This is based on so far only finishing 2 "runs" in the game, but so far the impression it left was pretty good that I had to write a review while it is fresh in the mind.
Yesterday, I gave the demo a go, and despite my failed run, the combination of the artstyle, setting, and music won me over to play the full game.
The basic premise so far is that the character you play as lives in space, alone in the spaceship, and she has a contact on earth that stopped responding, so your character decides to venture in Million Depth to find out what has happened to them.
The game uses 2D Sprites for the visuals, and I do like me some 2D sprites.
The music is phenomenal.
The gameplay/battle system can be a hit or miss, I don't like inventory management/tetris fitting kind of games but it works, it's better than it sounds/looks to make your weapon. The battle system itself is interesting because things move only when you or your weapon moves, so you can use it to carefully weave between projectiles and attacks, and the game encourages you to do so to enable a state where everyone is frozen in time but you can move.
I'm not used to stories in a roguelike game, but this game has a story, I'm enjoying what I've seen out of it so far.
I think the one thing that made this game click almost instantly is that it reminds me of Made in Abyss, entering a very deep dungeon that is dangerous, the goal of finding a person who's thought to be missing, not seeing a lot of humans but seeing mostly androids and hostile species, the soundtrack isn't Kevin Penkin level, but it is stellar regardless, when I first played the demo, I had to stop playing halfway through because all I could've been thinking at that moment is "This is what a Made in Abyss game should be like"(Alternatively, Etrian Odyssey), the official Made in Abyss game might be more accurate, with the brutal nature of the abyss, its creatures and surviving in it, but it is coupled with a ton of jank and tedium, and the music is fine.
I absolutely recommend this game and its soundtrack, but I'd try the demo out first.
If you want another thing that can count as words of praise, this is a game I'd skip lunch for to play instead when I'm feeling fully immersed.
