Bloodless

Ironic to call it bloodless when playing the game causes your knuckles to bleed from punching the wall. Very forward thinking of the devs to make a parrying game where you are PUNISHED for parrying.

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Let me start off by saying that this thumbs up is because I don't feel like this game deserves a thumbs down, not because I recommend it. It feels like a lot of care went into this game, but it needed like, another month. TL;DR it's like a 6 or 7 out of 10. If you love parry-based games and/or hard but usually fair combat, you might like this game. I can't say I love it, but I had fun, and the price was right. First, I want to talk about the art. The environment art in this game is very pretty. The character art, a little less so. The designs themselves are pretty good, but a lot of the animations are sometimes a little goofy (e.g. the run cycle on the serious protagonist is very bouncy and lively). Tossing sound in with art because I don't have a lot to say: The sound design exists. Nothing to write home about, but it's fine. Game design is where the real meat of my opinions lie. Caveat: I don't know that I'm very good at parry-based games, so take my experience with a grain of salt. This game lives and (doesn't) die on its parry system, and that, generally, feels fairly good. It regularly feels like that counter dash could be a few pixels longer, but maybe that's just me. The biggest issue I have with it is stamina. Hot take: parry-based combat systems should not have a stamina meter. A poorly-timed parry is punishment enough. Stopping it entirely feels bad. Enemy AIs are also, generally, pretty good. Fairly simple, especially early on, but you don't necessarily want complicated in a game like this. The enemy variety is respectable, especially in the quantity of attack types. It feels best in the early- to mid-game, but toward the end the enemies start pulling out a whole lot of really fast, sweeping unblockable attacks that you better dodge exactly right, or you're getting hit. I think there's a few that basically intend to require the (notably optional) skill that lets you somewhat interrupt their unblockables, but I think I used that skill more times on accident than intentionally, which made those enemies a huge thorn in my side. My biggest gripe is level design. It's not *bad* per se, and the frequency of save points feels pretty good. The issue is that movement in this game is, quite frankly, boring. And that's not strictly a bad thing, since this isn't a game about movement, but it does mean that traversing long levels, especially for runbacks or side quests, is not particularly fun. And the design of several late-game arenas is just kind of bad. Small pathways with walls that hurt if you hit them, combined with a lot of dashing, sweeping, unblockable attacks from multiple enemies kind of sucks. Also, as much as the map layout is kind of cute, it's not actually terribly useful when areas don't line up with each other on it. I'm sure it sounds like I'm raking this game over the coals (and I am a little bit), but I've generally had a good time with it. It's just that some of the issues are *really* glaring (in my eyes), and I think a lot of them could have been addressed with a little more playtesting.

Combat is overwhelming and difficult to track. Enemies strike with almost no warning, and movement of all things is sluggish- why does sprinting have a stamina cost AND take a while to actually kick in? Top it off with a system where some attacks must be dodged into, but some must be avoided in their entirety, and group fights often devolve into a huge mess where the player has no choice but to hope they can jog out of the way. The story is halfway interesting and the art style is interesting on paper, but picking such a harsh monotone scheme with clunky pixel art behind it for a game where you have to pay super close attention to everything on the screen is a confusing choice.

I wish I could reccommend this game, but it had huge performance issues both on my 4070 and Steam Deck. The fights would lag and I'm constantly getting seconds long stutters even when exploring. Maybe it's just a problem on my side - like new Nvidia drivers effing up a game that used to work well. But it is just unplayable, which is a shame, since I really like the artstyle and storytelling I've seen so far. So I'm refunding it for now, putting it on my wish list again and hopefully check back in a year or so.

Simplesmente uma das melhores experiências possíveis, que um jogo de samurai pode proporcionar. A história é cativante e direta ao ponto, sem muitos diálogos expositivos, te apresentando o conceito geral da coisa apenas com a própria fluidez da narrativa. O combate é frenético e ao mesmo tempo exige bastante paciência, então se você curte mecânicas de parry, não vai se arrepender de comprar esse daqui

The best Sekiro-like out there. The fact that it's so unknown is baffling.

Possui boa história e uma arte única mas o ponto forte do jogo pra mim foi o combate, com mecânicas diversificadas o combate se torna algo bastante dinâmico e engajante, fazendo com que você queria otimizar a sua jogabilidade ao máximo, quase como um jogo de luta. Se você está na dúvida se vai gostar ou não desse tipo de mecânica a versão demo é um ótimo exemplo do que virá a ser todo o decorrer do jogo. Um ponto negativo pra mim foi o comportamento de alguns inimigos em grupo, sinto que em alguns casos você é obrigado a ficar por muitos minutos sambando ao redor dos inimigos visto que não há abertura para contra atacar um golpe branco meio a tantos outros golpes vermelhos que se sobrepõem. Todavia momentos assim não estragam o restante do jogo. Recomendo!