Played a run. Video:
Despite the video being choppy, I didn't notice any choppiness while playing. The last update really made a huge difference!
I had difficulties with the controls. I wanted to find the key to quickswitch between both weapons, but I didn't find it. I changed one of the binds that looked like it would work, but nothing seemed to happen. Switching between the loadouts removed my spell from the right click. Not having the martial arts on the screen and having to memorize them is difficult.
I found a nice axe, but it made me took too much damage so I had to switch back to my default setup.
I played mostly by kiting, like last time. Maybe the martial arts help for melee builds, but that should be introduced in some way because I cannot mindlessly spam left click like in other diablo-likes. It looks more involved. Ranged attack on the other hand are intuitive and super safe. How does a melee build work?
Maybe I missed something, but is there an use for trash loot? Is there a place to sell it or convert it into something useful? Part of the fun in diablo-like games is being able to hoard items to sell for pennies.
If you left click a monster while holding shift and using a melee weapon, the character wont attack. Maybe because I was clicking on an enemy out of range?
That last monster healed himself. I wasn't able to tell until I realized he stopped doing the ability if I missed an attack. And also drained my mana, which sucks badly. The fountain did give me an ability to heal mana but I discovered it by pure chance and even then the knight used his mana burn as soon as I had mana. I wasn't able to click fast enough in the mana heal, then switch to damage spell, then spam the spell and repeat all while healing myself. This feels like a puzzle enemy, there is nothing wrong with them as long as the player knows they are facing a puzzle. Otherwise it feels like a hopeless situation.
I will try another run later this week because this one was too short. The game has a playable framerate (like 300% increase!) which makes playing it much easier.