the only thing this game needs to be the greatest game is multiplayer mode so you have a friend to accompany you in this fresh hell. Jolly cooperation my fellow sun bros

It's hard just for the sake of being hard.

As someone with hundreds of hours of the Dark Souls games, I love a good challenge, but, it shouldn't take ~30 deaths to kill a boss. Also, the way you heal in this game is to do a heavy attack, and you have ~5 seconds to attack an enemy, and you gain a small percentage of the deal you damage. Problem is, the heavy attack wind up can cost you a life, and you need to get up close to the boss to get this chance to heal. A lot of the time, however, the game punishes you for getting close to the boss. It's a good idea, but it's terrible executed.

There are three different combat types you can choose, a fast but somewhat weak type, a slow but powerful type, and a defensive type. To be honest, I can't even imagine how long it would have taken me to beat the first few bosses without using the defensive one, because at least with that one, if you time your block correctly, you perform a counter. Not only that, but the defensive play style seems to have more ways to heal.

Will I keep playing it? Yeah, probably, because I already dumped an afternoon into it, and would kinda feel "defeated" if I didn't finish it. If you're a fan of playing against the same boss many, many, MANY times over, then this game is for you. Otherwise, unless it's on a heavy discount, or you get it for free, I would recommend you skip this one.

Unable to dodge while charging makes sense for a game that has been made around that mechanic, but every boss feels like it was made with the player being constantly charged. The hitboxes on many of the movement attacks from bosses are not accurate to the visuals, and the over reliance of just filling the screen with hurtboxes that do not interact with one another can have the screen just be one humongous damage field. And with the charge of the character being hampered by being hit by some attacks, makes it to where you are unable to counter attack to regen health. I cannot recommend anyone paying for this game, as it is very much in a state of 'you can beat it, but you will not enjoy it'.