The art and animation are great but unfortunately everything else is a letdown.

The load times are obnoxiously long for a 2d platformer. The game doesn't autosave on going to a different area, so if I died after fast travelling I would respawn in the first area and have to endure another 2 load screens to get back to where I was.

The combat is extremely repetitive, after around the 3rd area I had the terrible realization that I was going to be doing this for the entire game. The window for parries is extremely small, I couldn't consistently nail it on the first few enemies so I forgot about it for the rest of the game. Sometimes I would be trapped with a large amount of enemies in a room, it was impossible to see where my character was and I would quickly be overwhelmed.

Inexcusably buggy for a game that's been out for 5 months now. The screen will jitter unsettlingly when looking around with the right stick, this happens more often than not. Map markers for pickups sometimes don't disappear after collecting, leading to false positives. Many more minor bugs.

The art and animation are great but unfortunately everything else is a letdown. The load times are obnoxiously long for a 2d platformer. The game doesn't autosave on going to a different area, so if I died after fast travelling I would respawn in the first area and have to endure another 2 load screens to get back to where I was. The combat is extremely repetitive, after around the 3rd area I had the terrible realization that I was going to be doing this for the entire game. The window for parries is extremely small, I couldn't consistently nail it on the first few enemies so I forgot about it for the rest of the game. Sometimes I would be trapped with a large amount of enemies in a room, it was impossible to see where my character was and I would quickly be overwhelmed. Inexcusably buggy for a game that's been out for 5 months now. The screen will jitter unsettlingly when looking around with the right stick, this happens more often than not. Map markers for pickups sometimes don't disappear after collecting, leading to false positives. Many more minor bugs.