I am typing this as I am forced to rewatch an unskippable cutscene for the third time.
This game isn’t bad, but I think it might not be worth your time nowadays. It features a save point system (when you die, you have to reload, you can’t just retry) which is cool, but it’s coupled with unskippable cutscenes. It’s not a hard game (so far), but puzzles can end in game over screens so just consider that you’ll need more patience here.
As an example, about an hour in you will be faced with a puzzle room. Before you enter the room, there is a save point. The section starts with a cutscene. Then, you get one really easy unfailable “puzzle” that just takes a minute to “solve”. Then, you get a puzzle that you could fail but that’s pretty simple and takes 30 seconds. That is followed by another unskippable cutscene. Then finally, one timed puzzle that is an actually puzzle starts. If you fail the second of third puzzle you game over, get sent to the title screen, and then have to reload. So, get ready to listen to the same cutscene, do the simple menial stuff, only to then get a chance to try again.
Besides that flaw, the cinematic cutscenes also ran terribly for me with really messed up audio. As for the actual game, so far it’s just a bit easy and mindless on Normal mode - this save point business is just frustrating, but the game itself isn’t. If you could skip cutscenes, I’d not have written this review and waited until I finished it.
The combat is very simple, and the game relies on a exp + weapon upgrade system that you can technically cheese since enemies respawn. The story so far is also just evil demons invading the earth. Again, no deal breaking issues, but not a hidden gem in my books so far, just a frustrating, simple, not-well-remastered action game.
