THE GAME DELETED MY SAVE GAME. DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS NONSENSE. Cloud save is gone too. Absolutely soul crushing for a souls like game. Never had this nonsense in a game before. I strongly warn you against this game. I wish I could refund it as it was a waste of my money.

8.5

The Last Faith is a game I wish I could like more than I have. It has some of the strengths of the properties it is influenced by (namely Bloodborne and Castlevania) but it also falls into their possible weaknesses. Like Bloodborne, it tries to provide background history and story fragmentally and obscurely. However, I just didn't feel like it all came together coherently. I got the gist of things, but the prose for the majority of the game's writing felt obtuse to the point of parody to me. I appreciated the gothic setting but I wish it wasn't the entirety of the game. And keeping the same color palette for most of the maps made a majority of the game feel monotonous. The 2-3 maps where they do change it up was very refreshing. From the Castlevania side, my biggest gripe was a lack of a speed-boosting ability. The entire map of the game is impressively large but it's such a slog to have to backtrack through at your regular pace.

That being said, there are a fair amount of things I did like. The sprite work is pretty damn great. The music is good. I appreciate that it had voice work for all the characters. The setting and lore has a good foundation, even if I didn't feel that it wrapped up effectively. Bosses are a bit of a toss up. I liked them mechanically (besides the story's final secret one), but I wish there weren't so many "large bat-like thing" bosses. There are at least one or two that definitely did impress me.

Overall, it's a 5-6/10 for me - average to just above average. Not bad. It is a fairly good game that gets brought down by several issues. That being said, I am interested to see what Kumi Souls Games produces next.