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Description:
Crown Trick is a turn based strategy roguelite where in a play the role of a child that has to fight nightmares during her sleep, while being helped by a magical crown. There are four different worlds with different enemies and boss monsters, with different weaknesses and abilities, that you need to destroy using spells, weapons and items. The story progresses after each successful run and the difficulty will also increase, but that is counterbalanced by the upgrades you can unlock.

The graphics have a cartoonish look and the creatures and biomes are well designed and distinct from each other. The animations on the creatures, weapons and environmental effects are fluid and great to look at. The OST also sounds very good and has a mysterious and ominous feel that goes very well with the theme of the game.

The combat is turn-based with monsters moving as you move and they can either do melee attacks if they are up close or use skills, these will leave a countdown and an area of effect on the ground that you can avoid with spells, the blink ability or simply by moving if you have enough turns.
The game mechanics are very elaborate with several different kinds of rooms, traps, enemies, weapons, familiars (spells), items and relics to collect, all spawning randomly, and these latest things can support a lot of different kinds of builds, some more efficient than others. The game doesn’t really explain all these things but as you play you’ll start to figure it out after the first hours.

My recommendations regarding upgrades (will be available once you have the other NPCs) are trying to unlock the ones that grant more money and soul shards (upgrade currency) and the ones that improve the healing potions so you can progress further. If you get a legendary weapon, it will be far easier to reach the end of the game.

My favorite and stronger build IMO is going all in on attack damage after having most of the upgrades your attack can easily go up to 250 even without a legendary weapon. Also, you can pick between long range and close range, I prefer close range because there are a lot of relics that increase damage, but you should pick a weapon that let's you attack diagonally like the sword or axe so you can still avoid normal attacks.

Something that I only found out very later on is that you can save scum by quitting quickly after you die so you can start on the lastest floor you were on. In several runs I had a good build and weapon and died after a bad move, and this can be avoided for more efficient farming. Still, this will only work if you have a good build and are strong enough.


Achievements:
How many: 48 Achievements.
How much time: Around 35 hours, probably less if you save scum a lot and get into the game after reading some guides and tips.
Game difficulty: Hard, specially in the beginning and the endgame content and a lot of grinding will be required.
Achievements’ Difficulty: Hard, you only need to finish all the content of the game and around the 30 hours of playtime you should have already collected the pages, blueprints and other things needed for most of the achievements, including the rarest familiar that only started to appear in my runs in the endgame levels.


Overall opinion:
Crown Trick is a fun and very complex turn based strategy game with lots of different weapons and builds, offering a lot of replay value but all the grinding required for the upgrades can be tiring and repetitive at times. The endgame content will be particularly challenging.


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