There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition

An good top-down sousllike that succeess in almost every important area. The combat feels satisfying, the bosses are very good, and the dark, oppressive world is brought to life through an excellent visual design. 100% steam achievements Time : 29.8H Completion Difficulty : 4/10 Playthroughs : 2 Missables : Yes Guide Recommended : Yes Notable requirements : Complete the game, NG +, unlock all ending, find all collectibles.

Yet another game got ruined by the "soul-like" mentality. What compel game developers to think that fighting insanely fast enemies make a fun fight? (they're probably mistaking the rush of endorphin that one get after defeating an enemy with an actual sense of satisfaction? - same can be said about Dark Souls combat by the way-) . And the worst part is that the combat consist mainly of button-mashing (dash to one side of the enemy -> attack, and repeat). I'm not exaggerating, i played this game for three hours in one day and the next day my right forearm was sore because of the button-mashing. And also there's this flaw of the design of the stages' setting where you can get stuck behind an object if you dash towards it. (I quit the game and started writing this review after facing one).

I'm really sorry for the state of Steam Reviews, where mediocre games get infinite overwhelmingly positive evaluations and really good games are heavily punished for imperfections. There Is No Light is not a perfect game, not by a long shot, nonetheless is a really good one, maybe excellent even. Let's start with the simplest aspect to judge: the graphics. Look at it. If you find it ugly I'm sorry, maybe this game isn't for you. But if you find it original, mesmerizing, captivating, astonishing than the game somehow achieves an incredible level of variety and transformation across itself, it's quality so high that it puts a lot of AAA to shame, always maintaining necessary coesion. Narratively this work is both at its peak and at its worst, the important distinction being between main plot and world lore: the environmental storytelling is fascinating, punctual and clear, few thing are left to speculation without being painfully obvious, explaining meticulously the story of a mysterious world rich with nuances; on the contrary the main plot is a mediocre mess, being too simple and too underdeveloped, forcing you to face beautiful but meaningless and poorly directed cutscenes(don…

The game map is too muddled. I gave the game multiple attempts, but each time the session ends with confusion about where to go next. The souls-like elements, art, and karma system are great, but completing the game without a guide could be a chore. It's more than minus then plus.

It's hard to put my finger on it, but this game just isn't working out and I can't imagine it getting any better. I say I can't put my finger on it, but there are some massive, glaring issues such as a confusing map with no sense of direction, a really bland start the the story (religion bad, how original), and the first ~45 mins is just wading through mountains of dialogue that fail to explain anything sufficiently enough for me to really understand what's going on and I seriously mean mountains - random side characters will have nothing meaningful to say and take 5-10 dialogue boxes to say it. The edgy dark humor thing the game tries to pull off doesn't work and overall I'm just confused. What I'm having a hard time articulating is why the combat feel horrible. It just doesn't work at all. I feel like the various elements are conflicting with each other. Do you want to be a super fast hack'n'slash or do you want to be Dark Souls? It seems to pick random elements of both genres and cram them together and they aren't working. When I finally got to some combat at about an hour in, I was immediately turned off by how terrible it felt.

I tried to like this game, but I just couldn't. Visuals are great, characters and story are interesting, settings is great, but combat, enemy count and placement (especially on platforming sections) are a complete mess. Combat: on one hand we have interesting system that gives us good action and encourages us to play more active than passive, on the other hand enemy count during closed arenas is so big that the entire screen gets filled with a bunch of visual effects that completely destroys said system since you literally can't see what's happening most of the time so you can't control your actions properly, but most important - you can't see what's your enemies are doing so you can't react and utilize your options properly. On top of that there is a clunkiness in your moves and actions that may cause you to be unable to react even in one-on-one fights since you're stuck in animation and the enemy is already hitting you despite you interrupting their last attack. Enemy placement: in overworld exploration it is not a big problem (yet still is a problem, since many times you'll be bombarded with ranged attacks from off-screen enemies), but on the platforming sections? Boy it's re…