buying them on at a time. Or you could save those souls until you get to 14 and then buy the fourth rank outright. This is all in addition to a lot of other smaller issues, like uninteresting class abilities, an overuse of unreliable status effects (you'll never hit the enemy with them when you need to and bosses are mostly immune, but your party will be drowning in them), boring gear, and physical classes that rely on building a resource that you start with none of, so their first round in combat is pretty much always wasted.