as someone who plays a lot of online chess, i liked the themes here.
but the super slow long tedious levels to get to the boss with literally no benefit/upgrades/currency associated with "elo" or anything other than killing the bosses made it a boring grind.
i also liked the art.
ELO is spent on promoting your pawns.
worked my way through the first fight. was awarded gear that wasn't an upgrade.
is this.. player progression?
Sorry, but that's the intended joke. The game is heavily based on my experiences raiding in WOW WOTLK, and there you can attend multiple hour long raids without relevant drops.
You'll never get better gear, there's no actual progression. It's balanced so your party is strong enough to clear all the bosses from the get-go.
in the intro/tutorial'ish thing it started playing the bell noise over and over again.
don't do that again.
i don't lose games. i win them. or quit them. because they are unfair
it feels weird to talk about but my shrink says to open up about these things. i was fighting the enemies and they killed me
wish the abilities were explained. some of them didn't even make sense WHEN i used them.
the way the screen shifts a mile one way or another just because u swap the direction you're facing is such bad design.
the controls are so weird and unintuitive and uncomfortable
the way your character rolls.. i mean.. is it just me or does the character fall to the ground and smush their face into the ground and then suddenly appear back on their face? it's like you cut out the second half of the rolling animation.
the weird way your horizontal footprint int he game is so massive.. it makes everything feel insanely cramped.
the way the firs tmonitor is a ridiculous bullet sponge.
the way 'r' doesn't reload
much of the design here feels like it was created by someone who had done some gaming in the early to mid 90's but non in between then and now. so it's kind of like "retro but not the cool kind of retro that's informed by common sense things figured out int he past 30 years. more like retro.. in the weirdest and most unattractive sense possible"
i could go on and on about this but i guess all i really wanted to say was.. i can't believe this is also on steam.
it's barely ready for NG.
I found the art, lack of any music or sound effects, but above all, the theme, of very low quality.
10,000 times more visually stunning and musically innovative than any game in the bit trip runner series
Joined on 2/19/05
Chess Force 
MMO Healing Simulator 
SymmetryCats DEMO 
Slimeslinger 
UpSlash 
Stones of Medusa 
Deep in the Lab - Chapter 1 
The Colored Moth 
Driven Wild 
Bunny Smoosh (Nokia3310)