I grabbed it at a bargain price, so I can’t really complain. Awaken Astral Blade is, above all, a solid metroidvania. After a few hours with it, I can comfortably recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genre. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel or try to surprise you with anything particularly bold (the story is fairly flat, to be honest), but what it does, it does well. The combo system is interesting and keeps combat

I got bored half way through. MV is one of my favorite genres, and all I ask is that a game to have 3 of any of this 5 things to hook me; good exploration, good visuals, good combat/movement, good story and good music. This game might only have 1, the visuals, but not that good tbh just average it just looks good on SS. Combat and movement is floaty and feels unresponsive when you need it most, enemies are damage

One place where you have to do a special minigame jump sequence to get Black Poppy seed. The walls are marked yellow to show that you can "grab" it. Still a great portion of the character has to touch the wall to trigger the grab mechanic. EFFIN' annoying because the information feedback is of the charts... Even if the characters body slides on the yellow wall gunk you won't grab it. Remove the yellow parts where