The Spirit of the Samurai

After almost 1,5 years after release this game is still an absolute lag fest, bug fest and fps drops. Ive played it the first time today, after theyve updated the game with combat, movement and controls fixes and changes. But its probably the worst controls ive ever seen in a game. Combat is not good either, but had potential. Most of the time you cant trigger the combos, no matter if you spamm the button or press it slowly. Crouching is the most annoying thing ive ever seen. You trigger it unintentionally all the time and you cant get out of it many times. Enemies have like low fps because of the concept art, but in some combat situations you cant read anything because its so laggy. Then sometimes boss attacks have slowmotion activated and sometimes not. Its totally ridiculous and messes with ur timings. Slow motion should never be in a game, only maybe to assist noob players if you enable it in the options. But never switch between slow motion and normal speed during the fight. What a horrible decision. Map layout and platforming is very minimal. Platforming is the worst ive ever seen. Its buggy, you stuck in the plattform most of the time and cant walk. Then many plattforms have outstanding edges, so you cant just jump upwards and climb. you have to walk back and jump sideways, and the jumping is very bad in this game. Then the game throws simply ♥♥♥♥ at you to kill you. So the next time you know and try to avoid it. You dont die because of skill issues most of the time, just a random unforseen mechanic that kills you. So you waste ur lifetime dying to them, until you know all of them and avoid them after many runs. Character upgrade systems are almost none. Attribute system is so bad it hurts. You are basicly forced to spend all ur points into strength and dexterity to unlock new attacks. And even in this bad system, you cant go full dex to unlock agile attacks or full strength to unlock powerful attacks. No, you have to level both simultaniously to unlock new attacks. Ive never seen something such stupid and thoughtless in a game. This game has a very strong core and good concept, the artwork is beautiful and unique, but its absolutely poorly and thoughtless implemented. Its an extreme waste of potential. I dont know what kind of people sit behind this, that after 1,5 years they couldnt fix and rework this simple game. I cant even continue playing because of the many bugs and nonsense that is happening. Just sad.