Recent reviews by Chthonic_Tonic

Future Archeologists are gonna go wild with this one.

It's kinda neat, I dunno, relics exist. 14/10, would recommend to everyone I have ever met.

Do not let the hours fool you. I have played this game over three times, played almost every community level, and I am currently trying to beat the ultra hard mode.

It's not boring yet.

As a fair warning, I have since returned this game. My experience was... less than optimal.

TLDR: I heard abysmal things about this game. Praises, but with HEAVY drawbacks. I figured it was just people being their usual judgemental selves. This game disappointed me, and I do not feel it is worth purchasing at all. It feels to have the level of gameplay quality of a free flash game from three years ago, with higher music/production quality.

Now, the music? It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ amazing. And the graphics are servicable. My real problem was with the difficulty. And no, not that it was 'too hard'.

I like to play games on 'normal' difficulty, going in for whatever ups and downs that means. Turns out, that made for a pretty engaging game. In normal mode. But, you see, I've never been a fan of timed games. And I never knew this game had a time limit before buying it. So, I thought, 'Man, this would be perfect if not for that one-year time limit.'

Lucky for me, there was an endless mode. Unlucky for me, endless mode means that you start at up-scaled difficulty. You begin with base-line fighters. Almost no experience, moderate gear, and variable stats. The fist TEN enemies I faced in endless mode where all incredibly experienced, absurdly geared up, highly skilled fighters.

Maybe that's a bug, yeah? So I restarted. Tried the same first half-dozen or more fights a few more times. Fiddled with the difficulty slider.

So, as it turns out, the difficulty slider does literally nothing. Like, LITERALLY nothing. Not being hyperbolic here. It changed NOTHING. That's when I returned the game.

As an after-word, I have played and mastered many incredibly challenging games. Though this one feels much more like random chance than most any of the others. And not the 'exciting' sort of random chance, either. And I'm definitely not one to usually ♥♥♥♥♥ and moan about chance, I love challenging chance-friendly games (See Enter The Gungeon and Darkest Dungeon) yet this one just... there was NO skill involved. It was just legitimately impossible.

Also, I understand that there's a literal 'AI intelligence' stat, but I didn't realize it was going to be so literal. Clumping together so that they can all be one-shot at once is definitely NOT what was advertized in the videos on here. At least, not in the way it happened.

I can't say much for the Pros and Cons about this game. It is firmly in the running for my favorite game of all time. As such, rose-tinted glasses are firmly affixed.

I genuinely couldn't find a list about the pros. There is nothing I could say to adequately describe the feel of the game, or how fun and charismatic the art style is, or dozens of other things. I just can't find the words. This game is MORE than worth the fifteen dollars. Even after more or less mastering the game, over the course of a hundred hours, and completing nearly every challenge the game has to offer, I still find things that make me gasp and squeal in excitement. I still have dozens of guns I have never found, and I still haven't even unlocked every item yet. I am PAINFULLY close, however, only four items off (excluding the supply drop loot).

So what does this say about the game? You should play it. Don't let the first run or two dictate how you feel, since that's not how the game is. Give it a good, solid chance. You won't regret it.

The only REAL weakness I can point out is the frifle challenges. Complete them as early as possible, since they tend to turn out fairly monotonous.

This game is challenging yet easily understandable, with surprising depth.