Eastern Exorcist Review (Lightning)
My only experience with BiliBili so far was Warm Snow - which is a great game - and I have to say so far I’m pretty impressed with the quality this company offers. Eastern Exorcist is a great fast-paced action-packed game but it isn’t too deep, nothing near Castlevania standards. There are some Items you get after defeating certain enemies and abilities you get for completing challenges. Challenges are specific stages you can complete using a shrine ( a mechanism similar to Dark souls bonfires), you will have bosses you defeated but they’re tougher and you get rewards based on the time it took you to complete the challenge, beating these challenges makes the game a lot easier as you are given a lot of rewards to upgrade your lvl and abilities. Some of those challenges are introductions to the skills you acquire as if it’s a tutorial. TUTORIALS themselves are annoying and abundant, almost every stage you enter at the start gives you a prompt which doesn’t go away, and in a lot of the challenges and different stages the prompt has a lot of text to read but enemies spawn in and the game doesn’t pause, so you end up taking damage while trying to read. And the animations for enemies spawning, entering combat, leaving combat and so on becomes tedious after a while. The cutscenes even more so. Too many and too slow.
the story itself is average at best and while dark it doesn’t really explore the different ideas it presents, it is simply there to be there.
I was surprised to see there was a second character altogether and a second completely different story and set of items and skills, I also liked the fact that some new challenges appear in playthrough 2.
All in all it was a fun game and it was fun doing the achievements as well. The girl character is way overpowered and easier to play.
TLDR;
Pros:
- Short and sweet
- Nice Visuals
- Fun and smooth gameplay
- Fun bosses with mechanics albeit annoying at times
- Fun challenge system
- Easy 100% achievement
Cons:
- Animations every time entering and leaving combat
- Some cheap enemies
- Lack of music and sound variety
- Poor story and writing