It feels like it was written in stone that this game was going to be good given that this was made by the same people who made pony island and like pony island, the game feels like an epic pastische of the same game. Whereas pony island seemed thematically about the metaphorical stages of developing a game and how this vision adapts and changes, inscyption feels thematically about the way different people approach the same game. TLDR its very good and worth the money. Below i'll put more thoughts on it for those that care.

Compared to Pony island (since the games seem to be related in the same way that supergiant's Bastion and transistor are), the game sags a bit past the first stage (the first stage being basically everything you see in the trailer). I think this is because the mechanics introduced in later stages don't sufficiently build upon the game for the time you put in. It incorporates some of the elements from the 1rst stage into the 2nd and third, but the parts that the game has to leave behind are a bit of a problem. The reason why i bring this up is because this is somthing pony island actually did pretty well. Everything established in the first bit of the game comes back to make the finale really epic.

in terms of the gameplay, there are aspects that i find really amazing but also somewhat broken in other areas. The way life works in the game is genius allowing you to use the damage you take as a resource to bide time. At the same time, i also got a totem combination that made my base unit ridiculously overpowered allowing me to steamroll the game in one spot.

Its a little sad that the devs kind of dropped the ball past the first bit of the game which prevents the experience from being rounded off but what is here is still worth the money and still worth supporting the devs over.

It feels like it was written in stone that this game was going to be good given that this was made by the same people who made pony island and like pony island, the game feels like an epic pastische of the same game. Whereas pony island seemed thematically about the metaphorical stages of developing a game and how this vision adapts and changes, inscyption feels thematically about the way different people approach the same game. TLDR its very good and worth the money. Below i'll put more thoughts on it for those that care. Compared to Pony island (since the games seem to be related in the same way that supergiant's Bastion and transistor are), the game sags a bit past the first stage (the first stage being basically everything you see in the trailer). I think this is because the mechanics introduced in later stages don't sufficiently build upon the game for the time you put in. It incorporates some of the elements from the 1rst stage into the 2nd and third, but the parts that the game has to leave behind are a bit of a problem. The reason why i bring this up is because this is somthing pony island actually did pretty well. Everything established in the first bit of the game comes back to make the finale really epic. in terms of the gameplay, there are aspects that i find really amazing but also somewhat broken in other areas. The way life works in the game is genius allowing you to use the damage you take as a resource to bide time. At the same time, i also got a totem combination that made my base unit ridiculously overpowered allowing me to steamroll the game in one spot. Its a little sad that the devs kind of dropped the ball past the first bit of the game which prevents the experience from being rounded off but what is here is still worth the money and still worth supporting the devs over.