This game elicits some complicated feelings from me, because I think it could have been something amazing, and it clearly had enough going on to spawn a whole sub-franchise. The main problem with the game is that it doesn't really respect the player's time, to absurd degrees. World of Sloth obviously comes to mind with that, but I feel like it's such an audacious decision to create something like that it wraps back around to being funny, maybe even clever. The real time-wasting comes with a lot of the clunky mechanics that seem to primarily be there to pad out the play time since the story is rather light. It's incredibly frustrating to recruit demons, dying demoting your guardian is frustrating, ranking up into a guardian that nerfs your build is frustrating, level design is frustrating. The whole experience seems tailor-made to taunt you the whole time you're playing. A masochist's game if I've ever played one.

Reviewed on Mar 15, 2024


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