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This is an absolutely superb metroidvania. The "bullet hell" tag is seriously misleading. Yeah, there are bullets, but it's hardly "hell". In fact, the difficulty is perfectly judged, I think. The movement is sublime. And the upgrade system that lets you change your build at the drop of a hat? Amazing. For some reason Steam isn't telling me how I played this for, but again, it's a perfectly judged length, albeit there's a series of "final" bosses which aren't actually the end of the adventure, and I did get a bit bored at the "door challenge" bit - but that's well past the final final... final boss.

Great game. Highly recommended!

Edit: My steam profile says that I played for 14 hours. No regrets!

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This is incredible.

He does say Open Source a lot in the video, but the repo's license opens with "This is NOT Open Source". As the article states, if course. Just a bit funny and jarring.

Still incredible though.

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Combat reminds me of Spearhead Games (the excellent Stories and Omensight games), so I'm gonna follow this for sure. Interesting what people are saying about Crosscode though - I finished Stories in 6 hours, but played it about a year later all over again for another 6 - excellent game. Then 10 hours in Omensight - finished it, but frequently consider playing it again.

Meanwhile, I have 15 hours in Crosscode but gave up on it, and no urge to play again. I feel like I have a "maximum hours" regarding gaming that occasionally kicks in.

I say occasionally, as there are many, many exceptions. But Crosscode wasn't one of them.

Still, this looks excellent.

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Is it coming to Steam at a later date? All these dependency issues (even on Steam Deck!?) put me off. As does the connection to Epic Games, but that's another story, I suppose.

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I've mostly enjoyed my time in this game (40 hrs or so), but I don't think I can play it any more until they give the player an option to turn off auto-aim when using melee and wands. It's even on for bows and staves, but at least with those you can over-ride the auto-aim by right clicking to zoom in. But no such option with wands and melee.

It kind of makes sense with melee - it feels a lot like the Batman games, where you kind of teleport across the map so that your melee attack lands on an enemy. But with wands it's absolutely infuriating. Maps are LITTERED with explosive barrels and other environmentals that you simply can't use because the damn wand will always hit the torso of an enemy instead. Even worse when it auto-aims at an enemy that you didn't intend to target.

So much promise too. Hopefully they sort it out.

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Love the look of this. I played a couple of hours of Wargroove and it's good, but something didn't quite click there. I'll be giving this one a shot. Advance Wars seemed simple but there was an insane level of detail hiding under the covers that made it compelling - the mechanics, the story, the maps, the characters, the abilities, the usual "weapon triangle" you see in both Advance Wars and Fire Emblem. It's a high, high bar for clones.

Speaking of Fire Emblem, I bought Symphony of War TWO YEARS AGO, and I've yet to try it. Both of these games will be awesome on the Steam Deck. I need to sort my life out!

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Absolutely love the look of this, but was a bit gutted that there's no Grim Dawn style multiplayer. Looks like it's going for roguelite rather than GD's RPG progression, but still. Ravenswatch pulls this off brilliantly, but they've gone all-in on single-player here and while I'm still interested, it's very much less so.

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I love the look of this, but I'd have to resist just firing up Bullets Per Minute instead!

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Quoting: CatKillerFWIW, I much prefer default-Unity fuzzy pastels to default-UE sweaty plastic.

Sweaty plastic is such a perfect way to describe the default UE look!

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