Eastern Exorcist

Eastern Exorcist is a side-scrolling action RPG from China. It's... pretty standard, actually. It really just has the basic stuff you find in such a game - movement, jumping, double jumping, regular and charged attacks, a block, a parry, a dodge, and associated counter-attacks. There is also some extra focus put on a timing system, where attacking at just the right time during some actions unleashes an extra powerful attack. There's some level-up system and extra abilities you can unlock, but it doesn't seem to really change how you play.

The game felt quite bad for several reasons. The art doesn't look that good in motion, and either the translation is bad, the story is boring and not very coherent, or a bit of both. Maybe I'm biased, but it's only voiced in Chinese, and I can't take that language seriously.
On the more important gameplay side though, the combat isn't just kind of bland, it's also rather badly designed. I think there's a reason the trailer only shows 3 second clips of combat, because spamming your attacks any longer causes you to run out of stamina, unable to react to the enemy. I have nothing against games incentivizing gameplay where you can't just button mash to win, but the enemies act so rarely here, that if it weren't for your stamina running out, you could get a lot more hits in. So for a considerable duration of the fight, you're just having a staring contest with the enemy, waiting, which really makes the combat feel bad. A lot of the enemy design is also made in a way that forces you to use special attacks instead of spamming, because your normal attacks just do literally no damage. This seems like a lazy bandaid to cover up poorly designed enemies.

Overall, a game with little variety, little innovation, and unappealing execution in pretty much all aspects. There's so many better games in even just this genre, I really don't see a reason to recommend playing this.