A spectacular souls-like with a strong emphasis on parrying incoming attacks, has quite an atmosphere and presentation, however it's a pretty diificult and unforgiving game (even more so in NG+ where health might as well not exist as a stat), enemies have very nasty patterns with even nastier follow ups to mitigate any sort of mindless bruteforcing, so you'll have to pay attention and learn mechanics and attacks as well as understand your own kit and how to use it well. Playing with a controller is preferable, but not mandatory. Controls can be rebound to your liking. Does not have a pause function at all which is easily the worst part of this game (and every souls-like in general).

Steam deck performance (LCD, -50mV, SteamOS): runs at 60 fps most of the time on default resolution (1280x800) with graphics set to low and FSR set to quality with two exceptions: sometimes nosedives to ~35 fps while visiting Geppetto's room in the hotel, and dips to ~45 fps during the second brotherhood encounter (but somehow each member killed in the fight increases fps). Drains 16-22w depending on how dense areas are (and they are usually pretty dense), so hooking to an outlet or a powerbank is advised.

Straight vibes so far

Great Game. My friend got this for my birthday, thanks Isaac :) and it's a great souls-like game. It's great mashup of sekiro and bloodborne for the combat system and it feels great IMO. 9/10 Sofia my beloved.