F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

Game is pretty good and fun, the weapons are cool, movement is fluid and responsive, the environment is amazing, the setting is interesting. Overall I do recommend this game. There's only a couple things that detract from this experience for me. Combat ranges from good to frustrating. The enemies feel like they were not really designed for this game especially the further in you get. The game goes from being a metroidvania to being partially beat-em-up, to being a sweaty beat-em-up, as enemies start to demand higher combos and, maybe, deeper understanding of the combat mechanics. I say "maybe" because it feels like the game thinks you have all the tools to handle the enemies, but either it isn't clear to me or there is something actually missing for that to be the case. You can sweat it out and get through the combat, but it often feels more frustrating than it needs to be. I think it would be more enjoyable if the enemies lightened up a little bit because it seems a little imbalanced for an enjoyable experience. There are some sub-weapons you can get throughout the game, however these weapons use the same resource as your health flask. Despite how cool the sub-weapons seem to be, I pretty much never used them. I often felt like I needed the health flask a lot more than the sub-weapons because combat is that kind of problem. You're effectively unable to use them because the combat demands healing more than parrying attacks or shooting rockets. I don't really understand why these would be on the same resource as the flask anyway. I think parrying doesn't even really need a resource. Parrying felt situational and unreliable anyway and if it was somehow game breaking enough to require a limitation, I certainly could not discover that due to the resource limits and the combat needing healing. I think a fix would be to make each one have their own resource so you at least cycle through them throughout combat rather than one and one. This way combat would feel like you have more options to try, be more dynamic, and even be less frustrating.