Ascend to ZERO

I really want to like this game. The chibi art style drew me in, but I have a few issues with it. 1. Map design is identical across all playthroughs. There's no variation, so you end up taking the same paths every time. 2. Most of the time, it feels like the game is just stat-checking you. You want to clear stages as quickly as possible before your time limit runs out. The problem is that enemies in later stages have absurd amounts of health, defense, and damage. When an enemy drops your HP to zero, it reduces your time limit, eventually leading to a lost run. 3. This leads to my next issue: at some point in stage 3, it feels like you need to get at least legendary, unique, or set bonus gear. Most of the time, you need gear with better stat percentages to progress, and upgrading gear requires an absurd amount of currency to max out. 4. The gameplay loop isn't that great either. The time-stop mechanic is unique, but later stages bypass it entirely. This results in the stat-check problem I mentioned earlier: Do you have better gear and stats than your enemy? Great! If not, go farm better gear and currency. 5. Sorting the storage in a nightmare due to you sort 5 tabs that are indepe…

Addicting to play and definitely a steal at that price point.

Gotta say, this is the most addictive roguelike I've played in a long, long time. I'm really enjoying my time with it so far. The progression feels just right, and the enemies are pretty scary. (That may have something to do with playing on the hardest difficulty, Zero I think it's called.) This game has given me a feeling I thought was gone for good. Like grinding through the classic, beloved games in the genre, like Binding of Isaac or Enter the Gungeon. I have 5 hours at the time of this review, and I'm sure you'll see me with hundreds soon. 10/10

GG.

ZA WARUDO! Toki yo tomare!

Shockingly amazing game. I had pretty low expectations of "just another indie game" but WOW Ive been quite blown away... Very fun and much deeper builds and combat than I expected. The music goes insanely hard as well this is not fair