Whispike Survivors - Sword of the Necromancer

I just want to like this game so much. The farming aspect is interesting for a semi progression. It NEEDS meta progression so bad. Permanent stat boosts you can buy. Something. Anything. It feels more like someone watched someone play Vampire Survivors and said, "We can do that." and hammered out something rough. It doesn't have that same good feel of progression or anything unique really.

The attacks are insanely slow even fully leveled, they seem to attack on the same cycle so sometimes you'll be completely defenseless they take forever to level, the enemy wave patterns are way too aggressive and enclose you every wave, there's zero character progression to increase your base stats, and the chests are so frustrating and feel awful when they whiff. It feels like a cheap cash in on the trend but from someone who just ooked at screenshots of vampire survivors without playing it.

Please be warned..the game is not what it seems. It looks cool and when you enter you realize the dev has either never played a bullet hell game...or is trolling players. You have no chance of winning ever because right from the start the monsters fly out at you and you die immediately. The speed that the plants/heroes move is so slow you cant do nothing but die. Its so imbalanced that I am in awe of how they can release this game. The biggest issue is the hard work you put in is always lost no matter what. There are no meta upgrades and you can spend hours playing...every death deletes your heroes you upgrade. This game isnt a rogue like hardcore game with permadeath you know. Its toted as a cute little game aimed at fun supposedly. But that is a huge lie. There are a few devs out there that make games just to upset people. This is one of them. Every time you create a new plant....which is your character sort of...it dies..you lose all the work you put into it. I am leaving a neg review for this dev and refunding. If he fixes stuff....I will remove the review and repurchase. But for now...the game is a joke and not worth playing.

I couldn't decide on how should I write this review so imma write everything I came up with: -Biblically accurate Whispike -Look at him go -The Sword of Necromancer saga was cool but now it's time for the main event -The Whispikes of today are the seeds of tomorrow -Cute SotN spinoff that replaces the long run design of other survivor-likes with shorter more intense runs that will give you seeds with bigger starter stats. It's an evolutionary darwinistic vision of the genre. Kinda reminded me of the breeding mechanics of Tokyo Jungle in a way. -Whispikeheimer

Re-skinned Vampire Survivors with a gimmicky character selector that fails to improve or innovate the Survivors genre in any way and just adds just clunkiness to the mix. Severely lacks in balance and is in it's current iteration an abysmal experience.

Horrible...