An okay platformer with a pretty good artstyle and controls, but poor voice acting, not enough music, and boring gameplay weighs it down a little. I hope it gets a sequel that actually fleshes out the platforming and combat. It was missing a lot of polished that would've helped or little details, and the collectibles were essentially pointless. You have gems that do nothing, money but that respawns and is easily farmed, K-A-O letters which unlocks costumes so that is something, and that is about it. Unless you like collecting/completing just for completing then by all means, but you don't get anything special for 100%'ing the game. The boxing glove getting imbedded with fire, freezing, and wind is nowhere near well implemented, and they're basically pointless in combat when you do have them. You never really miss anything either because you always have one of the elements near where you need to use them, so it might've been better if they just let you select them whenever and maybe do elemental reactions in combat against enemies. The humor is pretty bad as well, with way too many fourth-wall jokes that don't even make any sense in world. I am unsure how many people are from the original team that made the trilogy but this feels like a lazy title put out way too early just to cash in on the Toys for Bob-style remakes. My favorite character was the villain, mainly because he had the best voice acting, with Kao's mom being a close second and neither of these two get enough screentime. Overall I think if you enjoy these types of games I would play it, but you'll find it incredibly easy. I don't play platformers often and I didn't die a single time and had 20+ extra lives by the end.

One of the best and most beautiful games ever and will go down as one of the best survival horror games in history. Fantastically wonderful music, a beautiful story and art style, and great combat that has all the positives of old school survival horror. The only game close to this is Rule of Rose in terms of emotion it drew from me, and this game is something that every single human being that plays video games should play. The only, only minor issue I have is interacting with some doors and items, but it is such a small negative that it doesn't even matter in the long run. Play this game. Even if you're terrified of horror. It is worth it.

A really good Soulslike. I don't really love these and I haven't heard good things about Spiders, but this game had an amazing setting, fun combat, and a great main character. Music and graphics were fantastic and I really enjoyed my time with it. The enemies and animatronics were wonderfully designed, but I felt like they could've done more with the idea as many of them seemed a little uninspired. Big guys, dogs, only a few like the Serpent really caught my eye and felt different enough. The levels were varied and beautiful, really capturing the unqiue beauty of Paris. I loved the weapons that they offer with their own unique details, and you are given plenty of opportunities to build different. The music I liked, but I wasn't really focused on it. My main issue is enemies eventually started to become a little redundant and had issues with creating variety that wasn't 'an old enemy with fire' and things like that. The mini-bosses were also somewhat boring as they were basically souped up common enemies, and the Titans were cool but didn't present much of a challenge. I think the game was just a teeny bit too easy but I am fine with that, since it isn't a requirement for soulslikes to be difficult. I also found the characters outside of a few to be quite boring and uninteresting, and I never really felt compelled to look into the world outside of a few characters. I think the game frontloaded me with too many good weapons as well, as I basically used the same weapons from start to finish and when I tried to include variety, it simply didn't work as well. But still, a really good game that exceeded my expectations!