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).

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.

Honestly i wanted to play more to have a better view but the game does not pull me at all. While the game looks beautiful and the story seems alright i guess, there are 2 things that i cant really overlook. One is the combat. Its very bland. Hit , dodge and once in a while you use your special attack to interrupt a yellow attack. The skill tree serves to give very little things to spice things up. Even then i think its combat is something i could swallow. What i cant swallow is my second reason which is the fact that even though you have such huge and intricate maps which can branch of here and there, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO EXPLORE THEM. There are no drops to find other than papers that other than the first dont even give you additional lore. Some sort of spider dolls with no explanation on what they do or if they have any usefulness. And lastly some 1 time use heals. ( and some exp vials ) THATS IT. You really have no reason exploring what so ever other than b lining to what you have to do to progress. With how big and detailed the maps are i thought there would an incentive to explore. But the rewards are nothing and you feel like you just waste your time. So the com…

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…