Do you remember Gauntlet? Did you like Gauntlet? Get this.

The game is a lot like it's predecessor HoHW 1, enhancing on the upgrading stuff that you can do in your town, to improve your powerlevel from run to run. As a roguelike, it's setting a lot of great examples on how to do it right. Dying feels a lot less annoying and grindy than in most games of this genre.

Aside from my main ctiticism below, what I disliked the most is the lack of interesting level ideas, especially in relation to the previous title. This becomes the most obvious when chapter 2 starts with an interior level design that looks like it was simply ported from HoHW 1. This might have been intentional, but it just caused me to feel much less interested in replaying that part. Having replayed the first title a lot, my brain has an immediate negative reaction to seeing the same level design again. It feels like someone inviting me to an all-you-can-eat buffet, right after I came from one where I ate until nausea.

What the game would need, is more exotic ideas for locations, or at least more interesting things happening!
I haven't finished a playthrough yet, though. If anything comes up to change my mind, I'll update here.

That said, what infuriates me and causes me to leave a negative feedback, though, is the absurdity of the goblin caves, in the first chapter. It includes an invisible trap that gets triggered randomly as you move around, causing rocks to fall from the ceiling. There's no warning, no visible indication of it happening. You'll be safe if you just keep on moving, rocks hitting the ground behind you...but...if you decided to stop at one of those triggerspots (without knowing that there is one, of course), there's no way to avoid the damage. This basically means that you can never stop anywhere, unless you know your health is high enough to survive the rock damage.

I managed to stop at one such trap, right after a hard fight. As a reflex, the event caused me to move away swiftly, since the rocks nearly killed me. Take a guess where I came to stop next. Yeah...I died from stopping at 2 rock traps, mere seconds (2 at most) apart from each other.

That's just bad game design!
This might rarely happen. I managed to run through this area twice before, without the traps seeming this harsh. But...seriously...traps of this kind should never be in any game, except this odd genre of games like "VVVVVV", if anyone remembers that.

不好玩，攻击方向判定很难受，游戏本身也没什么意思