Played for a while until I accidentally killed myself with Basic Fireball. 12 floors in after after beating two of the bosses. 

Pretty great atmosphere, the sound design especially sets the mood along with the graphical style. I like the design of the enemies, the flat 2d designs seem like a comic book. But It was actually quite a shock when fighting the first  boss, I'm guessing it's supposed to be a sand golem because I was expecting those to be 2D as well. 

Gameplay is pretty fun too, I ran out of weapons by the 2nd boss, managed to make it through but had to end up killing the next merchant to steal one. Is running out of weapons generally expected or is there a mechanic that influences how much durability is lost based on timing of attacks? 

All-in-all enjoyable. 

Overall notes:

Overall it's pretty fun! It feels like there's a lot to discover and mess with, which seems like it should be the main focus in this kind of game. I especially liked the variety in the spells, that's something I always look for in old RPGs and Roguelikes. The progression was nice, and outside of a lull halfway through, it felt like I was getting new toys to play with often enough. I also like the aesthetic and tone quite a bit, but I have a soft spot for retro graphics and stuff like King's Field, so I'm biased towards it.

However, the combat overall wasn't that engaging. It seemed like I fought most enemies in the same ways, holding "S" was too strong, I very rarely had to deal with multiple enemies at once, and didn't have to make those fast, hard decisions you do in something like a souls game. "Whether or not to dodge/parry" isn't a very tough decision. I'd suggest looking more at the Souls games, King's Field, or even something like Doom, really. Combat doesn't have to be super hard or engaging, and can instead lean on RPG elements, but:

The dungeon traversal wasn't super engaging either. Again I never really felt like I was forced into tough decisions about which item to take, or whether I'm strong enough to risk doing something with a nice payoff, whether I need to use my long-term resources to survive this fight or not. For this I'd suggest looking at the old school roguelikes like Nethack, I think it's done perfectly there. (Giving you lots of one-time use scrolls, unidentified potions/scrolls/weapons, rings doubling your hunger rate, some enemies having unique+dangerous effects like petrification on touch, etc.) The combining system and stuff like Fools Gold is a great step in this direction, I want more stuff like that.

Also, I wish the enemies were 3d models. I know that's easier said than done, but especially when timing dodges/parries is important, it was kind of rough. The sprites rotating helped immensely, but I'm not sure it's enough. It was especially hard to tell different attacks apart, like lunges. I think it would help the feel, presentation, and even gameplay immensely if the enemies were low-poly  3d instead of sprites. I guess that could be planned, since the bosses were 3d...

Random notes/bugs:

Ranged weapons and magic seemed maybe a little too strong? Not having to worry about timing the dodge or spending shield durability is really good, and the drawbacks didn't seem to matter enough. This could tie into me not liking the combat very much, I think I ended up pretty OP and kept getting good enough ranged weapons to carry me.

I don't really get how returning to town works, it seemed like I was supposed to have enough gold to get some of the more expensive stuff there? Maybe that's just for classes that start with more gold though... Having some way to return to town temporarily during a run could be really cool.

When I started my chaos run, it seems like I kept my... boons? Passives? The cannibalism and revive were carried into it, that seems like a bug.

I didn't see the combine section of the inventory for a while, which left me a little confused.

I think my first dungeon didn't have an exit and I was just stuck, I had to quit out.

Cannibalism felt pretty jank, like it was random how fast corpses got eaten and where I had to stand.

The attack and kick animations could use a bit of work, basically just speeding up the "acceleration" parts to give them more impact. To keep the timing the same for gameplay, you could start the animation with pulling the weapon/foot back, before a quick snap forward. The animations in the game overall feel kind of slow and watery, but I guess they did in the King's Field games too, heh. The "keyframes" for the enemy sprites are fine, though, if you're sticking with sprites. You could also try messing with scale somewhat to improve the feel of animations. (Y axis shrinking and X axis growing to emphasize an enemy crouching down to lunge forward, stuff like that.) If you exaggerate it too much, it'll look cartoony and screw with the tone, but there's probably a good middle ground you could find.

And this is just personal preference, but I think some more effects when dealing damage could really pump the "feel" up. A frame or two of color flashing, hitstop, hitstop-shake, screen shake. I know some devs really don't like these kinds of things, though.

Again, overall I liked it, and definitely see some potential. I can't think of any other 3D games that really feel like traditional roguelikes in this way.

First impressions:

this game is bad ass

• The menu has no visual indication that you can click left/right side to set the option (difficulty)
• Is the dark intentionally gray instead of dark? Also is there some meter that shows how much lamp oil I have left, it felt like I got infinite.
• cannot swich equipment when inventory is full
• Died to the second boss, kinda unsure how I´d go about fighting this guy as a melee character. I briefly tried ranged and it seemd much stronger in comparison
• In general everything feels a bit sluggish/slow

Overall it seems like a cool game, lots of dungeon crawler vibes. I liked the hand that exchanges weapons for new weapons.

Haven't played since DD34. Time to do this.

- No folder for the download. Ick, but not an actual problem.

- I don't think I brought it up last time, but I don't think I understand what the difficulties are, particularly the ones that cost souls. Or are those different campaigns?

- Are there reasons I want to turn my lamp off? I can't see any use for it as is as it doesn't seem to have any sort of oil meter.

- The new interface looks really nice!

- Actually starting with non-rusty gear is really nice!

- The chest animation seems a lot faster than I remember it. You speed it up? Either way it's nice.

- Still is slow as molasses in every other respect. I even made sure to have decent agility (12) when I was rolling.

- Found the sprint. It seems faster than last time as well.

- Dual wielding doesn't work like I expected it to. It's kinda awkward but I can see what you'd want to still be able to block.

- Is durability no longer a mechanic? I was expecting my weapons to break.

- Died to the slime boss. Truthfully I'm not sure what I was supposed to do as a melee character to it. As melee it seemed to come off as a DPS race. I'm sure I could probably memorize when the attacks were coming but I couldn't immediately notice any tells.

Overall, much much MUCH better than the build I played last time. I had a much better time. Keep up the good progress!