Recent reviews by Trauma Queen

I can go months without touching this game and still have nightmares about it. 10/10 would ♥♥♥♥ myself again

Just looking at the base game, it's pretty solid. The developers definitely focus more on it working, and bugs are usually addressed and handled quickly. The game itself is gorgeous, showing how much more time developers put into the graphics rather than mechanics we've been waiting on for ages, but I know it's because the devs want to make sure it's perfect. They don't push out half-assed work.

The people who run and play on the servers, however, are another story. Playerbase can be summed down to trolls, adults with the maturity of infants, and the very few and rare people who are just there to enjoy the game.

People are prone to banding together and targeting a single player over something petty, a few personal friends of mine have been encountering SEVERAL issues with this. After jokingly attacking a streamer on stream, they were accused of stream-sniping(despite having been in the group for several hours beforehand). Fans of this streamer have relentlessly targeted my friends, an admin on an Official server has harassed one of them over every little thing, such as telling her to get out of water when she was crossing a lake. They accused her of "water exploitation" despite NOBODY being near her.

She and the rest of our friends have been relentlessly targeted over a small incident, the Streamer's fans continue to hunt them down, threaten to ddos, and after they reached out to the streamer to tell his fans to back off, they were ignored. Now considering leaving the game for good.

TL;DR, AMAZING game and developers, HORRIBLE community. Play at your own risk.

its ok i guess

Artistically, the game is simply gorgeous. The animation in character movement and even fighting animations is very fluid, and it's clear a lot of love was put into making Aragami candy for the eyes. The feudal Japan scenery is nothing less than stunning, and I could honestly play this game over and over just to look at everything and take in all the details.

Gameplay-wise, it's highly enjoyable. Controls are a tad bit different from what I usually see, but it's quick and easy to get used to. The mechanics, both unlockable ones and starting ones, are uniquely creative, adding more ways to get through each map, and more styles you can play. Plus, it's totally badass being able to destroy your enemies by summoning a death dragon from the shadows to swallow them whole.

!!! SPOILERS BELOW !!!

As for the story, I must applaud the writers. They kept us in the dark the entire time, gradually uncovering the secrets and background to Aragami and Yamiko both. We were lead to believe one thing, then another, which greatened the impact of the plot twists revealed at the end. Very well done. Although with the reveal of Aragami actually being Ryo from the Kaiho, and Yamiko and her people being evil, I didn't feel the same sorrow and grief that Aragami did, knowing we'd been tricked into killing our own people. The reveal was so sudden, we went the entire game believing that these people were evil, even had lines from guards depicting them as cruel. There could have been more of an emotional impact from this reveal if Aragami and Yamiko had both escaped their encounter, and the game continued build on our understanding of what the Kaiho truly were, seen their humanity, and gotten to know Sora so we(the players) could form an emotional attachment, then the ending of Aragami and Yamiko killing one another would have been much more heart-breaking. Along with the knowledge of how many Kaiho we'd killed along the way.

Still, this is by far my favorite indie game, and I'm very impressed with what everyone was able to do with what they had.