First off, the story is awful: The devil promises you that if you come on top of arena fight event (that he arranged to cull numbers even though they're immortal souls) he'll return you to life and you believe him? It's the devil, you idiot.
Secondly, the game. The game... Man, I haven't seen someone put so little thought into balancing before.
Ok, you have a gun that deals a hypothetical amount of 1 damage, you need three shots to kill an enemy, so you get upgrades to kill them more efficiently, right? well:
Upgrade n#1 "ten percent damage increase" (1*1.1=1.1 you still need three shots to kill the enemy, you buy it FOUR TIMES, so its 1*1.4=1.4*2=2.8 and you STILL need three shots to kill the enemy)
Upgrade n#2 "seven percent attack speed increase", seven percent. So, to clarify, if your current attack speed is two shots per second, a seven percent increase would put that to, umm, two shot per second, so you get five stacks and your attack speed is still two shots per second. You need eight stacks for it to increase to three. EIGHT.
Upgrade n#3 increased money drops. It doesn't put percentages but for what I can see after stacking it thrice the enemies still drop three coins each. In case you're wondering, because you might think, "well if the upgrades are so shy then probably they're cheap" like hell they are, for starters the developer had this bad idea of putting "temporary upgrades" mechanic for each wave forgetting that a roguelike means all upgrades are temporary, since you're expected to die, that's why you've got meta progress which in this game is nonexistent. These temporary upgrades try to mitigate the fact that semi-permanant upgrades are so expensive, and in my opinion failing to do so.
The perm upgrades are RNG cost 200-300 gold coins, and you can only get two. The other weapons, shotgun, sword, etc, they all have the same specs as the six-shot and still takes about the same effort to kill the enemies. Also, the screen is small and enemies shoot at you from outside your vision.
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