Deathbound

Unplayable because of unskippable cringe story sections that can last over 10+ minutes, by that I don't mean cutscenes. I barely care about the story in heavy hitters such as Elden Ring, Sekiro, BloodBorne and you (developers) have the audacity to think that give a crap about your characters, world? I don't care about your stereotypical 40k space marine in knights armor that obsesses about heresy or that assassin with the annoying arrogant British accent. I actually like the gameplay, mechanics but I don't have the patience to sit through and watch character backstories. I want the torture and challenge to be the gameplay not your forgettable story and dialogues.

This is one of the harder soulslikes. The unique mechanic of 'morphing' between characters as you play is initially very confusing and I fumbled with the controls quite a bit before I got used to it. But by the end it was very rewarding as I became a killing machine. There is a story here and it's pretty good. Level design is well done and the graphics are fine. It's not very long and I highly recommend playing some other souls games to get you used to the genre before diving into this one. 8/10