Debugging Hero is a cute hack n' slash where you tweak enemy stats on the fly

I've ne'er been truthful blessed to spot a spike trap arsenic I was successful Debugging Hero. At the commencement of each combat encounter, the demo for this roguelite hack n' slash hands you respective numeric cards and lets you intermission the crippled to presumption some your and your enemies' stats: health, damage, and durability. You past resistance the cards connected to the applicable stat to modify it, past unpause to proceed real-time combat.

It's a cute gimmick, letting you sound down precocious wellness enemies to a manageable number, oregon termination anemic ones outright, oregon heal yourself. But it felt a tad shallow to transportation a full game, adjacent 1 with dodges and parries successful its real-time combat. Then, I entered a country with a trap tile that thrust sharpened spikes upwards astatine timed intervals, and realised I could manipulate the timer. I tuned it close down, and raucously chortled similar a portly racoon astatine the bakery bins arsenic it pneumatically skewered my idiot attackers.

When I fought the archetypal boss, I noticed I could besides dilatory down his onslaught intervals, letting maine poke with comparative impunity for agelong stretches. You tin besides messiness with projectiles similar arrows, slowing them down oregon reducing their damage. Whether Debugging Hero stays absorbing is decidedly going to trust connected however galore caller ideas it introduces past the demo - adjacent then, I don't deliberation it's going for thing similar Baba Is You's depth. But, being the Adorno to Edwin's Benjamin successful the seminal Marge Simpson School Of Potato Critique, I americium compelled to grant Debugging Hero our astir prestigious accolade: it's neat. The game's retired tomorrow, May 30th.