The game itself has excellent visuals, music and the gameplay is very fun. It is just baffling that I can run Elden Ring on Max graphics with a more stable frame rate than this game.
Even if When I talk about frustration, I don't mean gameplay-wise. Uninstall it once, and when you decide you want to play again, that's when the horror starts. And then you have to fumble around in forums trying to match your error, just for the install files to be "corrupted". It really makes you jump through a legion of hurdles just to get it up and running. This definitely Paradox's competence into question, if you ask me, there is no question. And there is no competence either. What makes this all the more frustrating is knowing that I payed god knows how much for like 10-11 DLCs. Most of which should've been basic mechanics when the game launched. The only reason Paradox isn't as hated as something as Activision or EA is because they make niche nerd games which don't get the attention as something like Madden. Said games are usually great, once you payed for the DLCs, of course. These business practices would make Blizzard blush. Awesome game, incomopetent and greedy developers. So incompetent it compelled me to write my 2nd review in like 4 years of having a GOG account.
It's like Furi but worse, since there are some serious frame drops lol. I really don't understand the need to make the dash go towards the cursor and not where your character is facing, specially when you need to face the enemies to shoot/slash them. Idk if this is to try to be different, or to add a layer of artificial difficulty, or what, but it is really counter intuitive and akward. Specially since every other game I play lets me dash towards the direction I'm facing. The art style is very charming and beautiful, but I play games for the mechanics, if I wanted to see nice things I would just look at art. It's very dissapointing since I really wanted to get into the game, but the controls seem bent on trying to stop me.
