I love so much about this game. The art style, voice acting, story, tone, the direction, the POTENTIAL of the combat are all fantastic, but the performance -non stop stuttering and frame drops- currently for early access is immersion breaking. The combat feels like it is not as polished as a good soul-like should be. The parry window feels off. That could be because of the animations when the parry window is available feel out of sync, or perhaps I just need to get good.

I will keep my eye out for future updates and check back on the stuttering, overall performance, and combat issues I currently have with the EA. Looking forward to when I can change this review to positive, because there is such a great game here just needs to cook longer!

PC: GPU 3080, CPU Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 1440p resolution

Drivers: 566.14

Settings: DLSS balanced, vsync on.

A fantastic concept ruined by absurd QOL choices.

I love this game, at least the combat and story. What I can't quite grasp is who on the dev team thought "What if in Dark Souls when you went to upgrade your weapon, Andre had to upgrade his forge for 5 real time hours and then you have to melt your ore down 5 minutes per chunk!?!" Honestly I don't know what the **** they were thinking making choice about the upgrade path. Then to top it off they decided "ya lets put in a fast travel system that only works from 2 places at a time!!" Now just imagine yourself far from home base and low on healing supplies, you warp back to the main city to go farm, but wait now you have to run across the other side of the map without using a fast travel point lest you lose your progress on the other side of the map and have to rerun the entire ******* thing again.

If they fix these issues on release I will change this review but honestly, this isn't worth %50 unless you enjoy exceptional gameplay broken up with pure mind numbing irritation and monotony.

This is the game I never knew I wanted. Everything from the game play to the story is great. It does have a few issues and bugs due to it being early access. I would like to see the unique items buffed a little, for how rare they are they feel significantly worse than all the regular enchanted gear. Other than that the game is fantastic. I can't wait for the full release!

This game is dope

Amazing art, great combat, great story and level design. It's unbeliable how an early acces game feels and looks more polished than the vast majority of current AAA releases. Loving the game and looking forward to the full release! 100% recommended!!

There's a lot to like. but I feel like there is more to dislike right now. I'd wait.

Cool concept however this was a cash grab by the Devs. They sold out and are no longer updating the game. Such a waste of a potential good game...

First off, I'm genuinely looking forward to this game when it's complete but at the moment there's performance issues that need to get worked out. Biggest one for me was audio stuttering occurring every couple of second both in and out of cut scenes. Couldn't find a solution from the community. I've refunded it for now but am gonna keep my eye out for the full release and fixes

great game that is too annoying difficult to be fun. not every game has to be dark souls.

its still in early access but the gameplay is too repetitive
combat feels clunky even when playing as a 'agile' warrior