Overall the experience is very shallow in comparison to what it attempts to pay homage to. To explain what I mean by the "soul" I mean: replayability, many different items and weapons that you may need to try a new build in order to try out (there's basically just one build in this game), difficulty is haphazard and can feel very easy and repetitive at times and others it feels flawed and unbalanced against your favour. It does have some strange decisions with its design and it feels like some potential wasn't explored.
It's by no means a bad game, if you can hit your stride with it and get around some finicky combat mechanics. Overall, this game has a soulslike appearance but little of the actual "soul" of these types of games. Though I liked their individual characters and side stories. The AI for your companion is pretty bad, often they will walk off of ledges or just stop moving entirely. There is storage in the game, but by the end of the game you're throwing things away to fit others in the chest (although I tried to keep every weapon - which I realised was utterly useless by the end of the game). In a later section of the game there are more chances to use them to craft potions, but most of the potions have drawbacks that can dissuade people from using them. While there does seem to have been an effort to have a varied amount of items to utilise, often they just don't offer enough to warrant picking them up. By the end of the game you'll have a ton of upgrade materials, but hardly any of the last upgrade material (making experimenting with other weapons to increase your max damage a generally unrewarding experience). There are only a few weapon types and regardless of when you find them in the game, each weapon type moveset is identical.
The weaponry is incredibly simplistic and unvaried to the point that I didn't bother even checking out many of the new weapons after a while. The stamina refresh speed feels too slow, as does the normal walking speed. Combat can feel quite unbalanced with enemies being able to attack faster and sometimes even fly through walls to hit you with attacks that were impossible to see coming. Enemy designs are decent enough but, like with many things in this game, don't change much and quickly overstay their welcome. Some of the locales are beautiful and there are some very impressive parts of the game where you will just stand around for a few moments to take it all in. The artistic style and music are the highlights of the game with some really relaxing music that meshes well with the exploration aspect of the open world.
The artistic A somewhat fun experience that has many flaws that, by the end of the game, will convince you not to play through it again. A somewhat fun experience that has many flaws that, by the end of the game, will convince you not to play through it again.
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