game overall was a firm tough luck-punishing loop through the levels as you navigate. for me, im starting to see a vague pattern that the difficulty towards mid-level of moonlit rogue/third area spiked too sharp for the past hours ive been trying to pass it, even more since this heavily relied on rng (that wasn’t really forgiving on me many times out of the few really rare results i was lucky enough just around the earlier levels despite replayability). based on that, i dont think this may pass up as roguelite because every death just reset progress clean with any skills and items all gone from the beginning compared to roguelike which i think fit better to define this game. but aside from that! loved the retro pixel graphics and that detail on title screen for starting or exiting with defeat encounters.
theres 7 areas.. though right now i cant imagine surviving that long as it may get harder-leap of difficulty just to retry from the very beginning, there could be some progress/elements to be carried along as accommodation ahead, not sure yet. um, prob will try to replay it again and leaving it to my future self in hopes of kinder luck to get through this skill issue haha.
edit: finally got to the fourth area/skull plains i think, barely scraped by the first stage with my already low health and resources though. edit2: got to stage 3 of skull plains…. there were many annoying frog wizards… edit3: got to the stage 2 of halls of bloodburg, lost in battle against the only one remaining shield knight with many lives bruh i think it needs at least 21+ hits to take the knight down? literally exhausted all my 4 relics, three kinds of weapon before ive only got bare hands to fight 💀
edit4: fucking finally proceeded up to the stage 4 of halls of bloodburg and facing the rat king. so i had almost dug my own grave by cornering myself to a dead end area with the knight blocking the way, i barely survived thanks to the carrots. then it was the rat king left, multiplied and down it reduced to one only that i didnt realize my health ran out as i brute force fighting it, with the rest of my carrots still havent all used up, there goes all progress gave way under a dumbass move. i lost and got this error.
so the key is self-control and if you lost, you gave up on it, playing it another time atp it was part of my grind routine to be giving it a try in my free time just cause.