Right now, the game feels more frustrating than anything else. Some of the game mechanics badly ineract with each other and either feel redundant or counter-intuitive.
So the bad :
- There is a block mechanic that allows to stop incoming attacks from enemies which are notified by a marker above their head. If you perform that block at the right time, it becomes a parry that doesn't consume endurance and stagger the enemy who attacked you. That is great on paper, but isn't in application since the screen is clustered with informations such as the markers aforementioned and enemies AOE. On top of that, that marker doesn't indicate when the attack will be performed, but when the animation of the attack will start. Which means that between two enemy types, the time to perform the perfect parry isn't the same from one notification to another. It may appear like nothing, but when your screen is filled with different enemies, these notifications are unreliable.
- Battles feel uneven with some taking around 5min to complete to 30min which makes starting a new run quite exhausting when you start with a long one without special feats. The timer when a battle ends feels very unnecessary since it prevents you from exploring more the battlefield or go after what you may have missed.
- Game freezes for like 1sec when waves of enemies spawn which is quite infuriating, especially when you are getting attacked
- Enemies become way too tanky early on, meaning that if you don't have the meta feats, you are going to fight for a long time
- Music feels very repetitive. I dunno if I had a bug that made the same music play every time, but it's tiresome
- You end up always doing the same combo (X-X-Y) since the others don't have any useful practical application
The Good :
- The Artstyle and the sound design are great
- The game is fun overall
The game has potential, but right now I cannot recommend it. It feels too much unrefined and unbalanced.
