This was something i was actually really looking forward to trying. I love the simple graphics and the setting is quite unique, the first true shoulslike. It's a shame the combat, the thing the majority of the game revolves around, was designed by a 3 year old. Hit boxes are worse than the cs2 launch hit boxes, it's slow, it's not fun, the enemies have strange delays on attacks and then the same attacks will have no delays so i'll go ♥♥♥♥ myself then and there is nothing intuitive apart from the different "shells" you can pick up. Wow they did one thing different from regular souls likes, i guess, if you don't count armour, weapon or shield abilities as being the same thing but better and more variety so it doesn't even have that going for it.
Went in with high expectations, rightly so due to all the praise I've seen this below average game get and yeah it's fair to say the game doesn't even nearly live up to the expectations in any aspect aside from the simple graphics which are very nice on the eyes, and the setting, which is just a breath of fresh air. Nothing else comes close to anything that can be described as adequate. Don't even get me started on the useless platforming. It's bad. You set the game underwater and somehow platforming is one of the worst parts of it. Why after the "swim" stamina bar depletes does my tiny little hermit crab dude turn into a brick? It's a really bad implementation because a mud crab doesn't weigh 400kg so why does a tiny hermit crab?
Why does dodging just straight up no work sometimes? Sometimes the button doesn't work at all, i'll press it 3 times at least for it to dodge on the last press. Sometimes i'll dodge out of the way of an attack, clearly out of the way of the attack, but still take the hit. Is this a hitbox error or an error with the dodging? either way, it's not good enough.
Enjoy the game, don't enjoy the game, buy or don't buy it. I just needed a little rant about the most disappointing gaming purchase I've made since anthem, and i even enjoyed that more than this crap.
I love soulslikes, I've played a ton of them, good and bad and played through every fromsoft soulsbourne game, some multiple times and some 100% achievement runs, I love these types of games and am very very familiar with them. This is a terrible game, dressed up in a popular genre it would've done better to stay out of, with a pretty coat of paint on it.

This was something i was actually really looking forward to trying. I love the simple graphics and the setting is quite unique, the first true shoulslike. It's a shame the combat, the thing the majority of the game revolves around, was designed by a 3 year old. Hit boxes are worse than the cs2 launch hit boxes, it's slow, it's not fun, the enemies have strange delays on attacks and then the same attacks will have no delays so i'll go fuck myself then and there is nothing intuitive apart from the different "shells" you can pick up. Wow they did one thing different from regular souls likes, i guess, if you don't count armour, weapon or shield abilities as being the same thing but better and more variety so it doesn't even have that going for it. Went in with high expectations, rightly so due to all the praise I've seen this below average game get and yeah it's fair to say the game doesn't even nearly live up to the expectations in any aspect aside from the simple graphics which are very nice on the eyes, and the setting, which is just a breath of fresh air. Nothing else comes close to anything that can be described as adequate. Don't even get me started on the useless platforming. It's bad. You set the game underwater and somehow platforming is one of the worst parts of it. Why after the "swim" stamina bar depletes does my tiny little hermit crab dude turn into a brick? It's a really bad implementation because a mud crab doesn't weigh 400kg so why does a tiny hermit crab? Why does dodging just straight up no work sometimes? Sometimes the button doesn't work at all, i'll press it 3 times at least for it to dodge on the last press. Sometimes i'll dodge out of the way of an attack, clearly out of the way of the attack, but still take the hit. Is this a hitbox error or an error with the dodging? either way, it's not good enough. Enjoy the game, don't enjoy the game, buy or don't buy it. I just needed a little rant about the most disappointing gaming purchase I've made since anthem, and i even enjoyed that more than this crap. I love soulslikes, I've played a ton of them, good and bad and played through every fromsoft soulsbourne game, some multiple times and some 100% achievement runs, I love these types of games and am very very familiar with them. This is a terrible game, dressed up in a popular genre it would've done better to stay out of, with a pretty coat of paint on it.