Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Steam Charts & Stats

This game surprised me, amazing art, fun gameplay and great music

Brings you back to PS2 era, good atmosphere and interesting gameplay. Can get monotonous at the end after new game plus but the game does not force you to 100% and still it hits my personal sweetspot of about 40~ hours game time. Recommended.

Insane to see a game this original from a major studio. I absolutely love this game. It's not the easiest one to play for me, but I still enjoyed it very much. This is a game you should most definitely BUY, instead of playing it from the Game Pass.

Incredible game, highest quality product you've never heard of. The monster design alone is with every penny I paid for it holy shit.

the gameplay is creative, as in I have never played such a game creative, a good mix of action and strategy element, while the gameplay loop is largely the same, there's enough of a twist each stage to keep you engaged until the end, the Japanese youkai and shrine theme is brilliant, I can't recommend this enough

This feels like a very successful proof of concept game. I'm having a great time playing as is but what makes me really love it is the path it carves (pun intended) for an even larger scale and more fleshed out version. Not sure if there is a plan for something like this or if I'm alone in this line of thinking, but I feel this game could be essentially added to a game such as a Ghost of Tsushima. Keep GoT as is but add in the tower defense element and assigning roles to various villagers. Either way, this game is great as-is.

Highly recommended! A delightful combination of a tower defense style game with action combat. The upgrade system enables some pretty robust build craft and the combat is surprisingly solid. Missions are broken up into two kinds boss battles and movement across a map. Boss battles are pretty standard but represent milestones and unlocks, whereas the complexity and the uniqueness in the game lies within the maps. The maps present secrets and unlockables that further increase build variety, they are also quite varied, for instance caves, fighting on sea, and on terraces. Some offer meaning path choices for a different experience.

8 out of 10 Game play is a blend of tower defense and character action. The story is show don't tell and works fine. The villagers show character by doing little jigs or yelling and it's fun. Minor negatives are: The lock on system is tuned to tower defense logic so your ranged attacks will prioritize based on enemy type instead of your camera position and melee attack are faster than re-targeting. Minor UI issue in that the level select doesn't show completed challenges, making it a challenge to find them. The amount of content is OK, but the game could do with an additional mechanic, level type or a game mode. Bloody palace? No reviving villagers? Rogue like mode? The game is somewhat lacking in difficulty.

Kunitsu-gami has a much smaller scale compared to other Capcom releases but it's still a neat game with great music and visuals. The gameplay loop can get a bit repetitive if you play long sessions but it doesn't overstay it's welcome. It takes about 17 hours to complete your first playthrough, there is a true ending with a secret boss but you have to play through the whole game again in NG+, personally I don't feel there's enough replayability for me to want to do that just for a new ending. Though I'm sure there's people out there who would end up liking the gameplay more than I did. Overall I definitely recommend it at full price if you dig the aesthetics etc. , if you're not THAT interested you should probably wait for a sale.

There is little that can bring more joy into me than a game that vibrates with creativity, originality and soul. Kunitsu-Gami wins in each front. I cannot overstate how charming, beautiful and pleasing this game is to the senses. The presentation, which seeks to bring to life a traditional Bunraku, is such a feast to the eyes and ears. Don't be fooled by the camera perspective, the models and environments are ridiculously detailed and well made. The general art direction is gorgeous and supremely colorful, just top notch craftmanship. There is no dialogue in game, relying on pure visual storytelling and the movements of the "actors" to transmit the emotions and goings on, and it's such a refreshing thing to see. Despite nearly everyone being a masked individual or a monster, the expressive animations and designs have so much character and personality to make up for it greatly. The music compliments the presentation, with a general focus on chants and traditional instruments, which means that the few times a guitar creeps in, it has that much impact to hype you up. Now, this is a game you play and do stuff, so how's that? Well, incredibly solid and rounded. This is a curious mix of Pikmin and Character Action, where you rescue and recruit villagers to defend a Goddess as you clear a path to cleanse Torii gates to beat stages. The day and night cycle give you a reasonable amount of time to explore, prepare and prioritize playstyles, with some classes being better to defend positions, others to roam, or to stay in chokepoints. Mages, ranged attacks and special novelty classes compliment the melee grunts, and different traps or structures can be fixed by a carpenter to slow down enemies or give your minions advantages, such as a totem buffer. The game starts with a very linear design, but eventually new branches, extra spawners, new move-sets to the sword, different special skills and potential mixtures of perks can greatly expand the potential scenarios, strategies and challenges. Every chapter has unique layouts, new enemies and at times, unique set pieces that spice things up. The set up phase gives you just enough time to prepare, giving you a choice of halting progress in the stage to ensure maximizing the odds in your favor, or going head on offensively dancing on the knife edge. You are given great agency to plan as you see fit, and with the ability to respec skills in the camps, experimentation is greatly rewarded. Nighttime and Boss battles are the best stuff in the game, with your plan of defense succeeding in great fashion or giving you a thrill of a lifetime waiting for the sun to rise. It's hard enough to require you to actually invest and proactively engage with the mechanics and learn the combat, but not difficult enough to be frustrating or tedious. I can only think of two nitpicks, which are base repairs and the final boss. I find the procedure a bit annoying due to the need to walk to the structures, and the final boss will catch you off guard without anti-air moves equipped. Other than that, nothing really. I also find a select few of the stage challenges to be harder than others and a bit cumbersome to fulfill. All in all, I loved this game, it was such a godly breath of fresh air and I will come back to fully complete it as soon as I'm done with this review.