The Last Faith is perhaps the closest thing fans will ever get to a 2D Bloodborne, and developer Kumi Souls errs more on the "vania" side of Metroidvania thanks to injecting The Last Faith with a dark, Gothic atmosphere and emphasis on melee combat.
Along with Blasphemous 2, The Last Faith is one of the best indie Metroidvanias to release in a year that was stacked with quality entries in the genre. The Last Faith is perhaps the closest thing fans will ever get to a 2D Bloodborne, and developer Kumi Souls errs more on the "vania" side of Metroidvania thanks to injecting The Last Faith with a dark, Gothic atmosphere and emphasis on melee combat. If there is a flaw to the game, it's that it doesn't innovate as much as it refines, but The Last Faith successfully combines several disparate elements of its various influences to become something greater than the sum of its parts.