This game does appear to have merit, but it really does not execute well. It has several things working against it.
Specifically two main things.
1. Stages with many sections.
2. If you lose, you start all over.
The second wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, if the game was balanced. It is not balanced well at all. As such, number one becomes a problem, because of number 2. Many sections normally isn’t even a problem, that’s just how bad this is done.
To break down, you have a level system. Which is up to lvl 50, a max of 400 HP, and 50 skill points.
The issue comes in here. You hit a hard wall, that nothing can be done about it much. You cannot max out your skill tree, and the combinations wherever doesn’t appear to be enough.
400 HP, doesn’t do you anything much.
The amount of grind you would need to do to level up weapons is absurd, and even then. It doesn’t even mean much, max out the weapon? Those enemies can still tank it quite well.
There are 50 levels for weapons by the way.
To continue, there is a challenge near the end to unlock a weapon. However, doing that in 300 seconds? Just isn’t feasible. So, that one is gonna be locked.
Then the way how certain stages are setup. Such as the recovery point is guarded by enemies, effectively, making this pretty pointless in many cases.
The HP recovery, doesn’t even heal you to max. Then when you take damage, a few hits and you’re out.
The enemy attack ranges, speed, etc. Just makes it awful to work with,
I narrowed it down, and this seems to be closer to the arcade era. Though, something is forgotten about that era. Arcades were designed to be scams, for you to insert money for continues, etc.
This game doesn’t even have a checkpoint, so you can’t even retry like bosses easily. All in all, I just wouldn’t recommend this game. It has a lot wrong with it.
The progression is pretty much pointless. If the concept is to repeat over and over again, until you somehow learn some sort of pattern, then no. I am not gonna be doing that.
Not when the attempts are so far between. So, this isn’t even a skill issue, it is a design problem.
