- the combat is really stubby and basic, feels like a flash game
- the visual style is extremely bland
- for the first few hours, every environment is some kind of monochrome cave
- later areas aren't much more interesting
- level design feels like it could be procedural for how uninteresting it is
I don't understand where the appeal for this game is. It's another in the pile of bland Metroidvania games. Play Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight instead.
played this game and newer completed it, becase i got stuck and didn´t know where to go basically. though i should try it again. i basically knew why i got tired of it but it was worse then i remember. can´t get any health except you use a annoying system, and it basically borrows from dead souls some stuff.. but either way played a bit died. got back to where i saved last.. tried to get to another save point died. also because it used a similar system like dead souls the money (?) go to zero after i died, which reminds me how i at tried too grind to buy stuff i do not remember what though. either way if you want an annoying hard metroidvania with stupid crap system. mainly with the saves. and got the skills try it but if you don´t just don´t bother with this. thinking about uninstalling it will probably not touch this shit again it feels like..
This game is not only disappointing, it's plain bad. The darksouls genre spawned a lot of bad games, and Hollow knight is a prime example.
Any of the following things would be fine by itself if the rest wouldn't be abysmal aswell:
- the controls are flimsy. There is a weird delay between attacks which seems random. I can't tell why I sometimes can attack quickly in a row and sometimes not. This is not only bad in fights but also when you climb spikes
- enemies push you around, when you hit them and when they hit you
- when you get hit the screen darkens and blurs and you don't hear anything anymore. It's like you get hit by a flash bang in counterstrike. After getting hit you usually will get hit more because you can't see projectiles and enemy attack stances
- you start the game without a map, which is bad in a metroid like game. So if you don't completely suck and walk off the boring main path, you end up in hell. I played until I met a mini boss called broodling mawmew or something
- everything looks black blue. Not only does it look extremely boring and uninteresting, everything looks the same and meaningless. Nothing in the world is in a location that makes sense including biomes and the world is too boring and samey looking to care to keep track of anything. This combined with no/a really bad map when you get it...
- when you get the map it's still bad
- in towns for some reason you can only walk, not run
- most characters I met are more annoying than fun
- when you die in a bad spot you will lose all your money
- inconsistent frame rate, which can be partially fixed with the control settings, for whatever reason
- because this is imitating dark souls, you will have to walk all the boring paths again when you die
I bought into the hype... This game is not for me. There is nothing i can like here.
