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Dont let the people saying "Chinese Bots spamming Reviews" discourage you from giving this game a try. If 96% of 200,000 reviews isnt enough to get you to try the game a few more things to look forward to are as follows-

Combat-
Deceptively simple at first, seeming like a crap ton of light attack spam until you start to look into the different skill trees. Truly one of the most densely packed combat systems I have ever seen. While Im sure you might be able to play the entire game light attack spamming and spam rolling there is a giant amount of room for you to express some skill. With about 76 (a random large number) different parry systems and combos you will quickly realize that there is PLENTY of different ways to take on this game.
Environment/Looks-
I truly dont understand how people can say the game doesnt look gorgeous, not to mention the level design in general is amazing. Its not just "dressed up straight lines" as another person declared its truly dynamic and beautiful. Each chapter of the game showing off something completely different its impossible to get bored of the look, not to mention stopping several times to just admire the game.
Performance-
Now obviously with such a gorgeous game on UE5 its going to be difficult to run thats sort of a given. That being said its no where near impossible a specific review I saw claimed they were on a 4080 SUPER and could hardly run it. Well with my drivers all up to date and everything properly taken care of, on the MAX settings with ray tracing AND an ultrawide (3440;1440) I ran the game above 100 fps almost ALWAYS and rarely could tell if upscaling was needing to do anything at all. Ive heard bad things about AMD obviously I cant speak on that, but a friend of mine owns a 1660 SUPER and was still capable of playing the benchmark (which has been completely accurate for me in testing) at 70 fps on medium ray tracing off.
Story-
Again something that is admittedly subjective, and I LOVE the chinese mythos as well as the story of wukong in general. The way they present every fight, the cinematics at the end of each chapter, and how they bring it all together is just beyond words. Not to mention the sheer amount of extra lore you can read or find in alternate areas is something that I just cannot describe as anything other than amazing. Now obviously the lip syncing does not match at all with the English dub, from what I can tell and have been told the game was dubbed in Mandarin, so I mean yeah obviously it wont be the same, but the voice acting itself is top notch.
Price-
Sixty dollars is obviously a lot of money but hey at least its not seventy like most games these days, I think its absolutely worth the price I wont miss a single dollar. But waiting for a sale if you cannot afford it is never a bad thing.
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SoulsLike-
The developers have been stressing to every reviewer and everybody in general that this is not meant to be a souls-like. There are some obvious similarities with the checkpoint system and the roll focused combat and the challenging bosses. But I would agree that if I had to draw a similarity, its more closely related to God of War or something of that nature. Rarely does it feel like im playing a souls-like.
Conclusion-
The game is AMAZING, and my general rule for this kind of thing is to NOT listen to reviewers hell, I have never reviewed a game before I just loved this game so much. But for the love of god if the reviewer has less than 2 hours played and the product is refunded and they claim to know all about the story being boring and the combat being awful the level design being trash without even PLAYING 5% OF THE GAME. Just play it for yourself, and you can form your own opinion.