Combo Overload

the early game progress is just bad, way to slow and the upgrades do almost nothing. later on (i did the demo and it took me .3 hours of playtime to beat) it gets slightly better but not much. Combo, which is in the name of the game is not unlocked till over 2 hours of playtime in and upgrading the max or even sustaining it seems useless aside from for the combo challenges. game mechanic doesn't feel to fun, just move mouse up and down is literally the only thing and moving side to side requires a EXPENSIVE upgrade that takes a long time to unlock. another problem with early game is 75%+ of the materials just get left behind because you have no magnet distance and beating a level dosent pick up any, just acts like dying. the reward for going up to a new and higher challenge is not worth it unless you still one shot everything and once you dont just restart. overall 3/10

So there is some good and bad here. I'll start by saying that by the end I was actually enjoying the game quite a bit! You definitely get that incremental feeling of being an unstoppable force, the only problem is the journey there. The beginning is rough, really rough. You will need to do countless runs of the exact same thing, meanwhile the upgrades will give you small fractions of a stat each. It is very demotivating, but the upgrade problem does let up as you get further in. Unfortunately the grind does not. I might have gone through the upgrade tree wrong, but by the end of the game I was playing rounds that lasted several minutes only to get enough resources to buy a single upgrade that wouldn't meaningfully impact my run. The game has good bones, the visuals are great, the music is nice...but perhaps it needed to be tested a bit more. I do think the combo system was interesting though.

Very, very grindy. Upgrades feel really disappointing and progression is all around unsatisfying. I wanted to love this game but the gameplay loop consists of 98% grind, 2% attempting to progress. So far, every upgrade starts with being like a 0.01% chance to do something. Which means it becomes good after hours of grinding.