Recent reviews by Mr. Wallaby

A perfectly cromulent orblike. A must-play for any fan of the genre.

With a bit more practice, I think I can turn the music down.

3 Hour Update:
The clothing salesman is very cool. One of the items is such an amazing tool, I'm excited to see what some of the other items do.

6 Hour Update:
Each piece of gear is useful. There are multiple ways to get to any particular place if you utilize all of the mechanics available to you. I'm currently on the cusp of an extremely devilish section and have stopped for the moment to seek spiritual guidance as to how to proceed.

Game Over Update
I figured i had reached the end, but I had never pressed 'S' yet so I didn't know you could sit on the throne.
GG WP

The waifus are solid.

Fantastic.

Several bosses are difficult, but it is fantastic.

awesome rythm game

simply amazing

PoE for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like me

Good

I would NOT describe it as anime dark souls. Yes, it has challenging boss fights, yes it has bonfires. But, if you go in expecting "anime dark souls" you might be disappointed.


TL;DR:
Full price, no. Sale, yes.
+ Good Story and the ending I got (1 of 3) was enjoyable
+ Fun Boss Fights (though there are a several pretty annoying run backs if you encounter a skill issue)
+ Good Music
- Boss aggro weirdness and bot co-op AI are frustrating at times.
- Some of the levels are so annoying to traverse that the thought of having to do it again prevents me from attempting another play through.
- Use the sprint key (default right bumper) to slide down ladders or climb up them faster.
- If you get kidnapped in a closed elevator and it wont move, just alt-tab out then back in, it should start moving.


+ Some darn good waifu material, and no shortage of breasts.

+ Its a good story from what I know (see next point for explanation) .
- The Interactive cutscenes were grueling. Most of the cutsenes are normal: video plays, you watch, lore is learned. However, a not so insignificant number of 'cutscenes' are 'interactive.' The player gets to walk through a level at a snails pace from vignette to vignette waiting for dialog to finish. I understand why thematically why you're forced to walk (see incredibly mild spoiler below), but it would have been so much more enjoyable to just throw up a powerpoint and not make me hold the left stick for two minutes. Your target audience is anime enjoyers. Looking at pictures and reading subtitles is pretty much our forte. You walk through the cutscenes because you're exploring someone's memories, so sure its a neat idea on paper.

+ There are three endings. My first (and most likely only) play through got the 'neutral' one, it was enjoyable.


+ All of the bosses are fun and challenging, and most of them I enjoyed so much I asked my friend who had already played "Do I get to fight them again?"

- Attacks aren't telegraphed as well as in souls games. As another reviewer said 'the animations feel stiff.' It's not a big deal if you just dodge every scary movement a boss makes, but its much more fun for me to actually recognize attacks and react to them.

- Boss aggro switching between the player and your partner feels entirely random. In a specific fight the boss will just dash across the entire arena to target your ally for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Since the aggro is so erratic, it can be quite challenging to know who attacks are targeted towards, which is mind-boggling since the game seems designed around co-op.

- Bosses seem to have predefined HP % where they will stagger, instead of it being based off of doing lots of damage in a short amount of time. That's probably not actually the case, but I didn't find a consistent way of triggering a stagger while using a rather large sword, it just felt like I was given one for free each fight around 60-75% HP, and never again.


- Items are spread around each level really well, and the levels do reward exploration. Unfortunately, you'll be fighting the same enemies over and over throughout the zone (and sometimes unavoidable environmental hazards such as the floor is lava!) so the exploration feels more like a chore.

- Do you like doors that don't open from this side? Do you like opening up five different shortcuts just to progress to the next bonfire? Do you like the way forward at some points to be obscured at best and down right hidden at worst? Do you like feeling hopelessly lost? Then you'll enjoy every single zone! Ultimately its the level design of the zones that is going to hold me back from another play through. There are far too many zones that I just do NOT want to have to run though again.

- What the ♥♥♥♥ is it with level designers and their burning desire to litter maps with ladders and slow-ass elevators? Give me a grappling hook or something to let me get up and down at predefined areas quickly please, I beg of you.

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