Very fun core gameplay, but as the developer's first game, a lot of aspects could be greatly improved upon. The visuals range from impressive to straight up ugly color vomit. Several levels throw out the really fun directional movement in exchange for tedious arenas. I'd say overall there is just a lack of polish, which is, again, understandable, I'm just not sure this is worth the twenty dollar price tag. Definitely pick this up if it is on sale, or if the speedy, visceral gameplay really speaks to you.

I've been following deveolpment very closely for this game and on release it stayed in my backlog for longer than I had intended. After getting around to it I can say that this game easily lived up to the hype it had generated for me. I spent multiple runs on the public playtest and even helped report some bugs and I can confidently say the way this game has progressed is something special. This is possibly one of the best movement fps game I've ever played, and this incredibly high praise next to such legendary games like Mirror's Edge and Clustertruck. However, it more than deserves that title. It absolutely screams high quality and the replay value alone is intense. The only downside is that you will feel physically tired after playing this game due to how fast paced and challenging it is, but for some (like myself) that's apart of the joy.

So, I followed this game's development. You probably did, if you're here. The videos the dev made were super popular. The game he was making (this) looked like fun, so I tried the demo, and had a good time. I eventually bought the full game.

The plot is about you being a vampire, and a tyrannical king or something like that. I understand that lots of games like Bloodborne or Ultrakill have vague stories told in passing. The thing with those games is that there's enough going on for there to be a brief synposis, but I can't give you one here. This might be a personal thing, though.

The gameplay on its own is pretty fun. It's a platformer based around speed. Speed is everything. I call this genre of game a "speedrun-lite" because that's what it is. I also played another game like this, Cyber Hook, which I compared this game to a bunch. You can dash at enemies, normal attack them, ground pound them, etc. This consumes blood, which also acts as your health bar, so a good flow is needed for optimal gameplay. The levels time you and rank you based on time. There are also secrets within the levels to help you acquire different weapons.
My problems lie within the gameplay. The levels are too long, mainly. In most games like this, levels are 5-30 seconds long, so if you make a mistake, it's no big deal. Here, they're around a minute to 3 minutes. That doesn't sound like much, but making a mistake and having to redo all of that is very punishing. When the level doesn't direct you properly and you die, that sucks. You're going to get a literal poop metal now. For the most part, the level design is there. There are immensely speedy and fun segments. But there are way more drawn out and nonlinear ones, which just don't work for me.
Another problem I have with level design is these battle arenas. I understand there's variety with the enemies, and this is the only reasonable way to get some of them in, but I honestly wish there was less variety. These battle arenas are straight up not fun, to me at least. This could definitely be a skill issue thing, so if you like these, then that's great! These battle arenas just tend to slow the pace of the game down too much for me.
On the topic of enemy variety, I don't like the tankier enemies. The whole feel of the game is that you're a badass and everyone else is a bumbling idiot. The thing is, certain enemies take too long to lock on, so they can't fit into the fun, speedy segments I was talking about earlier. They're stuck in the battle arenas, which they aren't fun in.
Also, the first world introduces the game and a variety of enemies, but the second world doesn't really. It's sort of weird because the third world introduces tons of fun mechanics, which are saved only for the last couple of levels. I think that sucks! I wish all of the levels had some of these, because they're genuinely a lot of fun. There's only three worlds, so these are saved for the last couple of levels. They aren't evenly distributed across the game like I would have hoped.

I have to give this game some props, though. The overall movement control is phenomenal. It feels very good. The music and SFX is incredibly well done, for an indie game like this. I also like the visual style, it's flashy but somewhat muted the whole time. I feel like this world could be a lot better if it was fleshed out more. When I was watching the development, I thought the different weapons might change the game up too much, but I feel they actually fit in very well.

I really wanted to like this game, but those things just kept me from liking it. I feel bad, because this is objectively a good game. Like, I feel bad giving it a negative review and tarnishing the "All Reviews" a little, because I know Blarg put a lot of effort into this game. I just found myself not enjoying this game, and only being able to beat maybe 2 levels before saying, "if I play any more of this, I'm going to destroy my setup."
This can certainly be chalked up to "mad cuz bad". I have the comments open, you can comment that all you want. I would recommend this game, but I can't get around these issues.