Revisiting a From Software classic
It's hard to remember that there was a time for From Software before Demon's Souls and all that followed. The studio's output over the last decade has dwarfed everything in the decade before it, and it's not hard to see why. Each of its recent games have been genre defining behemoths many wouldn't hesitate to call masterpieces. Whole genres live in the shadow of Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, reshaped in their image.
This rooting in real beliefs and folklore gives Kuon a richness not easily replicated. Its ideas are so intricately woven, lending its supernatural story a coherence players can ground themselves in. Fans of Demon's Souls and onward will find much to appreciate in Kuon's dense, overlapping mythology and Sekiro players will even recognise elements like monstrous apes and overgrown centipedes.
Gently paced as the game is moment to moment, the story has a real momentum to it and brings its slow burning story to a fiery crescendo. Each campaign quickens in pace, with the first being the longest and the last completable in a single hour. It's a drive that compliments a genuinely compelling mystery, with each new perspective reframing everything before it and gently leading us from what appears to be a straightforward horror story into something multifaceted in meaning.
The third, unlockable character is perhaps the game's most subversive. Abe no Seimei was a real historical figure and importantly, a man. Yet in Kuon, this legendary onmyōji is a woman. While Utsuki is suffocated by patriarchal authority and Sakuya must constantly assert her ability to work among her male peers, Seimei is powerful and transcends tradition. Her campaign literally stands apart from the established balance of Yin and Yang.
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