I have manage to be able to to chip past the first arc or what ever it is called :D but it is pain!
I never played the first game but I fell for the hype, (This game feels really unbalanced and unfair). This game needs some serious rebalancing! After the ant part it gets better, but everything before is horrible. Iโll list a few of my problems. To high damage, doesnโt feel like itโs special enough, donโt got much upgrades, only got 1 shard mask, runbacks are way to long and you lose all your beads before being able to spend them, you have to sometimes buy benches, the double enemy gauntlets are way to distracting and it feels like the game is boss simulator. Iโm only maybe 4hrs in and got to the graveyard it ha gotten better but still has a little bit of the same problems from the even earlier game. The worse part is that the run back probably equals maybe 30min-1hour because of the lack of benches in between areas. Another problems is beads donโt reset, I think if you lose over 200 they should reset or something because I found so many like 500+ and all of them are gone. Now I canโt buy anything like maps/materials/ or equips. The game just makes you feel horrible, and if you have things to do in life and decide to play the game it just doesnโt feel good and feels like a scam, and fighting boss after wasting a lot of time dying doesnโt feel rewarding or give you anything as an reward. It also feels to linear with no diversity in gameplay for each player. Iโm not sure but I think some of the 5stars are bots for reviews, I would be careful reading them. Most reviews I found are for esthetics and music and not gameplay.
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I gotten farther and got a new weapon but the boss are trash and the game is too. All the balancing needs a help line and the play tester I think weโre speedruners or people who do video challengers. I give this a little bit more time before more reviews go that way too. If you have an actual life and get busy a lot DO NOT GET THIS GAME! It rewards people who got hours to spend playing.
The best way I can describe the game is that you have an exam your stress for โthe bosses and gauntletsโ, but then you have other things you in your life too โthe run backs and enemiesโ and you feel a moment of relief for a few seconds or minutes but then you have another exam and itโs just pure stressing.
I think as people get longer into the game they will see. I think what took them a decade was them beating their gameโฆ.
I think they should been more upfront. Hiding the game and not telling people about the difficulty is definitely a decision.
They should have made this game 2 player instead of what ever they did.
I also find the map to be very annoying. I never know where I am on it. I do not know if I need to buy more things for it. Buying the map is not my favorite thing in this game
Later game becomes a lot more fun and the mobility and strength of playing this game starts to show with upgrades.
The later game is definitely better! If you can stomach the pain in the first game and chip through it maybe even for an hour the later game will come and it is way more fun!
There is a curse in the game I got not knowing and the only way for me to get rid of it is to go through 2 areas I have no map for and you can heal or use Supers with. I prob lost the game