Edited on: October 11, 2025
Posted on: August 20, 2025
I'm gonna be honest, the main reason the game caught my interest is the pretty protagonist. Indeed, she's the prettiest PC of any game I've played. The game in general looks as good as a game would ever need to, and it only weighs 12 GB! I've seen games weigh five times that for a high poly landscape of gray and brown.
I've never been good with soulslikes. I quit every Souls I attempted due to the difficulty. With this, on middle difficulty it was good enough... at first. I think I must've taken my time to level up, as I reached lv50 roughly half way through the plot and there was little challenge after that. Early on I managed all bosses after one failure, but starting with Marble most of them died on first attempt, save the Titan and the final one. Could be my glass cannon build, I put very little in health, but a lot into attack and AP. That said, I could never see myself playing with anything other than daggers+staff, but apparently most people did, so I guess it's balanced in this regard? I also played with mouse and keyboard and it went well. Took a moment to figure out, but alt attack on side mouse buttons made it work.
The story was quite alright. I did find myself wanting to see what happens next, and I wasn't too disappointed. I liked that it was an original setting inspired by mythology rather than blatant fanfiction like so many others. I also liked that it wasn't another edgy grimdark "everything sucks" kind of setting. The endings were fine, but not too groundbreaking. The writing was a bit lackluster sometimes, a bit too purple prosy. Also, lack of voice in sidequests is kinda lousy.
So what's the bad? Lack of a map sucks, and caves are especially painful to navigate sometimes. I'm not asking for quest markers, just give me a plain map to see the relative positions of some areas. Aside for that, I guess it just didn't have any "woah" factor for the fifth star. It's still very good for what it is.
