Recent reviews by Zeforas

I won't be there to say what is "fun", but... About what is different AND fun, compared to every other roguelike out there.

Because it's an insanely unique roguelite, where you can actualy make a starting, working build from the start, before starting the run of your choice!

1) Build creativity.

You get 4 type of ability choice to do : Movement, Generators, Spender, and Signature.
Movement is quite literal : you can choose between dash, teleportation, big jump and so on.
Generators : a way to generate mana while dealing damage, like a melee sword, throwing dice or cards.
Spender : use that mana to cast spells, mostly AoE, like throwing a shield, sending homing dart, throwing exploding apples.
Signature : An entire way to play the game along with an ultimate related to it, like Poison, storing and exploding damage, having a permanent pet.

And the signature completely alter how you could play.

Want to do a melee fighter with an aoe spell around you that steal life? You can!

Want to do a AoE poison build with explosive potion and homing spell to hit everyone with poison? You can!

Want to have a massive turret with a giant laser, and long distance spell, like a planetary turret or throwing spear? You also can!

and the scroll/items in a run will always be relate to the spells and 'signature' you're in, so you will almost never have something completely useless!

And, if you're playing with friends who have different signature than you... You can get scrolls that combine the two !
A critical strike that spread the poison of your friend to other monster, is a nice exemple.

2) Run types.

There is 'binding' in this game to make the game harder, like Hades 1/2 has, but i won't talk about this. I want to talk about something unique : The books system.

You got 12 different books, which is in reality, a theme of your choosing for the next run you will do.
One could be " do quests in fights, get rewards! "
One could be a simple " get gold, buy stuff "
One is "the seasons cycle, giving you different bonus"
Or one of them is "you got 2 spirit wolf with you, with different buff".
None of the theme is "against you", but an additional way to play and buff you. ( except for a select few. )

And you will always get the same reward. Doing all book at a certain binding level unlock permanent stuff, but you will not be punished by doing the same book over and over. If not, you can gain extra currency by doing the 'featured book' that the game randomly choose.

3) Secrets.

This game has quite a few secret, some in the main hub, and everything else in the "interlude" chapter.
The interlude chapter are a small break between waves of monsters, where you could just open a random chest and get rewarded, or collect flower for a reward.

But if you explore a bit, maybe.. there's something more? That dark branch in a tree is quite suspicious.
And 90% of the time, those secret award you with something for the run.
Necessary to win? Absolutely not. Me and my brother went all the way to the last book without knowing the interlude had secret scroll.
We do know of them now, though.


4) Raids.

Yes, you've read that right. In this game, there is 3 dungeon (normal and hard version) with 3/4 bosses, with actual mechanic to learn and AoE to dodge like a Final fantasy 14 boss. I won't spoil them here, the fun come from doing it for the first time and learning first hand. Just that i feel like it's a shame it was never done in a roguelike before. ( from those i played so far, at least )


5) Out of 10, how much would i recommand it?

For the price of 20 bucks? 9/10.
On sale? 10/10. Easily.

I'm not good at making reviews, but this game definitely need to be revealed more out there.

Literal game of the year, if not, of the decade for me. I won't be forgetting this experience for a lifetime.

>Log in on the game
"HEY, we're doing an event, get to level 110 with your first character NOW!"

...No thanks? I want to PLAY your game, not skip it entierly, what the hell?
"Hey, we got like 30 different events!"
Please let me breath first?! I didn't kill more than 10 monster yet, and it was in a freacking tutorial dungeon.

"Oh, do all of those quests, go there and do this, there's also this and that"

Yup, ok, un-installing. Bye.

A game should not have ten thousand feature shove into the face of a new player. You should gradualy unlock them, let the player discover stuff by themself a little. And this tutorial "dungeon", where the NPC kill everything for you? Mate, let me try to push button first. Let me do stuff MYSELF. I'm trying to learn your game!

Easy GOTY for me. Insanely fun, great sound design, original and unique puzzles, extremely beautiful environment and landscape, great story with some foreshadowing if you're attentive, fun boss fight.

Only negative i have about this game, it's way too easy. But even so, this game's gonna get a special place in my heart.

Absolute game of the DECADE for me. I'm a 30 yo adult, and yet this made me want to pull all-nighters just to play this game longer.
This is not even a debate for me.

Game is pretty
Gameplay is insanely good
Bosses are fun and difficult
Lore and story is nice, and fully voiced!
Music is great to listen

Played this both solo, and with a friend currently, and the skills effect are so damn amazing to look at, as we wreck havoc towards thousands of monsters.

Truly, the "next generation of A-RPG"!

I'm not downloading your paradox launcher.
I had my fun, as shown by my number of hours, but the sudden change + require to download a launcher now? No.
Uninstalled.

Annnnnnd back to negative.

Countries are still blocked, and Steam confirmed that they are NOT the one doing that.

This review will now stay negative permanently, even if the decision is reverted for the blocked countries.

First and only game i've ever bought from Sony as a publisher, and it will never happen again. Terribly company, Terrible publisher. Screw them.

Lets list every issue :
>Mini map being gone everytime we change zone
>Shake when using brick ability
>fight to the death bugged, not able to do anything
>Delay on shot/monster death (online, despite us never have problem for other game)
>FPS memory leak
>Quest items/character not appearing sometime
>Teleportation
>Some skill not working as intended, or with missing description
>The cursor going out of game problem
>THE FULLSCREEN OF DEATH
>Game not remembering setting ( hearing your voice in game )
>T-posing of npc's
>My level 1 character who got quest progression of my level 34 berserker??

Game of the year, everyone.

Absolutely amazing and fun boss fights.

Spent 10+ hours to beat every boss on challenge mode, no hit, pacifist, and it was definitely worth it. Those boss was so fun to fight i didn't care to do them over and over again.

Looking forward to new bosses!

This is my favorite kind of demo. Quick showcase to gameplay, small introduction to main story, and exclusive content only in there.

Needless to say, did every achievement because this game was too fun to not do that.

Oh, and of course, i'm buying the main game right away.