This game is a hidden gem. 10/10

I was sceptical and waited until it went on 85% sale, because graphics don't look good on the first glance and it doesn't seem like a long game to complete. But...

Turns out I was pretty damn wrong. Game turned out to be an amazing fresh experience with mechnics I couldn't even imagine could exist, it's simple yet very emergent. As an avid fan of the anime and manga I really enjoyed playing this and aside from some clunkiness it's a pretty good representation of this world. It's easier than the real experience would be, but somehow this makes gameplay extremely fun and non-repetetive, like I could go down the same path for 12th time and it's still fun and cool.

So your goals range from going deeper to see some creatures, fighting them, retriving lost gear, helping people and there's a story that both uses part of the source material and then builds atop of it with your own character and dare I say it's really amazing somehow. While doing so you must upgrade your gear, collect food and avoid dangers of the abyss. You'd expect this to be an open world game, yet if we have to box it, it's actually a semi-linear rougelite, but more than that it's its own genre completely, it's this unique and everything here has a purpose. And just like in the source material, it all looks cute and all untill you die, plenty of gore, explicit content, hell there's Bondwerd here, you know what he does.

Now I won't lie, the graphics may have grown on me and in spite of AI not being too good sometimes, other times it turned out to be pretty competetive. I have been surprised at each step of the game.

After 9 hours I have only completed Riko's story which is a tutorial ending at end of layer 2. And in the main mode I only now reached 2nd layer. The game has 5 layers, so not all of them, but I've got to say I love what I am seeing right now and I can't wait to see what's deeper and how they represented it. I think it's a great, fresh purchase for both people who know and don't know the source material. All the negative reviews I read have a point about this not being a perfect game, it's a B class production, but don't be alarmed, it's a really solid game and the only downside is that we were robbed out of this being a higher budge production. Gameplay wise, outside of some clunky AI or some animations, it's really no worse than an AAA game from a respected studio.


It's deffnitely worth a buy, but I completely respect anyone who would buy it only at a discount. Still don't be me, it's worth at least half a price.

其实说实话打折入的感觉还行。。。原价是肯定不值原价的。
算是漫改里比较成功的类型了吧。
第一层的设计其实挺惊艳的，高度差那么大，还有飞来岩这种隐藏区域，真的算是做得最好的一层了，第一次进去有种怪物猎人的感觉，甚至感觉主题原因比世界都还要吸引人。。
次要好的就是第三层了吧，天上瀑布的丧乐确实叫人印象深刻。在岩壁上躲避蝙蝠也让人叫苦不堪。
其余的层真的不太行。
特别是第四层开始，明显开始赶工了。。。
第五层就更不用说了。。。
什么壁外雪原。。。
底子还是在那，感觉再打磨亿下真会是挺不错的作品。

Wow, I hate this.

I didn't read the manga, but the anime is one of the best shows I've seen in the last 10 years. I wish the game was that good.

The inventory size is a huge problem, but not my biggest problem. I kinda played myself into a corner, because I didn't realize how important food is. In later layers you need salt to prepare most meat you find and the only place I've seen salt was the store in the town. Without food you don't regenerate stamina, that means you can't fight or sprint and worst of all, you can't go to the next area. I'm about 4 hours in and stuck and don't really feel like restarting.

If there is a tip I can give to new players, it's this one: sell everything in your inventory and take as much salt with you as you can and don't use food for healing.

[For my fellow Steam Deck users: Tha game runs and looks perfectly fine on the Deck. I would verify.]