Overlooting

Overlooting faz um jogo bem honesto, simples e com várias opções de builds. São 3 personagens que dão bastante opção de como vencer o jogo e isso acaba sendo uma das partes mais legais, porque você consegue testar formas diferentes de jogar e montar sua estratégia. Fiz o 100% e me diverti bastante, e acho que é justamente aí que ele mais acerta: na diversão, que é o mais importante nos games. Mas sinceramente, é um jogo bem básico. Não gostei muito da parte sonora, acho que nesse tipo de jogo isso faz uma boa diferença, principalmente nos barulhinhos e nos efeitos das coisas, porque acaba dando mais peso para tudo que você está fazendo. O layout também não é nada demais e acho que algumas coisas poderiam ser mais práticas, como facilitar para upar as armas apertando uma coisa só ou melhorar algumas opções de troca, porque em alguns momentos o jogo simplesmente deixa você jogar as coisas fora. São detalhes pequenos, mas que deixariam a experiência mais confortável. Também não tenho muito mais o que falar sobre ele, porque é um jogo bem simples e direto ao ponto. É um indie que vai te divertir com certeza, principalmente se você gosta de ficar testando builds e procurando maneiras diferentes de passar pelo jogo. Não é nada revolucionário e também não acho que ele tente ser, mas faz o que precisa fazer e faz de uma maneira bem honesta. Provavelmente suas expectativas serão supridas.

It's very simple. Fight standard RPG battles, get loot, shove it into your backpack or put it on your character in a pre-determined slot depending on the item (two hands for weapons/shields, head, chest, feet, necklace, ring). Getting extra copies means you can upgrade its rarity to make it stronger. Equipping items belonging to the same set unlocks additional bonuses and those bonuses can amplify the more items from the same set you stack up. These sets provide different stats such as dodging attacks, increasing critical hit chance, boosting your armor, giving barriers that will soak up entire attacks, making your magic attacks overflow to other enemies and much much more. The trick of course is inventory management while trying to go for the best build that you can scrounge up. There's 3 areas, the progression is basically the same every time. As you progress through the map, there will be special chests with rarer loot, a raccoon that gives you free potions, a smith that can fuse 3 items to get one item of a higher rarity, a shrine that can either give you back 50% of your health or upgrade one of your items, a different shrine that lets you choose one of 3 perks from a perk tree, etc. etc. At the end of the area is a boss that if you can defeat it will offer you an upgrade path which will permanently give you +1 stacks of two sets, typically at least one of which will be related to the sets you currently have. Beating the boss of the third area will end your run, unlock new content for future runs as well as unlocking the next difficulty, ranging from Corruption 1 to 5. Or, if you manage to complete C5, give you a little bit of lore related to your character and the challenges that will await them next. Very Risk of Rain I would say. There are some downsides. -I really didn't find the game very challenging. I was even ready to drop it the first time I beat it on my first or second run, even as I was figuring everything out. The only real challenge imo came from C5, especially utilizing the third unlockable character. -Despite having a ton of sets, it feels like only a few are really viable. Eventually damage/multiattack/stat effects like poison make sets that use armor feel useless since you'll be taking on so much damage. When I found out that the rogue/sylvan combo which gives you multiattack, high dodge, retaliatory attacks when you dodge and high crit chance + high crit damage was absolute cheese, I used that as much as possible. Same applied when I found out that mana burst from Arcane/Fey (which gives some of the same effects as rogue/sylvan, just not as much) was nuts with the right combos/perks and led me to 2 of my C5 wins. There's even one set that focuses on damaging enemies that hit you and it's like. why would I bother speccing into that when I can just not take damage at all and focus on dodge? -Following that up, there's also just not a ton of depth to be had. At the end of the day, set bonuses are what you strive for and there's little reason to do anything else. so when you find ones that work you'll spend most of your run fighting, getting loot that probably doesn't help you, shoving into your pack for later hoping it could be useful as fusion fodder and moving on -I think the game also really feels bare due to having basically zero story. Sure there's some lore each of the characters has and how finally beating the Corruption leaves them feeling changed. But that's it and that's not a story. It's more than okay for games to not have a story and focus on having a fun gameplay experience and I would say Overlooting succeeds on that front. But doing so misses out on showing just how the Corruption overtakes and affects things in the world, especially as you ramp the difficulty up. It could even have extended to our characters directly, finding cursed loot, new "cursed" NPC's only found in higher Corruption runs or tainting pre-existing NPC's and I'm sure more. Or you could fix it just by adding some more