So I'll start with what I liked: I thought the art direction was pretty great, and the soundtrack quite good. The combat and movement was initially fun. Thats about all the positives for me personally. I found the metroidvania elements tacked on for no real reason, and the story that it was presenting to be pretty mediocre with uninteresting characters and a pretty run of the mill revenge-esque story, at least at the bit I stopped. The crafting and cooking are also like... why? Your just filling the game with unnecessary bloat when you had a really good innitial gameplay setup. The issue with the gameplay and movement is, it doesn't really evolve and gets old FAST. after doing a few cool spins and parrys you pretty much experienced the highlights from what I could tell. Its not a bad game, especially if you dont mind the 10,000th metroidvania, but its not what I hoped. I wish they had focused and evolved the core gameplay and movement, evolved it in interesting ways and cut out all the crud. As it stands I have no desire to finish it.