Eh. While I like rats and the game has really cool artwork, great sound design and a fun theme of a medieval world of rats, frogs and insects, I don't think it's actually THAT great of a videogame.
>The combat is pretty fun thanks to decent animations, satisfying sound effects and blood staining your little rat, its weapon and your enemies as you fight. Sadly, it's also a little bit dull doe to the fact that you encounter many enemies that just have a SINGLE attack they will use over, and over, and over again and they tend to be well telegraphed with long wind-up time. The attacks you have to parry have pretty long warnings and large parry windows too, so combat is just dodge/parry and then just spam your basic sword swings until the enemy dies. Which takes way too long with even basic enemies feeling too "spongy" and needing a bunch of sword cuts to take down.
>Level design isn't very exciting and just boils down to walking from one combat encounter to another.
>I don't know why this game is labeled as a "souls-like" when it doesn't really have any souls elements. There is no leveling, the equipment is basic and the checkpoints are exactly just that.
>I think I am ddging a bullet by dropping the game, as apparently it just becomes a bunch of walking to a place you've already been to to do some fight, then running back to complete a quest and pick up another that has you do the same ♥♥♥♥.
>Buggy. Not in a very game-breaking way (so far) but I encountered oddities such as two enemies "becoming one" and starting to behave in the same pattern while trying to occupy the same space and the audio of their single burrowing attack getting ♥♥♥♥♥ from playing twice at once, or an enemy that just shut down completedly and started slowly moving to the left while completedly ignoring me, the wall in its path or my sword slashing away at its back.
Needed more work.

Tails of Iron is a game with simple but ultimately satisfying combat, chunky and awkward platforming, and very persistently fascist vibes. The rat kingdom is the shining city on the hill, and the frogs are the stinky bloodthirsty savages who are just so jealous and so evil that they can't help but invade and start killing and stealing from our innocent heroes. The way it's treated is so weirdly casual and not even particularly interesting as a story; it's just a boring old showdown of Good Guy Culture vs Bad Guy Culture. Imagine somebody who likes using words like "tribal" and "exotic" to describe people, and you have a good idea of the narrative voice. It's unfortunate too, since the visual aesthetic is honestly lovely and rather stylish, but if you pay attention to it you start to notice how dang racist its coding is.

Also there's a lot of running back and forth, and as I have alluded to, it's not particularly fun to get around. There's nothing groundbreaking here, probably give it a pass.

Boring as hell.