Ecrazeus Castle

Pure arcade inspired joy with hot anime babes and tons of replayability all for less than a BigMac. Just buy it. you won't regret it. While I did wish for the option to lock on or strafe initially, I'm starting to get used to the flow of combat and I'm having a lot of fun so it's not a big deal. I really appreciate when devs just make the games that they would want to play and that seems to be the case here. Much love to the dev. I can't wait to play more.

All-around bouncy experience

A pretty fun arcade style game, and pretty good value for the price. The game is structured like an arcade game. You select your course and character. Once the game starts you essentially have 200 seconds to gather all the buffs/weapons you can. Each stage increases the difficulty of the enemies, and killing enough will grant additional time. Once the timer is out, the next room will instead lead to the boss' castle for a final stage/boss fight. The buffs/structure is pretty similar to Kirby Air Ride's city trial, with buffs just being things like increased HP/ATK/DEF/etc. Weapons are pretty varied with strength being indicated by a +number at the end. So you will often find yourself deciding between using a weaker weapon you prefer or a stronger weapon that you might not like as much. Gameplay wise, its okay. Its pretty jank but you can get used to it. With how fast paced things move and kind of a lack in some hitstun on weapons, melee can feel pretty bad. Some enemies can just attack without much windup causing a lot of HP trading, which is a pretty valuable resource in the game. You can deal with it with a little patience but it is timed (before the castle part at least), so you do have to make some value judgements. Early on I mostly stuck to ranged weapons like wands and guns. I suggest the same if you start out so you get used to things. The gatling gun (or was it the heavy hitter variant?) can actually do a lot of animation interruption from smaller enemies, essentially "stun locking" them, even if they still move. Wands usually do one big damaging attack, so focusing on running/dodging then quickly looking at them to attack is a good strategy. You will need to get used to your attacks being based on where your character is facing and not the camera. So you will have to get used to essentially quickly flicking your character towards the enemies to unleash your ranged attack. Fortunately the auto-lock on for ranged attacks is rather big so its not that big of an issue. Once you get used to the enemies and learning a bit of their moves, melee is a bit more doable. Minor spoilers but [spoiler] there is a character you can unlock with an invincibility effect after dodging, using her I was able to use the melee weapons a lot more and there was a nice kind of rhythm to it. Dodging into them to attack, backing off once the invincibility wore off, then repeat. [/spoiler] The game has quite a bit of re-playability, you can go for high scores or work on the list of secret achievements. Some items like healing items or weapons that heal on hit will give you a score penalty, but are nice if you are working on a hard achievement and don't care to get a high score. The secrets unlock features, minigames, characters, and skins. There is a meta currency you get from runs, but that's only used as an alternative price to unlocking an achievement. So if you really don't want to do one of them or its really hard, you can just spend the currency on it instead. Which I think is fair and probably a Kirby Air Ride inspired mechanic. Graphics wise its nice, the characters are cute and their costumes are cute was well. Levels are interesting looking and pretty varied among themselves. I really do like the menus. With the announcer and the presentation, it succeeds in that arcade feeling. There is even a three letter name to input for your scores at the end of runs. Overall, I think its a nice little game worth its asking price. There are definitely a lot it can improve on but I don't think its a deal breaker. If you like cute anime girls and arcade style games, I think its worth checking out.

this costs less than a big mac

Sideways thumb on this. Pure jank kino. Close to being a good game, I see the vision and with a few fixes would be pretty fun. Tripling the hitbox on item pickups would make this game like 30% better The real fundamental issue with this game is unfortunately the core combat system. Interacting with enemies feels very inconsistent, many of them have poorly telegraphed moves with odd hitboxes. They also spawn out of thin air and immediately attack, frequently from behind. Melee is punished by enemies that spam fast projectiles with no windup. Green goo and bee enemies are way overtuned. You can tell the dev knows the enemies are a weakpoint because of the food system. Feels like a bandaid solution to just spam healing items at you because avoiding damage is so inconsistent. Having a more typical arcade limited health drop system would make more sense for the speedy pace of the game, but it wouldn't work due to the enemy interaction. Hope dev keeps cookin. Can't be mad for $5

爆乳しか選択肢がない為バランス調整アプデ待ちです

This game very nicely splits the difference between arcade action and action roguelike. It can't be described as just one or the other without adding a bunch of asterisks. There's a lot of jank and stank to be had, the balance is completely screwed, feedback on invincibility and damage is not great, enemy patterns are hard to read, and the necessary strategies and mechanics for powering up and scoring high are a little unintuitive. In other words, it's peak video games. For 5 dollars, you cannot go wrong with this. Unless the anime women with absolutely enormous hangers are a big turn-off, of course. Because there isn't really a way to escape that. Also, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS GAME WAS MADE IN RPG DEVELOPER BAKIN? HUH?

Simple, quick and fun. I think it's worth the price.