Thymesia

Thymesia’s combat is quite enjoyable and pretty satisfying, especially when you get your parries and claw attacks right. The lack of stamina is one of the biggest differences between Thymesia and soulsborne games, but that’s balanced by the fact that some enemies can’t be interrupted, nor staggered.

Thymesia is a solid Souls-like hack-and-slash action-RPG that delivers in most areas with a moderate degree of competence. However, in those few areas where it attempts to innovate, it never seems to fully find its footing.

Thymesia is a great Souls-like with its own unique twists and turns. The fighting mechanics are faster-paced than the combat in Dark Souls, but all in all, the game still remains a copy of the original and this remains noticeable throughout.

Thymesia is a game that has a story as complex as the pronunciation of the title itself. If a brutally tough game that puts your reflexes, memory and patience to the test like many Dark Souls-type games then there is some joy for you here. The combat is tricky to master but fast and fluid. If you are willing to commit yourself to the game and repetition doesn’t phase you then I would recommend you try this out.

Despite being a solid Bloodborne imitation, Thymesia carries over common issues in other Soulslikes. It's a great challenge for Bloodborne fans and offers the potential for exciting gameplay, but it weighs itself down with complicated and poorly implemented mechanics.

Thymesia embodies the ever-rising popularity of the Soulslike genre incredibly well. As an indie Soulslike, it knows it can’t necessarily be as big and as bold as its source material, but it also doesn’t want to simply be written off as a sub-par copy of something that’s already been done. And the end result is something kinda-sorta in-between of those two things.