Solid game. But I want to vent about some stuff.
First of all, the combat. I played this game on my PC, using KB&M. Wow that was a mistake. The “techniques” were super awkward and barely even worked. Other than that, some of the final bosses had such weird janky moves that were pretty much undodgable unless you can see the future. I did the true ending, and the last boss specifically was a tanky and janky mess for a good portion of it.
My other major complaint was how… unintuitive… the design can be. I’ve played my fair share of metroidvanias, and have pretty much beat most of them without guides. This one had me so lost at two certain sections that I had to search it up. I thought the answers would be obvious, but no, they were fucking stupid. I saw a lot of people complaining about the exact same thing as well, and it made me feel a bit better that I wasn’t going crazy for thinking it was dumb. I wasted 3 hours of my 19 hour run because of this.
Overall though, it’s a solid game. The art is good, the map is very fun to explore and the number of abilities and weapons is super awesome. There are two abilities in this game that really stood out to me as unique, and I really appreciated that. It was a good game, but not something I’d write home about.