“A mentira é o único privilégio humano em relações a todos os organismos. A gente vai mentindo até chegar à verdade! É porque eu minto que eu também sou um ser humano!”

- Fiódor Dostoiévski

It's not as good as Dark Souls and FromSoftware's other titles (*cough* Sekiro) but it's as damn close as you're gonna get. Straight 8.5/10

Pros:
- Gorgeous world, gripping setting, great vibes
- Very fresh setting (Pinocchio)
- Satisfying story, cool NPC questlines
- Phenomenal performance, butter smooth 120 fps, all modern FPS increasing technologies (resolution scaling, frame generation, etc.)
- Superior weapon system, you can combine (almost) any moveset with any scaling/blade
- Parry system works well and is very fun, although it's much less forgiving than Sekiro, meaning you have less time to react and a smaller parry window to hit. It highly rewards you for timing it perfectly though
- Level Design (can be seen as a ♥♥♥ depending on preference) is linear but enjoyable, even more linear than DS3
- Well thought out UI elements (pop souls on the lvl up screen, see how many souls you dropped, etc.)
- When you die in a bossfight your souls will be in front of the boss room, no more trying to save your souls during a boss fight
- Respeccing is basically a free resource, encouraging build and weapon experimentation
- The lie system is very unique, fits the setting perfectly and adds to the narrative in a way I didn't expect initially

♥♥♥♥:
- WAY too many multi phase fights to the point where a single phase boss fight becomes the exception, phase 1 usually is free and phase 2 mostly shares no moves with phase 1 (TIRING)
- Anticipation animations take ages then suddenly burst into movement, in your first playthrough this can be infuriating as reaction times will only be building up over your playtime
- The Cube is supposed to be like the Flask of Wondrous Physick in Elden Ring but it's almost useless and mostly for people who want to summon an NPC ghost (which I never used)
- Some bosses are highly resistant against certain weapons (even with no element type, just the dmg type like slash/blunt/pierce), making you either respec or survive four times as long dealing little to no dmg
- Stat soft caps seem very low, it feels like you maxed out your stats very early and you don't know what to spend your level ups on anymore
- No message placement or bloodstain system, not a big problem but a bummer (generally no online multiplayer)
- Difficulty setting in a Souls like feels wrong
- NG+ and NG++ are boring, bosses didn't scale enough to account for the player's power creep
- To get all the achievements you need the DLC.. BOO!

Overall, if you love Sekiro and Dark Souls, try this. It's trying to marry both playstyles and it's succeeding well enough to be very fun. You do have to git gud though there are no ways to summon other players who carry you, the only thing you can do is summon a ghost that keeps damaging the boss but only very rarely takes over aggro or turn down the difficulty slider (SHAME).

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