Found the demo interesting so I gave it a shot, but the gameplay did get repetitive in the early game, and the unlocks for weapons and powers were underwhelming. The pros: its an interesting Monster Hunter style roguelike, with unique weapons and combo mechanics. The game is smooth, the combos are weighty enough, and each weapon is fun for different playstyles. The game has a pretty decent UI and animations and artwork are great. While playing i felt that this game was very inspired by really great parts of different roguelikes, and they took a lot of great concepts from those games and incorporated them here. However, ultimately there were some negatives. a lot of actions are tied to a stamina system including your basic and heavy attacks, which can make it a much more slower game. Swapping weapons triggers an attack while switching weapons, and restores some stamina. This game expects you be kiting the monster, using weapon swaps to restore stamina that is lost when dodging and attacking, but the systems make it just a waiting game to wait for openings before being able to do meaningful damage. This is just very boring unfortunately. Most runs were just me doing a 2 hit combo -> weapon swap attack -> two hit combo... on loop in order to circumvent stamina issues. There are powers and perks that help you reduce stamina costs, but nothing really beats the consistent DPS of the loop. Stack on top the fact that each weapon has a different damage type of 3 (blunt, slashing, etc.) but only 2 weapons can be equipped at a time. If you did not bring the right weapon damage type, a fight can easily drag on. Elites in normal rooms were especially draining to fight. They were absolute damage sponges, and if you were not able to get any good DPS powers in your pool, you will be spending a lot of the early game spending more time than it should to beat normal rooms. I felt like I spent a lot of time in rooms trying to pick off small targets, waiting out attacks, then striking a few times, and repeating waiting. After a few runs, this waiting game doesn't really change even with more damage, its just part of the pace of the game. It creates this odd feeling where you want to die faster in a run to get more upgrade rather than continuing because of how it will take per room. And at that point I realized I was not really enjoying my time in the early game if I was already getting annoyed that rooms took a while. Granted, as I unlocked more perks, I found opportunities to increase damage, but it felt really bad that early that I felt I had gotten the main combat loop down by my second run. Some weapons have very little incentive to do their heavy attack, even with heavy attack perks. The powers, though not entirely generic, only felt the most impactful when carrying one god's powers alone rather than mixing and matching. They did not feel like powers you could build around, just mild enhancements to your combo. Some had some cool scaling in the late game, but were not a highlight for me. I think it would have been more fun to craft temporary perks for your weapons at different spots in the game. The windup on some of the boss attacks also feel so delayed. there is a bonus for dodging perfectly, but I would constantly misjudge the timing on attacks. Even more infuriating was attacks that came out instantly after an indicator mixed in with attacks that take literal seconds of windup past the indicator. It felt inconsistent as a warning, and the best strat is just sprint away entirely from bosses rather than try to time dodges. I ended up just using the sword and shield equipped in two slots so I could weapon swap while shielding (invincible) basically giving me two outs to improper dodging. in terms of gear, the gear comes with a set bonus (usually something that increases based on how much of the armor set you are wearing) and a general equipment bonus, unlocked througb monster parts from killing. it was slightly interesting based on how armor interacted with certain equippables (one that gives bonus damage on low health might synergize with a trinket that drains your health and increases damage based on low health for example), but it was clear the final biome has the best armor and best set bonus. So the idea that the armor could lead to interesting combinations is a bit misleading when one set is just better than the others. The only time I considered mixing was just because I had no other resources to craft a full set. Weapons are similar where you need significant investment before their unique passive unlocks, and then even more upgrades to make that passive useful. If it was possible to smith between worlds, this might actually be a fun way to feel tangible change in strength, but unfortunately you can only smith after you die. So even if you get plenty of materials, you dont feel any meaningful strength outside of powers, so you dont really dynamically change as you continue in your run. Overall, I really wanted to enjoy this game, and it was a well polished and clean game, but ultimately not for me. Part of the grind of games like this has to keep my interest, but I unfortunately fell off from the stamina mechanics and early game slog. The enemies also repeat throughout biomes, so enemy variety felt a bit off as well. Bosses are essentially just larger versions of a basic monster with multiple attacks from other monsters you've seen throughout the biome. It all ended up being less satisfying than what I got in the demo. If I were to give advice for what I wish the game had, I hope they could tune down the HP on the elites by maybe 10-20% or make it so even if you dont match damage type for a monster you dont deal absolutely pitiful damage. The game is weird at forcing you to want to weapon switch as combos, but also punishing constant weapon swaps with the different damage types being strong on some enemies and weaker on others. It was not even really a matter of the game being difficult, just boring to have to spend so much time on one enemy doing the same loop.Bosses will enrage and basically be uninteractable except for very small windows between attacks, making it even more drawn out. If the devs make some changes to prevent the burnout in the early game, I might pick up again around another sale. If you felt you were concerned by anything the review, I'd say give the demo a shot, and see if you can understand where I am coming from for some of the points I made.