A bit on the short side, but considering the whole point of the game is allowing for multiple runs with different playstyles, routes and ways to deal with certain circumstances, that's not really a big issue. Well, that and it's just an early access title for now.

What's already here is absolutely stellar, the game world feels genuinely lived in, athmosphere and sound design are some of the best I've seen recently, the graphics are tastefully retro and feel like something right out of the late 90's to early 2000's, and it's just really fun to sneak around and avoid enemies. I'm getting quite a bit of slowdown when setting the lighting options to normal (or above in case of dynamic shadows), but I suppose that's getting fixed in the next patch, and it's easy to just turn down some settings in the meantime.

One complain I do have is that blocking with the canesword is pretty useless, considering most enemy melee attacks can be avoided by just walking backwards, and that makes combat quite trivial, when it's meant to be a "last resort" sort of deal.

But overall, New Blood still hasn't made a bad game. Really excited to see this one evolve.

A bit on the short side, but considering the whole point of the game is allowing for multiple runs with different playstyles, routes and ways to deal with certain circumstances, that's not really a big issue. Well, that and it's just an early access title for now. What's already here is absolutely stellar, the game world feels genuinely lived in, athmosphere and sound design are some of the best I've seen recently, the graphics are tastefully retro and feel like something right out of the late 90's to early 2000's, and it's just really fun to sneak around and avoid enemies. I'm getting quite a bit of slowdown when setting the lighting options to normal (or above in case of dynamic shadows), but I suppose that's getting fixed in the next patch, and it's easy to just turn down some settings in the meantime. One complain I do have is that blocking with the canesword is pretty useless, considering most enemy melee attacks can be avoided by just walking backwards, and that makes combat quite trivial, when it's meant to be a "last resort" sort of deal. But overall, New Blood still hasn't made a bad game. Really excited to see this one evolve.