Recent reviews by Zyro

Reviews of the game are just amazing, best way to spend time until game's up
Also nearly got all the twitch drops before going in, who knew?!

Can't remap our keys as we want, what's this ♥♥♥♥ in 2024? Moreover the game says that these keybinds cane't be remapped, but they're not even used so it makes just no sense except to reveal bad design.

Behind that the game has been fun and nice to play with friends, despite some early access lags and monsters AI acting weirdly.

Oh and also I don't know how many men work on this game but let us choose what beard we want with our head, it's completely stupid and men in this game look like women no matter what you do... Also more hair for men wouldn't be too much, 95% of haircut are women ones...

Would definitely change the review if the key mapping is fixed.

As much love as I have for the game, don't buy this Clan as it is for now. I'm mostly waiting for what Shiro is going to do to make them Okayish without making an Ox-massacre like they did.

The problem for now is that they are unable to produce anything. They produce badly everything and their clan's lore are weaker than the original lores, which is unforgivable.

I'm fighting to convince myself to ask a refund for this clan as it is right now, to say how much it hurts, and it is even worse because I can sense all their strength, but it lacks so much production that a upping them is quite hard to do without making them broken.

What I can't forgive tho is that they got even worse Conquest bonuses than bear, which is an achievment in itself, and I know Shiro won't bother changing that because they haven't change bear in one year... That hurts A LOT, I hoped Shiro had understood what was looked for in conquest after seeing clans such as Kraken, Ox, Dragon, Stag, Raven....

Okay I'm rewriting this review after 30h playing now to point out the new stuff that makes me still believing the game is overpriced (but hey we're buying it still, it's Naheulbeuk... Mostly Frenchies there will buy it anyway)... And the review needed a rewrite because I'm being less spammed by the characters's lines when I switch between them in menus, must have been a bug corrected.

Krayn did a live during the beta where he already pointed out that it'd be nice for us to not having to switch to the rogue to disarm traps, like we don't have to switch to the mage to put back tomes collections... I mean... Yeah, it's a bit annoying. Okay, you see the traps because it's just the same statue all over again, but it's still annoying to have to switch characters... And to be honest, in Epic, traps deal 18 damages at lvl 8, no care, just hit the trap.

Potions are overpowered and make all other healing items (with statuses healing) just a joke. I'm playing Epic mode, I've sold everything that aren't bandages and potions, I'll tell you. I just heal the dots and use the healing on all characters. All hard fights have been done better with full potions in belt instead of trying to use saucages and other items...

Agility is overpowered and makes build making dumb. Don't look over other stats, really guys, with 50+ parry and evasion, they just miss you all the time (combined with dwarf's and paladine's abilities, critical parries all the time lol). Also, full agility means you never miss, stat is too good. I don't mind it tho, now that I'm capped with it I'm going for a bit of strength/int ahah.

The game is fine, won't be the most unforgetable experience but don't buy it full price if you can't, wait for Steam's sales... The stats stuff and potions stuff, the emptiness feeling you got while running with the highlight button makes me say that it's not worth the full price.

Mode conquête.
Before : 50h gameplay
After: 350h gameplay

Note: This isn't a definitive review, this is based on my current global knowledge and experience within the game... Which is pretty small because the launch was... A short night for the poor devs :D

Passed the design, you're facing a game that'd possibly give Pokemon some rivalry... I don't know if it'd take or not, but I think they might achieve something if they're improving the system which is in place. I don't want to list all the things and features here, I'd wait for the official launch of the game... I'd rather focus on two points that are for me very important and only aimed at the devs.

What I think is missing is a hard mode. Coromon proposed one that I don't enjoy as they force a nuzzloke, but I do like one proposed from a pokemon fangame, where you're not able to levelup higher than the next Gym you face, and those leader and events trainer all have competitive teams with objets, trained EVs and max IVs... This was a hard mode that I'd love to see here, more as we can team up with a friend. I don't say that you'd just have to use those ideas, but I do hope that you find your mark on there for the hardcore gamers!

The last point that is very important for a class of player like me... Breeding. I've heard that each Temtem can only breed 8 times and the child takes the lowest fertility... Well, I don't think that's right. That might be my vision only, but this makes breeding way less appealing because you'd have to grind too much only to get the 50s where you want... And your perfect breed would most likely not being able to breed much... Well, as shinies are much more likely to have once you got one, this is understandable, but this breaks the motivation a bit... And the main concurrent hasn't those problems... This is the thing to take into account.

Another negative point from those breeding penalties... This is less likely to attract the less courageous... And so, reducing the amount of people for competitive tournaments later... Well I'd like to be wrong, but at least I've told it.

Note: This review will be updated as updates come out during its development. The last update has been done on the 14/12/19. I'll keep everything narrow and listed, hope it's gonna be good enough to read. I'll end this review with wishes of future developments, as I guess that these reviews are seen by the devs too.

Positive points:
-The graphic and musics. This is not an objective point because that needs to appeal to your tastes, but I really love every single moment in the game, both visually and audibly. I particularly love Hades's fight music, as it starts in the right pressurous tone while he takes his weapon.
-The humor and relationships between Zagreus and all Hell. I really crave to see more and more discussions, but I do know that I'll reach an end in the story... I don't want to tho! I hope that some speech will be taken as I keep destroying my father, because Zagreus got a really good taunt before one fight that I wish to hear again! (won't spoil the joke tho)
-The different weapons and modifications through the Hammer are really awesome. Even weapons that I like less become really enjoyable with some hammer upgrades, and it makes all of them fitting different playstyle, which is good for everyone to have his own favorite weapon... Or even to train to a new playstyle... I'm too aggressive tho :D
-The different combinations between gods. As I've unlocked the whole mirror now, I see that even gods that I found lacking become really enjoyable as the improvments clear the lack of dps on some upgrades... That means that the balance is really well done. Keep it up.
-Replayability and training progression. When I first killed Hades, I wanted to make the next runs much harder and got some good knockbacks. I've persevered but never reached to give the final blow to Hades, which was sometimes frustrating lol. But as I lowered the enemies enhancements, I saw how much I've improved during my whole struggling and saw how much I trained... Can't wait to go to max heat!

I don't see other good points that could make you play the game... Just play it and see for yourself... It's really great!


Negative points:
-Hell Mode. I guess it's fairly new as there is always the popup about it after Hades has been killed, but the 2500 darkness limitation kills a part of the game for me. Darkness limitation is not really a good way to make the game harder, but more frustrating. Another way to make Hell Mode a Hell would be to take of Death Defiance. Only allow Skully's keepsake... Okay, that'd kill the object and Athena's boons, but I guess there should be a way to make them disappear unless the player equips the keepsake in Hell Mode? I don't play that mode at all only because of the darkness limitation, and will never try it before this change. Hope it will... Well, in fact, it's the same as the normal mode beside that so it's okay... But it's sad in a design point of view...

This is the only one big flaw to me for the game... Well, now let's go to the "hope it's gonna be added in the game" part.


Hopes for the future:
-More duo gods combinations. Guess they're not there for a relationship point of view, but it'd feel so cool to see how their abilities could work together like the thunder of Zeus in Dyonisus's fog etc... So many things to do!
-More weapons and playstyles, more hammer! Lol I know that someday the game would be finished... But it's like other games's dlc to add new clans or characters... You can always create new things I guess :D (wouldn't mind that there are not that many tho.)
-More contracts, more bounties... Well, dunno if it's the game, but like making you grind all the keepsakes to max level for a reward, I'd do it! Maybe it's in it, but I've not unlocked it...
-A daily/weekly event system? Some character that would ask you to combine the power of certain gods or to play with this or that heat... Playing with this weapon for some rewards. Or even making you play maps with modifications that are not in common runs... Well, anything to make people come someday when they reached the endgame! Maybe with a friend/world scoreboard... Dunno!

And something that I'll put apart from the rest... THE thing I'd love to see because of that screen: https://imgur.com/YvWKoeT
An endless run. I notices that it shows you how many chambers you've been in... And it'd be awesome to get an endless mode where after you kill Hades, you come back to the beginning but with enemies more powerful, and you'd have to keep going till you want to stop or till you die! With an endless mode, I'd dare say that this game would be by far the best of 2019... Kidding, they brought back Halo on PC :D Sorry guys.

I'd love to recommend the game but this wouldn't help 343 to add those missing features that are a huge flaw for a 2019's out PC game (won't come back to all the great work that has been done to it, but here are all the features but one that I'd have added in the game for it to be perfect in my eyes.)

-Reporting people for bad or good behaviour, such things that are in game like CS GO or LoL... Doesn't help to get a better community, but it may help to at least make bullies and bad kids being together and people who are there to get fun together. So yeah, that'd require to rework matchmaking and stuff...

-Being able to kick afk people who have put something on their mouse to spam left clic. And so a matchmaking during matches because when people leave or when you have afks in team... Well... You know that you cannot do a thing but try to kill people. Games with balls and such are not doable when you're the team down.

-Season Pass progress through campaign... I dunno if I just didn't find the option, but when I enabled score or competitive score, it didn't progress the season pass, and that's annoying. I know it's mainly because Reach is my least favorite campaign, but it'd be great to progress through any kind of gameplay.

-(from Hidden Xperia's videos) Getting off the controller's aim assist or having two different matchmakings with one enabled and one disabled. Or give mouse and keyboard aim assist too, LOL. (destroys the game for PC, can't make it with an aim assist, sadly).

-(The one I'm not sure it's doable, but Halo would 500% get better with that) Custom crosshair. The one from the original game is so annoying because I love the cross or the dot... But this circle is just the worst crosshair I've ever experienced... How am I sure that with that circle I'm 100% on his head or am I praying gods that I'm high enough or centered enough... That's just a pain to play with this... And it's mainly a feeling pain, not a true gamebreaking one.

Great card game to waste 1 hour of waiting for anything <3 Get it on Switch if you're a rich person.

Review update now that I've been able to play:

July 25th's update fixed the loading screen bug. Since then, I always have been able to play the game. It is really fun for a clicker game, I hope I will still like it as I'll go further in the game. For now, I'll say I recommend it.