Aluna: Sentinel of the Shards Reviews

Short review after completing the game on Hard difficulty without changing it: one of the hardest game to recommend beacuse of just how inbalanced it is however the care and the visual theme and enviroments do sell the game for me altough not the best indie ARPG out there. Pros: - Great graphic for an indie title with beautiful incan/latin/spanish theme and enviroments set in the conquistador arrival on the new world - Good music and good voice acting and a lot of it for your main character and npcs, even mobs have some voicelines midcombat, very impressive for an indie title - Cutscenes told by awesome comic sliders giving the game its own flair - A function dodge roll that works, indies got it right before AAA - You can refund your skill points anytime for a small gold cost Cons: - No balance at all in loot (way too many drops and only 2 real tiers of loot, magic and legendary and no sets sadly) - No balance in your own skills (some skills have no cooldowns at all making them broken), some skills have way to long animation lock, the funiest one is the meele highest lv skill which pulls and damages all enemies to you...and while you are animation locked if those pulled enemies cast any aoe or hard hitting skill...dead. - No balance in enemies (elite enemies can oneshot you easily - an elite bear has an aoe attack that covers half of the screen that hits for 3/4 of your health and is instant cast without any telegraph...fun, even normal ranged enemies have aoe attacks that can nearly kill you... 2 of them cast it... you are dead, the only warning you see is slight change in their animations and mind you i played meele build with high hp and armor most other build are probably insta dead) - Very small skill tree for 3 classes I can recommend only if you play on easy mode so you can enjoy the great enviroments and themes as on the mehanics alone the game does not stand, however if you wanna play on hard i used leap as main skill with armor that makes it deal double dmg almost oneshot any normal mob and its aoe, combined with ring that allows permanent thorns and in meantime spam whirlwind which is aoe and bleed which has no cooldown and to top it all ranger skill poison so all your dmg also poisons.