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Each weapon can be acquired either by “reaving” it from an enemy as a one-time use thing or by unlocking them with crystals the enemies drop. The most notable of these differences is the plague weapon system, which allows the player to take a page out of their enemies’ various books to mix in with the more standard combos. I will grant that this not an egregious copycat move the way the story is – there’s nothing wrong with games taking gameplay cues from one another if something just works, and in any case Thymesia does do a few original things that set it apart from its forebears.

The similarities do not end there Corvus’ design very obviously resembles the signature stylings of one of FromSoft’s Hunters, and the combat takes many cues from Bloodborne by being fast-paced and brutal, with an emphasis placed on countering and dodging enemies rather than blocking them to create openings.

The plague in question turns anything it infects into violent, bloodthirsty beasts, and was seemingly the direct result of tampering by Hermes’ top medical practitioners, a setup that should sound very familiar indeed to fans of Bloodborne. The story follows a man named Corvus, an amnesiac alchemist attempting to find the cure to the plague decimating the kingdom of Hermes within his own memories scattered across it.

OverBorder Studio’s Thymesia is the latest souls-like to be released (as of the time of this writing and probably not for much longer) into the wild and highly saturated modern video game market, but where many of its contemporaries feel merely inspired by FromSoftware’s ubiquitous formula (their Fromula, if you will), Thymesia feels more like a proper rip-off of Bloodborne specifically.

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Developer: OverBorder Studio Publisher: Team17 Genre: Souls-Like Reviewed On: PlayStation 5 Also Available For: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S

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