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I still recommend this game after finishing it simply for the atmosphere, but damn if the latter half of the game isn't tedious:

You're forced to backtrack many times, even more so when you don't remember whether access to a room shown on the map has a blocked door that can't be circumnavigated in any way, why even is it on the map at that point? This is made worse by the random respawn of enemies every time you enter a room. This also causes it to feel a bit too gamey because you can just leave and re-enter a room to see a totally different enemy. That and when you accidentally enter the wrong room and go back, ALL the enemies reset, so you potentially might have to fight every single one again.

Furthermore, a bunch of gameplay mechanics the game teaches you are in my opinion underutilized, this goes for bosses especially. You have the ability to dodge, block/parry and use heavy attacks. But pretty much all the bosses have very predictable (melee) attacks which can just be parried on repeat, or hell even sidestepped in some cases. That or you can just use your bow or musket and kill the enemies from a safe distance. And they don't have a lot of health either, not that bosssponges would be better but I was always more anxious fighting basic enemies rather than the big scary bosses. Which to me, in a game like this where the bosses are the main objectives, is a let-down.

Just those two issues don't make me want to replay this game, which is annoying because I wanted to get all the achievements, the last one I need, to upgrade a single weapon 5 times, I am locked out of doing in my first playthrough.

Krita has all the features that someone like me (an art student) needs, it's also quite affordable and accessible, especially with all the tutorials you can find online.

Good atmosphere, coherent artstyle and a story that's open to different interpretations. Maybe a tad bit short but I think the length works well considering it's simplistic gameplay,

Relatively new player here, I recently got word of something awful. Someone who put many many hours into this game and it's community, got permabanned. This person made educational videos on the game, taught privately, gave extremely good advice on how to improve the game itself and more.
But it seems the advice was unwarranted, you see, Soter Dave (on YT) exposed the game's horrendous cheating problem a while ago. It seems that this and Dave's legitimate criticisms of the game got someone's feelings hurt and as a result Dave got permanently banned. Which for obvious reasons is pathetic and really highlights the already bad image of this game's dev(-elopers)
I'm not sure to what extent this affected Dave in his decision to take his own life, but it is highly likely to be related considering his great investment into the game.
On top of that, as soon as the developer team(or community manager I assume) got wind of this, any and all posts that mention Dave in the forums quickly got deleted. Followed by a soulless corporate response: "Please respond to the occasion with kindness and respect for each other. You never know what someone may be going through on the other end of the keyboard."
I don't need to spell out the hypocrisy here do I?

Shame on whoever made the decision and shame on being an awful developer in general.

Normally one would likely say something along the lines of 'stop playing', but I don't think that's what Dave would've wanted.

Thank you Miro!

Short and Sweet

A nice chill-game.
The vanilla content is alright but a bit lacking, especially the story in my opinion.
But that's where mods come in ;>