Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault

Moonlighter 2 is a great follow up to the original game, even though I have some considerations: - for unknown reasons, the game keeps "stuttering" in between levels and even during combat. That happens on both my PC and Steam Deck - loading times while entering/leaving the shop are weirdly long - I play with a gamepad and I can feel lag during intense combats I love the IP, love the soundtrack, it's charming, and I can tell there's a lot of love from the team. I wish they had more time to cook this game 'cause I believe it deserves a place amongst the great roguelites/roguelikes or whatever-rogue you want to name it. The mix of combat and shopping is amazing, the game is gorgeous, combat (when it works) it's fair and fun, with a great variety of weapons and perks, sweet NPCs and a world that after 26hrs, even if not perfect, keeps calling me back for more.

Уныло и лагает, разочарование.

How is this considered a 1.0 Release? Despite the bones of the game being enjoyable, there are so many deeply frustrating and bizarrely unfun design choices that keep this game from having that addictive "just one more run" feeling some of the best roguelikes have. First off, the balancing in the game does not feel great at all. For a game heavily built around dodgeroll mechanics, you would expect the dodge itself not to be sluggish and have weird invincibility timing. Enemies in the very first area of the game utilize aggressive tracking shots and AOE attacks, and you cannot interrupt attacks or your animations with your dodge. This leads to every hit you take feeling very cheap and most deaths in the game feeling intensely frustrating rather than fair. Some fo the bosses also feel unbalanced as they throw out tons of mechanics and builds that players might base their runs around. Second, there are strange bugs that also hamper enjoyment of the game, such as the Weapon Mastery quest being bugged and unable to proceed, and various instances of enemies' attacks still going off after death leading to some very cheap damage. Also for a game that is literally built around inventory management, it's astounding that there are no QOL features such as emptying all of your inventory after a run instead of manually adding one item at a time. Lastly, the progression in this game is nothing new to fans of roguelike games, with its incremental increases to damage, percentage increases for higher rarity buffs/loot, etc. but some of the choices for upgrades feel like cheap grinds. Examples would be having to upgrade the storage chest to hold more items (because somehow your backpack holds more items), and the healing fountains before bosses healing more instead of being a full heal. All in all, it's enjoyable but all these elements combined lead to an overall hampered experience which really invites the question of how all these rough elements made it past Early Access. I'll be putting this one down until these issues get ironed out.

玩了10个小时，然后闪退了，存档给我干没了（应该云存档可以用，不过也没必要了，等修复），既然如此的话那就放弃把 总体游戏体验 6.5/10 难度：难度不算太高，刚开始还不怎么打得过，把血量提上去后，就基本稳过了，我用的枪，感觉还行 内容：整理背包凑价值刚开始玩还挺有趣的，后面就很重复了，不太能支撑长期的游玩体验把。 bug： 1. 武器精通的那个任务小孩找不到了，地图上有标点，但是看不见，不清楚是提示的问题还是bug卡没了。 2. 我用扫把打死一个关底boss成就好像没触发。 3. 10个小时游戏流程中，触发了3次卡死（卡死在loading），一次闪退。 4. 其他小bug包括但不限于，没有正确退出剧情，出现了两个主角，没办法交互了。npc的悬浮对话框没有正常消失，重启游戏后才消失。 原价、首发不推荐入手。等开发组修复一下bug、优化一下整个游戏体验再说把

Das Spiel macht im großen und ganzen Spaß, aber bei 2 von 3 Runs hat sich das Spiel gerade einfach geschlossen und der Fortschritt war natürlich weg, solange die Crash nicht gefixt sind macht es nicht viel sinn zu spielen. Bitte Fixen!

Only bad thing I can think about is critical, the item collection, should have been from mobs like the first one, now we are just speedrunning getting chests it removes the expectation that X mob will give Y item, made the game worse in my opinion

Took me a second to understand why this had lower reviews. If you played the first Moonlighter, then I understand. It’s hard to beat that first-time experience. That said, if this is your first time playing in this world, I think you’ll have a good time. It’s super chill at times, then gets you going at others. They made a lot of changes from the first one, and honestly, I think they’re for the better. I didn’t really enjoy the first one that much, so I appreciate that they took some risks instead of just playing it safe. I’d rather have a developer take risks and try something new than become another COD that spits out the same trash over and over just because it worked once. 🥹