Dandy Ace Review (Zukuu)
MIXED
The game has some very cool ideas and is fun when it's fair, but that fun is hindered by very questionable design decisions. Reading the Steam forum, they seem intentional, which makes them all the more puzzling. Why would you make your game LESS fun on purpose?
Dash have no invincibility, so they are a positioning tool and nothing more. That would be ok, if positioning would be strategic, but it doesn't due to the VERY SMALL arenas you are forced to fight in, with plenty of traps all around you in every direction, a magnitude of on and off-screen projectiles and spawning enemies literally around and on you. Some attacks are easy to discern and dash away from, while other animations have an active hitbox before they are even on the screen. Other effects blend in with your own or the surrounding, so you are hit and don't even realize by what.
Balance is also a big issue, with many of the unlocks being terrible and you have no way to disable them. (There is also definitely something wrong with the RNG seed for me, since there are multiple bosses, but I've only seen another boss a single time and otherwise the Rose lady over and over and over again)
If the dev's would actually listen to feedback, it would be a great little gem, but as it stands, it's very frustrating in many parts, which ultimately made this tip more towards "not recommend" - there are other games worth your while more.