Not really sure how I feel about this one. The world is interesting, cruel and overall messed up. Cool enemy designs.

Combat was pretty simple, mash button for 4-combo attack with fourth attack having three different variations once you upgrade your character. Then you have one ranged attack, about dozen different prayers (spells), dodge and parry.

Level designs are alright, sometimes a bit annoying. Can't say I had a lot of fun in any area of the game though when it comes to how they're designed. There's also a lot of backtracking which wasn't fun until I managed to get enough money to unlock the ability to warp between checkpoint statues. Yes, I know the game is metroidvania, but some do the backtracking thing better than others.

While I usually love collecting everything I can and do all sidequests in games, I didn't feel like looking after everything I've missed so I just went on and beat the game. I know I saved 36/38 children so that's two missing, I missed one or two bone collectables and at least one prayer (which I'd get from saving all children). Then there's stuff that you can only do in NG+ and I don't really feel like doing that. Maybe one day, but won't be anytime soon I imagine.