This game is enjoyable... untill you can't bear with crash and files corruptions anymore. Look @ gog's forum & patch notes to see if they got this fixed. Good luck.
Forget the blahblah metroivania/whatever they call it. This is a (quite hard) platformer with your character gaining some moves as skills, that you'll learn to use in the next zone. That's no metroidvania in my book, like Hollow Knight is. Anyway, it is superb (visuals, animations & music!), the save system is interesting and definitly not an issue (I was never remotely in a situation where I was lacking energy to save before or after a tricky section, lots of locations where to pick up energy.HP bonus anyway which even respawn). Let me say it again: it is a HARD game, the difficulty being from the platform aspect of the game, not the fights that are mostly here to make you gain energy/HP or help you gain access to another area (using skills on enemies to jump higher,for example). I liked it a lot, I raged a lot on the final escape sequence (more than 30 attempts, I think), but hey, I signed for it, 'cause it NOT AN EASY GAME :)
The perfect game (with 4 players coop!) for people who just want to bash things and have fun doing it. Maybe too much loot (yeah, I mean you get a lot of upgrades, you'll have to clean in your inventory), and maybe sad that the multiplayer is bound to Galaxy (so no multiplayer for DRM-less version I guess). That's why "only" 4 stars. A steal for less than 10$/€, so imagine they offered it for the 10th GoG aniversary... insane!
This game is filled with ideas that will makes you: - enjoy it half of the time - hate it half of the time For all the good things, read other reviews: - changing class is possible (but each time you do so you start with a low powered character, so you can't allow to do that endgame... providing you know you're near endgame) - some nice spells (but they didn't think describing them was useful, so you'll ending up with no knoledge about your character if you don't look for a wiki. GOOD JOB CAPCOM) - no autobalance: nice, it's part of the good exploration expect of the game. But huge difficulty cliff totally unannonced: no spoiler, the Dragon is a beast. - you can climb enemies: great idea, to focus their weak points. BUT the camera sucks and 1/2 of the time you don't know which direction you're going and 1/3 of the time you can't see yourself (I almost laughed when I got lost into a dragon's armpit becasue the beast was to close of the wall surronding the arena) - nice world, but lasy endgame: a dozen of rooms base on the same 3D model filled with various models. They lost all inspiration in the design phase? - good quantity of loot: some are very nice looking, but some are useless like hell. Hard to tell the difference. Worse: great stuff are looted endgame, but you will never play with it. Yeah, it's because it"s endgame) The list of annoying and poor design choices are too long to write it down here, so just a few: - equipement menu separated from inventory menu: what a PITA - quests are a pity: 3/4 of them are FEDEX style quests (kill or get things from various location of the map). And particularly bad organised: some are side quests, and some are main story quests. But you can't differentiate them. So, I wouldn't recommend it if you look for a good action-RPG game. To bare this game you have to be patient, and merciful. Anyway, I enjoyed it a bit (and raged a lot), I'd rather play this game than the boring second Tomb Raider remake for example.
Take old good classic RPG (Baldur's Gate, Planescape) and keep only the fights: with simple basics concepts, options are multiple and keep you in control of the way your crew can combo. Free respec of skills and subtile variations on their effects = a game you can love.
