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Valdis Story: Abyssal City (Steam)

What a weird game. This is a metroidvania that definitely takes some pointers from the Souls games, but instead of bonfires and corpse runs, it's just bad at explaining anything and loaded down with missables and mutually exclusive upgrades and stuff. Very hard to tell if you're even playing it right. My build was probably pretty bad because a lot of the bosses ended up being incredible HP sponges in a way that didn't feel intentional, but I'm inclined to say I'm not at fault for this given the game provides zero guidance.

Also like. Is this a series?? The game keeps mentioning events and characters from, seemingly, a prior game, but does it actually exist or is it just kinda in medias res? Who knows! I do appreciate the incredible late 90s anime energy it has, though. The main character is a half-demon sword boy with a superpowered rage mode. His allies have names like Shadoboxxer and Ben McSteely. One of his allies is a panda with a laser cannon. Incredible that this was released in 2013 yet so perfectly channels the aesthetics of Toonami in the early 2000s.

There are 3 alternate characters to play as so I might come back to this one later.