Anima: Gate of memories

✅ Quite underrated JRPG. Really liked the story. Each bosses had their own backstories which were interesting to read
✅ 2 playable characters, the dialogues between them were interesting and quite funny sometimes
✅ Personally found the combat fun and satisfying
✅ Huge skill tree
✅ Interesting lores
❌ Boss fights are extremely difficult for a game like this. I don't think any average gamers can beat them
❌ There is a section in the game which is horribly designed; everything is dark and you have to pass through platforms where you can barely see anything. It was such a painful experience
❌ Movement/Dodging doesn't feel fluid
❌ Graphics looks dull
❌ Controls feels stiff which makes the platforming difficult

One of the best games in the world!
Anima Gate of Memories, i.e. books that are played and told, and games based on them (now the next part of "Anima: Song from the Abbys" will be released).
The game has a few endings, it is similar to the older Devil May Cry parts, it is not easy, we wander from room to room, opening new paths, figuring out how to get there by opening others/killing bosses, collecting fragments of the story from memories. The game is quite hardcore. There is no difficulty level to choose from.
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It is possible that the studio that created this world is small, because the game mechanics and graphics leave much to be desired, but I think that the focus should not be on this while playing, but on the story, because it can move you to tears, there is no point in playing without reading the notes .
When you read the memories of past personalities, they sound like stories. At the same time, the heroine's sweet voice reads them.
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It was a lot of fun playing through this game and although there was sweat, irritation and I could even get lost, there was also great satisfaction because the world is so interesting and what's more interesting is what will happen next and what is written in subsequent memories that you quickly forget about about the disadvantages of the game, I was extremely stubborn and liked to play it at night xD
The heroine's relationship with her companion is also interesting here. Touching, sad, with some funny moments.
I became very attached to this series and the main characters <3
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It's really hard for me to say goodbye to the characters (although I still have a game plus to play), and at the end of the good ending I felt a bit sad, emotional and nostalgic. Does there always have to be sacrifices in such a beautiful but cruel world?
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As for the books, I saw that there are a lot of them and, if someone has access to them, they can meet many more wonderful characters. It's a pity that this is not so popular in my country (I'm from Poland).
Anyway, there's another game in this series coming up and I definitely need to play it.
If the creators have or will have any future plans to create other games in this series, I will always be open to them.
I'm putting this game on the Top Best Games list and I will never forget about it and the characters <3
Music and story 10/10
PS There is also The Nameless Chronicles game.

📖 Don't let some negative reviews turn you away. It was created by a small team, and for this price it's incredibly fun and impressive in its own way. It's a good ~15h hack'n'slash adventure, definitely inspired by DMC1 and a few other games. For an indie, the environment design is amazing, along with the atmosphere it creates. Good music & well written story. The combat system may seem unusual, but you quickly get used to its speed, it's responsive and even has variability, due to the linking of various skills into combos. There is a lvl system, chars equip and many secrets. Ngl, took me a long time to get to this, but it’s filled with the spirit of pre-twenty tenths games and has a decent amount of fun, despite the slightly rough parts, like the platforming. It works, and it's not even close to bad.

Well made game mechanics.
2000 graphics.
Soundtrack is nice.
Voice acting is nice...with one creepy male voice...which is intended.
Camera is nice.
About the story I still have to see.

Game is fun reminded me of tim burton nightmare before christmas oogie revenge just cos of bearer dodge XD
if you have a itch to play a ps2 style game with voice acting and dialogue from those times as well this is a good game to pick up
even though dialogue can be cringey it can make you laugh sometimes too which is great
looking forward to next game

i like it so far, reminds me of Devil May Cry and that's a yes for me.

𝕊𝕒𝕪 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖; 𝕚𝕥'𝕤 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕪 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖!

Anima: Gate of Memories is a game that's part of a huge universe akin to Warhammer, called Anima, that also spawned a very peculiar card game if you didn't know. Is the game that good?? Well...

The graphics are very Anime-like, but really bad if you look at it from a certain angle, the gameplay mechanics are also not up to par with other third person platformer RPG hybrids... However, the game in itself has got such a good vibe that you'll end up looking past the flaws and enjoying it.

The game takes place in Arcane, you play as the nameless bearer of calamities, a girl who's lost all her memories, accompanied by a demon that manifests himself everytime she opens the Ergo book. The bearer of Calimities, aptly named, is an agent that's deployed by the Church of Abel to take care of very precarious situations in this universe... This time it's a palace that eminates great power, a place called Arcane. When the bearer arrives, she understands right off the bat that Arcane is a multiverse place, that extends beyond the reach of time and space... She also finds out that many top figures of the world, such as the head bishop of the church, Romeo Exxet, and a nameless figure, are in position there trying to forward their own plan for this calamity. The Bearer of Calamities will slowly but surely recover her memories as she fights through the hordes of demons and messengers inside the Arcane.

The game is pretty straightforward from here on out. It kind of almost reminds me of a game I played ages ago called blade of time... Except the bearer has a thicker booty, I mean, she wears better clothes lol. The bearer and the Demon both have their own skilltrees, own healthbar and you can swap between them with the right-click of your mouse. The bearer's magic spells arsenal is much better than her combat skills, and the demon's the opposite, so here you're tasked to make a perfect balance between the two as some enemies take more damage from spells and others take more damage from direct combat.

Another aspect of the game that I loved were the different endings with different specific actions to perform to get them. There's literally a joke ending in NG+ where you basically destroy the last boss in the first few minutes of the game and leave all characters inside of Arcane awed haha... Like, nobody expects you to destroy a hellish creature come to erradicate humanity in the first minutes of the game?

All in all, Anima: Gate of Memories is a 7/10 game with mediocre graphics, mediocre voice-acting BUT a lot of lore and a lot of cryptic things to uncover during exploration! I highly recommend using a guide for this one... Some things you'll just never find out without a guide.