Really wanted to like more but its good not great so its sits at a 3.5. It as potential but some terrible elements, for example almost every attack in later areas being a knockdown which can be fine but coupled with terrible and slow recovery miss one dodge and you are dead, some bosses have some of the worst spacing I've seen in a soulslike. Dodge a 5 hit combo where every attack is a gap closer? Well here is another one immediately after with no time to heal. You get a tooltip to parry a boss? This same boss you just parried can sometimes hit immediately after when you are animation locked by the parry. Some hit boxes are whonky but thats par for the course. As for pros world is nice and atmospheric, some of the bosses are fun, OST is good. Areas are connected very well and lots to explore. With tweaking it can be better but as it is I wouldn't play again.