The gameplay is fantastic, both melee and gunplay feel fantastic, but the levels while look awesome their layout is pretty bad, mostly because of the random generated nature of it. Most of the time i was only looking at the minimap to figure out where i have to go and what i have to do. There are some truly beautiful looking zones, except the cyberpunk city zones, those look quite messy, and its hard to see anything in them. The story is also great but its presented pretty poorly, and there are many akward moments where normally you would expect the characters to react to something but there is nothing, which is a shame because the banter between Kamiko and Lo Wang is really good. All in all its a pretty solid game, i absolutely recommend it, and i eagerly expect the next installment.
Fantastic game, with a fantastic art style and graphics, with great gameplay, expansie leveles and abilities, though the chaos system that affects the endings really limits the gameplay it self. If you want the good ending you have no choice but to play it as a pacifist, otherwise you most probably will get the bad ending. The story felt like it had real potential but it also felt extremely rushed. Other than these minor issues, this game is an absolute recommend for any stelath game fan.
Developer support is all but nonexistent on this game, and its not even up to date, there still a critical bug in the game when playing with keyboard and mouse, where you cant exit a certain menu, forcing you to close down the game completely, and you cant even rebind the controls. And the biggest technical problem is that the game crasher every time after after i started it once but quit and want to start again. Gameplay wise this could be really good if not for the terrible design decisions, like loosing every piece of gear you find when you die, and the constant backtracking because of the lack of checkpoints.
I like the game, its a classic metroidvania, though there are a few annoying things in it. The combat is inconsistent, enemies do a crapton of damage, while my character barely does any, especially with secondary skills. Also there is a parry mechanic but its quite hard to use due to enemy inconsistency. The enemies telegraph their attack but every enemy does it at a different timing which makes sense i guess but its extremely annoying, one does it at the end of the telegraph the other does it a few seconds after, etc. Also i would much prefer it if the parry would function as a guard as well. Missing a parry has fatal consequences and how sparse the checpoint are that can be rather annoying. The game has a nice art style, especially when it comes to the characters, though their animations can be a bit clunky. The music is fenomenal, pleasure to listen to, and beautiful.
I hate this game so much, and it pains me to say this. I love the first Darksiders, and I absolutely adore Darksiders2. Comparing this one to those is inevitable, and the direction the developers took with this one, while it could have been great, its just terrible. The combat it could be ok, if not for the enemies and the terrible dodge. You know a hack and slash game is fucked when I run from every fucking fight, even from the ones that supposed to be easy. Hit stun? What is that? The lamest of enemies cant be interrupted from their combo moves, and they can kill you with a single combo move. I know people are sick of comparing this to Dark Souls, but the inspiration couldn't be any more obvious. The problem is that this game does not have the clear and polished level design, nor the combat system. The game constantly throws at you multiple enemies, when the combat system clearly is not made for that. I am very disappointed. Words cannot describe how sad this makes me.
