Don't know where to start. This game suffers from a poor design in almost every aspect, especially world navigation. There're lots of situations when you intuitively want to rotate your camera to observe all those quite beautiful surroundings or simply check where are you supposed to jump. But there's just NO camera rotation in Lords of Shadow. Simple as that. Developers think like you're playing on Playstation 1 or PSP or something otherwise I can't explain why the hell you're not using second analog in 2010 game O_O

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Another frustrating thing. Sometimes core mechanics of the game, such as pillars and jumping just DON'T WORK as they've been working for entire game before.
Throughout the game you can hold the RT when turning the pillars and the game doesn't care. You don't actually need to hold it, but the game carries on regardless. But in the clock tower, if you hold RT, the pillar stops revolving after a second for no obvious reason. Only place in the game that does it.
And here, in the very Epilogue, this is the only place you have to tap the direction and jump simultaniously, rather than holding left and tapping jump like everywhere else.
You might ask "is that such a serious problem?" And I'd answer Hell yeah, because Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is really really difficult game at it's core with lots of bizarre puzzles and trials, so it's EXTREMELY important to make sure the game works stable throughout player's walkthrough, because as long as it doesn't, many annoying situations will happen when player can't understand, is it HE who sucks, or is it the GAME which doesn't work properly.

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Although combat system is pretty solid, you're probably gonna use 2-3 combos through the whole game for the sake of it's efficiency and simplicity.
Story contains a lot of fantasy cliché. The main character is literally Anakin Skywalker, lol.
Soundtrack can be really good sometimes, I'll give them that.
Voice actors did an amazing job too. Scottish accent of Robert Carlyle is a music to my ears! :D And of course, the Legend Patrick Stewart doing his thing. Lovely.

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In conclusion, it's a shame that LoS could be much better than it is. This title has quite a lot of strengths, such as an amazing atmosphere (it includes soundtrack, visuals, characters) and decent combat system. But the whole experience eventually become ruined because of issues i've listed.
If you're really into some dark fantasy and you love God of War - you might give it a try, but you should be aware of design issues and be ready to use YouTube at least couple of times.

[h1] 💀Hell of a terrible game design💀 [/h1] Don't know where to start. This game suffers from a poor design in almost every aspect, especially world navigation. There're lots of situations when you intuitively want to rotate your camera to observe all those quite beautiful surroundings or simply check where are you supposed to jump. But there's just [b]NO camera rotation[/b] in Lords of Shadow. Simple as that. Developers think like you're playing on Playstation 1 or PSP or something otherwise I can't explain why the hell you're not using second analog in 2010 game O_O [hr][/hr] Another frustrating thing. Sometimes core mechanics of the game, such as pillars and jumping just [b]DON'T WORK[/b] as they've been working for entire game before. Throughout the game you can hold the RT when turning the pillars and the game doesn't care. You don't actually need to hold it, but the game carries on regardless. But in the clock tower, if you hold RT, the pillar stops revolving after a second for no obvious reason. Only place in the game that does it. And here, in the very Epilogue, this is the only place you have to tap the direction and jump simultaniously, rather than holding left and tapping jump like everywhere else. You might ask "is that such a serious problem?" And I'd answer [b] Hell yeah[/b], because Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is really really difficult game at it's core with lots of bizarre puzzles and trials, so it's [b]EXTREMELY[/b] important to make sure the game works stable throughout player's walkthrough, because as long as it doesn't, many annoying situations will happen when player can't understand, is it [b]HE[/b] who sucks, or is it the [b]GAME[/b] which doesn't work properly. [hr][/hr] Although combat system is pretty solid, you're probably gonna use 2-3 combos through the whole game for the sake of it's efficiency and simplicity. Story contains a lot of fantasy cliché. [spoiler] The main character is literally Anakin Skywalker, lol. [/spoiler] Soundtrack can be really good sometimes, I'll give them that. Voice actors did an amazing job too. Scottish accent of Robert Carlyle is a music to my ears! :D And of course, the Legend Patrick Stewart doing his thing. Lovely. [hr][/hr] In conclusion, it's a shame that LoS could be much better than it is. This title has quite a lot of strengths, such as an amazing atmosphere (it includes soundtrack, visuals, characters) and decent combat system. But the whole experience eventually become ruined because of issues i've listed. If you're really into some dark fantasy and you love God of War - you might give it a try, but you should be aware of design issues and be ready to use YouTube at least couple of times.