Shard Squad

I adore the designs, but the gameplay is just not for me. Though I will say that I would've tolerated it more if I knew that I bought the whole game (there are some characters locked behind a paid dlc, and you will be reminded of it on the title screen every time)

It's not bad, the idea is really fun but I feel like the execution of the gameplay is done in a really boring way. It also feels like it's much more of a bullet hell than it is a bullet heaven. The further you get through the stages, the more projectiles you have to dodge and the more enemies with different abilities and movement patterns you have to move around. You play as a creature with a base ability, and once you reach max level you evolve and get an extra ability, and/or your base one changes to be more powerful. You get other creatures as supports during your runs, and there's some synergies between different creature types that activate passive abilities. Nothing felt particularly run changing or build enabling to be honest. Some of the damage passives feel very underwhelming compared to others. For example poison stacks up very quickly and ticks for 200 damage each time, but the rain cloud ability did like 50 damage per tick. It feels like either poison's way too strong or the other ones need a bit of a balance pass to make them more interesting options to go for. There's a lot of relics that will either make you stronger or impact the way you'll play during your run. It's a fun idea, but ultimately I ended up going with reduced cooldown almost every single run because you need so much damage in the later stages, and even more so if you increase the difficulty on top. The difficulty curve of the game feels fine on normal difficulty as you progress through the stages, but when you crease the difficulty level itself, I didn't notice much changing besides more enemies with increased health and they do more damage to you. Except you don't really have great ways to scale your own damage up, and there aren't really any crazy creature/ability combinations that will make you pop off. Another thing I disliked is that you reach full power toward the end of your run. You barely get to play for a quarter of your run at full strength, and there's no way to keep going once you beat the stage's final boss, so you have to start a new run and be weak again. It leads to most of your time spent playing the game feeling kinda weak, until you unlock the damage increase relics, or the cooldown reduction ones. The meta upgrades don't feel very interesting either. It's modest numerical increases for pretty much all of them; they aren't game changing and cost so much gold that you don't actually notice much of an increase from one run to another, because of how few levels you can buy between runs. I thought for a good while on giving this a positive or negative review, but ultimately I have to go with negative. I really like the ideas here, but the gameplay felt stale very quickly and the progression was so uninteresting that the game just cannot compete with other titles in the genre in its current state. I understand that the aim was to allow for more strategy during runs, but what actually ends up happening is every run feels more or less the same, and you're just running away from things the entire time until the timer runs out. You hardly ever feel like you have actually gotten powerful, or made a crazy combo that feels like you're getting away with something. And when you do get something really good, you enjoy it for a few minutes and the run's over because you can't achieve it until only a few minutes are left in the run. Took 35 hours to 100%. I think it's got a lot of potential, but it just falls flat overall in my opinion.

Desde a demo eu gostei muito da gameplay e, depois de tantas horas, ainda tenho dificuldade de pensar em alguma crítica que realmente tenha me incomodado no jogo. Algumas fases podem ser mais tranquilas dependendo do personagem que você escolhe, enquanto outras podem exigir um pouco mais de você com determinado personagem, mas achei a dificuldade muito bem equilibrada. Inclusive, muitas das vezes em que eu tive dificuldade, sinto que ela veio muito mais dos meus próprios limites como jogadora do que de algum problema na gameplay. E isso acabou me dando ainda mais vontade de continuar tentando. A evolução dos personagens foi uma das coisas que mais gostei de ver. Ela foi adicionada recentemente ao jogo e achei que combinou muito bem com a proposta. Ver esse desenvolvimento acontecendo ao longo da experiência foi muito satisfatório e ajudou bastante a me manter interessada em continuar jogando. E preciso falar da parte visual: é um jogo lindo para quem ama pixel art. A estética é muito charmosa e cheia de personalidade. Mas para mim, a trilha sonora merece um destaque especial. A música é um show à parte. Eu já estou naquele nível em que até o som da vitória ficou gravado na minha cabeça. Meu único grande problema foi... bom... eu morri MUITO. Mas, novamente, não sei se posso colocar isso na conta do jogo. Talvez o problema seja simplesmente eu. No fim, eu recomendo Shard Squad tanto para quem já é fã de jogos do gênero survivors quanto para quem normalmente não joga esse tipo de jogo. A gameplay funciona muito bem, mas acho que existe algo além dela que vale a pena descobrir: a história é muito bonita e foi uma das coisas que mais me surpreendeu. Se você gosta de pixel art, survivors ou simplesmente está procurando um jogo que consiga te prender por boas horas, acho que vale muito a pena dar uma chance para Shard Squad.

This game is similar to Vampire Survivors. Less flashy, but with a better art style. It has potential and is worth revisiting in the future, however it currently still feels like an Early Access game. The problem is the progression system in the game is somewhat underwhelming. The evolution system was a step in the right direction, however it still doesn't feel like enough without middle stage evolutions. The game needs more variety in events, rewards for events, stat level up options, slight changes in maps so they don't get repetitive, a second currency to collect for different upgrades, and so on to give a better sense of progression and make it feel less repetitive. There was too much priority placed on having 4 characters of every element. So most of the development time went towards updating the characters rather then the gameplay itself. It would have been a better idea to have 2 characters for every element with branching evolution trees. This way, more time could be allocated to developing the core gameplay and one could re-visit the characters later and slowly add more. Because there are too many characters and only so many attack patterns one can come up with, some of them have similar attack patterns as others. Which adds to the repetitive feeling of this game.

I like the creatures, their abilities, and also the lore. The progression seems a little grindy to me. There's a lot of goals to attack, so that mitigates it at least. I enjoyed it more than I didn't, and that's all I ask from a game.

你们的数值策划是几个人啊？自己的游戏没有内部测试的吗？不觉得玩起来没有任何肉鸽游戏应该有的爽感吗？ 第一个问题你的游戏设定：小怪血量高，密度高，还塞了大量远程怪，操控的角色数值低得要死，这就是你所谓的挑战性吗？血量高导致清不掉怪，密度高导致捡不到经验球，远程怪吐弹幕导致走位受限，一局下来就是疯狂逃窜，一路刮痧导致一局游戏又臭又长体验极差。小怪的压力比BOSS还大，真给我看傻了。 第二点，局外的成长是怎么设计的？升满需要的资源你们自己算过要多少时间吗？你们就拿这个硬拉游戏时长？ 第三点，你这个组合技怎么还设个单独升级啊，直接跟着主角的成长走就行了啊，现在是光有特效没有伤害啊。 游戏制作者一定要玩过游戏，推荐你们找几个类幸存者玩一下，去玩一下土豆吧，别浪费美术资源

ヴァンサバライク初心者です。かなりたのしい。キャラクターもかわいいし、進化も正当な感じでいい。進化後の技強化もアツくて気持ちのいいものが多く楽しめた。まだキャラ収集もマップも途中だけどおすすめです。

Shard Squad juntou duas coisas que eu sou extremamente viciado e criou um jogo sensacional! O problema dele é que você não consegue parar e horas se passam sem você notar. Brasil mandando muito!

wdnmd吹我都不知道怎么吹这游戏，对比其他类幸存者有任何一丢丢优势吗？局内局外所有加成都是数值数值数值，而且只有攻击攻速范围这3个。评价为抄吸血鬼幸存者抄不明白，拉完了。 以及，看到给类幸存者游戏塞远程怪海的，有一个算一个全都可以无脑给差评，不会错的