SULFUR

After 100% the game I can say that this game is absolutely a diamond in the rough. The gunplay is solid and definitely encourages experimentation with the oils and enchantments. The game is full of small easter eggs and quirks which shows the game was made with love. However, it is not without issues. The audio bugs out whenever there is too many things happening to where I had to mute the game to not blow out the speakers in my headphones, enemies like to glitch into the floor, the enemies become bullet sponges towards the end game, you have to rely heavily on the wiki in order to get any idea of recipes, and while the game encourages you to experiment, the oils and enchantments are lackluster except a few. Overall it's a very solid game where I absolutely got my moneys worth out of it. If you can look past these issues then I'd say it's worth a try

I did a negative review of the game after 6 hours. But then I played like 50 more hours. So, clearly it was not that bad. I would like to give it a mixed score, but short of that, I'll go with positive. The good: - the guns and anything around them. The variety, the animation, the improvements, everything! - the art style and mood The very subjective bad: - the lack of metaprogression and the grinding style of the game - certain areas of the game The more objective bad: - problems with steam deck despite being listed as verified - too little variety for a roguelike - no possibility to go back to the hub after beating an area (except caves) The neutral and the bad long version: The game is listed as verified on Steam Deck, so I would have expected to have no problems playing it there. It is one of the reason I bought the game in the first place. Instead, the crafting menu is quite messy when used on deck. The tooltip menus cover the options, pressing Y to craft would also remove stuff from the inventory. It does not make the game unplayable, but given that the game relies on few well-developed mechanics, and one of them is crafting, this was really disappointing. I understand it's still early access, but then it should not be "verified". Hopefully it will be fixed in the final version. I like the graphic style of the game and the rooms of the levels are really nice, except it feels there are only very few of them for each biome. In every run I have found the same room layout over and over and over. Given that you are supposed to play the same environment over and over, this becomes a problem very soon. Same thing applies to enemies. For context, I have played little less than 10 hours, reaching the Dungeon (but not finishing it). By the time I had finished a biome, I felt I had seen everything there was to see there and I was actually relieve it was over.. Which would be okay in a plot-oriented game, but in a roguelike it's a major flaw. I also find that the variety in the weapons is not even remotely matched by the variety in the clothes. I mean, there is variety, but you will always end up using one of a few selected items. Having clothes with more effects would improve the game. The meta progression is a bity swampy. The stamp system allows to perform small upgrades on the church, which have a very small impact on the gameplay and many of them m are just "more space". It feels like any death would bring you back from where you started, and you have to go through a decent part of the game to recover from that loss. Towards the end this becomes less punishing, but in the beginning it's heavy. And while I learned to enjoy the gameplay loop of having to replay sections to recover from losses, it can be a bit of a hassle. The nice thing is that it pushes you to try new weapons and builds. But given the limited variety of content inside biomes, it feels a bit boring. Having a more impactful permanent meta progression would improve this feeling. I am not asking for permanent power-ups as in Hades or similar, but for example progression of shops as in Duckov, so that you don't have to grind levels over and over, but you can buy part of your losses. But this last point is very subjective, and it may go openly against the vision of the game. The game areas become more wide and open as the game progresses. Which on the one hand is very nice cause you feel less like you are in a corridor and allows for complex and detailed chunks of the game. On the other hand, it makes the levels more disorienting and frustrating, especially when so many things look the same cause of the lack of variety. You can not go back to the curch at the end of a zone (except mines). This means that if in any moment you need/want to stop playing you must use your medallion, which works only if you have reached the middle of a level or was previously charged. I really can not fathom the motivation of such decisions. The first one may have technical motivation, but that honestly feel weird. The second one I really can not understand why any dev would impose such a limitation

GOOD FUN

Buen juego, dificultad elevada, divertido y adictivo que no engañen los graficos tiernos

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fast or fast pace game

i love it