Definitionally a 6/10 game, which is such a shame because it starts so fast. The opening is phenomenal, and the initial exploration through the first town gets you thinking: 'Has a Hollow Knight clone finally managed to reach the peaks of that?' The answer is no, but the combat does reach some string like sections where it becomes pure instinct and there's 3 people attacking you and you block, parry and jump and its beautiful. But so much backtracking! And there's 0 speed to how you run, so the majority of the game isn't exploring the interesting world, or marvelling at the art style, it's running through screens you've seen 19 times. Shame.