This game really tries to be a somewhat better Lords of the Fallen game (it has more in common with that rather than the Souls games IMO), but it just repeats the same mistakes. And it feels like this game needs a 50 page essay about everything thats wrong or poorly tuned. Its an okay Souls experience, it can be fun, but its so painfull to play sometimes that it just doesnt feel good. I'll just throw a bunch of things i dislike, you deside if its worth anything. - Everything is very clunky and awkward - Dodge has annoying input buffer - Enemies have no concept of stamina and work on some sort of eldrich cooldown science that sometimes breaks for some attacks, leading to no attacks or nonstop onslaught - Hardening and parry are separate mechanics, but do mostly the same thing, just a bit differently, feels very unnecessary - Hardening feels more like a crutch for heavy shells so that u can avoid damage at 0 stamina, less like a fully fleshed out part of combat. Cooldown is also way to long - Its easier to parry spearmen in demon's souls, even tho most attacks can be seen from a mile away - Game doesnt seem to use hitboxes tied to enemy weapons, ot they are very poorly mapped sometimes, some attacks hit you from the mile away with barely an end of a hilt, some can go right through you with no effect - Healing is very limited, the only constant source of it is parry, but i already mentioned the parry before, so you can guess how well it works for most people - Map exploration is mostly a waste of time, and enemy/healing balance makes this a running simulator. Its too dangerous to actually engage in combat with most enemies, you'll just waste your time or kill yourself for nothing. And you wont be finding much of interest out there. - Starter weapon is prolly the best weapon (that on is heavely biased) There's probably a hundred more small things that drove me insane, but there's no more space left to rant, so yeah... Definetly dont recommend to buy at full price.
No, really... It's fun, trust me! A bit short, but its not about the length anyways, its about how you use it. Kinda surprised no one gives this one any reviews here.
In short it's just like any soulslike game out there, but really undercooked. Everything here barely even works. Combat is clunky, unbalanced and unresponsive. Enemies are aufull for the most part and most of them arent interesting in the slightest. Enemy attacks are almost never telegraphed, have terrible hitboxes and almost instant animations... Have fun dodging that! Enemy variety is almost nonexistant btw. Humanoids, slugs, giants, bees, angry radish, some kids, big guys with mallets and 5 unique bosses (6 if you consider a 2-phase boss with different moves as 2). One of the selling points was supposed to be exploration, but there really isnt much of that.World is nice to look at sometimes but thats it. Most of the locations are mandatory and the few that are oprion usualy are completely useless: best you can get there is a piece of gear and some trouble. The story tries to go the good 'ol dark souls route, but there's almost nothing in there, and what is there is mostly obvious or completely hidded and only explained at the very end. Oh, and if you actually wanna find out anything about the lore, get your reading glasses ready, coz noone's gonna read all those sweet diaries and item description for you. Also there's a horse in the game and its terrible. Dont even think about trying to ride that abomination, controls are terrible and dont even work half of the time. The only usefull thing about this 4-legged beast is that it can work as a pack mule and carry some of you junk. There is some in-game reason behind why the elk is there and why it's important to the plot, but you really shouldn't care. Just ignore the stupid thing, you better of running on your own 2 feet. Well... I dont think there's anything else i can say about the game. Feels like an alpha or a game from the 90s. Stay away for now. Maybe it will get better but i doubt it. P.S. there's a new game+, but im not getting paid for it so f*ck it, i'm not playing that again
