I'm not too big of a fan of linearity or focus on combat in Metroidvanias, I did go into this one expecting that tho.
I was kinda surprised by this having probably the best movement I've ever used in a 2D Metroidvania, every new power was interesting and chained in with others at the end having a really good movement expirence. Along with this the combat while forced and in your face utilized movement a lot which is nice change of pace from darksouls style that is genuinely hurting the genre.
The linearity is in a very order of ecclesia way, you're never locked out from backtracking which is nice, and the game opens up a bit near the end, overall this knocks it down a lot.
I was kinda surprised by this having probably the best movement I've ever used in a 2D Metroidvania, every new power was interesting and chained in with others at the end having a really good movement expirence. Along with this the combat while forced and in your face utilized movement a lot which is nice change of pace from darksouls style that is genuinely hurting the genre.
The linearity is in a very order of ecclesia way, you're never locked out from backtracking which is nice, and the game opens up a bit near the end, overall this knocks it down a lot.