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Interesting little game. I played the DEMO and thought it was cool, saw the price and couldn't not pick it up. There's Balatro style deck and hand management. Risk of Rain infinitely stacking passive items. And Vampire Survivors gameplay. You also have this meta-progression crafting system where you can upgrade all crystals you make during a run by combining duplicates and tiered crafting materials you get from making certain hand types. But the mid-game lasts a grand total of 5 minutes so you'll never have enough Green and Blue materials which sucks since those are also the most fun spells to use. There's also some upgrade systems I have no idea how to use. Like summoning. Maybe I'll learn about it later. English translation seems good. It has better subtitling than most modern anime. Voice acting is pretty funny as well. There's some really cool art in there and I guess depending on your taste some good songs. The 2nd chapter credits song by 鏡見罰_KagamiBatsu was surprisingly good. I did not like the one for the 3rd chapter at all though. Seemed like it was rushed and I don't think the singer does a lot of English vocals. It gets repetitive quick, the enemies never really challenge you and the maps are tiny. There's nothing to do during a run except use curios and make hands which if you get a specific item early on, you won't do until the end of the last wave so you don't lose the massive damage bonus. It isn't a premium priced game, though. This is definitely the kind of game you'd just play in small bursts between doing something else. Just like all the games that inspired it. There is also some AI usage in some of the MVs and some of the in-game fan art. I don't think any of the actual gameplay related stuff or cutscenes are AI generated, though. So it could very well just be the outsider submitted stuff. In this kind of price range, I'll take AI being used in things I'm most likely only ever going to look at once then never again over that ugly as sin low poly unity asset bundle. Overall: Solid enough base for a game, plenty of potential and the developer seems pretty responsive. Good enough to kill a few hours at least.