Played it today! I liked the theme of converting emotions into abilities, although it took some time to understand how they work. Spoilers if someone's frustrated:
> Sorrow takes you to the exit, but destroys the last ability you have
> Courage works on enemy right next to you and stops it for 5(?) steps
> Fear teleports you somewhere at the cost of 1 hp
> Desire shows you where the rest place is
> Ignorance shows you where > is
> Joy gives you +1 hp
> Knowledge = ???
Note that only Sorrow uses up an ability, the rest are mutliple-use.
I managed to Accept the death once, but didn't understand why it was - because I finished enough levels? Maybe because I had knowledge on me? Not sure. Is that the ultimate ending? Wish there was more possible endings / storytelling moves there :)
Some bugs / suggestions:
- The next level generation sometimes goes into infinite loop
- "You suffer in your shedding ot the flesh" - not sure what "ot" was meant to be.
- Either I misunderstand something, or enemies' attacks are a bit bugged. I get "Death's cold hand reaches for you" but don't lose hp when I walk into them, and sometimes even they are supposed to attack me (after they skip one turn, that is).
- The "Death's cold hand" text doesn't get cleared when you press Courage, and they overlay like this:
- Not a big thing, but having to press 1 to continue is a bit tedious. I often brought up the help menu just to check a description of an ability quickly, and would prefer to use the same key to hide it back again. Also, I'm not sure if other roguelikes actually require you to press shift+/ for ?, but this extra shift feels unnecessary - that is, I'd prefer to just have to press /.