I remember reading a few gamespot reviews for point & click adventure games. Each and every one of them criticized those games for having the game elements typical to a point & click adventure. I distinctly remember one reviewer even wrote "It ended" as the only positive mark in the summary. I'm not sure what the folks at gamespot do these days, but I somehow doubt that it would have much to do with professional games journalism.
And that's the story how I added their site to my blacklist, so I don't read something they wrote by accident.


As for Crossing Souls: Judging from a bit of Let's Play I can't say that I have seen a game that I would describe as similar enough to say "This is like Game X". For the most part it's a top-down brawler with some very limited parkour sections involved in the tutorial. You beat opposing characters to pulp for X screens, then you read through some dialogue, maybe get an animated cartoon cutscene, then back to brawling. The cutscenes reminded me of The Adventures of Willy Beamish with slightly more FPS and much higher resolution. I'll try to avoid spoilers: The story is not as lighthearted as you might expect but has many, many unbelievable 80's cartoon series elements at the same time. A mix that doesn't blend well, in my opinion. However I am pretty picky when it comes to storytelling.
If you were looking for something new and unique with lots of 2D brawling, Crossing Souls might be your jam. If you were looking for a more traditional brawler, I would recommend River City Ransom: Underground.

Oh yeah: And the game is nothing like Soul Calibur! The title it totally misleading. ;D

Is it more like Beyond: Two Souls, then?

... I jest. Thanks for sharing some info about the game. So it's mostly a fighting game? I was expecting more of an Action-Adventure style game, I guess. Are there puzzles, hidden secrets and things like that?

I admit that I cannot speak from personal experience - I didn't have a chance to play the game yesterday - but according to the Kickstarter pitch (yes, I'm a backer) puzzles are supposed to be a pretty important part to it. It's a large part of why you have five different characters - the nerd can hack into things, the big guy can move heavy objects, that kind of thing.

It seems you can find about 12(?) hidden cassette tapes by... exploring the environment with your fists. In the review build they didn't unlock any tracks - they where just collectables. If there are more complicated puzzles I haven't seen any of them in the roughly 45 minutes of footage I watched. It all seemed pretty linear to me. On the other hand, maybe both me and the YouTuber were just blind/stupid. You can never rule that possibility out completely. :)

You should get at least a second opinion if the screenshots look appealing to you.

That small fact would've been my next argument.
;)

It's a neat game set in an era from quite a few years ago, although of course in no way historically accurate, and it's marred by some difficult-to-master game mechanics and a rather absurd save system that forces you to repeat chunks of the game when (not if) you die.

In short, it's Kingdom Come without the bugs, without the delay, without the system requirements, without the crappy publisher and without the rage of the fucked backers. Thumbs up.

I think I still may never get through that Double Dragon sequence thingie. :|

Wasn't one of the main things of Dark Souls that you're... well... dead?

:P

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Looks really interesting. I think I'll have to watch some gameplay to see if it's something for me. I hate that most trailers don't tell you anymore what the games are about -.-

Duh. :P

Undead, if anything. But I'm pretty sure they meant perma-death in the sense that you lose all progress when you die, which was never a thing in the Souls series. Punishment for death is actually more forgiving than it is in various classics, such as the popular Diablo 2. ( Which was likely one of From Software's inspirations, when they created Dark Souls. ) In example, you never lose any of your equipment, or other items you picked up.