Let me just say that this game is just too short! I wish it had one more level before the ending.

I played until the credits rolled but didn't finish the "secret ending" because you'd have to do the exact same thing through again.

Anyways. This game has the best audio design I have ever heard in my ears. You can tune the audio EQ in-game too and there's punch of choices for any audio setup out there. And the music! Oh the music is glorious! With all the insane sound effects, the music and gun sounds - this game was a joy to play even only for the sounds.

Visuals are nice, colorful bullets creeping towards you and the boss fights are a spectacle always!

The story is rather interesting. It doesn't explain itself too much through cutscenes but instead you have to piece it together. Bunch of theories around online if you want to share your opinions what the story is actually about.

This game is not a souls-like. It's fast paced, bullet hell with elements from multiple genres. While it is difficult and the mechanics can be hard to understand but once you nail those down, it's some of the best gameplay you can find.

So it is an easy recommendation. I loved the story, loved the map designs, loved the gameplay and again, major points to the audio department and music guys!

EDIT: To continue: I decided to play about 6 hours of the tower DLC. Collected the 6 flowers in it but couldn't reach the 3rd phase for the final boss. After the DLC, I jumped back to the main campaign and it took me 7 hours to find the sun fragments and complete Act 3 which is the "secret ending" So basically getting to the main campaign credit roll took me originally 14 hours and then additional 7 hours to do Act 3. I don't think the Act 3 is worth doing unless you really enjoy the gameplay because it's the same 6 biomes again and no new boss fights.

Imo this is a very interesting roguelite game (with perhaps a little bit of a learning curve).

I must say, that I'm really enjoying this game after 30 hours of gameplay. That said, I wasn't crazy about it at first and I even tried to refund it initially because I was running into an issue where textures on almost everything on the screen wouldn't load after 1-2 hours of play. STEAM ultimately rejected my request for a refund and - I'm ngl - I'm kinda glad that they did as I really started to warm up to the game once I started to understand the game mechanics.

At least to me, this game seemed to be advertised as a 3rd person shooter bullet hell roguelite in all it's trailers and things that I heard and read about it... which on it's own is already cool... but ultimately I thought it might be kind of gimmicky... I thought maybe this game was just a cash-grab since roguelite games have become more and more popular in the last 10 years...

What I DIDN'T expect is what this game evolves into. WARNING: potential spoilers ahead.

Once a run picks up momentum (aka if you don't get killed halfway thru the first biome that you're starting on) the game transitions basically into a 3D roguelite Metroidvania game - meaning if you know what you're doing, you should reach a point where you basically become too powerful for you to die in the game UNLESS you f--- up a special combat room encounter or a boss fight. (That said, every now and then the game will spawn in a really tough enemy that may have the potential to kill you, but again, if you know how to play the game, you should be able to kill said enemy.)

It's the transition from 3D roguelite bullet hell to a beautiful 3D roguelite bullet hell Metroidvania game that had me clamoring for more of this game. If not for work/travel, trust me when I say that I would definitely be playing more of this!

This game is all about crashes. Spaceship crashes, car crashes and most importantly: game crashes. I rate it a Fatal Error out of 10.