Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok

6/10, only recommend on the steepest of discounts. It's not bad! It could be a 9 with some of the polish that it's got. But it's death by a thousand minor annoyances which make me honestly wonder if the developers actually play their game like a player. And if they do, they must hate themselves. - Like what is with leaving the player corpse sitting for 5 seconds without the option to just GO. I get it, I'm dead, and it's always neat to have a "dead cam" or what have you... But still, let's move on; I don't do funerals nor after parties. - Why does the option to control movement by mouse eliminate the ability to switch over to using keyboard during play???? - Half (being generous, it's possibly FAR more) of the character skills are nigh useless versus enemies beyond the first two stages. - Some bosses take extra long because they flit about while a character who CAN'T be built for it just waits to get a swing in. - Invulnerability periods and rapid, overlapping enemy heals. (Not really a minor annoyance, this is a major design FLAW, but it can be fixed unlike some of these annoyances) - Enemy weapons that cannot be dodged without making fights take a mind-numbingly long time to get through. - Countless other pointless annoyances. UI quirks, weird control decisions. The game is advertised as having builds. The problem with some of these minor issues (and ones not mentioned, as I'm just flow of consciousnessing this review)) is that they BUILD UP. It has the affect of making build variety almost non-existent. I'm too perturbed to continue, others have pointed out major issues ad nauseam.