Good metroidvania: Lots of secrets to uncover, the game is very open (you can explore most of the map very early by (ab)using weapon skills) and rewards exploration, and a moody atmosphere.

I played through it twice, and can recommend it to any fan of the genre. Personally I like it much better than other games in the same niche, e.g. Blasphemous, or Salt and Sacrifice.

Solid metrovania with darksouls elements, clearly inspired from lovecraft and bloodborne. God-tier artistic visuals, ok quests and gameplay, very good confusing story with some interpretations. I highly recommended. Also thank you for not putting that retarded enemy touch damage that some metrovania games have.

As cons:
1.exploration gets confusing real fast until you get certain moves linked to the story (dash, double jump, mid-air dash) some of this can be resolved with dagger mid-air attacks, but personally I was an axe and sword vigilant, so I didn't use this solution. My advice, first, get the spell that detects secrets when looking on map and those athletic moves, then hunt for secrets. Otherwise, you might annoy yourself to quit the game.

2.some weird quests, but that's souls-like for you. You can use the wiki to find answers.

3.not all weapons have special attack moves and those that have, also have a 50% chance to attack in the opposite direction of your chosen enemy, giving you an pathetic miss, that has no connection to your skill. Devs really need to put all special weapon attacks on ↑ + light attack to fix this issue. I played on mouse and keyboard, don't know if you have this problem with a controller. Speaking of mouse, I couldn't bind my side clicks to any of the game's actions.

4. Death and going back to your last savegame and loosing all your progress is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. This is highly annoying with death from fall damage until you find the ring that negates that said damage.

5. I found most enemies and bosses mid to easy, even on hard. That pose damage and stagger wrecks them too hard, it is a real shame because there are many opponents with some sweet sick attacks (Mutated Louse Man my beloved). On the other side we have Dephil, Blue Magpie and "Miss Homing Missiles" Red Sparrow that make 70% of the game difficulty. A nerf to those 3 and some buffs on the rest would be nice.

save system sucks ass big time