I played this back in 2023.
I've been a fan of the souls-like genre since dark souls, but this game was pretty hard for me to get the hang of. Especially since I was hoping to really speed through this game since I got it on gamepass and wanted to play other games in the month that I had the subscription. Because of that I felt pretty humbled by the difficulty of the bosses in this game. I never really fully mastered the parry window for this game, I think its a pretty tight window that depends more on trial and error with the bosses and knowing their timing. Especially since I was playing this in the mindset almost of Sekiro where I was spamming the parry button more or less hoping to get lucky.
Either way I needed to summon the NPC helper for pretty much every boss fight in this game, save a few like the final boss and a couple of the beginning bosses. I am sure if I really hunkered down and put in the hours I could have got the satisfaction of doing it solo, but I just wasn't in the right mindset. Either because I wasn't really loving the game that much. Or maybe I wasn't loving my slow strength build that I couldn't get myself out of. This was also due to limited resources and not wanting to spend time grinding materials to get a "dex" build up to the same level as my current strength build.
Overall I enjoyed the game but I think I shot myself in the foot by wanting to just speed through it, but it is also a little telling that the game didn't hook me in and make me want to invest more time in it beyond what it took to beat it. It is definitely something I need to replay at some point down the road.
I wouldn't put it in the same league of love that I have for Bloodborne or maybe some of my other favorite souls games, but it is definitely in league as one of the best souls-likes.
I've been a fan of the souls-like genre since dark souls, but this game was pretty hard for me to get the hang of. Especially since I was hoping to really speed through this game since I got it on gamepass and wanted to play other games in the month that I had the subscription. Because of that I felt pretty humbled by the difficulty of the bosses in this game. I never really fully mastered the parry window for this game, I think its a pretty tight window that depends more on trial and error with the bosses and knowing their timing. Especially since I was playing this in the mindset almost of Sekiro where I was spamming the parry button more or less hoping to get lucky.
Either way I needed to summon the NPC helper for pretty much every boss fight in this game, save a few like the final boss and a couple of the beginning bosses. I am sure if I really hunkered down and put in the hours I could have got the satisfaction of doing it solo, but I just wasn't in the right mindset. Either because I wasn't really loving the game that much. Or maybe I wasn't loving my slow strength build that I couldn't get myself out of. This was also due to limited resources and not wanting to spend time grinding materials to get a "dex" build up to the same level as my current strength build.
Overall I enjoyed the game but I think I shot myself in the foot by wanting to just speed through it, but it is also a little telling that the game didn't hook me in and make me want to invest more time in it beyond what it took to beat it. It is definitely something I need to replay at some point down the road.
I wouldn't put it in the same league of love that I have for Bloodborne or maybe some of my other favorite souls games, but it is definitely in league as one of the best souls-likes.