Initially there’s not much to do, but during the tutorial you’ll rescue Barbara the alchemist, who can brew potions and elixir-related buffs to make you a little harder to kill.
To balance that, you have the opportunity to buy permanent upgrades between runs, when you wake up in the Hall of Reincarnation. While your skill as a player improves along with your knowledge of enemies and how they interact with different weapons and abilities, that information is completely useless if you happen not to pick up the right equipment, leaving you uncomfortably beholden to Lady Luck. Attempting to plan ahead for relic use proves impossible given their number and variety.Īs with a most roguelikes, it’s that enormous diversity, combined with the fundamentally random nature of each run, that presents the greatest challenge. There are so many of them that your only viable tactic is to make the best of the ones luck presents to you. They add magical buffs and occasionally a brief curse too if they’re particularly powerful, which confer additional skills or extra damage in combat. The final combat element is Elle’s use of relics. Each has its own recharge cycle, so you can’t just spam their effects, but need to make judicious use according to your situation. Those are hugely varied, from summoning a monster to fight alongside you, to forming a short-lived blackhole that sucks in enemies (and Elle), to more prosaic waves of fire, poison, or ice. To complement that process you also have up to two familiars, each of which comes with two special moves. Each turn is a balance between making sure enemies are in range of your attack whilst doing your best to stay away from theirs. Where you can attack is dependent on the weapon you’re carrying, and damage patterns vary from swords that strike a single square next to you to spears or guns that hit a straight line in front of you to axes, which damage all eight squares that surround Elle to more esoteric T-shaped formations. You get notice of which squares are going to be attacked next, and can see your own potential areas of attack, which gives you the option to use Blink, a short-range teleport that doesn’t take up a turn but has limited charges for each battle. Move one space in any direction, attack, or use a skill, and your enemies do the same, your action executing at the same time as theirs. From the moment of your arrival, everything you do is turn-based.
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