Silent Hope Review (DOY)
Fun game, but it is grindy. Combat is shallow and generally so is the story. I can really only recommend it between 50 to 75% discounted. I think this would be a fun game on a handheld on the steamdeck on the go. Budget-wise i think they spent too much on voice acting and on that opening anime music video. More money should have been invested in making the gameplay loop more robust.
The game has a gimmick regarding character switching mid-dungeon. It allows you apply stat buffs based on the character class. This system forces you to play characters which you may have no interest in playing. You also need to level each character separately to make sure your swapping character can survive at least 1 dungeon floor. This feels intrusive to the gameplay.
Combat is basic; you have 7 characters each with their own weapon type. You have your 1 string normal attack and you have 3 skills. Some moron should have told the combat designer to use the LT button on the controller to give you a second layer of skills. in total you have 9 skills (3 per class on a character) and you can only access 3. They wasted the RT button on item pick up which they could have used for a 3rd layer of skills. No option for automatic pick up of equipment loot.
After you beat the main story you have a dungeon that appears to be an epilogue (true end), this is where the 3rd character classes are unlock, and then the game lets you replay all the dungeons again on a harder difficulty. You get stronger loot on these harder difficulties, but they appear to be rehashes of the weapon models on the normal difficulty. The equipment loot system is also very flawed, very RNG and legendary weapons can have RNG not to include an element slot.
Overall the MSRP is overpriced. Do not buy any of the DLC, they are of the fast track start weapon variety you push you ahead; this is predatory and the developer should be ashamed of themselves. If you want to cheat just use cheat engine.