A Healer Only Lives Twice

MANA FOR THE MANA GOD TORCHES FOR THE TORCH THRONE

Short and sweet. The visuals are cute, mechanics might not be fully clear on the first run, but the knight lines do help a lot on that front; it can get quite hectic towards the second half of a run, but its fun all the while.

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Badly random about bad luck easily ruining any run, always attacking last means you have no combat strategy most of the time. Something as simple as making your knight attack first so you can try to kill a target and negate the worst effects would instantly shift it from frustration that you have no way to actually strategize when one fire slime is about to burn your entire guy, or an ice slime freeze him all, to an instant feeling of strategy mattering more, and working around the enemy attacks. This only gets worse when there are scarecrow enemies which even with the shield spell up will instantly destroy a limb. for such a cute and basic premise, it's quite frustrating that such a little thing could've drastically changed it from a thumbs down to a thumbs up.

Stress inducing ahh game

Really entertaining short game! It's cool that even though it's simple the time pressure incentivizes you to think fast, so sometimes things seem more complex than what they are because of that. That being said, it probably has the most frustrating beginning ever. It took me 15 minutes to understand what the game wanted, but I can understand why some people would not even with hours (all the reviews about torch). The controls are poorly explained, the loop of the game is poorly explained, and the upgrades have to REALLY add up to feel noticeable at all. Again, it took me 15 minutes to understand it, but I can't see someone being confused and just not getting it for way longer. And those 15 minutes were the most frustrating thing I've ever played if you do not consider online pvp's, so I think that says a lot. Conclusion: FUN! But do pay attention to the poorly made tutorial. Like, really pay attention. Also, consider why the game is giving you some items and what your abilities mainly amount to. edit: apparently there is a manual of this game and, surprisingly, upon reading my appreciation for it has gone down. 1) No mention whatsoever to how turn down the volume, something that…