A wonderful, accessible but still challenging Soulslike.

The love this team has for the source material (for lack of a better term) is evident not only in the combat but the world building. It has a charming, Disney-ish presentation that will definitely entice younger players - but it still has that sense of exploration, wonder, fear, and spectacle that is From's hallmark. Their climate-doom story gives the story a grim, at times nihilistic edge -- there's really creative character designs featuring oceanlife twisted and mutated by plastics that feels like a Pixar spin on a corrupted, rotting former king in Elden Ring or Bloodborne.

A few rough edges here or there can frustrated; I clipped through the world (or was attacked my something that has clipped through the world) more than a few times, but it didn't dampen the experience too much