Recent reviews by Skrunky the Ass Rat

Enjoyable to a degree, but it honestly feels like it has no idea what it's trying to be, and has far too many issues. Artifacts are far too rare thanks to almost never getting Cursed ships, underwater just straight up sometimes doesn't work, collision can be janky, the Gulcemal roguelite is just trying so hard to be Blue Prince but failing miserably, the animations are quite...bad...the list of complaints I have goes on, more so than the list of positives, which is really just that the core gameplay loop is entertaining, but even that gets repetitive almost immediately as there's so few ship types.

I'll be the first to admit that I am absolutely a sucker for a good love story, and since I cannot bring myself to get the bad endings of this game, this is one hell of an amazing love story. Beyond that, it's a story of personal growth, friendship, and dealing with conflicts, personal and interpersonal. There's multiple scenes in the best/canon ending path that brought me to tears, but two of them are absolutely unforgettable to me, one having an entire animated sequence to go with it, and it is so well done.

If you've played their previous similar game (which can be found for free online,) you can tell it was used as a blueprint, and in my opinion this is that taken up to eleven, absolutely masterfully done.

I tried co-op with my friends. I was moving at about 1/3 the speed they were, and things started teleporting everywhere for all of us. Imagine Nioh, but extremely stripped down, and with the worst optimisation of...any souls-like I've played so far. It is aggressively abysmal.

Edit: Literally all of the below issues have been resolved now (with the exception of occasional performance issues), and it's genuinely a fantastic game that I enjoy playing near daily now. Even the premium currency is now sold in much better denominations The most recent updates have all been absolute slam dunks, I went from only really liking one or two classes to having a hard time deciding which to play, all of them are great fun now after a rework update.

It still has issues of course, but it has been massively improved, and I'm excited for this game's future.


Old Review:
Extremely unstable, massive performance issues, massive balance issues, and missing basic features they promised, but hey, at least the microtransaction shop works at launch, which forces you to buy the next pack up because they all have just too little currency to buy what you want (Ex: You want that REALLY sick Zealot bundle? 2400 Aquilas, and the closest you can get is 2100, so you either have to buy a 2100 and a 500, or a 4500. ♥♥♥♥ these devs.)

My biggest issue with the game is 90% of the time, failure doesn't feel like your fault. Half of the enemies in the game drop no ammo, some are actually unavoidable, thanks to the halloween update's new enemy. Later ranks are just relying on RNG to give you enough bullets to succeed, and praying that enemy spawns aren't awful, as 3 Drones in one single room isn't impossible. If all enemies had a chance to drop ammo, (oh right, that's only a CHANCE by the way, even on gun turrets, more RNG, yay,) it wouldn't be so bad. Death is just annoying because even if you do your best sometimes you're just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by RNG.

It's alright I guess. Having some fun playing with my friend but 90% of the fun is just stuff like a bot horribly glitching out and laughing at how bad the game is. Gunplay's fun. Bots are worthless and often commit indirect suicide.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Hags are the least fun mechanic in pretty much any game I've played.

Dev's peak cringe.

Having some mild stuttering and frame drops, but it's only been during any form of combat once so far, and can be predicted since it's always in the same spots (for me at least.) Aside from performance dips, this is the best soulslike I've ever played so far. I just don't want to say anything about it because there's so much to discover and enjoy, I've been having an absolute blast.

I love this game, but cannot recommend it. There are so many technical issues it is unbelievable. There are so many issues beyond solely performance. Spells are a coinflip on if they work or not. In the last battle I played I casted Gehenna's Golden Hounds on a group of enemies, and it casted ~400m away at the sorcerer's feet instead. Spells VERY often do not actually follow what they say they will do. This is a first for the TW:Warhammer series as far as I am aware.

I expected this to be "good, not great", but I'm blown away. This is fantastic, and I am desperate to see the final product. Definitely has some rough spots, weapons in particular are occasionally buggy (Melee weapons swinging multiple times on one click, guns not actually aiming down sights and instead only zooming in) but I've been having an absolute blast even with that. Death is punishing but avoidable. DO NOT panic. Take your time, get your positioning, and place your shots, and you should be fine.