Nurose

The graph editor leaves a lot to be desired, much like Gladiabots', except it's worse. I'm not sure if it's supposed to suck as a way to balance spellcrafting but I often find myself wishing I could rotate blocks, or place bridge tiles. Inputs and outputs overlap constantly, forcing you to use the unwieldy arrow blocks. It just doesn't feel good. It's like it can't decide whether it wants to be a puzzle game or an open-ended spell programming engine. There are not that many nodes, and even if they can be combined very creatively, they get stale quick. The control flow nodes are godawful. Since you can't reuse nodes you end up with a lot of duplicated conditions. Loops are messy, especially if you run multiple at the same time. Condition nodes are awful both because the layout for them sucks, and because you can't use them inside loops. I don't really vibe with the classes, either. They are pretty samey, and the water and life classes are based around spawning pickups which is meh as a mechanic. While you can come up with some pretty strong combos in spite of all of this, a majority of the time the game will clip your wings quite harshly with arbitrary limitations. It just doesn't let you build anything too crazy, which, while good on paper, is directly against the appeal of the game. Take Noita as an example of the opposite: it will gladly let you build an OP wand, but the drawback is that you'll most likely kill yourself with it. The single player is literally just a test room with a few training dummies. There's no campaign, no interactive tutorial... And what little documentation there is, it's scarce. Online is dead and the peak is 15 concurrent players so only grab this on sale and if you have friends to play with. Asymmetric online against other players' bots would be a massive improvement. It needs more time in the oven, in general.