This game is what you'd get if you wanted an easier Sekiro in a NieR-like setting. It's an ok 7/10 game [b]but worth only half the price IMO[/b].
[h1]Story - 6/10[/h1]
Simple story with a very clear goal but very little to care about.
[h1]Gameplay (Combat) - 7/10[/h1]
The Sekiro-style parry focused combat has generous parry timings but still manages to be fun to execute however what holds it back are the enemies: there's very little variety and lots of reuse, all enemies including bosses only have like 3-4 attack strings and it's very easy to become strong enough such that you deal like a 1/3 of a boss' health in 1 combo lol. All these issues put together make a very easy game even on hard mode.
The gameplay is also a bit janky? Often it feels like my inputs are lost, I could be standing there not in any danger and not pressing anything besides trying to use a healing stim and it won't register.
[h1]Gameplay (Exploration) - 6/10[/h1]
Boring same-ish looking environments full of generic junk reward treasure treasure chests.
There's a lot of interaction points throughout the game like pressing switches or interacting with shrines which has been really poorly implemented. Pressing the interact button will make your character pause for a few secs, slowly walk up to the interaction point, slowly turn to face the interaction point, pause for another few secs and then the interaction animation will play. If you've played Pokemon Sword/Shield and remember the moment with the legendary dog spinning to move from one point to another in a cutscene this game really is reminiscent of that.
At least platforming between buildings and high points is decent fun.
[h1]Music - 5/10[/h1]
There's like 3 background songs that play throughout most of the game and then maybe another 2 in the final chapters lol. They're alright but I wish there was more variety.
[h1]Graphics - 4/10[/h1]
Feels like a previous gen game, I play on the highest quality graphics without any performance issues and I can still see some bad textures.
[h1]Characters - 2/10[/h1]
Most of the games dialogue is filled with short conversations that say absolutely nothing so it's really hard to care about most characters in this game.
[h1]Overall Thoughts[/h1]
It feels like the game had good ideas but was very clearly rushed out the door. A shame.
