There is alot of things that make Dark Souls a frustrating but fun experience. Lords of the Fallen has missed the fun part. The floatyness of the controls, and the general enemy placement, the guardbreaks not leaving a punish window, the enemy having a lunge while the player doesnt... It goes on. Annoyance is the best way to describe the game, and honestly I don't play games to be annyoed without payoff.
I don't think I enjoyed a game as much as Cyberpunk for it's story in a while. Not the written story (decent to great at times), but the story written by the world. Functionality of a lot of the day to day tasks, it really sold that the place you are in sucks, and so long as you stick with the other poor's then you can get away with a great deal. There are bugs, I only had a few, but they are there and the few really did feel like a lot. It actually brings up my major complaint which WAS no modding tools. They took a page from Todds book, and realized that Sandbox RPG's are waaaaay to complex to try and tackle all issues without a community to do all of your work for you. Music is meh, I went in expecting it to be as licensing for these sorts of games has became an issue. I was hoping that they added a news channel to sort of pontificate what changes I had made, but that's a different rant. What I did not expect was the sound design, it is just tasty. I loved it, and it really just cements the world sometimes. There are alot of times where it's just you and ambient noise, and it really felt like a futuristic world that is in many ways not so distant. I don't know what to say honestly, the sum of the aspects of the game do not make up the whole. It should be a 3, but I loved it, it kept having new things that where overall enjoyable. I can't say you will like it, but I can say that bar a gamebreaking glitch, I suspect you will not hate it.
