Posted on: September 23, 2022

MotherKojiro

Games: 481 Reviews: 196

An Excellent Mix

You won't see much of anything new in this Action-Adventure, but like Wild Arms before it, what it does is take elements from many other games and put them together into the ultimate experience. Many would compare it to a 3D Zelda, but where Zelda is lacking is mobility and combat. Darksiders takes that from the likes of Devil May Cry, so the exploration and puzzle solving feel really good. It doesn't stop there, either; there are tons of different sets of collectibles to find, but their numbers are very reasonable, and unlike your typical Collect-a-Thon, each item has value of its own; not just a prize waiting for you once you finally collect the whole set, though you'll usually get that, too. There are some light RPG elements, mainly upgrading your weapons by damaging enemies with them, and while that does get grindy at times, maxing them out is fairly reasonable overall, especially with certain exploits. I highly recommend those exploits, too, because where the grinding ceases to be reasonable is the shop; you're going to need a LOT of scratch to get everything. The controls are also a bit unresponsive at time, and sometimes the challenge has weirdly high spikes, but you know where the challenge isn't? Bad minigames. You'll have a Rail Shooter section, and a few places where Third-Person Shooter mode is highly recommended, and that's about it; would've been nice to be able to switch to mouse and keyboard just for those, but they weren't terrible. The music isn't that memorable, and the story is so GRITTY GRIMDARK that it's unintentionally silly at times, but never quite reaches the level of God of War. If you're into Action or Action-Adventure, I highly recommend this.

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Posted on: May 26, 2023

CarChris

Games: 171 Reviews: 86

Really enjoyable, it flows well.

Very good game, mostly action with minimal RPG aspects. I have to say that from the very first battles it resembled to me something between Kingdoms of Amalur and the Prototype games, in the flow of movements, and the environments! Very addictive gameplay. I was barely able to stop at each gaming session. No side quests, though. You move towards the main mission, learning (and buying) skills and other stuff along the way. There are also many platform sections (climb here, jump there), many environmental riddles (levers, throw bombs, rearrange beams etc.) and some mini games. Nothing too difficult, but some can be annoying, especially after a few deaths and repetitions. A certain level of attention and precision (and thinking) is required. The plot is simple enough, but there are also some twists. From the very start you grow to sympathize with War and fight with him, as he is hunted by all, in his endeavor to clear his name. The excellent voice acting contributes too. There is manual saving, but it saves only your condition, not your location too. You’ll continue after the previous checkpoint (and not from where you may have reached), so I used the manual saving only when I needed to stop playing, after reaching a checkpoint. The checkpoints are very often, so no big deal. As a negative, I consider the fact that you are required obligatorily to return to most areas of the game to search for special hidden items for the main mission, just before the end battle (and as the blood courses through your veins, as you’re preparing yourself for the final battle)! Thankfully though, in all cases these special hidden items aren’t far from that area’s teleporter. Secondly, as you traverse the areas again, you can also overcome certain obstacles (to find collectables), for which you lack the necessary artifacts the first time you pass through there. I think that was needless. These artifacts should have been made available earlier. Nevertheless, VERY addictive game! 20 h for me

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Posted on: March 3, 2025

Hydraxan

Verified owner

Games: 96 Reviews: 3

Imitation is Flattery

Darksiders one copies a lot of game mechanics from a vareity of popular games. From what I recall, you get a hookshot at one point, and basically a portal gun at another. I have no issues with this; As the saying goes "Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery". Darksiders itself plays like a more accessable Devil May Cry - speaking as someone who didn't finish those games, but got all the way through this game. From what I recall, the original unremastered edition doesn't work on my computer. The software is just too old. This version is almost completely flawless from what I remember, except for the audio being out-of-whack in some cutscenes. While I got bored of Darksiders 2, I am coming back to Darksiders 1 to play it again. It's quite fun.

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Posted on: September 8, 2020

Glaw343

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Games: 307 Reviews: 3

Great game, warmaster has fixable issue

I thoroughly enjoyed the game, warmastered edition does look a lot better, the only issue I've come across is that the 1080p cutscenes in the warmastered edition are in 5.1 and for some reason will not sum to stereo, this means that while you hear dialogue within the cutscenes perfectly with headphones on, explosions and various sound effects sound kind of like removing the front left and right speakers from a surround sound system with strange panning (in game audio levels checked and tested with bluetooth headphones and wired headphones using my audio interface and motherboard audio, all had the same issue, in game audio was perfect) if you have this problem, look online and you can download the "fixed" videos and just replace them with the ones in the videos folder of the game (there are about 60 video files in the games video folder, the download will contain the 56 you need to replace, if you don't want to download them the same place that has the download will show you how to modify your existing ones, alternatively you could use the old 720p videos and they should work fine but it's a shame to not take advantage of the improvements the 1080p cutscenes give you would be 5 stars but it was irritating to have to mess around with it, probably fine if you're using a 5.1 system or surround sound headphones

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Posted on: October 29, 2024

Dik_Toxic

Verified owner

Games: 89 Reviews: 4

God of War X Zelda

A game from the golden era before activist developers. A medium well mastered by a civilization before our time. Embark on an epic quest as a one of the four Horseman, War A.K.A. Apocolypse Link, to clear your name after being framed for triggering the end of the world. And by triggering, I mean starting a chain of events that lead to the end of the world, not that the end of the world was offended by something that War said. Uncover secrets, solve puzzles, sever limbs and organs through a very satisfying play loop inching your way towards redemption. Marvel at the perfect casting of characters such as The Watcher. A meddling, controling, delusional and errelevant pest flawlessly brought to life by Mark Hamil. Darksiders was truly underappreciated in it's own time due to the onslaught of games dripping with awesomeness releasing every other day. Such fool we were, thinking that we could sustain this sacred artform in perpetuaty. It's the end times my friends. So strike a deal with Vulgrim and download Darksiders today.

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