Posted on: August 30, 2020
Swissy88
Verified ownerGames: 665 Reviews: 115
Stops being fun quickly
If you have unlimited time and feel like dying repeatedly then you might like this. If you actually just want to play a game and have fun this isn't the game. The game stops being fun at the first boss. The only way to beat him is by using sickles and parrying his attacks, the only way you can parry attacks in this game is if you know exactly when they are going to land an attack. They did everything they could to make awkward weird robotic movements to enemies just to make it harder to read. It's illogical and not fun. Imagine swinging a baseball bat and halfway through your swing you're just holding it and 'charging up' or some nonsense. The only purpose is to be aggravating to the player having to have so many unique awkward 'reads' to be able to parry. The second act is pure frustration. The recovery time for missed parry is far too great, it's like your character all of a sudden is in mud and can't parry in quick succession if you fail your initial. Every enemy has weird wind ups that feels impossible to parry. Mages that spam fireballs at you, that you have to use a block weapon to walk towards, and then when you get in melee range they send you flying through the air to your death. I could write about all this frustration for an hour. The game allows remapping, but interact is "Hold E". Why do I have to hold a key down to do what I want it to do? I'm not on a console with limited buttons, and you need to expand my button by adding idiotic holding. The worst offense is when you're already pissed off, trying to recover your essence (you drop all of your progress every time you die, and you have to find it and pick it up and all monsters respawn when you die). But you have to hold E and wait for it to charge and pick up, all while enemies are trying to kill you again. You don't have to 'charge up' to pick up essense that drops so it's completely asinine to pick up yours, the purpose is to frustrate the player and nothing else.
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