Great lore and story without souls crap!

[Aria Kawa]

I'm simply leaving a post telling how much I have appreciated how the story, those endearing characters and lore were told in a upfront manner. Games with a souls-like inspirited narrative told via items and secrets were nice at first, but eventually I started to roll my eyes as for how most of those game are pretentious for walling some mediocre worldbuilding and key elements in an attempt to make them look more complex or deep.

I'm also very impressed how solid and polished this game was, coming from devs that only had experience with horror games before creating Nine Sols. Keep up the good work, Red Candle!

[Zosonte]

Just like Sekiro. Unlike the rest of From's modern Action RPG catalog that game actually told its story (Character motivations, relationships, themes, etc.) while keeping a good balance of less important things more vague (Ties to Buddhism, fantastical elements) and was better for it. Glad this took more of that game beyond its combat.