Eastern Exorcist

Eastern Exorcist is a 2D side-scrolling action RPG set in a fantasy eastern world, where players take on the role of a skilled exorcist battling vicious spirits and monsters. The game features engaging combat, beautiful hand drawn visuals inspired by Chinese art, and a storyline filled with themes of joy and sorrow. The game comes with a free digital artbook DLC. [b]Features :[/b] - Two Playable Characters : Lu Yunchuan and Xiahao Xue, each with their own unique storylines and abilities. Players can choose between these characters to experience different gameplay styles, scenery and narratives. - New Game + : Players can complete the game and start over while being able to maintain their character attributes, skills, inventory items such as consumables and equipment. You can also change the difficulty to any difficulty you prefer. - Trials Mode : A speed run mode to fight endless streams of enemies and bosses. [b]Note :[/b] If you are into collecting achievements, it is really difficult to try to achieve "More Than Enough", "Forge Ahead", and "Reach The Peak Of Perfection" all at once, it can make the game difficulty feel like you're playing on ultra nightmare difficulty while …

Recommended. A dual-campaign wuxia slasher in ink-painted mythic China that stakes everything on parry combat, and mostly lands it. Parry timing anchors a generous loop of charge attacks, stamina management and skill-tree building, backed by a dispel system that banishes killed spirits before they resurrect with purple health bars. Shrines hide optional exorcism-arts challenges, demon-bestiary entries lend folklore flavour, and the second protagonist's move-while-charging spear kit opens bigger, side-quest-rich maps with pole-vault traversal the first campaign never had. Boss quality is erratic: the snow ape, Rhino Marquis and skeleton monk duel fairly, while an invisible teleporting dragon, a shield-obsessed Dark General and a one-shot-lightning finale cheapen things, and damage-locked 1:45 time attacks against bosses that barely take damage are misery. Wobbly hitboxes on big enemies, swallow-you platforms and Switch's red-fog bug and broken d-pad add avoidable pain. It earns its recommendation on combat craft alone.

eastern exorcist has approximately the same basic problem as raji: an ancient epic. raji's gameplay starts off in a reasonable place and then, as the game goes along, everything about it escalates into the stratosphere where the game is SO DIFFICULT and SO PUNISHING that you wind up turning the game down to casual to make it through the game. this is frustrating, because like raji, this game has an intriguing story set in a place and time that we don't get to see very often. and like raji, the graphics are fairly good. [though serviceable to some degree.] this coupled with the real spot on and wonderful music should make for a slam dunk. but everything about the machanics of this game are somewhere between tedium and torture. the torture half comes in the form of combos that you HAVE TO be ABSURDLY good at in order to nail. didn't get your jump in JUST right? cool. you're taking damage. did you hit your sword thrust three times in a row but didn't do it quick enough? great. the extra damage you get from the slash is now gone. and by the way, that counted for a fourth hit. which does minimal damage [as opposed to the slash.] enjoy! this coupled with the fact that th…

It must be me who can't understand the game to play it as intended, but I still can't recommend it. It uses the old style feel on the character controls, i.e., there is some inertia on the character. There is also some movement when changing directions. There's no guard cancel, or dash cancel. So in a game when precision is important, it becomes easy to fail. Stamina meter is important for attacks. This is not a metroidvania. This is a souls-like, except you cannot skip past enemies. You have to defeat all enemies that spawn to move on through the map. After three hours playing the game, I cheated upgrade to max the level. It didn't made a difference to make the game easier.

This is about as hand drawn in ink as the people selling printed artwork at market stalls. It tries so hard to look like a traditional chinese ink painting but it feels more like someone put a cheap filter over a normal game and called it art. eastern exorcist? more like eastern excuse.

Just completed my first playthrough and I enjoy this game enough to want to play through the other character's campaign! THE GOOD Combat and movement are fluid and responsive Upgrades and unlocks are plentiful and have good variety, and grinding out the XP/resources needed isn't tedious or time-consuming, especially as you complete the Enhanced Boss challenges. Cutscenes in this game are so varied in terms of presentation and art styles, each one brimming with beauty and intentionality, from classical chinese water-color to full 3D animations. The voice acting is top-notch, you can really feel the emotions in their performances whether dire or light-hearted. Dialogue itself is well-written and the few moments of "Engrish" translations are just fun and entertaining, never so bad that you have to think about what was intended to be conveyed. THE BAD Without spoiling anything, I'd just like to say that the climax and the resolution to Xue's story are way too close together, leaving me with the feeling like the ending was rushed. It's not a deal-breaker by any means, but I felt like I was at the base of the final proverbial mountain but I was actually fighting the last boss of the ga…