Soulstice

very berserk inspired, ive always hated fixed camera games but this ones good enough that ill keep playing, my only issue is its way to easy (oh and the horribly made parkour) but apart from that its great

game is bootleg dmc/bayo without offering the sheer control you have in dmc3 through 5

I liked story, characters and cutscenes. The design is top-notch, although the gameplay isn't quite what I personally enjoy. Battles: there are far too many overlapping light effects for a game where most enemy designs are black or grey, it's almost impossible to follow who is who, where and what they're doing. Also considered the fact the effects, often, actively hide the enemies on screen. Also, in some boss fights, (like arrowhead), the far camera is too... Far. On screens with lower resolution, it becomes actively impossible to tell the enemies apart from the ground. Parkour: inconsistent. Sometimes Briar edge-grabs, sometimes she slips off, sometimes the double jump is higher and sometimes it's shorter, even if my inputs are relatively consistent. Pro: the accessibility settings are great for whoever wants to enjoy the story without sweating too much, although the automatic field activation setting makes the parkour actively harder. Free-roam sections: Nothing to report, these sections are mostly pretty linear and straightforward (in a positive way), with some being much more labyrinthine. The latter require more backtracking, attention and patience, but are overall g…

Started off with some general old school DMC1 charm with a camera real similar to DMC/RE/Onimusha. It sadly devolves into just inflated HP elite mobs with tedious boss designs using the red and blue fields you need to swap between mid combat. They do have a growing variety of mobs but then the only real difference between them is how much HP they have making it take you like 3-4 minutes to kill like 3 elites. This turns the game into just a boring slogfest even on the lowest difficulty. If mods could take care of this then I wouldve finished since the story, art style and general level design is good but i got to chapter 14/25 before i just got too bored with the new bigger HP pool mobs.

really good game with some camera issues but ends on a cliffhanger with a canceled sequel

great game with some flaws. I love the environments in these types of games, the support mechanic with lute is fantastic. but very repetitive, the mazes are annoying as well, the locked camera takes getting used too but that’s the only downfall