I am not played other games from darksiders series and from my perspective - this one is awesome. Why it is awesome: World in game changing a lot from location to location in many cases. Regular fights some time taught, so not boring and attack combinations mostly intuitive. Not many items and skills to learn. Not many quests to do. Level design very enjoyable, because beautiful, atmospheric, no "loading" between locations - it is smooth and you are not walking without fun most of the time. Actually, all locations connected with each other in "smart way" - for example after boss fight you are not simply going to the portal, but use your new skills to go via different path. So most of the time you able enjoy world exploration with interesting fights with decent story line and some humor from "watcher".
Good things Visual part - 5 Sound - 5 Controls -5 etc - 5 If I no mistake - I saw only one developer(code) in team, if it true, then he/she probably true hero. Bad things. For me it become boring, because to hard to guess what to do next. I saw some replay to understand where to go next at least 2 times. In both cases because of misunderstanding where path to new location is. For example go to some dark behind map border or through some root, which seems like a wall. Unforgiving game - no, because I actually do mostly more than ok in case of resources and death means nothing. For this game - permanent death is not good option, because it has some story, so it will do things even more boring. Many locations want some codes to enter, which I mostly don't know and seems it is not really worth it. Many locations not adjust the story line or adjust not much, if location has additional resources - those not needed(because all ok with it) Some events not occurred or didn't noticed by me, for example invitation to some locked locations, locked by code. Probably bad things related to my age, probably for younger people, who has more time it will be ok. In case of no idea where to go - see some replay, it will save your time and become more enjoyable. In the end - mixed feelings, definitely not 5/5 in my case.
Promo video not shows to me game play in dynamic - I think it is mistake, at least in my case. I saw game some time ago and was not sure is it deserves attention. Months later - I saw game play, performed by some streamer. After that I decided to buy it. I can't remember last time when I enjoyed some game in case of laughing (probably since worms armageddon). If you have some friends to play coop, if you ok with pixel graphics, violence, funny animation and sound - probably you will enjoy it like me.
