pros:
-combat is fun
-the music goes hard af
-graphics are really good

cons:
-cutscenes are absolute ass
-the voice acting is sooo bad
-the characters are really forgettable

good thing fun gameplay and drum&bass is all an action game needs for me, this game is good af

Poorly optimized game. Would not recommend anyone getting it at full price and glad I picked it up on sale then paying full price.

Large part of the game being difficult is the camera and character move extremely slow. YOU CANNOT AIM UP AT ALL and it's extremely annoying when more later into the game a majority of the enemies are above you on a platform so you have to maneuver away from the enemy, across the map, in order just to aim up at the enemy. Horrible mechanic and annoying that the camera only moves about halfway up.
Resolution is screwed on this game as it doesn't go full 1080p for some reason in the in game settings, but when the game goes into full screen I'm guessing it does. It makes zero sense even though it states that it isn't in 1080p.
Most boss fights are only beatable by stocking up your special attack(s) to trigger "I Frames" and not even by using them on the boss but just wasting them to avoid getting hit by unavoidable attacks until the boss drops down again for you to attack.

One pro though is that this game has amazing cinematics, but there is only a handful while the rest of the cutscenes are done with done with in game graphics and they look really bad. Mainly because they are out of sync and not inline with the characters mouths. They also range in quality where some in game graphics look good while others look really bad. Honestly, should have just stuck with cutscenes being cinematics are removed them entirely because a large majority are just the camera panning through the start of the level or just showing the character the stand doing nothing before actually letting you play.

Game needs a lot of work and cannot recommend anyone to buy/play this game until it is heavily updated.

I only ever watched the anime many years ago so I got an idea about the origin story but I never played the other games so I can't compare it to those titles looks like it's been a very long time since the last game before G.O.R.E. in the series. I did get this on a sale forget which don't think it was a steam one but I had decent run with it, decent enemy variety, decent gunplay thats best with a controller, ok level design, with a not that memorable of a story.

Some minor gripes: I should have played this with Japanese voice acting instead of English, the English voice acting is rather bad for some characters doesn't fit some of them at all and despite coming out in 2022 it looks like a game from the late 00s while that's not a huge deal some of the characters as a result look kinda bad not Oblivion tier bad but bad enough. Lastly for being called G.O.R.E. I was hoping there be some actual gore in some instances there is light gore but it's nothing compared to gore in games like Trepang2, Fallout, etc.

This is definitely worth a sale the campaign is good to get through in a weekend, it's not terribly long and I recommend a controller feels weird with a mouse/keyboard.