Oh boy, what a horrible mess of a game this one is. Incredibly boring, simple and tedious despite having so many things to be something better.

• RPG elements. I can bet that this was included just because some investor heard that RPGs are popular, because this system is barely implemented. On paper you can level up your sigils (aka elements), in practice I finished the game before I got even one of them maxed out (because the only viable leveling strategy is abusing save-load mechanic as you may need 10 or 1000 kills per level, based on RNG) AND the level ups themselves grant something like +1% DMG. The same goes for loot: lvl 16 spells may be worse than lvl 8 spells because of poorly implemented scaling, and even if you craft a more powerful spell - all your enemies are auto leveling so you will never feel overpowered, only just keeping up with the enemies.
  
• Spell variety aka “thousands of spell possibilities”. In theory you have 8 different elements, 3 different effects of spells (DMG, CC, buff) and 3 different types of said spells (projectile, nova, AOE), so the gameplay should be pretty diverse. In practice, however, you can only equip 3 elements at a time and you are limited to 3 spells per element, and those 3 spells must always be of 3 different types. So at best you are limited to 9 spells, if you don’t use novas as you don’t get close to enemies - subtract 3, if you don’t have components to craft good AOEs (as loot in this game isn’t a spell but a part of it - you will need up to 7 things to craft one good spell) - limit it even more. To be honest most of the time I had only 2 spells active - one for damage buff and one for dealing damage ( there was either no point in using something else or no components to craft a powerful enough spell), and using this 1-2 punch got rather stale after a few hours, and this game was much longer than those few hours. And no, the elements themselves don’t really change a lot, as many of those are more of a “choose your projectile colour” type of deal, and those that are truly unique are of questionable usability - sure, you can use necromancy to spawn allies, but they do barely any damage and block your spells.
  
• Combat. Truly, this is the worst part of the game. As I have already stated you are really limited in your spell selection, but how about we limit even more: damage spells do barely any damage if you don’t apply a damaging buff first as those make your spell do x10 damage. And to apply/proc said buff you can’t just use a spell - you have to cast it for a second, charge it for a second, and only after that it is ready. So this whole “no mana and no cooldowns” is a big lie - it takes at least 4 seconds to shoot one damaging spell - I can’t even compare this speed to diablo-likes that can spam 4-5 spells per second, it is much closer to turn based systems like neverwinter where turn takes 6 seconds. And to make things worse - sometimes one spell isn’t even enough to kill a basic mob, so every single encounter becomes really long, and said encounters are so plentiful that you can’t go even 10 meters forward without triggering another fight. But don’t worry, even though every single fight is this long they are extremely safe for two reasons: depending on your loadout you either have unlimited dodges or a parry window up to 4 seconds long, AND you have an extremely wide selection of different CC effects that can last for the duration of the whole battle. So every combat is exactly the same: you get into the room, paralyze all of the enemies and slowly kill them one by one - extremely dull and unengaging, but any attempt to do something else will increase the time you waste in combat exponentially.
  
• Enemies. If, for whatever reason, you are interested in what you will permastun in each combat - the selection is laughable. In the last chapter of the game you will still be killing the exact same crossbow skeletons you killed in the first chapter. All of the humans in all of the locations will either run towards your stun field with a melee weapon or throw the exact same green projectile at you. Demons - well, they will try to do something before getting stunned. Just in case you didn’t apply a stun - every combat has several enemies with CC, but unlike yours theirs CC is just to annoy you - it is applied often, sometimes from undodgeable attacks, but lasts only 0.1 second - just to reset your casting or charging. My point is - the variety of enemies is extremely low, and all of the enemies are killed in the same exact way, with no difference in tactics or approach.
  
• Story/world. Adding this just to tell you to expect nothing: instead of story you have the most generic revenge plot with zero depth, and instead of cool level/world design you have a long corridor with combat arenas - nothing to look at, nothing to explore - it is just the most basic map you could imagine.

Overall the game feels incredibly dull and monotonous, despite the advertised “thousands of spells” you are forced to use the same few things against a never ending swarm of cloned target dummies that can do nothing against you but will take too much time to kill.

The progression in this game is too granular. Equipping new spells doesn't feel great, because instead of doing 50 fire damage, now you're dealing 52. There was also some truly unfortunate walks to bosses that were too full of enemies to make the passage efficient. It was entertaining for a few hours and I was honestly enjoying the story, but at some point you WILL hit a wall where it just turns into a grind for little reward.

it runs like ass and features troy baker