Darksiders III

Well, as big fan of Darksiders 1 and 2 I am disappointed by Darksiders 3. As other mentioned, this game plays more like Soulslike game than the next part of the Darksiders series. Storytelling and jokes are nice, but the world is boring. You don't want (besides of you can't) to travel back and find Abyss armor. You don't want to proceed in the game, because if you turn around the next corner, a normal looking enemy just with a shoulder armor kills you in two hits because he got 10 times stronger because of his shoulder armor. Graphics are good, fighting with Darksiders like controls is okay....if you don't fight against bigger enemies. While fighting against smaller enemies can be fun, bigger enemies....just dodge and counter. And don't forget that the camera will choose always a bad position, if your dodging leads you to a wall. And don't forget to stop pressing any button and pray a bit, so that the game will let you use a health crystal, which will cost you up to 50% of the regenerated health, because you are not allowed to press any button, if you want to use a health crystal. I hope Darksiders 4 will be more like Darksiders 1 or 2.

I like the game a lot and I encourage everyone to maybe look at some gameplay instead of reading these reviews. There's a lot of hate for the game because people can't really appreciate the game anymore if it's not perfect. The controls feel clunky at first but once you get used to it it's quite fluid actually.

I don't understand how this "game" can.. sell.. Very buggy from the start to the exit. Literrally game locks at the start for like few minutes. Also i could not exit from it, it locked in the menu. When you go from zone to zone sometimes it seem to crash but it just locks for almost 2 minutes. Very low effort design of maps and very dark-souls-like fights. Enemies are also dumb AI. They go around and round until you break their loop. In boss fights you have to press buttons in the split of the second to accomplish ANYTHING. And if you die you are waayyy long back respawned. If you don't have a controller avoid this title.

I game this mediocre should not try to be Dark Souls. If you want to make a "difficult" game, your game balance, mechanics, atmosphere and lore have to be close to perfect. Not just B-grade "good-enough". If they made it easier to get through casually I'd probably still be playing. But if they expect me to learn a "difficult" game, I'd rather just play more Dark Souls 3.

Despite the title and the story, this is not Darksiders. This game borrows so heavily from Dark Souls that I question if the developers got the ideas mixed up. I have given the game a decent shot I believe, but I am frustrated with many aspects of the game. I would call myself an average gamer who likes challange, but this is not challange. This is punishment, which I feel was at the core of the Dark Souls and should never be a part of Darksiders. The good so far is very little, as I have been unable to get through much of the game on story mode. I do like the graphics and the look and feel of Fury. Given that I was unable to progress too far, I don't have much else good to say about it. The game starts with hunting Envy. If you are trying to get everything from every nook and crany, like I did with Darksiders 1 & 2, it takes about 15-20 minutes to get to Envy. First time I got there, I was at half health by the time Envy was doing her kamahamaha move. I died because I had no idea what I was doing with no reference to go off of and no clearly blinking ledges of grapple points and the kamahamaha move is an instant kill. I then realized that I had to start over from the begininning of the game with no souls (money). So I spend another 15 minutes gathering all the souls again getting to Envy with some more health and a little more experience only to die again ... and again ... and again. All the while starting over from the beginning. I finally kill Envy with 5% of my health bar left only to immediately be thrown into the nest area and immediately die with all of my souls floating there for me to collect. They drop where you die. Later in the level, this happened right next to the behemoth creature. And every mob between the start of the level and it has respawned and ready to knock off health as I head whip first straight to the same death point and have to do it all over again like some tourturous version of Groundhog's Day. This is Dark Souls, not Darksiders.