[2022] Appreciation / feedback (66h played)

First of all: HUGE thanks to the devs. Amazing job!

Below, in no particular order is my feedback split to good and bad. I hope this will be relevat for both new players (go and buy this!) and devs (how the game is taken in by grumpy adult - 30y/o. SW developer myself, not much free time). I've dropped my other games for now, as LE is giving me all the fun I need :).

Good:

1. Game respects your time. (huge factor - dying doesn't make you loose hour(s) of progress)
2. Werebear
3. Difficulty - the game is as hard as you want it to be
4. No fear of missed opportunity - I don't mind doing easier content afrer hard day / couple of beers / while talking to my spouse
5. Curiosity driven builds - I have 7 characters, just because I got items / read some spell and had to try it
6. Respec - love trying stuff!
7. Werebear
8. Blessings and Idols
9. Dungeons (oh my god I can't express how amazing they are), please, more of those
10. Ancient era, please please please more of it
11. Bought this gem for myself as a birthday present (*yay to me*) and I would do that again and I will buy it for my spouse once MP is out!
12. Seriously werebear is so amazing... I'll buy whoever worked on it as many as they can drink!

Bad:

1. Fluidity is sometimes lacking - overall the combat feels good but random animations are just too long - after-maul lag, warcry could be instant... I get why most of spells are not instant but some - movement / buff skills could be
2. Unlocking stuff again - I run echos for blessings anyway, it could stay unlocked between characters (not shared, just unlocked), dungeons too I guess
3. Dying in echoes sux - unless it paths to something amazing there is no reason to try and repeat. Take my extra stability but at least let me get back and loot my unique, also dying AFTER completing objective feels sh*t
4. Quite a lot of affixes and items overall, personally I would always trade quantity over "this is nice piece of gear" even if it's not useful. I would dare to go as far as removing 1/3 of items dropped in favour of slightly better ones dropping (we have filter anyway to filter most of the basics). As for affixes, some could definitely go / merge

Wish:

1. I somewhat expected the time travel to be more of a thing. We used it once in campaign and then it was somewhat a nonexistent untill Jurla's dungeon where it's major part of gameplay and honestly absolute banger
2. something with D key / 2 / 3 - I feel there is a room to press a button from time to time, it works nicely in dungeons
3. something with attributes - I don't know how to feel about them and it is slightly annoying :D outside the obvious you get X for each Y of attribute it doesn't feel desirable

Overall, for version 0.8.5 it is way too good. The excitement and drive to try and explore are insane, cant wait to make some something with ignite and ward and swarmblade and... yeah, a lot of stuff :D

Much love to EHG, thanks for giving me a game to play and relax with.