need to elt people know
The game is awesome. has a few glitches here and there but the biggest pet peeve was beating the game with NO UPGRADES, only to find out afterwards of the upgrades. the 2nd and 3rd playthrough were a breeze. you lose 3 points for not making the upgrade menu more known.
beating the game without upgrades is possible, and it's how I had to beat it the first time. Once after the upgrades and looking at the hints the game became really simple. the tutorial doesn't explain much. my first play through was gay as hell. First I never upgraded anything so getting killed in one hit was pretty much name of the game after the first few missions. then I didn't know DOWN and ATTACK was an instant special attack so everything I defeated a boss I had to get my combos really high then just use the charge attack...first boss I had to have a 200 combo to kill him in 1 hit. strangely enough though it seems like there was a level progression after dying or playing for so long without upgrades...because later on it didn't take as much to kill them even though I didn't upgrade anything...there is definitely something odd about the game in that sense, first play through with no upgrades and a ton of death the flying snake creature didn't kill me in one hit, the 2nd and 3rd playthough with upgrades I was dead in 1 so I had to kill the entire thing without getting hit...not too difficult. 2nd play through with upgrades the final boss would kill me in 2 hits, 3rd playthrough he could hit me multiple times....so there is something really odd about how the game works,
So, IT IS possible to beat it without upgrades...i did it my first play through...
as far as I can tell...if you upgrade the game play is different some...
7/10