Recent reviews by ttv Absynthe_Bitters

Game's fun, music is fantastic, the writing is great (occasional typo's notwithstanding) PLEASE buy this and give the Shadow Hearts people more money while they settle the suit against their kickstarter manager who embezzled their development funds for the Pennyblood RPG coming out later TwT
[EDIT] They REALLY need to fix the crashing bug, where sometimes upon exiting a battle stage, it will freeze during the white loading screen into the map. No idea what causes this as it seems totally random. There is also a bug that sometimes causes the stage reward to not spawn, trapping you in the level and forcing a return to base, which Does NOT save your gathered resources for that run. That bug in particular seems to be related to using a tier-3 Deadman's Bar buff, but there's no way to *truly* confirm this

On a different note, a gamepad is not actually required to play the game. In fact, it's better on mouse/keyboard when playing projectile characters, because there is a cursor to indicate where you're aiming with mouse, unlike on gamepad. Though admittedly i am using a macro keypad mouse, greatly expediting combat inputs, so your mileage may vary.