- Publisher: SCEE , Sony Interactive Entertainment , PlayStation Studios
- Release Date: Aug 29, 2025
- Also On: PC
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Oct 15, 2025The saddest thing about Lost Soul Aside is not the final product as a game, but the individual elements that show how the game could have been better with more focus and polish. Making games is tough, and after ten years of wait, this one proves it.
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Sep 23, 2025Lost Soul Aside is a particularly frustrating case. Yang Bing and his team have managed to create flashy and quite fun action game full of mostly well-designed boss fights, nice graphics and great music. But nearly everything else around it is so hollow and tedious that it was hard to muster the energy to see it through to the end. And I apologize for nitpicking about the price, but when a game drains roughly 70 euros from your wallet, certain aspects really should be in a much better state.
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Sep 10, 2025Clearly, there’s a reasonably compelling hack’n’slash buried under the rubble of Lost Soul Aside’s B-movie ambitions. But you will repeatedly conclude that you don’t have the energy to sift its gold nuggets from the unattractive grit in between.
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Sep 4, 2025Lost Soul Aside can only ever be the sum of its parts. I wish I could play a version of the game that worked with its combat, rather than simply letting the sole good element of the game buoy an otherwise disappointing experience. That game doesn’t exist, and so it’s impossible to recommend Lost Soul Aside – precisely because of all its frustrating promise. This version isn’t worth the heartache.
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Aug 31, 2025Passion and ambition don't always equal quality. Lost Soul Aside has plenty of ideas, but no vision to put them together. Instead, it settles for a muddled selection of borrowed mechanics, tied together by disastrously bad writing and acting.
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Aug 29, 2025A flashy and demanding character action game with challenging boss fights and plenty of combo freedom, but undermined by a generic story, shallow characters, and uneven polish. Fans of precise, skill-driven combat may enjoy its encounters — everyone else will likely struggle to look past its flaws.
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Sep 13, 2025Its fun, its not perfect, but you fight against Knights of the Zodiac!
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Aug 28, 2025We're torn on Lost Soul Aside. On one hand, it's a very intricately made action game, full of interesting combat dynamics backed by an impressive degree of player expression. But on the other, it's a pseudo RPG with a really poor story, crappy characters, and a forgettable world. Right now, it's looking like a cautious recommendation for action afficionados, but we'll have to see how the rest of the package shakes out. [Review in Progress]