The Spirit of the Samurai

At this point, most of the problems are fixed. There are some occasional stutters, but restarting the game fix it. In my expirience there was no other bugs. As for the game it's actually quite good, but it could be better. The first half of the game is really solid, with good pacing, decent combat, absolutely dope animation and style and super cool cinematics. As I finished half of the game, I really wondered what was wrong with it that pissed many people. But in the second half it became clear. The game becomes very slow, the locations become just catacombs and caves. And the enemies become really spongy and often just ignore your attacks even if you parry them. This is become a major letdown, because you still have to fight a lot, but it's not that fun. The final boss is just ridiculous at this point, because it looks like they buffed boss HP and it just neverending slog of a fight. And it really hurt the game so bad. Still recommend to try it even if on discount, because the style, cinematics and overall story is really good and fun. Just whish they hold the gameplay on the level. P.S. To make it a bit more optimistic, this game has battle kitten. Yes, BATTLE. KITTEN. If that'…

It's my pleasure to now recommend wholeheartedly this game, with the FIX below. DEV TAKE NOTE PLEASE : FOUND AND RESOLVED THE PROBLEM WITH JUMPING. If you change the default keys layout, sometimes *other* keys than W, A, D won't work. Perfect example, the cat climbing the Watchtower vertical wall, could not achieve any diagonal jump AT ALL. Finally thought to change the move keys back to W, A, and D, and jumping was a breeze ! After the iffy climb or jump parts with problems, I changed back from W,A,D to my preferred key layout. ----- Found the game notably brilliant and a real joy to play with ravishing art and endearing characters. It looked as a favorite for me, and still is ... up to a point. All so good, except for ... the jumping. RESOLVED ABOVE !! -------- Disclosure, my play is not the usual : As a 71 y.o. now slow gamer, I use my own C.E. tables in all I play so I know I can finish most games no matter the difficulty. For other mature or interested gamers I post some hints. ( If devs don't like the hints below, just comment and I will delete them ASAP ) - Stamina-Energy (also a kind of shield and sometimes ammo), samurai and kodama, Float, Simple Values, full ba…

Nice game. - I really liked the graphics, quite unique presentation, and general setting. - The combo system while interesting is a little useless, as I didn't find much problem to go through game with just regular attacks. - Combat was a little clunky at moments mostly because of controls but I played on keyboard + mouse maybe it is easier on gamepads. - There are strange pauses in fights vs bosses. Its like awkward combination of Spider-sense and slowdowns. I didn't like it and that is biggest con, otherwise solid boss fights. This game should be given a chance but at major discount. I really enjoyed the general atmosphere as I played and somehow wanted to see the endgame. And cat is best ;) 7/10

Plays like ass.. Absolute clunky ♥♥♥♥ controls. enemies attacking you from both sides and there is just no way of not getting hit. It's super frustrating. for one weird reason i can't set the game to 4k either, it keep changing back automaticly to lower reolution so it looks like ass too on my 4k monitor. I tried everything. Luckly i bought it for a few bucks or i would have refunded it for sure.

edit 2: bringing my rating back up to a even 7. i liked how it ended also leaves room for a sequel if thats something the devs are really interested in, but is totally fine without. the boss did take damage i was just sucking really bad aparently those first 2 attempts. the pacing was alittle ajar with the rest of the game in the last area but its fine really. overall worth it, especially on sale at $5. idk if i would feel the same way at full price, which is 19 i believe, but still recommending. if you are flush on cash, and looking for something with a more classic feel in the horror genre, here you go. if you are tight on money, wait for sale. had fun for most of it, and thats what its about. 07 original edit its little clunky at times. it remind me of old games. mostly in a good way. art style is decent. the stop motion actually looks cool here. most games its a bad idea. there are some brutal kill scenes , even when playing as the cat. so beware, i know some people are sensitive to that. runs great. probably could run on just about any pc. combat is limited to random combos of swings /attacks, can combine 2 per direction, up down left right. right stick can be used to do …

I played the game a launch and now I've been playing through the open beta version with the upcoming updates included. I'm happy to say they are going in the right direction. The game feels so much better to play, much more fluid. This is a fresh and unique game and it's an easy recommend, especially with the new reworks that are coming.