What a great surprise ! Astonishing visuals, cute/cool characters, an unusual story, a good length ( 15 hours more or less), and almost perfect game-play with an old-school taste (like the first Castlevanias) except that it was pretty easy apart from few platforming I played this game thanks to the PS+ subscription but I'll review it like if i bought it as is no longer available for free. I played this game thanks to the PS+ subscription but I'll review it like if i bought it as is no longer available for free. It's not a good metroidvania, it's a bad game overall. 7 hours in it's so tiring I just fly through next stages ignoring trash mobs, just to get to the next checkpoint.

4 hours of the gameplay felt like an eternity to me. Like someone said already, it's really bad and is considered high quality only by rabid furries, that never read anything besides their own fan-fics or Harry Potter. But every few steps you're assaulted with awful, invasive, badly voiced expository dialogues that uncover the awful story before you, even if you couldn't care less (you need to wait two seconds of every line to be able to skip it). This kind of game would be acceptable if it was 1-2 hours long.

Sometimes a bigger mob will appear that requires to be stunned with parry (you just hold your basic attack button). You will endlessly swirl around the screen staggering the same mobs over and over again on really basic stages that mostly consist of two levels and few platforms. What was looking as a decent light metroidvania at first, turned out to be a shollow, static slog through copy-pasted content that tries to cover itself with 'now you have new ability: DOUBLE JUMP! You can go backtrack early stages to find a hidden treasure or finish a side-quest! So varied!' The sad truth is, the gameplay never evolves besides two basic combos and ridiculously overpowered aoe attacks (that basically stagger all the mobs so you can easly hit that 1000+ combo so hardcore and pro). What was looking as a decent light metroidvania at first, turned out to be a shollow, static slog through copy-pasted content that tries to cover itself with 'now you have new ability: DOUBLE JUMP! You can go backtrack early stages to find a hidden treasure or finish a side-quest! So varied!' The sad truth is, the gameplay never The game is fun for the first hours, later - not so much. The game is fun for the first hours, later - not so much.

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