I was disappointed. The game has basically 3 tilesets all on a 'samey' procedurally generated level. And while it's true the game has 100 spells, they all pretty much fall into the same balance area and there aren't really any particularl powerful combinations to figure out. There is no such thing as "that 1 spell I want" or "that 1 item I want" that will save you, there are useful item combinations, like having 2 unique pairs of boots both of which give a dodge chance, you'll get a dodge chance so high most ♥♥♥♥ won't hurt you, or if you have an item which heals you for every enemy you kill but halves your total hp, and an item that gives you extra total hp when you kill someone but halves your total hp again.

The problem with this is that it all relies on chance, you get dumped into a level where there will be 3 shops, a spellshop, an item shop, and a random shop (wihch occasionally is a cursed item shop where you get powerful items in exchange for some pretty sihtty tradeoffs) and you will only get a select few items to pick from. To buy you need to kill enemies on the level to get gold, the problem is the enemies on a level will usually not give you more than enough gold to buy just 1 item, and more often than not, it will end up being a health potion.

It gets too repetitive after 2-3 hours when you realize that luck is pretty much the only factor that matters, you can select decent starting spells but your playthrough is determined by what you find along the way and IF you can afford to buy it when you find it, by which point it stops being "play to finish the 'dungeon'" and turns into "grind over and over until you happen to end up with a good item combination that gives you some kind of shot at coming out of every non-boss level with full hp".

As much as I like the idea behind this game, the finished product feels very shallow.

(I did not play co-op, which btw is split-screen only)

I was disappointed. The game has basically 3 tilesets all on a 'samey' procedurally generated level. And while it's true the game has 100 spells, they all pretty much fall into the same balance area and there aren't really any particularl powerful combinations to figure out. There is no such thing as "that 1 spell I want" or "that 1 item I want" that will save you, there are useful item combinations, like having 2 unique pairs of boots both of which give a dodge chance, you'll get a dodge chance so high most shit won't hurt you, or if you have an item which heals you for every enemy you kill but halves your total hp, and an item that gives you extra total hp when you kill someone but halves your total hp again. The problem with this is that it all relies on chance, you get dumped into a level where there will be 3 shops, a spellshop, an item shop, and a random shop (wihch occasionally is a cursed item shop where you get powerful items in exchange for some pretty sihtty tradeoffs) and you will only get a select few items to pick from. To buy you need to kill enemies on the level to get gold, the problem is the enemies on a level will usually not give you more than enough gold to buy just 1 item, and more often than not, it will end up being a health potion. It gets too repetitive after 2-3 hours when you realize that luck is pretty much the only factor that matters, you can select decent starting spells but your playthrough is determined by what you find along the way and IF you can afford to buy it when you find it, by which point it stops being "play to finish the 'dungeon'" and turns into "grind over and over until you happen to end up with a good item combination that gives you some kind of shot at coming out of every non-boss level with full hp". As much as I like the idea behind this game, the finished product feels very shallow. (I did not play co-op, which btw is split-screen only)