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It was fantastic, my favourite after playing half of the entries.
My ending party was all LVL 12, 3 of them using Dagger+Cybersword? (the one which deals 100 damage) while the 4th one was using Dagger+ the Blade which deals 180 damage. The unintentional definitive Game Over made the game one order of magnitude extra fun for me, as this way the game is hard yet not insane.
The pulp theme is real and the presentation is phenomenal, the tunes are great, the sound effects fit and every part of the game looks amazing. The environments look great, the UI looks good and I love the portraits. Exploration was fun and the resurrection pillar not giving HPs back also lead to great moments as I spent the last 30 minutes? 1 hour? I'm not sure going back and fourth between the few last levels to revive my character(s) then heal them several times, with at least one very tense moment where only 2 of them were alive and I was almost certain I was going to die.
The overall combat part is extremely fun. The mix between this shield system when extra damage are not dealt as long as your shield was not depleted before this turn and the cooldown system based on the attack works very well but most of all I think the game made a great use of it with the roster of weapons and enemies, the level up system with which stats it raises and the weapons always hitting with fixed damage not depending on the character work very well with it too. The enemies not only look super cool but they're also mechanically great, the bestiary's great. The first time a Big Grey targeted the party and the first time an Ancient Ones managed to target a character before I could kill it were super cool "Oh oh" moments. The game is perfectly balanced, each enemy is its own appropriate threat.
After I stopped mashing the buttons the game stopped freezing after some early fight, forcing me to restart. I almost gave up yet seeing that you mentioned some bugs in the page but not this thing I figured out that a big part of the problem was probably me. I'm very glad I acknowledged this as it would have been a shame.
I never got any resource. Left Mouse Button could probably work everywhere ENTER works.
Thanks for sharing!