I played this for ~90 minutes (past the second boss) before I just gave up. I could forgive the overly long and meaningless text info dumps, or the meaningless open areas where all you do is move to the next area, or the terrible level design which requires back tracking in a non for literally no describable reason, I could forgive all and push through to see what it was cooking if the combat wasn't so boring. I want to like it because the art and the music, and the atmosphere seems cool, but the combat man, it's just... it feels like a worse version of hollow knight. And not even like peak hollow knight but like early early game hollow knight.