Outstanding visuals and a thumping synthwave score in this cinematic platformer with some adventure game and combat, it just looks so damn good. But it's unfortuneatly not perfect in the other (arguably more important) areas. Nothing in the gameplay is bad, in fact it's it's pretty good. It's just that there is nothing in the gameplay that stand out and a game that looks and sounds this good deserves a outstanding gameplay to match it, not just "pretty good".

The combat is competent, it's fluid enough, the finisher animations look great and you really get how powerful your character is in combat (basically Batman mixed with John Wick). You have a good enough, amount of moves and abilities to not make it overwhealming, but you also have all abilities halfway through the game and then there is very little new added. No new enemies, nothing(it's the usual fast, normal, big and defending type). Same with the puzzles and plaforming sections, it feels like you seen it all halfway to three quarters in. There are also some pacing issues, there are a little too many momensts where you drag a box several rooms so you can jump higher, the game feels a bit longer than it needs to be with the amount of content there is. There where also some minor issues with the controls, sometimes the game had a hard time recognising if i wanted to climb up a ledge or jump to my doom... There are very frequent checkpoints so again, nothing major.

I hate to sound so negative, because as a whole, i'm not that disapointed, I just never felt it touched that high I was hoping for. Was I having to high expectations from the truly breathtaking visuals? Perhaps. Still, I would probably give it 8/10, even if it's a weak 8. It's a good game. Perhaps a bit long for it's own sake but worth a playthrough.

The devs also added a chapter selector that shows how many collectables you have left in each subarea, so that's nice, You can go back anytime to a finished chapter and replay it to get upgrades or collectables and then jump back to where you where. So nothing is truly missable.

beautiful artstyle but insanely boring gameplay

i am so happy i played this game. All devs. thank you for this art piece.