Loop Hero

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Took me a couple runs to actually get what was happening, but once it clicked I lost an entire weekend to this game. The idea of building the world around your hero instead of controlling him directly sounds gimmicky on paper but it works really well in practice. Every card placement is a small decision that compounds over time, and you're constantly asking yourself whether you're making the loop harder than you can handle .The meta progression never feels like a grind, and the atmosphere is oddly cozy for a game about an apocalypse. The lo-fi soundtrack helps a lot with that. Only complaint is that once you've figured out a few strong builds it can get a bit samey. But getting there takes a while and the journey is worth it.

Game starts slow but the game is highly interesting and incites curiosity to keep playing. However after eight buildings and three classes unlocked, the progression is still slow. You have to have magically long life and patience of a lich to keep playing the game. The art is gorgeous and the music is quite memorable and yet the crushing grind is unbearable.

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美术和文本翻译都十分优秀的一款游戏！世界观设定意外的丰富，每个怪物，建筑乃至地形都有详细的介绍。我觉得非常有意思的一点是这款类肉鸽游戏把“循环”这一机制本身融入了世界观设定，主角的死亡与退却会重置整个世界，一草一木，乃至你的同伴与对手的记忆，过去的记忆只剩你仍知晓。 世界总是在忘记。

interesting and fresh concept but the more you play it, the more tedious it feels

Great atmosphere through the art and music, the story is not great but serviceable. Unfortunately the gameplay aspect feels kind of brain dead, as in you can tune out through most of it and do fine. Two weeks from now I probably forget what I even did here.

I would recommend this game, but with reservations. I think it does a good job at packaging the typical modern auto-playing grindfest game in a way that seems novel and very cool. At the same time, the game still has the weakness of feeling like "this is all just simply one big materials grind, I'm just repeating the same thing to get my numbers to go up." I kind of wish that you weren't penalized every time you try to seriously do a run where you attempt to clear a boss, it encourages the player to just grind the maps over and over, as opposed to more classic roguelikes like Shiren the Wanderer where you always benefit by giving every attempt your best shot. Aside from that, I also think the sound design leaves a lot to be desired. Most of the music feels like filler, I wish it lent the game more character, or had music that was more memorable. That's also kind of leaving a big hole in the game's presentation, which generally I really like, but it's missing something. I think others may play this game and feel the same thing but perhaps not understand why. This is still a pretty solid 6/10 grindfest game that is worth checking out for it's novelty and really good art.