Beautiful art style and UI! I could spend time just exploring the map and admiring the detail of the background.

However, there are a few cons. First, i felt that some of the animation a bit too long, make the combos feel less fluid. For example, when perform a dodge, you need to wait until the animation fully ends, before you can attack again. And second, for in-battle sound effect, (such as attack and block) i think it could be more impactful to enhance the experience.

Oh, and maybe its just me, but i felt the difficult was pretty tough. Even, i had to retry the tutorial twice (skill issue T_T).

Overall, i like this game.

This is a really fun 2D hack & slash RPG where you fight gladiators with swords and guns.

Art wise, this game has a beautiful 2D art style that reminds me of Studio Ghibli movies, the character and environment design is beautiful, the animation is clean, and the soundtrack is really good (i love the piano in the soundtrack, more plz). I love the mix of modern, steampunk and ancient roman theme in the game, somehow it fits really well. I feel like the sound effects (such as hitting enemies or shooting your gun) need a bit more "punch" to it, currently it doesn't feel satisfying to land a good combo. The sound effects for the menus feel "sharp", it hurts my ears going through the menus with a headset on, and the default volume of the ambient noise is too loud for me (but it can be adjusted in the settings so it's completely fine). There's still not much in terms of lore, but the small amount of lore in the current version is already promising.

Gameplay wise, the combat is fun and engaging, the movement is snappy and responsive, and it's overall pretty easy for new players to understand. I feel like the enemies need a bit more balancing. For context, you start with 500 HP, the regular enemies can only deal around 10 damage to you, but when you get to the boss he can deal 200+ damage in one attack. For a tutorial boss, he currently hits too hard. For city exploration, the size is just right and the layout isn't confusing. There's some small grammar mistakes and typos in some of the dialogs but it's not a big deal.

Overall, i see a lot of potential in this game. I'm looking forward for more. 8/10

Many things that took my attention from this game since the demo, especially the art and the story concept. The prologue made me want to learn more about the story from this game. Unfortunately, there's no further continuation yet in this EA version.

Talks about the gameplay, it seems like the combat feels more comfortable compared to the demo, like the combat mechanics and enemies difficulty. But there's personal view that i feel about the action button, like i think guard button can be combine with action skills instead of combine it with grab button. Because i think it can be double function (i guess), example when you think the moments to launch action skill is not right you can still guard the enemy's attack. But anyways, the combat still fun tho.

Another thing that could be improved, the player's objective list could be more highlighted. Also, at some stages, the character's color blends with the background so it lower the visibility of the character.