Loot River Review (RazorChicken)
I've played plenty of roguelikes and metroidvanias, I was drawn to this game due to the innovative platform mechanic, however I was through disappointed for the following reason:
-The combat is very slow and 1 dimensional
-Very limited ammount of progression outside of different weapons that have abysmal drop rates to be stronger than what you currently have
-The level design also got boring pretty fast since its very easy to get lost
-Horrible button mapping
In the end the game just bored me after a couple of hours, I made it to the 3rd area? after the first boss fight, where there's an enemy with lighting aoe that completely melted me every time I fought one. The game could be better if:
-They were more generous with weapons drops
-Better magic that u get from start (I saw there was magic but I only ever saw the pushback spell, pretty boring)
-Faster level ups or more impactful (only the hp level up feels actually impactful, the weapon scaling is pretty bad)
Still think it wouldnt completely salvage it though, there's just a lack of depth to it