I really enjoyed this game. The vibes of the world keeps the Darksiders feel, the story is interesting, and Fury as a character is fun and interesting. Everyone complaining that it "plays more like Dark Souls and less like Darksiders", I feel that something needs to be established. Every Darksiders game has a different feel and gameplay style to the last, and I think this works for this franchise. Each horseman has their distinct combat style which defined also how the game as a whole is designed /played. War was slow and played like A God of War character. Death was zippy and moved more like a Prince of Persia character. And now Fury is a slower, more fragile character who handles more like Dark Souls. Yes, it's a change of gameplay style, but Darksiders reinvents its gameplay style with every new release, and I welcome that! The game plays well, is interesting and challenging. If you want to see more of the Darksiders story well, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
I got Penumbra Overture from the first Humble Indie Bundle and didn't play through it till a year later. When I finally decided to play it, I finished the game in a single day. Yeah, I actually enjoyed it that much. Most people have probably played Amnesia by now,I found Penumbra to be a much more subtle and cerebral game though. The puzzles in Amnesia took me anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes to solve, Penumbra meanwhile plays like an old-school point-and-click adventure game in its puzzle design. Penumbra didn't dumb itself down for its audience like Amnesia did, and it expected you to have to actually use the in-game map and notes to make it through, something which games just don't do anymore. Overture had the issue of extremely clunky combat, which fortunately was removed from the second game. Penumbra Requiem was Frictional's attempt at mimicking Valve's Portal franchise, which didn't work particularly well. Pretty much, imagine if Half-Life 1 was composed entirely of its puzzle segments, with none of the exploration or action found in that game. Yeah, I don't particularly recommend it and served as a disappointing end to the series. But Overture and Black Plague are definitely great heaps of survival-horror fun. If people want Amnesia but with Puzzles that will actually get your brain hurting, then this is the game to play.
