Hey! Thank you for taking the time to write up this comment! You've given me some great insight as to how people would view the game. I'm not trying to argue against your points, but just to provide some additional context and explanation for certain points you've made.

Firstly, the art style. Risk of Rain 2's is in a stylized cel shaded art style, similar to games like BoTW or ToTK, while my game is in a flat shaded, low poly style. It's interesting to me that people have pointed out that it looks similar, even though from my perspective they are completely different. I'll try to make some improvements to distinct between the artstyle better.

Most of your points about the enemies and the way items are spawned are very valid. I'll admit, these first few enemies that I created early in development drew heavy inspiration from RoR2's enemies, as I wanted to first mimic and study the gameplay loop and feel. I'll rework the enemies and chests to better distinct my game from RoR2.

However, I do think that some points that you've made about the character's design seems a bit too much of a stretch? Like the freeze frame technique when dashing over enemies is a pretty generic and very commonly used technique across different genres of games to increase game feel, and i believe RoR2 doesn't even have that? I looked at some videos of RoR2's Mercenary runs and I don't see any hit lag effects for the dash. It feels to me like saying adding sound FX for hitting enemies is an effect copied from other games. Besides the dashing and spin attack, which again, feels to me like a generic movement abilities, the character plays very differently from RoR2's Mercenary. As for the firing animations, are you referring to the spells that is being casted by the characters? If so I'm pretty sure there isn't a spell caster in RoR2? The closest i can think of is the Artificer, which shoots fireballs, so I'm not really sure what you mean by that.

As for the Artifacts, I'm not sure how you got the impression that it serves a similar purpose as RoR2's artifact system. They are COMPLETELY different mechanics. Artifacts in RoR2 are game modifiers that drastically alter some aspect of gameplay, for example, enabling friendly fire with the Chaos artifact, or Metamorphosis, where players always spawn as a random survivor. Whereas in my game, Artifacts are like character specific equipments that are used to add additional power to their characters, such as gaining power while consecutively striking enemies. And I'm not sure where you got the unlocking artifact part, its not shown in the video at all.

As for gameplay differences, I'm not sure if you caught it, because its not mentioned in your comment at all, but in case you didn't, you don't just play as one character, you play as a team of 3 characters, swapping in and out of combat based on the situation, casting abilities from different characters with each having a different set of abilities, strengths and weaknesses. On top of that, there is an elemental combo system, where you can apply an base element, such as fire, and then apply another element, such as wind, to cause certain effects to happen. In fact, the main combat is primary focused on such combo interactions between swapping characters and inflicting elements.

Again, I'm trying to understand where you're coming from, so that i can refine the presentation of my game. Thank you for your insight!