It's a decent AA game. BUT it just goes on for far far too long. It's like 10 hours too long.

I liked it. It's a mix of Bayonetta/DMC/Darksiders. I'll admit I think I wanted to quit playing two or three times but as I kept playing getting new weapons, skills, etc it got better. But it's not perfect and does have some jank and other things that hold back the game from being good to great.

+Good story.
+Voice acting and writing.
+Cool weapons, combat and skills.
+Weird, creepy atmosphere.
+Difficulty settings.
+Qol toggles.
+Beautiful environments.
+Linear.

-The game starts out pretty rough- no skills, weapons, etc. and the extra weapons don't come soon enough.
-Camera angles and/or zoom during non combat can make it difficult to figure out where to walk or jump next. Some extra lighting to show where to go would be wonderful, or even gps waypoints in game would be nice too.
-Unlike Bayonetta which had some varied levels to break up the action, in this game there's a couple running segments (which would be great if your character would autorun), but the worst ones are Lute missions where you just slowly float around following the arrow and listen to more story beats.
-Story does get a bit long in the tooth in the last few chapters.

Hopefully the devs haven't finished work in this game yet. It would be great to see more camera improvements and other refinements to the layout of skill tree, etc to tighten things up a bit.

Extremely solid action game. I greatly enjoyed my time and will probably revisit it to grind out a few more of the optional items.
The big selling points for me (after beating the campaign):
* Fantastic fixed-camera controls in open world (combat camera is player-controlled except during certain big boss battles). It just always felt really good and responsive, like a refreshing look back at older game design with modern polish
* Great combo and weapon system that is paced well enough for you to get a real feel of each weapon and ability's contribution to your kit. You can have your favorites but you'll probably end up using a bit of everything as the balance is quite solid
* Kickass soundtrack that sets the mood just right. Nice work!
* Surprisingly solid story that I ended up caring about waaaay more than I thought I would based on the genre. It's not mind-blowing, but the execution is extremely solid.