UPDATE: my new review is positive, I changed it from before.
After seeing how quickly the devs listened to our comments (literally in less than 24 hours), I believe they deserve our money and time. I was struggling with the TD aspect with making the "maze" thing. After the learning curve, I am having a lot of fun!
Some things I like:
The remapping aspect is very creative and keeps the game feeling fresh. I like how it encourages us to adapt with the bonus tiles and stuff.
The incremental part is fun as well, although it's pretty standard for a TD game.
Critiques/suggestions:
I do not fully love the gatcha aspect, because of how the healing is randomized. Sometimes I get a 25hp heal when im at full health, and others, I am waiting for a heal and never get it. I think it would be really cool if we could either choose a healing or a buff gatcha, or offer some other sort of healing on the side to prevent us just saving our gatchas for later, cuz I did die a few times without using the gatcha, waiting for my health to go down but ultimately wasting it.
An undo/redo button would also be really great, given that a lot of the mapping involves hovering over the boxes, removing them, and just trial and error stuff in general. It would make the flow a lot more fun.
It would be cool to have a more in depth tutorial on how the boxes would work. I did not understand how important the remapping aspect was and only put a few boxes, leading me to fail.
Steam imput support would be really nice as well! I'm playing on the deck and it's ok, but it would be even better if the controller support was fully there ;)
A pausing option and a half speed option would be useful as well.
Nitpicks:
Some skins could be cool! Some people were upset about how there is only one map. I think an easy fix would be changing the hue of some assets (like the cat and the overworld/props). It would give more incentive to play as well.
I would also love to have some sort of item that can let us choose where the path of the sushi will change to?
A difficulty slider (probably easy, medium, hard, etc) could also be a relatively simple fix to the people who have a problem with how hard/easy it is?
Also I think that the cat's ultimate power is a bit underpowered for how rarely it activates.
OLD REVIEW: (was previously not reccomended):
Am i the only one who actually finds it too difficult? I've been trying for a few hours and I still cant get past level 10 or so... Aside from the difficulty, the game really does feel like an early access so far, and I would be happy to give a positive review if there was more gameplay.
And yeah, im doing the map maze thing with the boxes to extend the paths, but for some reason I am still stuck. I genuinely dont know what im doing wrong. the prices of the turrets and boxes just get too high at a certain point, and the paths never change in ways I actually want them to. It just feels too heavily reliant on RNG and maybe I have been too unlucky. Often near level 10, when i try to modify the paths, it just makes the path shorter, and I give up on trying to guess how to balance it out. It's not fun. It might be a skill issue but it definitely does not feel like I am able to gain any skills to actually get better. it just feels like I keep restarting in order to finally get lucky, and it never happens.
For now, I would wait on buying it unless you're a diehard fan of the franchise, are rich, or REALLY want a tower defense game right now. I guess wait for a sale?
Really sad about this.... :(
(also, beware that you lose your demo progress when buying the main game, and I have played the demo a few more hours than 1, so it just doesnt show here)
