I have issues with the game, the camera is occasionally annoying, Heart occasionally gets stuck on objects, and enemies can occasionally glitch out a little bit.
But besides that? Heart and Slash is a pretty awesome game and scratches the itch only a stylish action game can scratch. The combat is typically what you'd expect from your average Devil may cry/Bayonetta type game, and it's really pretty fun. You get a good variety of enemies to experiment different weapons and combo's with, which your average stylish action game (or character action game if you prefer) should usually try to focus on. While the game isn't consistently difficult, it differently has it's challenging points, bosses can take you down very easily if you don't know what you're doing, and some of the larger enemies can take a bit of patience to put down, but it never gets frustratingly difficult. Heart and Slash knows how to bring a decent challenge to those who ask for it, and add in the rogue-like elements, and this game can be pretty punishing.
Overall I really recommend playing this game. It's occasional rough edges aren't nearly enough to take me out of the experience (although a few patches and fixes would surely be appreciative).

Solid game, combat is a bit janky at times but still good, art design is wonderful, as is the soundtrack. The story is pretty engaging especially the way things carry over and continue between runs, helps you feel like you're progressing even when you're stuck.

Game is fun to play. The combat is not slow at all. and there is a degree of difficulty. I like it. Can't beat it for the price neither.

Btw soundtrack is pretty awesome too.

Pretty nice game with a speical art effect and style, amazing weapon design and easten egg. But story line is too short, and game play is a bit too fast. Overall is a nice game that you should get.

Pretty fun.

This is a Rouglite action game. That features fast and fun combat with fairly tight controlls and a good variety of weapons.

The reason I'm giving it a thumbs down is that every time I reach the 3 stage I hit a dead end.
The game insists that there are enemies to defeat in the area, but there never are.
With no way to progress that kind of sucks the fun out of the game.

Wonderful gameplay, check it out!

Actually a damn good game. Just wish there was mouse support: rip

This is a tough one. On the one hand the game runs great, has charm, combat is fun, decent amount of weapons and stuff to find, etc. The usual Roguelite stuff. On the other hand the game is 3 levels long and 5 bosses in total which is rather pathetic for a game of this genre. The game gets extremely easy very quickly especially if you acquire one of the many gamebreaking items it has. Theres an item that gives you perma invisibility everytime you dodge which you can spam making the AI run around in circles never attacking you, theres a sword that gives you half hearts per attack when upgraded, theres another that upgrades your overall damage with all weapons which enables 1 shotting of everything. There's no real challenge here, its near Zero.

The mechanics and systems are good overall, the recycling of parts for HP causing you to weaken yourself in order to stay alive in dire situations if dire situations ever happened. Being able to hold up to 3 weapons at a time helps keep the combat interesting though locking certain basics such as lockon behind an equip is rather baffling, Enemy HP bars I can understand since there is indication of weakened enemies without displaying the bars but Lockon!? Its baffling, it really is.

I like this game but thats because I am a fan of Cibi Mech combat and I am still waiting on Team Reptile to make a sequel to Megabyte Punch so my like for this game is EXTREMELY biased. My bias asside I cannot recommend this game in its current state, its too easy and there just isn't enough bosses/levels to justify it being a Roguelite.

I enjoy rougelikes/rougelites. They usually garner a lot of replay value for me. This was a little different.

Before I get to that though, the controls are a bit finicky. Your character is FAST. You get used to it after a while and I actually enjoyed it, but it's jarring to start. The jumping mechanics are a pain more often than not. I'll get stuck on ledges almost every time I jump near them. And hitting flying enemies? Holy cow - pain in the butt. Aside from that, the "start" and "map" buttons don't work on the controller 80% of the time. I'll have to use the keyboard when it doesn't feel like working, and even then, I have to press the key twice for it to work.

Okay, now for the gameplay.

First playthrough, I was about 45 minutes in and had to grab something to eat. I had a really good playthrough going so far, and did quite a bit of grinding to upgrade my character, so I was excited to get back into the game after my meal. Whelp, on return, I realized the game does not save your progress.

All fine and dandy, I guess I should have expected that from a rougelite (a warning message like, "Your progress will be lost" would have been nice, though.) So I started another playthrough. Usually, for a Rougelike/lite, this would be no problem, as starting fresh is half the point. With this game, however, it felt...repetitive. On the 2nd playthrough. I had some new weapons, but they didn't do much to change my playstyle...it felt very much like my first playthrough. In addition, you can only upgrade your character 4(!) times. I didn't feel like I was reaching any new ground. Didn't feel like anything I did was making my current "build" better...I just had to play better. You can only carry 3 different weapons and 4 pieces of armor (head, body, arms, legs). There are lots of weapons, sure...but a lot of the melee weapons felt very much the same. (One exception, if you get the Vorpal Dagger early in the game, it's the only weapon you'll need. I could beat the game with just that weapon, and nothing else.) The armor can change your play style, but only slightly. They all have varied effects, but all the "resistance" armor effects seem useless, so you can toss those immediately.

What I expected were weapons that were truely unique - for example, a giant hammer that would knockback enemies or smash them into the ground, breaking shields in the process. Nope - all weapons have the same combo and a launcher type attack. Disappointed in the lack of ability to chain your combos from weapon to weapon too - maybe hit them a few times with a sword, knock them back with a larger weapon, then finish them off with a ranged weapon. As for armor, what if you could put armor together to turn your character into a true tank like character - increasing your size and letting you wade through attacks? What about armor that turns you into a flying mech type character? Nope. My character feels the same no matter what armor I put on him.

A great deal of fun with a rougelike/lite is found in the fact that every game feels like a new experience. With this game...every playthough feels the same. The rooms will be rearranged, the weapons different, but nothing that makes you feel like the current playthrough is something special. I've played the game maybe 5 times, and beat it 3. Currently, there's nothing that makes me want to start another game, which I'm extremely disappointed about.