played a bit more last night, current thoughts:
.Combat feels a bit mashy
.The animations are really cool but a bit much for what they're doing
.The DMC Parry is nice but the fact it only works on certain attacks feels silly, it's also too forgiving
.the Castlevania-style monster skills made me lmao

It's a nice looking game so I'll give it longer to cook so I hope ot pulls itself together in terms of the combat.