Disappointing roguelike.

No itemization at all. No unique builds, no synergistic items, pointless consumables. Here's an item that will give you more damage! More stats! No thought needed to "build" a run. Just go through and pick things up. Somehow, the game lets you backtrack and I first thought, oh it's gonna be like BOI where you can go around try to formulate the best way to pick up items or shift things around and duplicate them for the best possible value. There's nothing like that in this game.

Best part of all this is there's a limit to how many items you can get. Imagine, an item limit in a roguelike game. This is the first time I've encountered it. I realised that there is no power fantasy in this game like in ROR, Hades, whatever else. You're always going to be at this level of mediocrity in terms of ability and it feels terrible especially when you've invested so much time into a run.

The only saving grace that this game has is its gameplay. Its challenging but fun, but since there is a lack of build variety, this gameplay loop gets stale really quickly. And in a roguelike game no less, that sucks. There's better replayability in most indie roguelikes out there than in this AAA game.

The pieces are there, but the vision isn't. If this wasn't a "roguelike" game and instead just a standard third-person action game with rpg or metroidvania elements, it would be 100x better.

If the movie Alien and Groundhog Day had a baby. 10/10

Combat was challenging and difficult. Love the story line. 9/10