Dracomaton's Forms System is a great response to the roguelike conundrum of getting stuck in equipment ruts. The mechanical advantage of cycling out forms allows the player to encounter interesting synergies and strategies more naturally than having hard usage limits and more frequently than just letting the forms be. Forms scale very slowly, so while it's hard to experience equipment discovery early in the game, players still get the chance to learn about which forms and mods work best for their equipment and play style. The only time slow early form scaling hurts is high-speed runs, where players might get locked into unhelpful form options early game and miss the DPS targets they need to stay on pace.

Foundationally, Dracomaton is rock solid. Almost all of its flaws have to do with the limited scale of its production. Enemies have a bit too much health, room geometry has a bit too many snags, things that wouldn't have survived an in-depth polish phase that Dracomaton probably wasn't able to receive. Technical performance is a trouble spot, though. Dracomaton's bugs and performance issues aren't so intense that the game is hard to play through them, but players will need to keep the possibility of intense lagspikes or phantom inputs in mind if they want to play a higher-risk build.