The hero, who, as is often the case, suffers from moderately acute memory loss, wakes up to a bleak, cruel world. He is one of the revenants, immortal soldiers created as a last-ditch effort to stave off humanity's impending doom. Which in the end succeeded only very sporadically. In addition, this time amnesia is not just a screenwriter's crutch.
Immortality has its price, and it's not exactly a bargain. Revenants must drink blood regularly, otherwise they lose themselves and turn into unthinking monsters, and with each death they lose part of their memories, which remain where their former owner died. But he usually doesn't notice it. Because when you forget something, you don't actually know you forgot it.

The game serves regular showers of lemonade accompanied by pompously dramatic chants, which start to get on your nerves within an hour. Sure, the whole game styles itself like gothic anime punk, but it's too much of a detriment. It makes it all the more annoying that if you manage to cut through the coating of tear jelly and the layer of typical anime cliche (everyone constantly wants to protect each other and tells each other every five minutes), the story itself might not be bad at all.

Visually, the game doesn't look bad, but I recommend observing the objects and the landscape from a distance, because a detailed examination will reveal models and textures from the last decade.
Stylish soulslike anime with a great combat system and a rich selection of options for your own approach to playing. However, unimaginative enemies, weaker level design and unused story potential worsen the overall impression. 20%

While I love the blood codes that functions like classes and inheritance of abilities across them, the game falls short in almost every other area. My biggest critique is the level designs (especially the awful cathedral) as they're visually homogeneous and frustrating to navigate. There are a lot of enemies but they're largely uninteresting and it doesn't help that combat feels quite floaty.

I believe the devs designed this game around a co-op experience, but did not balance it properly. Playing solo feels tedious rather than challenging, and the AI companion almost trivializes the game with the amount of damage they can do and how they can constantly draw boss aggro.

There are too many problems with Code Vein when looking at it just by itself. But if you were to examine it from the lens of its souls inspiration, it's nothing but a cheap imitation.

Stop lying to yourself, you know what you are getting into anyway, why bother reading the reviews
It's Dark souls with anime titties.