Pros:
- So much dang content
- Fun and customizable experience
- Huge variety in strategy
Cons:
- Enemy ship randomization tends to be overpowered
- Randomness leads to extreme rareness of items
- Divergent paths compound the above
Here & There:
This game is crazy, you put so much stuff in this, it's just simply impressive. This is what having an idea of what you're going to do can lead to, and it's mostly a blast to play. The art style isn't particularly inventive but it is consistent throughout which is by far the most important attribute a visual style can have and it's very well done. I got to the second area, but picking a path that is devoid of shops or treasure and having random drops mostly give blocks led to a few runs where I was all but doomed, especially when the enemy ships tend to be at least slightly more powerful than I was. I spent quite a bit of time playing this, hoping to make some real progress but alas I was unable to get too far. I don't want to misrepresent things or whatever, but with some balancing tweaks, altering of the randomness and progression this could easily be a sellable product which you might want to look into doing. I have no experience to back this up, but it's as close to one that jam games get from what I've seen. Excellent work.