Posted on: March 28, 2021
PraetorianWolfie
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Product of love, but not always fun
Nice visuals, music, interesting enemies and boss fights for the early parts anyway. It's a metroidvania at it's core, infused with Demon Souls gameplay elements. I loved the aesthetic, I hated the repetitiveness and grinding that the game seemed to require of me in the early stages, while in the later ones, the grinding goes completely away (and becomes pointless to accumulate "wealth") and at least the travelling is made easier. The storytelling felt broken. There's lots of lore, and the wiki provides much detail on that, but I didn't get a lot of it. It's not that I didn't interact with characters and other info sources, it's that the text on the lore is... not how normal people talk. Worst part by far is the controls. I played with a keyboard, reached about 103% of the game, after lots of frustrating parts which demand precision platforming and combos of moves during boss fights, that the game does not really support you to pull through. I'm not a master at platformer games, but I am decent enough. The controls felt too fluid, not registering moves I was trying to trigger. That includes jump directional attacks, wall jumps, spell casting, the works (tested with three different keyboards in case it was a hardware issue). Maybe with a controller it would play better? It felt like the game wanted fluidity with animations in expense of the controls feeling snappy and right. This does not matter much most of the time, because you can retry. It's frustrating, when you know what you need to do, you do it, but the game says no. Then there is a bonus near end-game area, which for some reason is required to go through for the special "good?" ending, which is way too much platforming and death traps and feels disconnected with the rest of the game. It's like a challenge that goes on for too long and the difficulty is ramped up beyond any logic, balance or consideration of player base. I went through two thirds of that area and decided that's it for me forever.
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