![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, you arguably don’t need to, either. ![]() I just couldn’t ever seem to lock in and engage with it. The big problem is that because The Last Faith feels so familiar, from the atmosphere and movement to the appearance of the main character and the enemy design, I kept struggling to invest in the story. Now, while this is cause for celebration – and I’ll say right away that fans of the genre should just play it, no questions asked – it is a little bit double-edged. Because what The Last Faith actually is, is the closest thing to a new Castlevania we’ve had since Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night in 2019. Then I kept leaning into it until I was fucking lying down in it, making snow angels in a heap of bonemeal and zombie guts. I assumed, wrongly as it turned out, that it was another Blasphemous-style exercise in self-flagellation that I’d only stop playing when one of us was dead. So allow me to add to the pile-up with SoulsVania, which is the best way to sum-up what The Last Faith is in a single phrase.Ī little research might have gone a long way here but I went into The Last Faith with zero expectations and within the first half hour felt a little unimpressed. Not to mention confusing, as they are, after all, a bunch of made up words concocted by smashing a couple of genres together. These days the lines between Metroidvanias, souslikes, roguelites, and soulsbornes is becoming blurrier and blurrier. ![]()
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