Brighter Days

The game freezes on launch; it took 10 attempts. It feels like a term paper. Maybe there’s some effort in places, but it doesn’t qualify as a game. - Combat is awful. There’s no impact, no battle sounds. Enemies aren’t visible up close — just black spots. It’s unclear when and what to parry. - Even with a successful parry, we get knocked back — essentially losing our advantage. But sometimes the enemy falls to their knees. - There’s no draw distance — even though the game is supposed to have vast locations. Everything is obscured by fog after 10 meters. - The controls are just average. There are no settings, and the lighting is broken. *OBS couldn’t capture the game audio, so there’s no sound. I’m too lazy to figure it out for just five minutes.* https://youtu.be/mgpmkM2sDDc

It's hard to recommend this game and I believe the dev team had no bad intentions when making it, but it's terribly underdeveloped, the gameplay is so clunky that you often take damage even if you parried (which is indicated by the sound so I know I'm not imagining it), enemies tend to spawn in mid-air, and there are some terrain bugs here and there (like floating grass near a cliff), and the game doesn't explain anything, for example, I found the "hub area" completely by accident without any introduction, the game just throws you in and few bad design choices like i think you can't recover lost "souls", there are things the game does well, the music is decent, the combat isn't total crap for such a small title, and the setting is pretty cool, but it's not enough for me to enjoy this game which is such a shame, maybe if it was a demo or early alpha it would be okay, but for something that costs money (even a small amount like this one), I just can't, I'd gladly come back to it after many and I mean MANY tweaks and fixes, but for now it's a hard pass for me.