Soulstice

"Overall, Soulstice is very much a mixed bag of a hack-and-slash RPG. While it sports excellent properties like nice visuals and designs, an interesting premise, and excellent voice acting, it still lacks gameplay optimization, which, thankfully, can be fixed with …"

"A great hack &s;n&s; slash that can stand proudly near the sacred monsters of the genre."

"A solid game with good intentions, but that falls far short of the greats of the genre. As an appetizer it&s;s fine, but hack and slash lovers probably prefer to wait for Bayonetta 3... or back to Devil May Cry …"

"Strong gameplay and an even stronger story come together to make Soulstice a good character action game, even if issues with weapons, level design, and the camera drag it down."

"Soulstice is a dress shirt with a couple wrinkles, an action RPG that succeeds with some hiccups."

"Despite their inexperience with the stylish action genre, the guys at Reply Game Studio have developed a multifaceted and innovative combat system, which exploits in a very ingenious way the different resources of Briar and Lute."

"Soulstice does an exceptional job of keeping the player engaged throughout its entirety. The amount of content just within the combat is jaw-dropping, so much so that it feels like Reply Game Studios aren&s;t saving anything for a sequel. There&s;s …"

"Soulstice makes no secret of what influenced it, both in aesthetics and in gameplay mechanics."

"Soulstice is a textbook hack &a; slash that shows a lack of risk and attachment to certain design patterns that do more good than harm. Its combat system, interesting at base, is displaced by a plot and a progression system …"

"Despite some gaffes, one of its biggest strengths is that it achieves exactly what many AA titles set out to do by delivering on a somewhat uncommon genre that has largely fallen out of favor. Soulstice may not reach the …"

"Soulstice is filled with fast and furious combat that will please fans and newcomers to the genre. It doesn&s;t really innovate the genre but the developers put a nice twist on existing mechanics. Other than a few issues with the …"

"Combining a well-realized dark fantasy setting inspired by Claymore and Berserk and an engaging story with solid action gameplay inspired by some of the best character action games, Soulstice is a competent action title. Unfortunately, issues like the horrible camera …"

"It&s;s a chaotic push and pull between ecstatic fun and dull annoyance that honestly drives Soulstice, but it&s;s nonetheless worth checking out."

"Soulstice&s;s fast-paced combat is the star of the show, overshadowed by tropes and lack of variety in an experience heavily inspired by anime like Berserk."

"Soulstice is a solid, albeit unnecessarily dragged out, hack-and-slash action role playing game that features a great cast of characters and an engaging narrative. There&s;s a ton of replayability and a high skill ceiling to achieve, but the lack of …"

"Thankfully, abilities and weapons like these become accessible in the mid-game and make later combat encounters much more manageable. Even then, Soulstice manages to maintain a good balance overall and while some hits may feel unfair, no fight ever ends …"

"Soulstice is a competent action game with creative monsters, but they&s;re doomed to live in a bland setting with tedious level design."

"While the characters and story don&s;t do enough to push it over the top, Soulstice delivers a great action game that just about anybody can enjoy."

"I really wanted to love Soulstice. Briar and Lute have an interesting story to tell and most of the voice work is really well done here. The memory parts drag on for way too long and Briar is for some …"

""Opening and closing fields to match the thing you&s;re trying to kill has all the fussiness of a game of Simon Says – in that nothing you do counts unless you&s;ve remembered to hit the right button first""

"Soulstice&s;s overwritten story and repetitive second half somewhat dull the catharsis of its glorious throwback hack-and-slash combat, but it&s;s still great fun."

"Soulstice is a solid outing that I wanted to love and recommend more. It borrows heavily from games like Bayonetta and Devil May Cry without fully capturing what makes those titles so special. Still for a fairly new developer taking …"

"Soulstice isn&s;t looking to reinvent any wheels but it&s;s an incredibly fun hack-and-slash adventure game with decent storytelling. It&s;s only downsides are it&s;s weak visuals and finicky camera."

"Soulstice gives a good challenge to veterans of the genre and is a good choice for beginners, in a mix between Devil May Cry and Berserk."

"It’s nice to play an action game more influenced by Devil May Cry than Dark Souls for a change. Soulstice makes a good case for its combat and its synthesis of two characters with distinct fighting styles. The characters themselves …"

"Soulstice is a competent hack and slasher with a solid core concept and an interesting world history that remains somewhat under-explored."

"Ultimately, a combat game has to be judged by how good its combat is, and in that respect Soulstice passes with flying colors."

"Soulstice is a beautiful hack &s;n slash that falls short in areas such as world building, pacing, level design, and art direction. However, it establishes a shared combat and exploration system between two characters in one that, by itself, makes …"

"All this is to say that Soulstice is enjoyable for the most part, even though it has its annoyances. Being available on next-gen consoles and PC only, it looks fantastic at times and has a great sense of scale. Its …"

"Soulstice is a dark and action-packed thrill ride with a strong story of sisterhood, and a bevy of options for every type of player."

"Soulstice turned out to be a good stylish action game, with a solid combat system embellished with good ideas, able to tell its excellent protagonists, Briar and Lute, both through the battle and with the cutscenes. The story of Ilden&s;s …"

"Soulstice etches its own namesake in the hack n&s; slash genre. While it lacks the same level of combat depth and demand, it focuses more on narrative quality, accessibility, and presentation to reach success."

"Soulstice&s;s terrible camera holds back an otherwise ambitious and inspired action game."

"Soulstice is a truly great action game, which despite taking many cues from stylish action titles of the past, carves out enough of an identity to stand out on its own. The system of controlling both sisters and maintaining auras …"

"A meaty action game let down by a persistently rubbish camera and a lack of variation in its stages."

"Soulstice is a blast from the past. It looks like something from 2000s, but feels fresh among dozens of souls-likes."