Excellent action game with a strong rhythm hook that ties it all together. Does a great job of teaching regular stylish action mechanics (pause combos, perfect dodges, parries, final hits of a combo chain doing the most damage, etc.) by fusing them all into the rhythm. I think this is an action game that would make you better at other action games, too, since it heavily discourages button mashing and teaches the other things I listed above.

Huge recommendation from me. and am currently making a video critique to go over my finer issues.

My main problems are the lack of Lock-On and Dodge Offset, and the fact that enemies can pretty consistently attack from off-screen, or get covered by other things obscuring the camera view. It gets pretty annoying to constantly have my combos broken by incoming enemy attacks, and I have no way of continuing them afterwards. Will go into more detail in my video.

EDIT: Video critique here! - https://youtu.be/MCWn9bYUtuI