Lords of the Fallen Game of the Year Edition 2014

It's very good game. Don't read negative reviews. Lies. Try it.

It's okay if you don't find this review helpful as you may disagree with my thoughts, but I just want to share my experience with the game. It's a typical Dark Souls clone and, since it was made in 2014, it shares a lot of elements with that series. You have crystal campfires, leveling up based on certain key stats, bosses, suicide runs for items, and so on. Armor weight affects rolling and dodging ability. Pretty much everything you would expect from the first couple of Dark Souls titles. The story is just kind of generic fantasy - overly ambitious guy wants to take evil out of the word but messes up everything after doing so. Nothing groundbreaking, though I did like the environments in the game world. The levels were designed fairly well but recycled a bit too much. I could live with the passable story if the gameplay were more exciting, but it just isn't. Everything seems to move at quarter speed by design. Even the first Dark Souls felt more fluid [a better point of reference might be Dark Souls 2 actually!], which surprised me. You have to adjust to this and give yourself an additional 4-5 seconds just to take a swig of your health potion; this also means you have to be extremely careful about when to take a swing since it's REALLY easy to get interrupted by a boss or enemy. As a result, I found myself having to do strong running attacks most of the time to take down bosses or break shields. This slower pace really killed it for me. You might like it, but I've played too many games like the third Dark Souls, Lies of P, and Sekiro and expect a reasonable pace of combat. Dying repeatedly just because I failed to time a light attack correctly is incredibly frustrating and became the real boss of the game for me. My system is not great as well (GTX 1060), but it should be more than enough to play this one, and the DLC often crashed. That's also a slightly negative point about it. I would say only get it on sale.

Game crashes a lot, even with Ryzen 9 5950x 128Gb ram and rtx 3090. It seems poorly optimized, and thus makes it difficult to play.

Really good .

The character and gameplay doesn't look really satisfying to play, it lacks something that makes your combat style feel good and right