Skul the hero slayer black screen upgrade#

I think this is overall the biggest downside, there's just too much randomness to allow for any form of control for the player over their progression during a run. I wouldn't mind being able to pay 200-500 gold to actually delete an item from the current run (I destroyed a lot of item rewards, only for them to show up in the shop again ffs). The inscriptions give some nice theoretical combinations, but there's nowhere close too any option available to allow for any consistency in a run (I found Slay the Spire suffered from the same problem). * Bunch of minor issues regarding timing and balancing in a some of the fights, but this list is already too long.Īll in all there's too much lacking in design, balance and progression for my taste. After upgrading most traits (which are quite limited) you can only keep banging you head against the wall until you might get that 'perfect run'. You have some permanent upgrades with the traits, but I feel like their impact is too low to effectively aid you long-term in actually finishing the game. * The grind is long an lacking in progression. That was quite a surprise when all I wanted to try was to see if my controller did reconnect. * 'Go to title screen' not only does what it says on the tin. ** Some of the other fights also suffer from 'too much crap on the screen to see what's going on'. If they have the priestess on the team expect to double the time required to grind out these fights. You could play it safe and keep your distance, but that just completely kills the pacing of the game. It's too much of a chaotic mess for my taste. There's usually way too much going on to have any idea what target to focus without getting blasted to pieces. * The later fights with 2-3 of the mini-bosses together are, in my eyes, a classical mix-up of confusing 'annoying' with 'challenging'. ** The upgraded version you encounter in the 4th area is a nice challenging improvement though. The sword fighter is annoying as hell, while the other ones are a cakewalk. * Speaking of thrash, boss rewards are crap 9/10 times. A lot of the runs just end up with trying to make the best of all the random thrash that's thrown at you. Of course randomness is part of the genre, but I feel like Hades (and Monster Train, and Nova Drift) had these balanced out a lot better. Even in 20+ runs you might be lucky to scrape together something that would barely resemble 'a build', let alone something that actually fits your current skull(s).

It's nigh impossible to try out something specific. Especially the first act has a couple of horribly designed levels. * Some of the level designs don't make any sense. * Nice touch that the mini-bosses actually try to heal themselves during the fights (although you should be able to beat the crap out of them when they do so). You're not solely reliant on the abilities of you skull. * The Quintessences add a nice twist to the combat.

Skul the hero slayer black screen upgrade#

It gives a nice incentive to upgrade your skulls, as they'll increase your abilities too. * Very nice diversity in skulls and abilities. The game is still pretty good in overall concept, I'm just not really enjoying it any more. I tried it for a while (37 hrs at this point), but in the end I have noticed I end up too often being annoyed at the game instead of enjoying the challenge.