This review contains spoilers
Not really story spoilers but mentions areas and bosses here and there.
Not so much a review but rather the specific stuff I'd want addressed by 1.0. After 21 hours of playing and having fought all the current bosses, the game's great in its current state, just has room for further balancing and addressing minor issues that currently hold it back. I'd go as far as to say I love this already anyway.
- The Umbral Flames weapon feels bad currently. The base attack is slow and weak.It is good with crowds from a range but fighting bosses with it ends up being a struggle compared to other weapons. Maybe shortening the charge for the Omega Attack would help.
- Too many different resources. Could definitely consolidate some. I get what they’re going for with needing to gather materials for Melinoe to perform incantations since she’s a witch, cute and thematic, but even then the amount of different resources shouldn’t be this much. Furthermore needing to unlock tools to collect some could be fine if you didn’t have to choose which to bring/leave behind. Ashes being used mainly for unlocking arcana and then having a separate resource with Moon Dust to upgrade those feels like a good example of the issue. Why have both when you could use more Ashes to upgrade stuff instead? If the reason is to gate the upgrades until later in game, why can’t that be accomplished by locking it behind an incantation alone?
- Some enemies in later parts of runs have a tad too much armor or health in the case of certain bosses like Infernal Beast. It’s not so much an issue of that making those too hard but rather that the fights feel dragged out as a result.
- Eris’s damage output currently is a bit too high and could be reduced on some moves to be more forgiving.
- It wasn’t very obvious you could select the portrait at the alter to upgrade Grasp. From other peoples feedback this seems a common issue.
- Fields of Mourning is annoying to navigate until you unlock the ability to use the golden tree. It's to a degree that maybe that function should be available from the start instead of being an unlock.
- Runs on the surface give too much gold to a point that you easily afford everything from Charon without effort. That should be toned down a bit to be in line with going down towards Tartarus.
Not so much a review but rather the specific stuff I'd want addressed by 1.0. After 21 hours of playing and having fought all the current bosses, the game's great in its current state, just has room for further balancing and addressing minor issues that currently hold it back. I'd go as far as to say I love this already anyway.
- The Umbral Flames weapon feels bad currently. The base attack is slow and weak.It is good with crowds from a range but fighting bosses with it ends up being a struggle compared to other weapons. Maybe shortening the charge for the Omega Attack would help.
- Too many different resources. Could definitely consolidate some. I get what they’re going for with needing to gather materials for Melinoe to perform incantations since she’s a witch, cute and thematic, but even then the amount of different resources shouldn’t be this much. Furthermore needing to unlock tools to collect some could be fine if you didn’t have to choose which to bring/leave behind. Ashes being used mainly for unlocking arcana and then having a separate resource with Moon Dust to upgrade those feels like a good example of the issue. Why have both when you could use more Ashes to upgrade stuff instead? If the reason is to gate the upgrades until later in game, why can’t that be accomplished by locking it behind an incantation alone?
- Some enemies in later parts of runs have a tad too much armor or health in the case of certain bosses like Infernal Beast. It’s not so much an issue of that making those too hard but rather that the fights feel dragged out as a result.
- Eris’s damage output currently is a bit too high and could be reduced on some moves to be more forgiving.
- It wasn’t very obvious you could select the portrait at the alter to upgrade Grasp. From other peoples feedback this seems a common issue.
- Fields of Mourning is annoying to navigate until you unlock the ability to use the golden tree. It's to a degree that maybe that function should be available from the start instead of being an unlock.
- Runs on the surface give too much gold to a point that you easily afford everything from Charon without effort. That should be toned down a bit to be in line with going down towards Tartarus.