Post by Pounce de León on Oct 20, 2020 16:08:07 GMT
It was already quite complete when I played it last couple months.
It's a side scrolling action rogueish game with a few progression items.
Key points are the pixel style which ties in essentially with the physics sim. All the environment is dynamic, once the right tool is applied. Water flows, powders trickle, hard stone is tough.
You fight your way through several levels to fight end boss. World is roughly the same but each map and loot is proc-genned on a seed. The pyramid will always be in the East but the path and caves to and from might change appearance and passages and loot places.
You have rest stops to replenish health and - most importantly - edity your wands which are the tools to beat the enemies. Depending on slots and stats you can "program" devastating effects by simply putting spells and modifier "cards" on the wand.
Replayability is quite high, is quite hard (no health potion - there is alchemy but I never use much beside fire extinguishing and detoxification) and unforgiving (basically it's ironman mode).
I like to just mill around and blow up stuff, got as far as the last level before the boss once, but I don't really aim to complete. Exploring wands and booms and fill the map with blood is fine by me.
Last changes saw polishing in art and pixelplosions. It looks quite nice now, is responsive and probably one of the best "rogue-likes" I#ve played. It lacks in character progression but makes up with a very decent destructible environment sim.
