Excited for the game, but there are some design decisions that worry me.
a. Friendly fire sounds great in theory, but without options to blockade what looks like never ending swarms of bugs, this is a problem. Watched the IGN and GB quick looks, and party members don't seem to have the opportunity to create a reprieve situation. If you're going to have friendly fire and force people to communicate, make sure somebody has the ability to create temporary blockades so that people can plan and strategize and/or effectively corral the swarms. Frankly, any type of solid advanced support system whereby players are incentivized to help one another is great. Shields. Buffs. Whatever. Even a class system.
b. swarms of bugs popping up from EVERYWHERE = cruel just to be cruel design. This is silly.
c. The game doesn't need to use every button on the Vita, right? It's a twin stick shooter. Why add street fighter-style button commands to do simple stuff like call in support or bombs, when a simple select-wheel will do? Getting the vibe that the devs just want to make this difficult for the sake of being difficult so that it stands out.
d. When devs make games like this without tons of variation in enemy designs, AI attack patterns, or boss/sub boss encounters, it makes me wonder what they were looking at for inspiration. This game could really use that stuff.
Cautiously optimistic. Not much non-japanese stuff coming down the VITA pipeline, and this is the closest we'll get to a diablo style game. More excited about stuff like this, Galak-Z, and Binding of Issac than AAA releases for the console. Now port some PC gems, MMO's, or Western RPGs (Divinity? FTL? even Guild Wars?) and you have a VERY interesting little portable system.
