this game perfectly fits the term "mediocre", its neither amazing nor is it shit, i wouldn't say this game perfectly balances the pros and cons either cus my god the flaws in this game are really bothersome to me, especially the fucking navigation system/map. I'm genuinely curious as to what the devs were smoking when they made that god awful map, the fact that it's holographic makes it harder to look at cus the background just blends in with the map, absolutely trash. The exploration isn't really all the fun since the maps are hella confusing to navigate through which makes it frustrating to even explore and everytime i had to get back to the mantis i just lost a good chunk of my braincells. Also hated how this game takes a lot of inspiration from the souls games whether it may be the combat or how difficult the enemies are sometimes (the rats) but doesn't bother implementing fast travel like dark souls, like what even is the point of those meditation points throughout the map when you can't even fast travel in them?
Now keeping aside the flaws the game does have some really fun features, mainly the combat which is very clean and fluid and actually takes time to learn, the parrying and dodging makes every fight tense and fun, the music is amazing, especially when they played order 66's ost during the flashback, solid story and likeable characters and to tie it all of it had an incredible ending. Overall this game is a solid 3/5