So this game is very different than the first 2 games in the series. That said different doesn't mean bad necessarily. I just beat the first and second then jumped right into the third to complete the story, it was jarring and i wasn't happy at first. After I got through the begining of the game and started to pick up on the mechanics a bit I fell right into the play style. I sometimes felt cheated on what hit me and the timing but as I played that feeling subsided. Then I really started to love this game. The new abilities you obtain, the weapons, the gem/socketables, it's great. At about a third of the way in I realized that this is literally a 3D metroidvania. It has all of the hallmarks and feels so much like Hollow Knight, Monster Boy, or the classic GBA Castlevania games. Once you gain a new weapon/ability you get a new way to traverse the game world. It's good, just not really a hack and slash, or beat'em up like it's tagged though.
