does any of the items that affect your appearance in dungeon have any lasting effect? Like if you manage to collect the whole set then it becomes an optional outfit, etc.
I don't think so, they are just STAT items in dungeon with some of them changing your appearance in dungeon. After dungeon everything resets. (Except obtained materials like fish, or monster essence) and Faith (from escaping monsters) or Corruption (from losing to monster H attacks or from tent masturbation).
Buggy, tedious, overall underwhelming. Could be improved a lot tho.
Not sure what ppl putting 5 star reviews are smoking.
Yeah the game is fun (it's because of the core gameplay loop of Vampire Survivors/Brotato) but it's full of bugs, very grindy (like wtf is clear 100 dungeons for a character) and balancing issue is all over the place (it's clear this is the dev's first game or so and he DOES not know how to balance the items/weapons). Some weapons are clearly stronger than others, while other weapons are so dogshit (even with characters specialized in using them).
It has a GOOD CORE/BASE but everything surrounding that core needs to be improved (part of me thinks this is just a cash grab by the dev that just copied formula from other games to quick make this game, but there is some good shit here if he can polish it to be a better version).
Releasing it at this state (it's not even 1.0 in the in game version) is blatantly scummy (there is no indicator in steam that this game is not yet "complete"/ 1.0)