Скорошни рецензии на Spectral

A "Souls" game but with anime-esque graphics. Even if you aren't particularly fond of anime, the game-play itself makes up for it.

Note that I have never tried multiplayer and hence will not include this aspect in the review.

Story (6/10):
Personally, I do think this is the weakest link for the game. The overall premise is interesting, but story feels extremely forced onto the player. I didn't feel a natural sense of progression for the story, but rather a forced transition on pretty much every point in the game, like dues ex machina on auto-play.

Characters (8/10):
The characters are your standard anime trope lineup. Characters do have personal backstories tied to them, including the non companion NPCs. Personally I didn't feel extremely attached to any of the characters but they weren't annoying either. Your character is pretty much a silent protagonist (other than for screams/groans and probably about 1-2 lines in cinematic). Character customization on the other hand is amazing; it isn't unnecessarily complicated nor too limited. Anyone can easily hop in and design their own character with ease.

Gameplay (9/10):
Extremely fluid, responsive and fast paced. A lot of variety for different builds and skills. It is entirely possible to solo the game without skills, but it does spike up the difficulty significantly. Boss fights are probably the best part about game, as it should be. Overall boss balancing is slightly questionable in terms of HP as it does seem it was balanced for 2 players (AI companion or another player). I personally found the boss fights to be a cakewalk with just an AI companion though, and hence recommend solo-ing the bosses for the best play experience (save for maybe one duo boss fight). Seriously, don't rob yourself of pretty much the game's strongest point. However, not a 10 because of some very questionable level design in certain areas (a save point that is literally an elevator, ladder and a good 2 minutes of running away from the boss for no conceivable reason).

Sound (9/10):
Really solid overall. I've never played with English dub so cannot comment on that but Japanese character voices are well done; solid cast lineup.
Soundtrack is amazing, especially boss themes; lifts the overall boss fight experience.

Overall (8/10):
If you're a fan of action RPGs (doesn't strictly have to be a Souls game), this is the game for you. Depending on how you play (with companion, solo, level 1, etc), the game can go from really easy to extremely challenging, which in my opinion is a neat way of introducing varying degree of difficulty to the game rather than just numerical scaling.