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Please try co-op in single player mode
I almost never write reviews, so please treat it with understanding.
I also don't know English well enough, so it will be translated using Google Translate.
This is NOT a negative review.

This game is a pretty mediocre vampire-like with co-op and unique mechanics that it feels like the developers didn't think of. But this mechanic and its novelty for the genre, coupled with co-op, makes it a 10/10 game.
Just think about how much scope for cooperation and fun for players there would be in the idea of ​​a vampire-like, where all the same mechanics, but your aiming depends not on auto-aim, but on your teammate and your position relative to each other. Just a huge layer of unique gameplay, tactics and constant negotiations between teammates. In the game, this is implemented by chance, as many mechanics work poorly in this mode, and there is also a co-op mode itself, where you control the characters separately.

My friend and I stumbled upon a demo by accident, mistakenly chose the single-controller mode, and immediately fell in love with the game. We immediately bought it and finished it in one go (it took about 3-4 hours on normal difficulty). I understand that this mode was originally intended as a solo game, but how wonderfully it works in co-op. Even a slow vampire-like game where you control 2 characters at the same time already sounds incredibly difficult, and if it is also with this type of weapon aiming, then it looks excessively difficult. It is very strange that before this, such a game had not been created where the entire game was built on the mechanics of aiming with the help of a teammate, and from what I can remember, this is the mechanics of transferring a sphere in FORСED for solving puzzles. As for the split control mode, it just feels boring and unfinished.

The game has a great main weapon - each is unique and has its own strengths and weaknesses and is very interesting to play with. As for the secondary weapons, they are quite mediocre and weak, and because of this, there is no point in trying to make builds through them.
The ranged weapons are especially poorly made, which are impossible to aim normally when playing with 1 gamepad, you want to use them, but they do so little damage and are so inconvenient to shoot that, while playing, you wonder why they are not made with auto-shooting like in other vampire-likes. As a result, after several attempts to play through it, we gave up and did not take it anymore.
The game still has a lot of minuses and shortcomings, but they are all covered by this particular co-op game mode.
I really enjoyed the game.
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Archons Dec 9, 2024 @ 7:12am 
Thanks for the kind words!
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