It's pretty decent open world hack&slash, no spongy enemies to speak of that bore me, some weird storytelling, some geometry glitching that I can't get over an ankle high brick without jumping, and there's unfortunately many crashes.
Worst part however, is the blue boy constantly telling me to mark shit on my map or the like, repeatedly, even though they said it like a second ago, seven times.
Bought this on sale at the launch of Reign of Sand. Gameplay is decent enough action gameplay with parry and dodge mechanics. Parry timing is well telegraphed and there are options to increase the parry window for those who struggle to do it on time.
There are a wide range of upgrade options to suit many playstyles but the variety of weapons is small and feels kinda samey.
Mobility and traversal mechanics are ok, but it's quite difficult to distinguish between places you can get to and places you can't. I'm beginning to understand why "yellow paint" is so popular in these kinds of games as this is what you get when it's not there.
The game has those annoying "find X" quests where you are given a circle radius in which "X" might be found, but there are not enough clues to help actually find the things. Instead X is usually placed in some random spot that's easy to miss.
Story is your typical "fight tyranny" affair but it can get a bit on the nose at times as some of the things referred to as "tyranny" are actually perfectly reasonable things to want.
A lot of fun. You can create your character to fight the way you want and get creative with your combinations. This game is not afraid to make you feel powerful right from the start and I'm loving every second of it!
Graphics reminded me of Greefall. The level up mechanics is interesting and well-branched (based on both exp and material sourcing). I haven't beaten it yet, I enjoy going through it slowly, discovering the pieces of lore and collecting stuff :)
One thing though: the game was extremely glitchy for me with the original exe file. However, Directx12 executable is also included and it runs flawlessly. I have no idea why didn't they make it the default option, but if you're having problems with the game stability - simply switch to dx12 variant. Rock stable.
Atlas Fallen is an action-adventure game.You collect essence, which is used to upgrade your armor and your essence stones. Your variation of gameplay comes from the gauntlet, which has 3 tiers (bronze, silver, gold) with 4 slots per tier (1 slot per tier for an active stone and 3 for passive effects).When you fight, you gain momentum (3 bars corresponding to every tier of the gauntlet with the selected essence stones).In order to be effective in combat, you need to gain maximum momentum, but there is a trick.As you gain momentum, you deal more damage and also activate your stones from the gauntlet, but you also receive a lot more damage from enemies, and an over-leveled enemy can kill you with 1 hit. The essence stone selection is very important in this game in order to build your character for higher difficulties.The game has a parry mechanic - if you successfully parry the smallest enemies, you will freeze them for a couple of seconds. For the higher enemies, you will need 3 successful parries to crystallize them. You also have a powerful attack, which is called shatter, that can be used to deal a massive amount of damage but consumes all your momentum gauge. From a technical perspective, I didn't have any crash.I played the game on a laptop with a Ryzen 9 6900HX + RTX 3070ti mobile with everything at max at a constant 90 FPS. In order to change the game resolution, you need to launch the Direct 12 version from GOG, and after that, quit the game and launch the game normally, which runs on Vulkan directly. For some unknown reason, if you try to change the game resolution while on Vulkan, the game will crash. The Xbox controller works fine.The game supports multiplayer.The visuals are quite nice for an AA title; the character models are kind of repetitive, as are the voices used in the dialog.The game can be finished in 25-30 hours.New Game+, has some new monsters and also 3 new sets of armor.I really recommend this game to players at the discounted price.
