I am going to just be honest, I can not understand what is happening in this game.
There are too many mechanics and I don't know what anything is doing.
I tried playing this a few days ago and thought maybe I was just tired or something, but genuinly the gameplay is incomprehensible.
All I know is you need to walk into enemies and dodge attacks, but that's basically it. I'm not even sure half the other mechanics like the items do anything meaningful.
The book is not helpful. I know that you updated the game a few times to change how it plays but its all still impossible to understand.
Obviously though the art, audio, style and presentation are all top tier. That's all far better than almost everything else on sbox.
Its hard for me want to even want to post this because of how good the presentation is (and seeing how few reviews this game has relative to players indicates to me I'm not the only one who feels that way; I think people are just hesitating because its hard to be honest about it; they don't want have their review degrade the good aspects of this game but they can't bring themselves to recommend the actual game part of the game).
tldr: The art is amazing but I don't think anyone actually understands whats going on in the game. I am favoriting the game to find it again to re-review later if there are updates.
Edit: there were some updates and honestly even with that I still don't understand the game, but on this fine afternoon I was drinking a beer and I just felt like changing the review to Recommended from Shows Promise.
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