>>11876821metroidvania in gameplay but the art direction and vibes are all dark and shit
in the game, voodoo is real, everybody goes to a place called deadside when they die, and the player character Mike LeRoi can transport between the worlds
in deadside (and at night in liveside) he becomes an immortal voodoo warrior called Shadow Man, his gun fires wraiths, and he collects all manner of voodoo weaponry/tools across the game, like a skeletal arm holding fire, a rattle made of spinal cord and a skull, a ceremonial baton
the big bad is Legion, the demon from the Bible, only he's way more badass here, he recruits Jack the Ripper in 1888 to kill himself and build him a cathedral to pain in deadside, where he collects the Dark Souls, essences of pure evil that the ancients sealed away, fearing their power
Legion has his minions, horrific pigmen and monstrous surgeons, collect deadsiders and stitch them together into giant monsters powered by dark souls to cross over to liveside and kill everything
Shadow Man has to find the dark souls before Legion does and kill his lieutenants before finally laying the smack down on the big man himself
the anesthetic is unmatched, dark, unsettling, dripping with cool, with some of the best music and sound design in the game
oh yeah, and there's a snake with a skull for a head wearing a top hat. his name is Jaunty. he's Irish.