Recent reviews by LuffeInator

An addicting game to play while you watch YouTube videos, I can recommend completing it 100%.

tl;dr

Overall, I will recommend "The Vagrant", but I do have some issues with it.
The game can be categorized as a nod to Vanillaware, the Japanese game company that brought us Odin's Sphere and Dragon's Crown , and is heavily influenced/borrowing from it. Unfortunately, it falls short of being as good of a game as the mentioned games are.

• Graphics are good, and familiar.
  
• The combat is smooth, but lacking depth.
  
• The platforming idea is nice, but the controls feel a bit wonky for that - in my opinion.
  
• Story is alright and keeps my attention somewhat, but not blowing my socks off.

After playing for 9 hours on the hardest difficulty (which feels like normal difficulty), I had to leave it and might not come back to it for the foreseeable future, if ever again.
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My experience with "The Vagrant"
I was excited to see a game resembling Odin's Sphere and bought the game shortly after discovering it.
I've been playing it for around 9 hours on Lunatic difficulty (aka normal difficulty in other games, for comparison) and I'm nearing the end, but due to some things that have been nagging me, I've decided to shelf it and come back to later or uninstall it back into the void that is "uninstalled games" in my Steam Library.

The graphics was what really sold me on the game, and I was happy to play it until I went up against one of the bosses of the game; Santiago, who has been one of the most tedious and frustrating boss fights I remember playing.
This experience really woke me up to what the game actually was; a copycat of a great game.
The developers of "The Vagrant" are without a doubt doing something of their own with this game, but it is too similar to Odin's Sphere so I can't help but compare and be disappointed.

The combat is smooth, and you have a bit of variety when it comes to skills - of which you can pick four from the pool of skills that are available - but that is about it for customization. The rest is just alternating between Light and Heavy attacks with your different swords - and when I say different swords, I mean different damage sticks with the occasional element damage on it.
I find this to another part of the somewhat tedious and repetitious gameplay that this game offers.
They try to shake the gameplay up a bit with some good old platforming, but due to what I find to be somewhat wonky controls, this feels slow and stiff to work with.

The story was good enough to keep me somewhat invested, but nearing the end I just wanted to complete the game and get it over with. Without going into detail: I found the story to be predictable and causing unreasonable drama between the characters. Despite me saying this, I do understand the characters different motives and how they perceive the world around them - albeit a bit ignorant and stubborn at times - but this might just be a part of their character.
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In conclusion
I will recommend the game to other players on the platform, but I can't say that I'm fully behind this game for being a bad copycat of a game I adore - although this is what brought the game to my attention.
The gameplay is mediocre to good but gets boring after performing the same four combos for hours on end.
The story is … there, and justifies where you're going next.

All in all, the game is good but tedious.

Thoroughly enjoyed this game and went to 100% it.
I would say that it has less customization than the Dark Souls series since you're playing as a predetermined and fixed character in a certain setting, but seeing past that I have no quarrels with the game. The learning curve felt great to me and whenever I went back to get a different ending I would cut my time spent on the playthrough by half each time because I knew where to go and what was necessary to do to progress. Oh, and it's definitely the most fastpaced game they've made to date!

A short game - completed 100% after two hours - but nonetheless a wholesome and wonderful game.
The aesthetic of the game is a soft and pleasant experience; the house is cluttered with objects and sounds for your senses to partake in and you truly want to explore this architectural madness of a house.

I can easily see why this game received multiple awards.