Recent reviews by Xeschen

Great composition of strategy rpg, roguelike and dice. Counting on further updates for more mechanics and environmental components.

Gameplay >> Every gimmicks we expect on fantasy or strategy rpgs. Elementals, push and pull, AoE, etc. Based on puzzle-like strategy to avoid enemy attack, building dice deck provides quite unique and impressive experience.
Difficulty >> No difficulty select system yet and overall difficult is VERY HIGH(although it is still beatable lol)
Grind >> Player level and stat upgrade, like Hades and other roguelites.
Story >> Event-based one like StS. Quite hard to guess the lore yet.

Gross.

Before you start this game: This is NOT idle version of Path of Exile.

1. High complexity
- In the beginning, you have 13 equip slots, 14 menu bars on the left, 100 stats in your stat overview, and these are very basic of this game. When you clear every stage, a new concept pops out and this doubles the complexity every time.

2. Lack of tutorial
- It seems that the game has good tutorial in the beginning. But when you open the locked contents over and over, contents itself is the only way to understand how it works. In-game tutorial does not work well for middle-to-end contents like rites, trials, crafting(exchange and force unveil), bloodmancing, etc.

3. Too much concept
- Main part of my dislike. The purpose of this game is to be god while killing many lifes and deities. So we have equipments, unique items, magic cauldron, innocent souls, tarot card, angel power, forbidden rites, origin power, paragon, etc etc... All these stuffs make me strong but how they works is so different to each other, so higher stage will make you very tired.

4. Meaningless item farming
- Time IS farming here. Why collecting good equipment?

5. Path of Exile? NO.
- Since I started this game because I also love PoE, but the paragon system is a big fraud. There is no 6+1 jobs and ascendencies here, so there is no merit to use specific weapon type and elements, and you will never change your poe-like skill point tree after you fix your style.

Full of hommage to Diablo 1 and 2. I liked those games and this one too.

WARNING: THE TOTAL GAME IS XXL SIZED-DEN OF EVIL.
If you ever played Diablo 2 just once, you will exactly understand what I mean.

Each styles of enemies are unique, farming your items is just like what we did in old Diablo series.
But if you are not cautious enough, then every time after sweeping the dungeon floor you will be wandering around for only one barrell and a coin.

It seems will of developers to update sequels of this game(Book 2, 3, ...) is quite strong, so early access would not be bad choice.