The game has great bones, and this is absolutely something you should keep your eye on, but for now it's just that. The game is missing some important content even for EA (currently only 3 out of 5 playable characters are released even though this game has a 4 player multiplayer system.) The multiplayer itself NEEDS SERIOUS WORK from glitches to balance to item distribution. my experience comes from solo, duo and trio. solo is by far the best way to play the game, as multiplayer naturally nerfs your personal strength due to changes in ally amount per player (which affects your starting powerups). The game's multiplayer system almost feels like its punishing you for playing with other people. on top of this, it feels very much so like there is no trio balance. there's solo balance, duo balance, and then at trio it feels like you're being handed Quad balance with a missing person. Trio is just not good AT ALL and you, again, will be punished for doing it. I'm not sure if there just aren't all the companions in the game or if it just randomly stopped doing the right things but I've only gotten 3 so far even though there's like 7(?). all 3 were acquired early in my playtime and then its like the faucet got turned off. item distribution almost feels like it just doesn't change no matter what you're doing. if a map has 5 chests in solo, then in duos and trios is will also only have 5 chests. I understand we can't have everyone get uber powerful, but it does need to scale up more so that each player can actually feel like they are getting more powerful as the run goes on. currently it feels like splitting items between multiple people is a waste. Go in, let one person get all the good stuff so that SOMEONE on the team is cracked, and pray to the Gods that the other teammates can make it through. Visual Clutter is absolutely a thing in this game and I do not know how I feel about it. Biggest issue is when bosses spawn in at the end of a level, they may spawn in on you, and they will have a comic-esque panel show up to the left and/or right of your screen, taking up about a third of the screen EACH. when playing trios, quads, or late stage levels with multiple bosses, BOTH bosses have these panels show up at the same time, while the bosses themselves can spawn on you, plus voice line subtitles and another image of a boss on it. This means you effectively can only see about a fourth of your screen for the first few seconds which then can lead to you not being able to see and taking damage (and typically a lot of it.) I want to talk about the positives, which there are plenty, but to be honest id rather use this review as a way to highlight the things that actually need to change for this to be an A+ game that it absolutely can be.
