Nullpoint Protocol

Nullpoint is fun! I thought it was a solid Roguelite with some good adventure and boss fights. Game felt pretty balanced, has some good combos to discover, and has a pretty nice and quick cycle. They don't show it off in the promotional material a ton, but I really liked the planetary exploration and narrative sequences that occurs prior to boss fights. Couple of bugs here and there, but nothing that can't be fixed with some extra elbow grease. I'd recommend it, it's worth a run through. I beat the first "round" of content in about 3 hours, which felt just right for me, and there's plenty more beyond this point it seems. I got the key for free to consider for a Twitch stream, but otherwise wasn't obligated to review or put the game on my show. Felt worth going out of my way to do both!

Fun mechanics and builds. Got the game after patch 1.04 and haven't had any performance issues. Worth playing if you're a fan of rabbit and steel or just like mmo raid mechanics and roguelites

可圈可点，就是事件系统有点欠打磨了，几个星球的选择没有什么取舍。 技能不太平衡，期待后续更新

There's a chance the game becomes something good, but right now there's too many minor problems that add up to be a major letdown. I'll preface the rest of the review saying I only played solo on the hardest difficulty: Theres too little customization and options starting a run, even after unlocking "abilities" with meta-progression I learned those don't add to my starting options, but I was already seeing them as random rewards in a run, so what's the point? The basic abilities do FAR too little damage, and the bosses BARELY damage you compared to what the starting heal skill heals. It's very easy to spam dodge through most attacks, evens the mechanics you shouldn't mess up, and then just heal it off in a moment of downtime. Your abilities hardly do any damage, and the only reason I got through 3 bosses was being give a doom ability, that was then taken away by a random event, which led to a 10 minute boss fight for about 20% of the bosses hp. Speaking of mechanics, some are too easy/don't do anything, like the celestial fight, but of them are so jank they're nearly impossible to do, like the plague flower parkour. For messing up these mechanics one would expect a big punish, instead it's a slap on the wrist for maybe 20% hp, and then just heal it back. The first time any effect happens on screen the game freezes for a solid 2-3 seconds, this is independant of settings or specs, at least it seems to only happen once, but I never did test after restart if it would happen again. If the above gets fixed (lack of customization, doing too little damage to bosses at a baseline, bosses not punishing enough, stuttering), then it's possible there's a good game here, right now just not worth it.

Love the theme, the art and music are great, it's got a lot of cool concepts... this should 100% be my jam. But the core gameplay is just way too janky to recommend as it is. Hitboxes are ambiguous as hell, you have no depth perception due to the fixed camera, your attacks slide you all over the place, everything feels floaty, the spaceship sections feel tacked on at best... it all combines into a game that just really isn't that fun to actually play. I feel bad saying it, but it feels like a proof of concept for a much better game. I agree with the review saying this should probably have been released into Early Access. I really want to like this, and I hope the devs are able to make improvements on it post-release, because I can see the glimmering of something truly great in this. It's just not there yet.

This game is very hit or miss. Many of the abilities feel awesome to use, many of the abilities feel useless. Many of the perks have awesome synergies that make them super fun to use, many of the perks feel like they do nothing. Many of the bosses are some of the coolest and visually stunning fights in the genre, and some of them feel like unfair messes to fight. I personally don't feel like this game was ready to launch when it did, but there is enough here that I think it's super fun. In its current state, it is hard to get into and hard to fall in love with, but I truly love Nullpoint Protocol when it delivers.

Extremely fun, buggy on launch but the devs are constantly working on updating and fixing the game 10/10 I found myself lost for 10 hours straight playing. Love the game and I hope it continues to be great!