Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault

Скучная игра, сильно уступает первой части, слишком много бесполезного гринда, мало интересных механик и боссы тоже слишком легкие

I wish I could leave a neutral review. I've been hesitant to recommend this game because it is still quite messy, and I will state its problems, but I have also greatly enjoyed playing it and I hope that some of the underdeveloped bits will be fixed in time, or as it was with Hades 2 in the 1.0 release. The graphic update is interesting coming from top down 2D ML1. I feel like combat is the biggest hurdle to becoming a stronger game, there is truth that the game struggles to deal with being functional as a roguelite. The item and shop management are almost entirely improved from the first game. The character interaction and references in the game keep hitting and making me laugh, and I am interested to see where the story goes in 1.0. That said, plenty of the combat perk trees do not filter in ways that you can get perks that have mutually exclusive functions, some perks are also objectively not useful or have little to no use case, some weapons feel much more immediately useful than others, but most weapon permutations are not nearly as important as getting good perks, and while the different perk types are interesting and can be built in unexpected ways, you can also fail to get necessary perks and there are not enough of them in a run without having to forego treasure, so you end up making the same choices almost 100% of the time as far as dungeon progression, the only differences being how lucky you get for the specific stacks of perk rooms or other special rooms. The weapons themselves are also not balanced/some weapons are good on their own until you get perks while others completely depend on getting attack or special perks, and this becomes very prevalent by the end of any dungeon since the enemies get stronger the further you go. Edit: apparently there is a setting for auto-aim towards enemies, but this is not stated anywhere and despite regularly bringing it up in the server, nobody mentioned it. They have learned some lessons from Hades, but not enough, as Hades 1 and 2 have high visibility for enemies attacking to be able to respond appropriately (you can get used to animations, but some enemy wind-up sequences are visually subtle and currently there are bugs where attack animations become invisible), as well as boon/perk filtering based on what you have. In either Hades, each run is usually survivable and can have unique builds unless you have high difficulty modifiers, getting simple bad luck is less common. In this current build, it is too common to have a build not come together, and fortunately quitting the game and restarting the night resets which perks show up, and this is much preferable to having to quit a bad run and lose time. All the issues with combat aside, I only have a few issues with the shop, it is mostly really good. The timer for running the shop does not appear to increase sufficiently with a bigger shop and more items, and/or since you have abysmal item storage until you get more shop upgrades, somewhere in the middle level with 10 item pedestals is optimal for being able to sell a fully stocked storefront and place a full backpack's worth of inventory before closing time. The fully upgraded shop (currently) is maybe too large and the customers take too much time to traverse it, or we can store and stock so many items that it's not usually possible to sell full stock and an entire backpack in one run. Lastly, just as with combat, some shop perks and Bloblet upgrades, while cute, have little to no good use case and feel intentionally put in there as placeholders, but thankfully it is not hard to get shop rerolls. I will amend my review if 1.0 or subsequent updates amend these pain points.

纯种傻逼游戏，无脑堆怪，全员远程，七八个飞天怪一起来，你枪就五发子弹。翻滚是没有无敌帧的，怪是全员会飞天遁地的，你就拿你那把破近战去打吧，一打一个不吱声，制作的人自己玩过吗？我可去你妈的吧

J'ai pioncer le 1 , J'ai acheté le 2 sans hesiter j'ai que 2h environ dessus et je ressens l'addiction de le finir et de continuer a prolonger le plaisir ! Hate pour la 1.0 je suis fan de licence et je suis dans le train maintenant. Le jeu n'a pas de grosse difficulté il est juste pas fait pour les joueur sans skill ^^ MERCI DIGITAL SUN !

It tries hard to be both the original Moonlighter and Hades, and falls a bit on its face on either. One of the biggest strengths the original had, it's great soundtrack, makes way for rather generic soup. Despite the increase in fidelity, the dungeons feel rather uninteresting in design and get repetitive rather quickly. You could say it somewhat lost the sauce of the original in trying to pretend to be something else, without knowing what made that "else" (Hades) great. It runs well, shouldn't be difficult to run at your monitors refresh.

You don't get to do Early Access, for seemingly no reason, hit that 1.0 button, and have as many bugs as this game has. From quests that have their progression steps not spawn at all to perks that don't actually work, or rotating mechanics that don't actually rotate. Absolute disgrace. Pathetic. No standards. Do not reward this behavoir with your money.

Its not good. It takes the frame work of the first game and instead of itterating and enhancing the systems it takes every chance to instead make it a much worse version of what it used to be. combat is slow and clunky compared to the first game, the shop is slow and clunky compared to the first game, looting is slow and clunky compared to the first game. I take no issue with the concept of integrating roguelike mechanichs, but theyre simply integrated so poorly that theres seldom an actual choice as theres really only a small handful of actually useful options. And equipment upgrades arent really a thing. theyre largely side grades with gimmicks with little in the way of steady progression, and worst of all the gimmicks arent even particulary fun. My initial few runs were fun and i was excited in anticipation that the simplicity and slow clunkiness of it all was simply the result of being slowly introduced to mechanics, and that all of it would become faster and more fluid as the game progressed. But it did not. Its just the same even many hours and several dungeons in. In summary. The ideas and framework are great but the execution is genuinely supremely un engaging.