Xenon Valkyrie

The final boss has two attacks that can go off simultaneously where you're trapped between hails of bullets and a laser sweeps across the center. That wasn't fair, so I'm not going to be. The game's tedious otherwise so decide if you really want to go through these janky pixelated maps just because of the promotional art.

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Booting up the game made me feel like a kid again; the game and its soundtrack radiates with energy and excitement. Playing Xenon Valkyrie has been a bountiful enjoyable experience so far. All of the issues in the negative reviews I've read have been resolved already and it feels like a solid game now. I have no complaints other than that the equipment you get from boss fights don't display their stats or effects, so I have no clue what use it really is to me. It also needs more cute anime girls.

I really wanted to love this game hence it is of my forte since it both has cool pixel art and is a roguelite. But it caps at 44FPS and runs at half speed, and on top of this when the screen travels the environment shakes obnoxiously and makes me extremely nauseated. I'm running this game with a i7-12700k and ASUS TUF RTX3060 OC so it's not like i'm unable to hit it's requirements to play it properly. Pre-runs and between mission shops is rather weak compared to other roguelites with barely anything to buy to progressively make yourself stronger and get an edge for next run or the next stage. The weapons you can buy pre-runs are just added to the white chests in levels and in between missions you are best off buying back hp for a ridiculous sum, alternatively ammo. You can however spend your TP you get by leveling up and you better max out this armor asap and pray you get a decent melee weapon or you are most likely royally screwed for the latter stages. By the way did i mention you can only use your melee weapon for bosses for god knows what reason? There is no description possible for special items and you literally have to guess what they do. It's like i'm playing an old …

is a difficult game, but fun if you can overlook that.

Not that interesting despite cute characters.