Dungeon Mana

I think the concept here is pretty interesting; random abilities chosen at character creation which are triggered off a shared resource system; add in fatigue so you can't just spam one character over and over, and it seems like there's some real legs behind the game here. Unfortunately, there are a laundry list of pretty glaring issues. Let's start with the problems we solved 40 years ago: unskippable slow slow typing cutscenes at the start of runs. This is a roguelike; trying again is expected, so what the actual hell? absolute basic quality of life. When leveling up, you are helpfully told the ability will go to a character with whatever name and their picture. You can then go into the "team" screen to see what abilities your team already has. A team screen that doesn't have either the name or the picture for some reason??? At least the picture is 1:1 with a class, but if you have two of the same class, which is common in the early game, good luck knowing which character gets the upgrade. The only time you can tell what name a character has is in combat by the floating text above them, so you apparently are expected to memorize these random strings. awful. Even with …