Recommended- BUT*
Pro's:
- Rogue like- in the sense of fight till death and lose items of run, but make some progress on tentacle/money and ship upgrade. I enjoy these.
- whimsical art and controls are easy enough to enjoy. biggest pro for me*
- no friendly fire - BUT you can interrupt your teammate- also a con- but i like the added realism/difficulty in my opinion.
CONS:
-no saves.. like at all! - if you plan to play with a friend online, you WILL have to either make a new game in online mode, or steamshare which negates any achievement game for the sharee*
- Two player only! - the ship has four slots for cannons.. only two player makes little sense and actively makes me want to play less knowing i have several friends who would have bought just for the 4player shipness.
- cannot buy extra cannons, - it's one cannon per person -period, so being a two player game you will have two empty slots always. I get that it's so you can move your cannon, but if the cannon orientation was part of the ship maintenance portion- this would resolve it so i could plan to have one automated turret each side and two grapshots ect.
long of the short- fix multiplayer, add a savegame function so i'm not losing all my gear (as if i died) and i'd easily rate a 5/5. till then, 4/5 as i like it but not interested in going back without friends.