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[Estencel] All Bosses + Ending (No Damage)

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Estencel is a pretty fun soulslike, generally aiming for a very Bloodborne aesthetic and combat. I also felt somewhat like I was playing Ender Lilies, with all the constant secondary weapon casts. I liked the game a fair amount, and thought it was very impressive for a solo dev, but thought a lot of design decisions made were the weird sort of stuff that never would have made it in the game if there was a team to bounce ideas off of. I would recommend the game, but mostly to someone who's played most prominent soulslikes already and wants a game with some solid combat mechanics.

This video was technically not "hitless" under typical hitless rules since I blocked some attacks after mistimed parries, but you don't take damage from this and you don't stagger as long as you still have stamina and block meter. As such, I'll just call it No Damage. The game is pretty nonlinear and some boss arenas can be missed, so bosses are just in the order that I fought them with the exception of Kovales who I only found after the final boss.

Examples of odd design aspects would be the extreme darkness of almost every stage and only having one light spell that you have to find out in the world, the intentional maze layouts (even more than typical soulslikes), and default controller bindings which put primary attack on left bumper and all your secondary attacks on dpad so I had to play with left hand in claw grip almost all the time. Some boss attacks come out way faster than you could reasonably react to, and certain enemies out in the world are actually absurdly powerful (the rapid fireball casters), but the game mostly felt fair.

Estencel is on Steam here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2025320/Estencel/

Let me know in the comments of any cool games I should check out, or what you thought of this game!

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Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this product from https://www.keymailer.co

Boss Timestamps:
0:00 Wolf Monster 1
1:00 Esten Guardian
2:00 Wolf Monster 2
3:35 Shanel
5:07 Prisoner Richard
6:04 Tall Doll
7:23 Blue Guardian
8:35 Royal Knight, Third Guardian of Gray House
9:33 Kovales
10:25 Greater Est 1
11:03 Greater Est 2
11:33 White Wings Est, the Supreme Creation of Whiteness
13:47 Ending

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