Veteran Metroidvania/ARPG enjoyer here. This game either clicks or makes you rage-uninstall. Let me save you $12 ramen money:‌

HARD SKIPS IF YOU HATE:‌

• Grind-heavy RPG mechanics‌ – This ain’t your "git gud" Hollow Knight/Ori-style purity test. You’ll need to farm upgrades or get bullied by late-game bats (yes, bats) and teleport-spamming bosses.

• Sunshine-and-rainbows storytelling‌ – Zero grimdark lore hunts here. Imagine FFXV roadtrip energy with anime girls ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ instead of saving the world… until they kinda have to. Not for Bloodstained-edge enjoyers.

• Pre-Genshin jank models‌ – Characters look decent zoomed out but hit that early Honkai Impact 3rd uncanny valley in cutscenes. At least they’re not Bloodstained-tier monstrosities.
Copium-level horny bait‌ – Don’t buy this for fanservice. Go play Stellar Blade (PC port when?) if you want nut-bustingly thirsty designs.

• 40-hour Metroidvania‌ – Feels like open-world bloat with "find-the-hidden-chest" exploration. Speedrun-friendly this ain’t.

• BOSS FIGHT BLUES‌ – Most are DPS checks with ADHD teleports. "False stagger" mechanics will trick Soulslike veterans into eating instant-armor attacks.

• Boomer-compliant input complexity‌ – Combos require actual Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike fingers. Gen Zs used to one-button supers = insta-refund.

• No dude protagonists‌ – Three waifus + himbo Demon King. Dudebro crowd mald at own risk.

WORTH IT IF YOU DIG:‌

• Chill JRPG-style build-crafting (weapon combos/magic synergies go hard)
• Buttery combat flow – hitstop, aerial cancels, and gadget builds feel chef’s kiss
• Gorgeous biomes (floating islands! snow temples!) with Falcom-tier OST
• Chaotic-good party banter (imagine Konosuba cast doing a JRPG)

TLDR – A flawed gem for oldheads craving PS1-era Castlevania vibes. Casual-friendly? Hell no. Respectable 7/10 if you meet its grindset.

After beating this game and getting a 100% in it, the best way I can describe my expierience is "mixxed".

The first 5-10 hours of this game were honestly lovely. Game felt like it was made by inexpierienced people, which had its quirks, like some stuff being randomly out of focus, some sound effects being x10 times louder, animations looking janky as if made for some fan-made creepypasta stuff, but the gameplay seemed decent, so it wasnt annoying, but charming.

But slowly over time, these quirks festered into annoyances, as the gameplay expierience became less enjoyable. And its difficult for the gameplay not to turn bad, because there are multiple layers of just terrible design flaws, that I'll try to explain in points:

1. Soul system in this game - Games like Castlevania: Aria of Sorrows, or Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, allow the player to equip 3 souls from killed enemies to get different skills or buffs. Meanwhile this game takes a different approach, where each enemy's soul can be equipped on your items grid, which honestly was pretty fun at the start, as there's a lot of different passives you can get from these souls. BUT by the middle of this game this system was unbearable, as there's 200+ souls, where you have to go search for the one you want. One. By. One. With only 4 ways of sorting them, Newest Found, By Monster ID, Smallest and Biggest Grid. And if you dare to remove a soul from your item, when you already found a new one that you'd like to equip in the inventory, the game sends you back up to the highest one, so you have to go looking ONCE AGAIN. And this system straight up sucks when you consider that you have 5 items with grids+3 characters with each one having unique items, AND ON TOP OF THAT you find upgreades extremely often, so you have to fiddle with this system hundreads of times, which is draining with each attempt. So by the end of the game I just used Cacti and Bloody Maids in my gear, because looking for something else than a good stat stick felt painful.

2. Skills - Skills from books in this game break any enjoyment from combat, because instead of trying to learn how to space well and move during combat, you just spam using skills due to how absurd their damage is. Flamethrower move for example, which was so powerful, that it could easily 3-shot bosses, that could take literally 5+ minutes with my setups. The skills are a nice idea, especially with the parry moves, but they're so ungodly overtuned, that I dont remember doing anything but spamming them after, like boss 5.

3. Secret Walls - They hold perma stat upgreades and skill books, which is awesome. I thought that there's gonna be a soul that allows you to easily spot them. Welp, never saw one of those, so instead of enjoying exploration, I always used the character with fastest and longest attacks, while hugging every possible wall in existence, just so that I wouldnt feel FOMO of not gaining powerful stats, or overpowered abilities.

4. Characters - For some reason, this game has 3 main characters, which you can switch between, a bit like in Genshin Impact. But unlike in Genshin, where you have characters mostly supporting one DPS, here you just play with 3 Main DPS's, which have virtually no synergy. And while technically you could build one character to reduce resistances for another character, there's no point in doing that, because you could just have the character doing damage reduce the resistances by themself. Its painful to build all of them, it feels pointless to have multiple characters, it makes the inventory system worse, I dont get it.

5. Items Grid - Each item has a grid system for souls, but often majority of these slots are locked, and the cost of unlocking them is ABSURD! Each slot costs the crafting materials of an item+gold, and it scales with each unlocked slot. So lets say we have an item with a potential 4x4 grid, where only 2x4 is unlocked by default, we'd need to pay 8 times the items value, if it didnt scale, to unlock the rest, tf??? This system makes majority of boss souls unusuable, and the only point when you start to unlock these, is when they only cost gold in the endgame, and by then you also dont constantly upgreade your items, so you can easily invest in them.

6. Art - I think some of the 2D art in this game is AI generated, which just left off this iffy vibe, whenever they appeared.

7. Story - Story's meh, cant say too much about it. But the game constantly tries to be funny, so its impossible to take anything seriously.

Prolly missed some things, as I barely remember anything about this game, but overall I'd recommend playing something else from this genre, this game is not worth spending time on.