Eric Farner – Google

First of all, play on performance mode, not quality because there are a lot of artifacts and the animations get funky. If you’re a fan of specifically silent hill 1 and resident evil 1, you’ll like this game. There are a lot of puzzles and exploration. You’ll have instances where without warning you’re pulled into the shadow realm and have to fight enemies or solve a puzzle. The combat feels very silent hill but the exploration feels very resident evil 1 with many locked doors and having to refer to your notes for clues to solve puzzles. With a little more polish I’d give this a 4 and a half but overall I’m really enjoying the game.

Long time Final Fantasy Fan. This game takes the wide open worlds of 15 and does them right, the combat of 7 and makes it better, and the cinematography and storytelling of a AAA blockbuster movie. I’m 40 hours in, I’m still not bored. If I didn’t have a wife, cats, and a job I would literally lock myself in a room and play this on loop until I turned into a hollow. Then I would use a human effigy and play it all over again.

Just completed the game. I love the beginning of the game and the almost 3D Blasphemous vibes it gives off, but I feel like the entire last level is just a rushed mess. The final boss for the default ending is cool but annoying, the last area of the game is literally so littered with mini bosses that I just ran through the entire environment and didn’t fight anything because I would have been demolished but beat the area boss and final boss in 2 attempts each. The quality of cutscenes really tanks by the end of the game. Overall I really enjoyed the experience, I think less dialogue and more mystery would have been great here much like Bloodborne. The cutscenes don’t have to be perfect but I got major $5 Indy vibes from the ending. I played in PS5 and had frame rate issues on performance initially but as of yesterday it is smooth sailing. Beautiful game, great soulslike, could have done with less dialogue and less mini boss spamming in the last area.