Narazumono

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: [b]IndieGems[/b] if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.[/url][/quote] [i]Narazumono[/i] launched into Early Access at an incredibly jaw-dropping price of 15.99 USD/13.29 Euro about a week ago. And it didn't make it into any trending charts, with good reason. This game offers nothing new, nothing exciting, nothing fun, really. It's a simple top-down dungeon crawler with very little RNG that only launches in a non-expandable 1200x800 pixel window. In May 2019, with the thriving culture of 4K gaming, publishing a game that launches into a tiny window will lead nowhere. On top of that, a game that has little to no intrinsic value will also not get any awards. [h1]Gameplay[/h1] You will control the protagonist down a series of levels in a dungeon, killing generic looking enemies, and running into traps. You will come across vendors who are also marked as enemies on the minimap just to make things vague. You will need to eat to satisfy your hunger. On the minimap, items, exits, along with the enemies are outlined. You have very basic equipment set consisting of a weapon, a …

It's a not bad Mystery Dungeon style roguelike but there are quite a few drawbacks. - Overpriced for what it is - Runs in window not full screen - Seems to be made for controller not keyboard e.g. to wait you press 2 keys - It doesn't give you any tutorial or help at all. To help you out, hold h on keyboard to display keys - Can't redefine keyboard - Has no story unlike most mystery dungeon games, it's just a straight dungeon dive - Only features 30 of the 100 planned levels, have to hope dev continues to work on this early access title - Can't turn music off so you can play with your own music plus game sound effects

Ok, for starts, this game was SIGNIFICANTLY better than i was expecting, i had actually had fun for a while. But there are quite a few issues with this game. 1. The games description reads as " Permadeath It is game over when the player is killed. When you get a game over, all the items you have will be lost except for three. You will have to begin the adventure again from the starting point." This is slightly untrue, you only get 1 item on respawn, for me i had to pick between keeping a shield or a sword. The bigger problem though is that whenever i stopped playing i lost EVERYTHING. Meaning i need to do marathon sessions if i want to keep my diamond shield. One of my biggest peevs is when i need to run a game to hold onto progress. 2. i dont think this game is being worked on anymore...... as is, the price is probably fair, assuming that the game does indeed have 30 floors (i couldnt clear floor 18), but if your getting this game expecting a full 100... just don't. 3. There is a massive amount of traps, enemies, items, etc. a lot of them do really cool and unique stuff, but it is super random, 99% of the times i was dying late game, it was surprise sleep traps or entering a…