Never got a chance to play it during the era it was on the console, but thanks to GoG I managed to get a copy of it during the sale. It is honestly more or less the same thing as the orginal that added a few features towards adding more weapons and abilities in your monster form as well as giving a morality system that seems rewarding when you invested towards a good or bad ending that determines who you fight along the way. The game even manages to not bug out occasionally like the previous game as long as I set my anti-aliasing below the highest it could possibly go. The downside is that the game is more or less the same if you wanted something brand new on top of what the first game did, and you are only able to carry 2 weapons at a time. Story is... eeeeh. I find it alright and gives me an exscuse to clean up the streets. A good experience overall, you can get multiple endings as a replay value I won't think I'll do anytime soon, and some collectable to understand as best you can what the hell is going on. recommend it to get it on sale both the original and the sequel. Buy it out of sale if you are feeling nostalgic. 9/10
This is a solid game that manages to run on Windows 10 so far with a few glitches that range from pixels freaking out when looking at a certain object when putting the highest graphics and shadows in 1080p and some sort of glitch when doing something while playing. It is short and fun as I go down memory lain of what game used to be like during the edgy era of gaming. Would highly recommend either on sale on GoG that is dirt cheap as well as it's $10 price tag if you are feeling the itch of a Good ol Game. 9/10
Steelrising is a entertaining "Souls-like" RPG game. Game is Challenging enough to be entertaining when you do manage to overcome adversity, but easier to get through compared to other games that intend to satisfy the game genre enthusiast. If it is harder than one can handle there is also an assist mode that makes it easier to breeze through the game and enjoy the story and setting. Having a world set during an alternate history of France during the Revolution and adds steam punk robots to the mix is something different than the standard fantasy setting, where you take part in it. It certainly pretty if you do manage to get the appropriate hardware to run the game. I didn't have the RTX Graphics card to have it run on the highest setting, but the game aesthetic and design is able to be pleasing to look at. I have yet to face any bugs in the game except for one that involved finding a place out of the geometry and could softlock a person due to scraping a zone trying to find to fufill a sidequest that can only done by progressing through the main quest. Character classes are given in the beginning, but will not prevent you to use the unique weapons in the game. Nothing much to say other than than the controls being very responsive. Overall I recomend the game, and especially the Bastille edition on a sale due to getting the dlc that has more stuff to you. Hopefully the developers will be able to continue to make good stuff similar or better to this. Until then this is plenty of good and challenging fun when you do manage to have the time to do so.
The game for the most part, has delivered what it had set out to so a artistically gory themed walking simulator, with solvable puzzle and a pinch of combat. Was it something I expected to be longer? Was there any chance of a world and civilisation uncovered? being explored Not with the current gamplay. At best the art book would shed some insight as there is not logs you can collect. The game is not long, and the achievement art too hard if you are into completing a game. Overall a enjoyable experience in my book. Would reccomend if it gets to a a discount in the future.
The base game is something that I appreciated playing. Playing through the game once and beating it once was something that I appreciate as I go through my backlog. Mechanics are good and responsive are you get to fight mobs of enemies and unique bosses for a short and sweet game. As long as you don't encounter the jank of your parry or you basic attackes not working to the point where you might have to boot the game to the main menu as intended as these souls like tend to be. Story, whether you wish to decipher it entirely or not, is for what it is or not is good for what it is and gives justification what new game plus mode for those interested in doing multiple runs. Overall an enjoyable experience that make me sad that we may never get a sequel for the game anytime soon and flesh up the world more by the same developers that fathomed the idea of this Souls-like, dark fantasy setting. Would get the game if you don't have anything to better to do. Even better if you see a sale for it in the store.
