Completely and totally unbalanced mess. I gave it more than a fair shot but it's just pissing me off with boneheaded design choices from bell to bell, primarily the inane decision to seemingly balance gameplay around you playing in multiplayer with no lowered scaling for solo players. Certainly feels that way anyway. If you're here for multiplayer you can probably disregard this entire review.

Weapons balancing is atrocious, some of the worst I've seen in the genre. Melee weapons have awful range and dead zones as well as limited hits before despawning. Magic weapons so far are mostly weak, the starting fire staff being the only viable option, and familiars have genuinely worthless range and damage. Ranged physical weapons in comparison are just ridiculously good, especially the Longbow, Kick and Javelin. Unfortunately each character starts with their own weapon, and most of them are terrible and you need to RNG while levelling for a good one.

The sheer GRIND early is insanity. Unlocking any of the actually useful meta upgrades requires you to farm at least 25 achievements, which'll take you at least 7 or 8 hours being generous. During which time you will experience the exciting gameplay of standing in specific spots to farm experience because enemies ramp up so hard in numbers and power that moving around for unlocks is tantamount to suicide outside of specific timings. Of course, you won't be able to get so far because each new area beefs the enemies even more to the point where you require RNG meta progression to stand any chance by the third area.

You heard me. There are marbles you can randomly get at a low chance, with random rarity, which you can slap onto weapons to power their base damage up by up to +30%. But guess what? The strongest ones are not only insanely rare (I've seen none so far) but have an 85% failure rate to apply! :D

I might keep going back to it out of spite, but this game really makes me mad. It's got some interesting ideas, the basic gameplay is there, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the balancing is unforgivably bad for solo play, and the grind required to unlock any of the fun stuff is terrible. Perhaps in multiplayer mode most of these problems don't exist and you're free to try more varied builds with less stress, but I'm not here for that. -3-