A neat little roguelike which allows you to customize your combos.
Pros
+ You can customize your moveset or “barrage” by combining attacks you got from defeating enemies
+ You unlock a “technique” by combining attacks. For example: You combine 1 Jump and 1 Slice Up, it gives you an upward slice attack technique.
+ You can change the button mapping in the action builder. If you like A button as your jump button instead of B, you can change it. If you like all of the face buttons as attacks, and you have no mobility actions, you can do that as well.
+ The minimum amount to combine 2 level 1 equipments is 200 coins. If you have below 200 and you speak to the blacksmith, it already says you don’t have enough gold and doesn’t even let you select equipments to combine. Its a neat little feature that already blocks you from doing stuff that you can’t.
Both Pro and Con
= Achievements are a bit grindy; but with the right combination of attacks, you can achieve it easily.
Cons
- Sometimes when you enter a stage, you cannot do any attacks. You can jump or dash. You need to wait for a minute I think before you attack. I think this is a bug as it is random and I don’t see any game mechanics that has this function.
- You cannot combine elemental attacks. If you combine Poison and Ice, you expect ice attacks with poison damage, but it doesn’t work like that. You attack can only accept 1 elemental attribute.
- On some stages, there’s an entrance to your base so you can save your current build for next time. Inside your base, you cannot change your build. That means you have to edit the build you want to save first before entering your base. This is quite annoying as if you forgot to change your build and you already entered your base, that means you have to exit your base and hope for the next stage to have another entrance to your base.
- Sometimes, controller icons are replaced with keyboard icons mid game, but the controller button press are still detected normally. Example: It shows Esc in game but when you press Menu button in the controller, it still works.
Verdict: Its a good roguelike with unique combo builder mechanics. Although it is a bit limited compared to other games that I’ve played, it is still fun. I give it 8/10.
