Posted on: December 10, 2018
bobalima
Verified ownerGames: 136 Reviews: 2
Excellent Continuation Darksiders
Much like the other Darksiders games this game mimics the gameplay of other popular 3D titles of its day. Although I've never played any of the Souls games it seems reminiscent in its mechanics of respawning at checkpoints and having to fight your way back to your currency that you dropped upon death. Personally I think this added to the frustration of the game, but some people may like it due to the added difficulty. I found the character design stellar and very well thought out. I constantly found my expectations being defied to delightful surprise. The story is great as well. They very much compliment each other as they ought to. Characters grow, learn, and change. Gameplay is good, the controls are tight and dodging feels good. The game is incredibly difficult when you start it, even on a relatively easy difficulty but it gets better once you start to get better at the game. Puzzles are fun and not impossible to solve, although two puzzles late in the game were a bit aggravating. My only criticism is that the swinging mechanic was a bit unintuitive even though in game text described how to do it, it took me several tries to figure out what I had to do. Additionally there's a run button (left-stick click on an XBox 360 controller) that is required for a few puzzles that was never referred to in game that I could recall. Perhaps very early on. 1.0 was very buggy, and caused multiple crashes. Updating my drivers helped, but really 1.1 made the game much more stable. Still it crashed after a difficult boss fight and forced me to do the thing all over again. All in all I think the game is worth it, especially when all the bugs are ironed out. Good work THQ Nordic for reviving the series and giving us fans the hope that we'll see all 4 horsemen.
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