As previously mentioned the trailer gave me a Prince of Persia feeling, and as soon as you start to play the game, you will see the inspiration taken from it and Ubisofts other title Assassin’s Creed. From the locations you visit, the combat, the movement and small puzzles you can see it in every aspect – which isn’t a bad thing and these franchises are great ones to take inspiration from.

The game comes with a number of modes, which gives you a full single player campaign, raids, and a sandbox area – with a MR mode being listed on the menu as ‘coming soon’. Campaign mode gives you fifteen levels in five different locations as you hunt down the Ember Souls and level your abilities and stats. Raid mode is sort of a roguelite mode, which will randomly generate maps, giving you reason to keep returning and playing more after the campaign. Finally the sandbox area just gives you the chance to practice with games swords, shields, ranged weapons and very slick movement system.

When it comes the combat it leans towards fun more than full on physics based, even if you alter the weapon weighting in the settings. However, while it keeps the more fun hack-and-slash feeling to combat, it can still be visceral as you take off heads and limbs with swings of your swords, block and parry attacks and throw daggers into unsuspecting enemies. Add to this the different powers you are granted that can see you freeze time, fire energy pulses from your hand and slow down time, as you take on humans, demons, skeletons and bats on your way. But, with these powers and how it all works it does leave you thinking that, if this was full on physics based combat it could have been even better.