Absolum

Jogo bão, não passei raiva

Got this as a gift. I'll be real, I'm couldn't decide to recommend or not. I adore the defensive balancing in this game. You have 3 different defensive tools with varying difficulties and rewards to successful execution. It makes blocking attacks interesting and dynamic. Offensive balancing though? Really bland. The characters pretty much just have light jab combo, heavy, jump light, jump heavy, and dash attack. You may luck into new attacks as rewards for beating bosses, but that's neither guaranteed nor are those attacks necessarily that impactful. With it being a roguelike where you have to fight through the same hordes of enemies over and over again every time you die or restart, the combos get repetitive pretty quick. Normally the random stuff you get in roguelikes helps with that, but the random stuff in this is also lacking in variety. Every element only has one or two actual effects with a bunch of different drops that just trigger that effect on different options. There is a burn effect for every defensive action and offensive action for example. Powerful to stack, but still has you doing the exact same combo as every other run. As referenced earlier the bosses can drop attacks, to be specific they give you options unique to your character. Those aren't limited to attacks and are a bit more dynamic. Unfortunately, you don't get many of them and they come so slow that you get bored of whatever new combo you might have made before you get near the next one, and if you wind up with only passives you aren't going to get a new combo piece anyway. My last gripe I'll leave here is an unfortunate effect of combining a roguelike with defensive balancing. This game has PRISTINE balancing. The hits deal fair damage, and its darn well your fault when you get hit. HOWEVER, getting better at a defensively balanced game often means learning the timing of a tough enemy's moves one by one through a mix of reactions and trial and error. That's not a bad thing, unless its a roguelike. Where not learning the timing quick enough means redoing the ENTIRE game to have another attempt at learning timing. A game that has super repetitive combos and lack of variety. See the problem? If I could die and then walk right back in to the boss room I would've loved every single moment of this game. Instead I was frustrated slogging my way back to where I was. To be fair, this game has super customizable difficulty options, allowing you to change how much damage you take. But as I said, the balancing is fine, its that failure means excessive inconvenience that makes it bad. Just reducing the damage bosses deal so you don't actually have to get good is both unsatisfying and boring. I don't mind losing, I mind having to redo everything just for another attempt. The one unique thing between runs is you'll get access to some new areas and story beats occasionally. To many that probably adds at least a bit of interest. I admittedly, had very little interest in story when I was trying to get back to a boss I want to beat. All that being said, this game is both great and terrible. If you don't mind simple combos and think you'll get enough satisfaction from the tight and rewarding defensive system, you probably will like this. If you hate repetition, you will probably not. It really all comes down that. Since the combat is genuinely excellent, it just overstays its welcome when you have to redo it so much. So I'm, tentatively giving this a positive. But make sure you know what you're getting into. Just one of those things where taste makes or breaks it.