The art direction of this game is amazing. The game itself looks... incredibly frustrating though. Hopefully the devs can get the game fixed up... and not abandon it like they did with Blade Assault (which I'm still upset about)
Blizzard used a lot of stock sound effects in their older games. Diablo, Warcraft 3, WoW, Starcraft, those games have a lot of sounds that have been reused by movies and plenty of other games.
Yes. Yes. Yes. I think you can aim upwards from the ground, as opposed to jump attacking. Still this needs to be fixed. Hopefully devs will notice and take note of what you’ve brought up, Beelz, excellent analysis.
To answer your question about what runes do, *spoiler* When u get far enough in the game u get a hammer that unlocks a new npc that will make u legendary gear vased on what runes u have unlocked. If u notice you can get 2 runes per boss. They are NOT consumed upon use but to make legendary gear u need to offer up a weapon or armor and it costs the purple currency. The new legendary gear will keep the same armor amount and modifiers. It just adds the special skill to it. To answer your question about berserker, you unlock it after a specific boss is beaten. Ive been playing this since release. If u have any questions hit me up i might be able to answer any questions u may have.
@@Beelz55 sorry for the delay, i needed to do a run again timed. To get to rilmozog at the buriel ground it took me 1hr 14 mins. This was not me rushing. I explored every area for every chest, took my time picking my skills and attempted my best against the boss, leaving him with a sliver of health. From what im understanding at this point he is currently the alpha final boss. But i can tell u more once i beat him.
I hope they take you're feedback, one thing you might of missed is you can upgrade your potions and add to the number you can hold from the guy you save from the second area (he's inside a building in the starting town). The Berserk class is unlocked after the 5th boss but it's honestly harder to play because of lack of range skills or vertical skills (lightning tree has alot of vertical aoe skills).
I enjoyed Blade Assault enough to finish it at least once, I think at the highest difficulty, with each character despite its unfinished state. Needless to say, I'm invested in seeing this succeed as much as I was invested in them finishing Blade Assault. Let's hope I don't end up disappointed again. Even so, I have great memories and nostalgia of Blade Assault.
the setting and the visuals are VERY appealing, this looks like a nobrainer to me if they make it fun to play i have very high hopes and faith in the devs to make this one a banger in the future
I can understand the skill tree's problem also wish in the loading screen you had a next so you could actually read the things their also air combat would be infuriating to me personally because the way i usually doge is jumping cause i don't like dogeing and doing air combos
I can see what you're getting at with the combat and structuring. The combat is an easy fix compared to the actual flow of the game. It's almost like they forgot what a rouge-like game is. A run that is over 90 minutes long is too much, but it looks like it could take hours. At that point, just make it an action game like Salt & Sanctuary. I'm really hoping they improve on it. Looks like it could be really good if they did.
BEEG icesword, chadly fireball, lightning dash for extra mobility. Does anything stop you from going a multi-element spellblade? I guess element-specific gear might boost just all your stuff instead of one of them if you go mono-element, but imo it would be cool to have two-element builds, especially if the game did go for elements combinations, a bit like genshin. But ye, as long as elements only synergize with self going multi-element doesn't sound all that fun... Although that frost arrow could daze enemies and I think daze was mentioned in the lightning branch before too, is there some cross-synergy like lightning can deal dazed and has something extra against daze, and then ice can do daze too to help lightning? Because even that kind of cross-accessibility of an effect can be a decent synergy imo, but then dazed and weakened just seem to be normal non-elemental effects that just help a bit extra and don't interact with elements much otherwise...
In theory you could mix elements for sure. The issue comes down to how the extra bonuses from your talents come into play. Hypothetically you want to do a Fire and Ice build. You take 1 fire and 1 ice skill. But all of the extra effects will boost either burning or chill/frozen effects. So you have to compromise a little. That being said being able to inflict burning + jolted works very well. As does slowing an enemy + burning them. It also comes down to whether you want to go all in on 1 spell like I did towards the end, and spam that 1 attack the whole time. Or actually split your workload in order to maintain 2 different status effects.
Hopefully they take the criticism and feedback and improve the game. It's early access but at least it can still be patched, updated and improved. But yeah, It felt like it shouldn't be released yet.
My opinion: Not having the keyboard/controller mapping option on day 1 is crazy; The dodge is strange, it should be a roll; This last boss was too strong with that shockwave pattern attack; You get a legendary spear that changes your attack but when you jump it don't work!? That's bad; Any kind of enemies that can fly are looking like a gameplay design problem, specially if your stronger attacks don't work on them because they're ground based attacks.
Added to wish list but definitely not a buy just yet. It seems like it isn't in the place it can be just yet, so i think a wish list of a game that can be, is better than a negative review of one that isn't where it can be yet. Until then, a multitude of rogues are calling me which are currently more polished.
yo beelz have you played wild frost ? or do you not play deck builder rogue likes ? i think itll be pretty dope if you tried it out or maybe some other like slay the spire, inscryption or something. really enjoying the variety on the channel
Regarding the combat being clunky: it's as if the dev hasn't played any metroidvania or a platformer, like it's their first time doing this. All they had to do was copy other games of the same vein, add their flavor and voila. Nail the combat and movement, everything else follows.
that so bad. i was thinking about buying this game, but im going to wait after your video. see if at the end of the year they correct the combat. Those are issues so easy to fix. an action roguelike should be invested in making the combat feel smooth. the art style and boss design is amazing, sad to see those issues. i was never a fan of blade assault, really didnt like that game. Hope this one turns out alright
While the game is an interesting rougelike...it could have used more time in the oven and it needs more work tbh rn it just feels kinda rough on the edges, it does feel like a MetroidVania meets diablo with a touch of rougelike which is an interesting combination... (edit well it is early access but i hope they do take feedback)
Have you played the Last Faith yet? It's in a really good place now with lots of QoL updates since launch. Once they get rid of a few little problems left it will be right up there with the Blasphemous games for me. As for this game holy Diablo hud LOL. I know it's early access and there are lots of other issues to iron out but at least make them an hourglass or a gem or something besides a basic orb. It makes a very bad first impression to me and probably others for how creative the game will be. There's a homage and there is copy paste.(It's not actual copy paste but I think you get what I mean).
Looks like they didn't even bother to try to hide the fact they just copied the layout of skill tree from like say diablo 4, along with a few other things copied too lol. I don't mind gear based progression but hoo boy, make sure we have a storage that's like, idk, enough to contain like 4-6 different build setup or you pretty much locked in with whatever you get with too much risk of being too weak if you try to switch. Maybe there was and I missed that part by being distracted cause I be that kind of dumb. The air enemies and boss really shows how the limitation hurts so much, dang, that really not a good feeling. There nothing wrong with giving a lot of criticism on your part, someone has to say it or they'll just assume the game is fine and won't do well if its currently having problems that needs to be said.
Tbh first time see someone complaing that he is too strong in one build. xD Ok. No Z-axis combat sucks big. P.S. I actually like this kind of progression, don't like big rng rogue-likes.
I feel like this progression might be a little too RNG based. If you get good gear early, that's great. But if you don't find good gear, or particular weapons that synergize with certain elements, it can feel a bit limiting.
@@asaeed86 For the reasons I went over in the video. I feel the game is in a very poor spot right now and needs to address its shortcomings if it wants to succeed. Currently the actual combat and gameplay aren't very enjoyable and feel very shallow. The video mostly serves as an introduction to potential players who want to see an initial impression and understand why the game has mixed reviews.
@@Beelz55 they say it’ll stay in early access for a year. I hope they fix all the bugs and polish it. It has so much potential I really like it’s visuals. A lot of games are copying blasphemous now and the last faith did really well so hopefully this one too.
You're watching a video in which I discuss the games initial release state and you're surprised I'm talking? Worse yet, you're watching a youtube video and surprised there's talking. Why are you watching?
@@Beelz55 I’m Not trying to be a dick to you at all bud. I get there may be talking. But I watch a lot of videos and some of the best ones aren’t the ones where people talk a mile a minute. It’s a bit distracting that’s all I meant. Just a little constructive criticism but hey it’s your channel do you.
blade assault was abandoned right after release, there were plans for more characters and npcs, but they said fuck it, and left. remember that.
There are still some pretty egregious bugs in some of the boss fights too, and I'd count that as worse than just adding additional characters.
The art direction of this game is amazing. The game itself looks... incredibly frustrating though. Hopefully the devs can get the game fixed up... and not abandon it like they did with Blade Assault (which I'm still upset about)
Blizzard used a lot of stock sound effects in their older games. Diablo, Warcraft 3, WoW, Starcraft, those games have a lot of sounds that have been reused by movies and plenty of other games.
4:52 That's exactly what I thought 😂 We've played enough hours for that sound to register familiarity in the mind
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I think you can aim upwards from the ground, as opposed to jump attacking. Still this needs to be fixed. Hopefully devs will notice and take note of what you’ve brought up, Beelz, excellent analysis.
To answer your question about what runes do, *spoiler*
When u get far enough in the game u get a hammer that unlocks a new npc that will make u legendary gear vased on what runes u have unlocked. If u notice you can get 2 runes per boss. They are NOT consumed upon use but to make legendary gear u need to offer up a weapon or armor and it costs the purple currency. The new legendary gear will keep the same armor amount and modifiers. It just adds the special skill to it.
To answer your question about berserker, you unlock it after a specific boss is beaten.
Ive been playing this since release. If u have any questions hit me up i might be able to answer any questions u may have.
My main question is, roughly how long is the run from start to finish moving at a normal pace (not rushing)?
@@Beelz55 sorry for the delay, i needed to do a run again timed. To get to rilmozog at the buriel ground it took me 1hr 14 mins. This was not me rushing. I explored every area for every chest, took my time picking my skills and attempted my best against the boss, leaving him with a sliver of health.
From what im understanding at this point he is currently the alpha final boss. But i can tell u more once i beat him.
I hope they take you're feedback, one thing you might of missed is you can upgrade your potions and add to the number you can hold from the guy you save from the second area (he's inside a building in the starting town). The Berserk class is unlocked after the 5th boss but it's honestly harder to play because of lack of range skills or vertical skills (lightning tree has alot of vertical aoe skills).
I enjoyed Blade Assault enough to finish it at least once, I think at the highest difficulty, with each character despite its unfinished state. Needless to say, I'm invested in seeing this succeed as much as I was invested in them finishing Blade Assault. Let's hope I don't end up disappointed again. Even so, I have great memories and nostalgia of Blade Assault.
the setting and the visuals are VERY appealing, this looks like a nobrainer to me if they make it fun to play
i have very high hopes and faith in the devs to make this one a banger in the future
The jolted description is straight up just the name and description ripped from Hades lol. It's called jolted in that game also
I've been waiting for this. I've also had my eyes on this one, but came weary when i saw mixed
I love this game but I can’t find anyone doing a full lets play of it on yt. It won’t be out until next year.
I can understand the skill tree's problem also wish in the loading screen you had a next so you could actually read the things their also air combat would be infuriating to me personally because the way i usually doge is jumping cause i don't like dogeing and doing air combos
That was absolutely the D1 gold drop sound Beelz lol
If they do the updates needed to the game I think it could be a lot of fun
I can see what you're getting at with the combat and structuring. The combat is an easy fix compared to the actual flow of the game. It's almost like they forgot what a rouge-like game is. A run that is over 90 minutes long is too much, but it looks like it could take hours. At that point, just make it an action game like Salt & Sanctuary.
I'm really hoping they improve on it. Looks like it could be really good if they did.
100% the diablo money sound
Dragon deez...
18:30 why did I have the exact same reaction 😅😂
BEEG icesword, chadly fireball, lightning dash for extra mobility. Does anything stop you from going a multi-element spellblade? I guess element-specific gear might boost just all your stuff instead of one of them if you go mono-element, but imo it would be cool to have two-element builds, especially if the game did go for elements combinations, a bit like genshin. But ye, as long as elements only synergize with self going multi-element doesn't sound all that fun... Although that frost arrow could daze enemies and I think daze was mentioned in the lightning branch before too, is there some cross-synergy like lightning can deal dazed and has something extra against daze, and then ice can do daze too to help lightning? Because even that kind of cross-accessibility of an effect can be a decent synergy imo, but then dazed and weakened just seem to be normal non-elemental effects that just help a bit extra and don't interact with elements much otherwise...
In theory you could mix elements for sure. The issue comes down to how the extra bonuses from your talents come into play. Hypothetically you want to do a Fire and Ice build. You take 1 fire and 1 ice skill. But all of the extra effects will boost either burning or chill/frozen effects. So you have to compromise a little. That being said being able to inflict burning + jolted works very well. As does slowing an enemy + burning them.
It also comes down to whether you want to go all in on 1 spell like I did towards the end, and spam that 1 attack the whole time. Or actually split your workload in order to maintain 2 different status effects.
Hopefully they take the criticism and feedback and improve the game. It's early access but at least it can still be patched, updated and improved. But yeah, It felt like it shouldn't be released yet.
My opinion:
Not having the keyboard/controller mapping option on day 1 is crazy;
The dodge is strange, it should be a roll;
This last boss was too strong with that shockwave pattern attack;
You get a legendary spear that changes your attack but when you jump it don't work!? That's bad;
Any kind of enemies that can fly are looking like a gameplay design problem, specially if your stronger attacks don't work on them because they're ground based attacks.
Added to wish list but definitely not a buy just yet. It seems like it isn't in the place it can be just yet, so i think a wish list of a game that can be, is better than a negative review of one that isn't where it can be yet.
Until then, a multitude of rogues are calling me which are currently more polished.
Mr John Dragonis Dead, what a name.
Beelz, not a roguelike but, NINE SOLS is a metrovania focusing on parry mechanics
"Parry Beelz" on?
yo beelz have you played wild frost ? or do you not play deck builder rogue likes ? i think itll be pretty dope if you tried it out or maybe some other like slay the spire, inscryption or something. really enjoying the variety on the channel
Regarding the combat being clunky: it's as if the dev hasn't played any metroidvania or a platformer, like it's their first time doing this. All they had to do was copy other games of the same vein, add their flavor and voila.
Nail the combat and movement, everything else follows.
that so bad. i was thinking about buying this game, but im going to wait after your video. see if at the end of the year they correct the combat. Those are issues so easy to fix. an action roguelike should be invested in making the combat feel smooth. the art style and boss design is amazing, sad to see those issues. i was never a fan of blade assault, really didnt like that game. Hope this one turns out alright
Nice a vid to watch right after getting sick
I thought this was gonna be a metroidvania instead of a roguelike
Monk Dike? Me in ff14
They really gotta tighten up the gameplay on level 5 for this one
While the game is an interesting rougelike...it could have used more time in the oven and it needs more work tbh rn it just feels kinda rough on the edges, it does feel like a MetroidVania meets diablo with a touch of rougelike which is an interesting combination... (edit well it is early access but i hope they do take feedback)
Have you played the Last Faith yet? It's in a really good place now with lots of QoL updates since launch. Once they get rid of a few little problems left it will be right up there with the Blasphemous games for me. As for this game holy Diablo hud LOL. I know it's early access and there are lots of other issues to iron out but at least make them an hourglass or a gem or something besides a basic orb. It makes a very bad first impression to me and probably others for how creative the game will be. There's a homage and there is copy paste.(It's not actual copy paste but I think you get what I mean).
It's a diablo 2d rougelike!
I play old-school roguelikes like Caves of Qud and Tales of Maj'Eyal. I'm no stranger to really long runs.
Beelz being the goat as usual
Eyy finally been waiting beelz run
Tactical Brach Wizards when?
Looks like they didn't even bother to try to hide the fact they just copied the layout of skill tree from like say diablo 4, along with a few other things copied too lol.
I don't mind gear based progression but hoo boy, make sure we have a storage that's like, idk, enough to contain like 4-6 different build setup or you pretty much locked in with whatever you get with too much risk of being too weak if you try to switch. Maybe there was and I missed that part by being distracted cause I be that kind of dumb.
The air enemies and boss really shows how the limitation hurts so much, dang, that really not a good feeling.
There nothing wrong with giving a lot of criticism on your part, someone has to say it or they'll just assume the game is fine and won't do well if its currently having problems that needs to be said.
beelz please do Berserker run soonnnn
Diablo 4 influences too.
Yep
With blasphemous art style, this might not be the brightest idea, but I’m having a snack while watching this
They literally copy pasted eviterno lol. but hey i love the visuals the last faith copied blasphemous too and it turned out great.
Tbh first time see someone complaing that he is too strong in one build. xD
Ok. No Z-axis combat sucks big.
P.S. I actually like this kind of progression, don't like big rng rogue-likes.
I feel like this progression might be a little too RNG based. If you get good gear early, that's great. But if you don't find good gear, or particular weapons that synergize with certain elements, it can feel a bit limiting.
3:44 First of all that's what she said second of all great video, as always !
Blade assault devs are cowards. I will never support them again
Game looks decent. There seems to be a lot of dialogue and not much of it is interesting or helpful.
Are you going to upload the whole thing?
The game? Probably not
@@Beelz55 you’re not going to cover the whole early access version? Why?
@@asaeed86 For the reasons I went over in the video. I feel the game is in a very poor spot right now and needs to address its shortcomings if it wants to succeed.
Currently the actual combat and gameplay aren't very enjoyable and feel very shallow. The video mostly serves as an introduction to potential players who want to see an initial impression and understand why the game has mixed reviews.
@@Beelz55 they say it’ll stay in early access for a year. I hope they fix all the bugs and polish it. It has so much potential I really like it’s visuals. A lot of games are copying blasphemous now and the last faith did really well so hopefully this one too.
Yes yes yes yes…. Yes 🤣
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Is this game korean? Because they god damn love putting useless dialogues everywhere, jesus
Stop talking omg
You're watching a video in which I discuss the games initial release state and you're surprised I'm talking? Worse yet, you're watching a youtube video and surprised there's talking. Why are you watching?
@@Beelz55 I’m
Not trying to be a dick to you at all bud. I get there may be talking. But I watch a lot of videos and some of the best ones aren’t the ones where people talk a mile a minute. It’s a bit distracting that’s all I meant. Just a little constructive criticism but hey it’s your channel do you.