I did enjoy the game overall but I had quite a few flaws with it. First the good though, I thought the level design was consistently fun to explore and rewarding throughout. I also thought the combat up to a point was enjoyable but challenging. The art direction is gorgeous and the general presentation is great. However, this game really fell off in the final 3rd for me. I found the bosses not as interesting as the first 2/3rds of the game and I found it pretty overtuned in a lot of ways. I didn't much care for any of the VA work in the game, and the story just in general wasn't very interesting. The audio balance was also weird, the music was sometimes extremely overpowering to the rest of the sounds in the game. My last major issue is the rewards for exploration, while I find the level design itself to be rewarding and fun in how you explore it, the actual rewards you get are mostly cosmetic or currency for said cosmetics, and I found that to be really unsatisfying. I'm fine with some cosmetic rewards, but when it takes up more than half of the reason for exploration it bums me out a bit. There are luckily rewards such as increased health and items that open up other areas that do thankfully give you a bit more, but its not as frequent as I'd hope.

Overall, its a fun game thats enjoyable for a playthrough, and more challenging than i expected, but it has some things holding it back from being truly great to me.