To make this quick; I do not recommend Source Of Madness.

I don't hate this game. (Yet.) And I might even attempt to struggle through more of it tomorrow. But Source Of Madness' gameplay is incredibly passive, and it has a single useful loadout for every situation as I feared. Aka, double life steal. (And that becomes the biggest problem in its boss fights.)

Because all you do for every boss is chip away at the long health bar, and watch it act as brain dead as most of the other enemy AI. (Though at least there’s usually some extra visual spectacle for your troubles.)

Except for “Krampus” (ha ha meme.) A snow boss. In a small boring-looking arena. With +14000 health. Environmental hazards that make it impossible to pay attention to what’s on screen. Combined with attacks that basically cannot be tactically dodged. Doing 6 damage per shot, despite both of my weapons' higher stats. (And there was no way to do extra damage.) Got him down to 200 HP, before I got stun locked to death.

A fight that could not have been any more insufferable and boring to experience. And the idea of grinding for upgrades to “outlast” the borefest a 2nd or likely 3rd time, [b][i]does not[/i][/b] excite me.