uninteresting game, far to difficult, terrible controls, gave up before I wasted too much time on this ms paint game.

I know what its trying to do, its trying to be a certain type of vania on a certain type of poorly lit souls, but I refuse to type the proper terms in to give this offering the proper search keywords

it favours difficulty over anything else, and thats not a hole i'm going to go down at all these days, so its a fault right there

The controls, and there are many of them, suffers from the same fault all games have when they have 10 controls, and that is "what button to press" If I need to jump, what results is a button press mashing event every 20-30 seconds to find the desired control and play with it.

It does keep the same ability to 'just run past the enemies', but I dont know what i'm running to

There may be loads of lore and story, but after just under an hour of play, I was not aware of any of it, nor would I care about it, its just a retro game of uninteresting response from me, which is a shame, as i'm sure its someone tried really hard to make a VGA game for the current 202x age, but just didnt decide to make it fun to play, rather than rely on the meme of difficulty over 'gud'

old gameplay memes like "the monsters respawn after you rest at the holy bonfire" just makes my heart sink of another pointless gameplay element intended to lengthen the time taken to get from point A to point B. DS2 had a novel twist on this, which I am not going to explain what this was, as it would alleviate required research, but it was reversed with the bonfire pumpkin. That novel addition made the game at least playable and the grinding was rewarded. I'm not sure if such a mechanic exists in "BS" but no information was given, its not going to get found out.

The same attribute on death also applies to the little sliver of theft to the players "MP" bar. I dont know if BS calls it something else, if it did it was forgettable, so its the "MP" bar. Why? why tf does the game have to steal this asset from me when the player dies due to bad gameplay and level concepts? I did not agree to this. it feels so cheap when the game stoops so low to ideas attempted and done and tried before. Why can't the game have something new and novel in it for a new gameplay experience

no. I have places to be. 1/10