starts off strong, but gets incredibly annoying later on as it starts sticking you on smaller cluttered areas with more and more enemies with larger and larger attack patterns where the gameplay breaks down, while their health growth outscales your damage, and you run into rooms where there's literally nothing you can do to survive. roguelikes where an rng coinflip ends your run are not enjoyable, and the further you go the more of those you hit.

I really like the *idea* of this game, but unfortunately I have a hard time recommending it because I feel like too much of its design is in conflict with itself. It's comprised of several different conceptually interesting directional/positioning systems, but at least in my opinion, they don't work in concert the way a good, high-intentionality design ought to. Too often you're making choices, where you might, say, pick a weapon with a knockback or teleport effect, thinking "this will buy me out of a pinch", but then you're thrust into a situation where it's the correct context in every way except the direction you're after. The teleport is a nice pressure release valve, though I think it would be better if it was tied to a certain amount of kills rather than a cooldown. Between that and contriving the correct contexts to use your weapons in ways that are beneficial, you spend a lot of this game moving around and jockeying for positioning in a way that, unfortunately, feels degenerat...