This game was really good and a really fun metroidvania, albeit with some balancing issues with adds and such during boss fights, situations where you could be ping ponged between enemies and such, but that's all fine and acceptable. What isn't acceptable is to have the re-fights be excruciatingly hard by just making the boss tankier, hit for more, spam attacks, and throw out adds at a rate where you simply cannot avoid and/or block them all. I would honestly be fine with this, it's a good challenge for those that want it. BUT in order to obtain the actual ending of the game you have to defeat FIVE of them while keeping your deaths under a certain threshold or you are just locked out of a satisfying end to this game. Genuinely one of the most fundamentally flawed gimmicks I have ever seen in a game.

great game. cant recommend it enough. very short but mechanics and boss fights where every weapon plays differently and every boss has their own mechanics to keep in my and memorize, great world builing and story, great sense of humor.

only short-coming is that the end-game optional boss fights (heroics) go from too easy to some of the best boss fights i have ever had to just plain unfair. this hurts trophy hunting since they are all trophies.

I kinda recommend, I kinda don't. It is obvious the game has been abandoned. There are misnamed bosses in the boss arena's and minor details that describe prior updates that no longer reflect the Afterlife update.

With that said, this game is GOOD. It isn't top tier, but it is quite well made and the animations are great. The core focus of the game is its action, which is decent. It is comparable to a souls-like without the souls-like mechanic. It could use some rebalancing and a bit more creativeness. Bosses are fairly simple and can be beaten after a few tries.

If you're looking for an action RPG that is influence by Dark Souls, there are better side-scrollers out there (Hollow Knight, Blasphemous, etc) but this is a good runner up.