Beaten it, I'll just paste what I said in the 2024 games thread.
Absolutely Fantastic game, brings things back to a time when games were just games and has reminded me that I've become severely fatigued with the Sony, deep narrative route and I play games for the fun of it, not having the controller snatched out of my hand every few steps or ten hour long tutorials and hand holding like it's your first video game ever.
This was insanely addictive, flawed ... maybe, but at the same time maybe not, it just is what it is and it's insanely fucking cool and an immensely fun game. Elden Ring was the last time I had this much uninterrupted fun and I'd say this surpassed it on that level if though for a shorter period of time and speaking of Fromsoft, this game became Sekiro near the end, perhaps because I refused to do a guide on some essential health upgrades or perhaps by design but the last three bosses on what I believe is the true ending where quite challenging.
10/10. Phenomenal. Most purely fun game I've played in many years, maybe ever. Now straight into another playthrough on hard mode.
