Are Arcanas like cheat codes?

[Kevfactor]

I feel a lot of the unlocks make the game too easy even with 5 curses. of course you need certain combos but are arcanas sort of balanced into the game too? I feel that with revive is a bit much hehe.

[ThatGuyCDude]

They're like extra passive items. You only get three of them during a run (excluding special modes and circumstances) and yes they do make the game easier. If you are looking for a challenge, you can turn them off with the checkbox in the level selector.

The game is balanced with the assumption that all of the checkboxes at the bottom of the level selector would be turned off.

[Xaelon]

They're less cheat codes and more of a creative way for the developer to buff the game's weaker weapons. Some of them are pretty powerful though.

The knife for example was pretty meh before arcanas were introduced, Now though if you take "Slash" and evolve it the weapon will chew through pretty much anything pretty quick.

Some Arcanas also enable builds that otherwise wouldn't be possible. Like there's one card that's specificity designed to enhance single weapon runs which is required for a few unlocks.

If you don't like what they bring to the game you can always disable them if you want.

[♥♥♥♥♥♥ Boners]

The closer you get to the "end" of the game, the more you're in control of the balance. Of course you can pick the strongest character, buy the strongest weapons and arcanas and you'll destroy everything, but its fun to limit what you're allowed to build/use.

If arcanas feel too strong its kinda up to you to disable them. Or only buy certain ones. Or use a weak character. Or only use 1 weapon. There's ways of making the game harder.

[Marthel]

Once you are close to the end of the game it becomes really easy to clear waves. Mostly due to upgrades. I would say that REROLL and BANISH are more of cheat codes than anything else in the game

[prudenut]

Arcanas provide diff ways to play the game basically.