UnderMine

Game could be more challenging

TLDR:Not a OG LOZ themed roguelite but more a poorly optimised game with pixel graphics. first and foremost this is a pretty mediocre roguelite and theres not much to recommend the game. Its difficult to find anything that actually works effectively, for context in most roguelite games theres many builds that can adapt to circumstances ie poison for spongy bosses but this is heavily reliant on rng to get anything at all. Thats not the only issue other issues include -unclear dodge mechanics -really poor enemy distribution -upgrades that do little to nothing -really poor loot -pilfer slimes -extremely spongy bosses -lack of explanation. To expand on these points rather than dodge-roll which is the norm this game uses the jump functionality which I found awkward in topdown format but the jump also used a height based hit which is odd and all this when dash functions or dodge-roll could have covered all needs in this area and been less visually awkward. The enemies you need to dodge vary wildly with monsters having minimal health to sponge amounts of health in the first few levels, and if that werent enough inconsistent hp pools as well. Which brings me to upgrades which give bigger numbers but still take about the same amount of hits to kill the same enemy. Now to get those upgrades you need loot which are abysmal in comparison to prices of upgrades but if that werent bad enough theres pilfer slimes who steal the loot if you take more than 10 seconds to pick it up now thankfully they only steal gold but other items like buff items were so rare or crap that it didnt really matter if they did anyway. These buff items provided such mediocre bonuses that I was excited when I found ricochet and obviously you lose all buff items when you die but other options for these items was cluster bombs and faster throw among others. Now you might be thinking clusterbombs thats cool why does that suck? well to use them you need bombs first which are rare af with the max i saw in a run being about 5 now thats individual units not groups like in say spelunky also boxes and barrels are environmental flair so dont expect much there either. Now out of pure luck I defeated the tutorial boss with the cluster bomb which brings me to bosses which are absolute sponges and have few tells on attacks for example the tutorial boss makes rocks rain down which have no shadows or indications where they will land and the first boss the sand queen has only one area that counts as a hit despite having a glowing head and tail which is terribly stupid design and she uses AOE attacks and has minions immediately. This brings me to the final point being poor explanation as even aside from bosses many areas are blocked off examples being wall blocks and crystal blocks which I still dont know how to get past but its probably some metroidvania nonsense. Overall this game is not hard but rewarding like deadcells or spelunky but rather hard and unrewarding