Excellent game, very similar feel as Blasphemous. Would highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys metroidvania games. Great story that kept me engaged throughout the game.

I generally find combo-y, parry-y combat mechanics and skill-tree-type-stuffs a poor fit for 2D Metroidvanias, and this game is no exception. I don't want to stop 3 times a screen to spam attacks and abilities on spongey-ass dudes. I want to keep moving, explore interesting locations, and find cool upgrades, dang it.

I loved this game. The difficulty was just hard enough to be challenging but never did I feel like it was impossible to beat. The story is a bit confusing, but it feels at place as the main character seems to not remember much and starts discovering what's going on and what happened along with you. The default controls (with keyboard) are a bit uncomfortable so I tweaked them to use the mouse for the attacks and the parry, I tried using a controller once I had already done this change and found it a bit uncomfortable, but that might be because I had grown used to the mouse and keyboard. A hard game, with hard bosses, good mechanics and an interesting and short story. It might not be for everyone, as it's a platformer that shares spirit with the Souls franchise (difficulty and world-building wise), but I thoroughly enjoyed it, looked forward to play it for the last couple of days. Only thing I would change is the difficulty of the last two bosses, which were a bit too easy in my opinion, at least compared with the bosses that came before them. Overall an 8/10 game.