Playtime: 8 Hours
Score: 6/10
Fun little card/rogue like game that I enjoyed quite a bit. I am a big fan of Slay the Spire and I picked this game up since it was similar experience with some key differences.
To start with what I enjoyed, I liked the addition of you having a party of characters as opposed to Slay the Spire's single hero combat system. It felt more like an RPG which has always been my favourite genre. You start with two characters and can recruit more as you go along, with you being able to eventually unlock more heroes to have at the start. I also like the equipment system and being able to equip your characters with different armour and weapon cards was very cool. And like Slay the Spire you can run into various different random events as you play which I liked as well.
The negatives really are just the game got tedious for me after a while with a lot of the runs starting to feel the same. There was also one specific boss that I could not for the life of me beat, no matter how many times I tried. The bosses you get per run are randomised and if I ran into that specific boss, it was basically a game over for me before the fight even started. I'm also not a big fan of the ruin and banish system in this game. Slay the Spire has its own similar system but I feel it was implemented better then in this game. At one point I was in a boss encounter in which I had already killed the boss and most of his minions expect for one. I could not kill the final minion because all of my attack cards had been either banished or ruined making it a situation where I just had to abandon the run and lose all the XP I had gathered. I think this was due to one of the heroes I had recruited secondary ability, which is on me for not understanding, but at the same time it just shows how broken some of this games mechanics can be at times. I also prefer Slay the Spire's approach to characters, as each of the heroes have their own special deck of cards, encouraging you to almost change your play style depending on who you pick. This game sort of has that with the equipment system and a few unique cards for each character, but it just didn't feel as satisfying to play and unlock everyone.
Overall this was a fun experience, but I ultimately prefer Slay the Spire to this.
Score: 6/10
Fun little card/rogue like game that I enjoyed quite a bit. I am a big fan of Slay the Spire and I picked this game up since it was similar experience with some key differences.
To start with what I enjoyed, I liked the addition of you having a party of characters as opposed to Slay the Spire's single hero combat system. It felt more like an RPG which has always been my favourite genre. You start with two characters and can recruit more as you go along, with you being able to eventually unlock more heroes to have at the start. I also like the equipment system and being able to equip your characters with different armour and weapon cards was very cool. And like Slay the Spire you can run into various different random events as you play which I liked as well.
The negatives really are just the game got tedious for me after a while with a lot of the runs starting to feel the same. There was also one specific boss that I could not for the life of me beat, no matter how many times I tried. The bosses you get per run are randomised and if I ran into that specific boss, it was basically a game over for me before the fight even started. I'm also not a big fan of the ruin and banish system in this game. Slay the Spire has its own similar system but I feel it was implemented better then in this game. At one point I was in a boss encounter in which I had already killed the boss and most of his minions expect for one. I could not kill the final minion because all of my attack cards had been either banished or ruined making it a situation where I just had to abandon the run and lose all the XP I had gathered. I think this was due to one of the heroes I had recruited secondary ability, which is on me for not understanding, but at the same time it just shows how broken some of this games mechanics can be at times. I also prefer Slay the Spire's approach to characters, as each of the heroes have their own special deck of cards, encouraging you to almost change your play style depending on who you pick. This game sort of has that with the equipment system and a few unique cards for each character, but it just didn't feel as satisfying to play and unlock everyone.
Overall this was a fun experience, but I ultimately prefer Slay the Spire to this.