It took me a solid hour for me to get a hang of NecroDancer. You need to study the behaviors of each enemy and act accordingly while keeping up with the beat. Running (or hopping) into a horde of enemies will only result in your death. However, you really cannot do that with NecroDancer. With many dungeon crawlers, walking into a room filled with baddies you innately understand the goal is to splatter the walls with red pixels in a slaughtering frenzy. On the other hand, veterans of Super Meat Boy or 1001 Spikes might well find the deliberate, pre-set pace too slow. Sadly by standing still, I sacrificed my gold multiplier or opened myself up to an attack by a boogying banshee. Sometimes when I found a shrine or a new weapon, I wanted to just read the text to figure out what it actually did. You really do not have a moment of respite to assess the room or the monsters you are about to fight. The pace can be very rigid, and players have little control over it. It might be more appropriate to call it "beat-based." It proves to be a double edge sword-while the beat-based mechanic is unique and I enjoyed it most of the time, I ran into frustrating moments enough that I'm sure some players would lose patience. The rhythm-based combat makes Crypt of the Necrodancer feel almost like a turn-based RPG, but condensed down to fit to a song. Every bouncing slime, groovy skeleton, and funky minotaur must keep up with the tempo. Fortunately, you are not the only one bound to the beat. You can only act at every beat, so if you try to move outside of the rhythm your character will remain motionless. A bar with the heart at the bottom of your screen is where you follow the beat the songs, all original works by Danny Baranowsky, the composer of Super Meat Boy. However, it is the rhythm mechanics that really sets this particular one apart from the rest. It follows the pattern through and through.
Those core fundamentals are uncontroversial but equally uncreative. There is some meta progression in the game zones will remain unlocked, and your health upgrades will not go away.
If (and when) you die you lose all of your gear and you have to start at the beginning of that zone. You take your character through four procedurally generated zones, collect items and smack bats along the way. Despite its rhythmic twist, Crypt of the NecroDancer is a roguelike dungeon crawler at heart.
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