Really promising start as it was with the dev's previous game Star Knight Aura but I am sad to see that it keeps a lot of the tedious aspects from the previous game. Upgrading your gear ends the day and talking to the main antagonist to progress the corruption also ends the day so once again it feels like the gameplay loop will be just as tedious as SKA. They are also continuing with the "advantage" mechanic where your advantage has a 50/50 chance to be useful or worthless and you are pathetically weak and will get 1 shot by anything past the weakest trash mobs and even the weakest trash mobs will chunk your hp. I have to say I really hate that they are continuing with the same SKA mechanics of doing literally anything ends the day and all the fights feel like an rng fuckfest because of advantage. Idk why the other reviews are glazing this hard when the combat gameplay is just atrocious.
I do really like contract mechanic with the antagonist and how it's integrated with the gameplay so that's pretty cool. You have to negotiate with the antagonist which gives him more control over you but you can also pick benefits so it's similar to A Promise Better Left Unkept but in gameplay form which is unique. I would hope to see some kind of battle groping and things happening during the day so the normal rpg gameplay aspect of it has at least 1 enjoyable thing to try to offset the horrendous SKA copy paste combat
I like the premise here much more than SKA so hopefully this one turns out better as I followed SKA's development for years and was pretty disappointed by the final product. Good luck Aura-dev
I do really like contract mechanic with the antagonist and how it's integrated with the gameplay so that's pretty cool. You have to negotiate with the antagonist which gives him more control over you but you can also pick benefits so it's similar to A Promise Better Left Unkept but in gameplay form which is unique. I would hope to see some kind of battle groping and things happening during the day so the normal rpg gameplay aspect of it has at least 1 enjoyable thing to try to offset the horrendous SKA copy paste combat
I like the premise here much more than SKA so hopefully this one turns out better as I followed SKA's development for years and was pretty disappointed by the final product. Good luck Aura-dev