This game is AWESOME. I played it for hours on end last night (stayed up late rofl) and it has such cool art and aesthetics. Took me about six attempts to win for the first time and it was crazy fun. I could always make it to the end reliably, even on my first attempt, but then I'd die to the final boss or the one before it. I only won with an item that I got from the lunar shard upgrades.
Even havning won once, there's still so much going on that I feel like I've only scratched the surface of. There's so much that you can do in this game, so many secrets to uncover, and it's' great.
My favorite part is figuring out who drops what, which lets you strategize about who to fight and when. At the start it's all "what do these rooms mean, who do I fight" and then later you start developing strategies for what to do in what order. The lack of RNG when it comes to what enemies will do is great for learning how things work. If there was a wiki for this game it would go really hard.
That's not even getting into the weird backstories for all the characters and the puzzle of figuring out what's going on. A part of me wonders if it's all just metaphor for Noire being an apparently terrible person (based on the enemy dialogue). Noire and Mary bullied Ester, and maybe something bad happened to her. But the Moon/Goddess and False God stuff make me wonder if there's more to it and there really is an evil cult out there. If there is, how would Mary, Rugs, and the others play into that? The prologue makes it seem like they're all normal people who have some personal drama going on, but nothing too major. In short I have no clue what's going on, but it's amazing.
If I had one criticism it would be to make item management easier somehow, maybe through a way of sorting items or a way to divide the inventory into sections and jump to different sections when you have a lot of items, because it can get tiring paging through everything when you have a lot of stuff. That's just me though.