I'll preface this by saying I beat this game with all bosses on level 5 difficulty, and all characters in Brotato on level 5 for both base and DLC stages. The TLDR of my review is you should just play Brotato, and if you already played it, probably just play it some more. But there are a lot of unique things about this game which I will mention, and if they sound interesting to you, consider buy this.
Starting with visuals, it has to be mentioned that the UI for this game is just straight taken from Brotato. Pause screen, shop screen, stat screen, character select screen, it's honestly shocking how much they took. This didn't really bother me, but it's so 1:1 it's hard to ignore. As for the game visuals, I think the boss art has a lot of charm, and the dungeon motif, basic as it is, is a nice change of pace from something like Brotato's plain floors. However, the commitment to the bit that you are a boss and the enemies are noobs means all enemies are super tiny. Readability suffers hard, and it's basically impossible to tell what is happening as things get more hectic. Their tiny size and fairly generic designs also makes it hard to remember what enemies do, though it mostly boils down to charging at you or some bullet pattern. Item icons are very poor. Unlike Brotato where item icons have unique colored art, this game opts for, as best as I can describe it, uncolored line art. Even after beating and unlocking everything, I still had to hover over and read most items. Also, as best as I can tell, there is no way to toggle the info bubble on weapons/items, which makes seeing what you have equipped a pain.
The music is annoying, that's all I have to say about that.
About half the bosses are copied from (or slightly modified versions of) Brotato characters, and the other half are not only new, but some have fairly unique mechanics. If there's one thing I really like about this game, it's the bosses. Also it's nice to not just be a potato all the time.
All the stats are carried over from Brotato, but with some additions. There are some additional damage types, like magic and pet. Size and Amount are also carried over from games like Vampire Survivors. These add some fun new dimensions to the game, but there are some drawbacks which I will touch on in a bit.
Weapon variety is also very nice. There is basically only one "gun" in the game, and everything else is quite unique. Disks which bounce off walls, wands which turn enemies into sheep, pets, soccer balls to kick, etc. There are weapons which spawn orbs which, when collected, let you use abilities like a giant leaping stop or turning you into a giant rolling death ball. There's an entire vegetable class which requires you to run around watering vegetables which act as summons. Sadly the weapon balance isn't very good, but honestly I think that's just kind of a given for the genre.
Weapons often have multiple classes at once (fire, water, mystic, ability, kickable, etc) which give synergy bonus stats for having multiple of that class, and unlike Brotato the bonus often caps at around 3 or 4 tiers. This encourages you to take different weapons to maximize the free stat points, which I found pretty neat.
Items are sadly very generic especially compared to Brotato. It's mostly just stat ups, not a lot of things which synergize with the unique weapon mechanics in interesting ways.
The shop randomness is kinda whack. In a lot of rogue likes, the game kinda knows what you are trying to build for and will offer you those items more often. In this game it feels like this effect is lessoned the and game will just give you random stuff more often than not, and because there is more weapon variety and damage stats, there's actually more stuff you can't use. This also applies to the level up screen; damage, amount, and new damage types means lower chances of getting the stats you want. Often times, I didn't really feel like I had a build at the end of the run, just whatever the heck I picked up along the way.
There is basically no (enemy) boss variety. I think there are maybe 5 (after 30 hours in the game I can only name 4 off the top of my head but I assume there's more) in the whole game, and they're all pretty meh.
The game is super easy, and that's a huge reason I can't recommend this game. It didn't matter if I had a really good run with great weapons and good stats, or a run where the game just gave me garbage, I had no problem beating the game. It feels like because of the poor enemy visibility and item rng, they had to make the game easier. And so the lack to strong builds, generic enemies with poor readability, lack of bosses, and easy difficulty made the runs kinda bleed together. So for as much as this game brings to the table, Brotato just executes on everything much better. I wouldn't even say this is worth it if you are sick of Brotato, as this is just a lesser version of that game.
