Kanko

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Everyone asking me reasons, so here are some. 1) No item stats at all. What weapon does more damage? How fast does it attack or far does it reach? What is the difference in the different bow types? Does armor give you HP? Does it have a defense value? What happened to the unique traits for different styles of armor... does a heavy plate looking armor do something different than mushroom armor? Bee armor? What do the artifacts even do? Most of them are incredibly vague descriptions with no actual numbers to anything, some of them you read them and they literally give you no clue as to what they are doing, you have to literally test them out to figure it out 2) There doesn't seem to be much difference in gear types. Most weapons do the same attack animation, all armor seems to do more or less the same thing? The only difference being green, blue, and gold having more of the additional effects on them. 3) Artifact item levels I think mean nothing? Tested a level 2 artifact that makes you crit, then upgraded it to level 23. Same soul cost, same cooldown timer, same length of time active, and exact same damage 4) I'd need to test this more, but I'm 99% sure mob difficulty scales with the player, meaning that getting stronger actually doesn't do much of anything. Getting additional enchantments / abilities of course helps, but item level actually doesn't mean anything. Again, just an observation, I can't state this as fact though. 5) The enchantment system is really bad. It removes a lot of the excitement from loot, because you can just infinitely apply any enchant to any piece of gear (armor, bow, or weapon categories), meaning there is no hit of excitement when you get a rare drop, because the difference in the gear is little to none (and you have no stats to tell you otherwise) and you get to just pick your enchantments anyways 6) Couple opinion things for my end, so others are free to disagree, but I think the art style is much worse than dungeons 1. Everything is kinda blurry/foggy, it just looks/feels weird, especially for Minecraft. Dungeons 1 had much sharper and more defined colors and pixels that was an inspirational Minecraft look. I also very much dislike the "open world" they went with. First it's not really "open", its more like an adventure map that you follow a path with many side paths down. More-so though, I never really felt a sense of accomplishment while playing, because everything just leads into something else. No feel of excitement for beating a boss meaning you beat a series of levels leading up to it... because you just sort of waltz into the bosses suddenly, then waltz right back out into the world. You never really get that feeling of beating anything, at least I didn't 7) The combat honestly felt really bad. Most mods just kind of kamikaze into you, there is no real dynamic fighting, it's just trade health and don't die. It's hard to explain, but I felt a big lack of control over a fight vs dungeons 1, or any other ARPG game I have played. 8) From my experience so far, there was no feeling of build variety. Like grouping these types of armor together, or these armor unique effects together feeds into this playstyle, this weapon and bow feed into the playstyle, or specific enchants or unique effects. Its been kind of dumbed down to just pick the higher item level and go, don't think about anything else. Now, maybe with more time into the game some of these issues get resolved to some level, but honestly the 5.5 hours I played was so thoroughly boring and made so little sense that I just didn't want to play anymore. I jumped onto Dungeons 1 and was having way more fun, experiencing much larger power swings in my hero, and had access to much cooler movesets and abilities within the first hour.