Lost Soul Aside | Review Thread

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Game Title: Lost Soul Aside

Platforms:

  • PC (Aug 29, 2025)
  • PlayStation 5 (Aug 29, 2025)
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Developer: UltiZeroGames

Critic Reviews​


Lost Soul Aside impressively demonstrates what can emerge from the vision of an ambitious developer, even if outside help eventually became necessary. Unfortunately, the title lags behind the competition in many areas, and although it has borrowed well from the giants of the genre in several aspects, the numerous flaws and the generic use of elements in the story and sound overshadow the otherwise solid foundation
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Gamersky - 奕剑者柴王 - Chinese - 8 / 10

From the perspective of a traditional action game, Lost Soul Aside is solid. It offers players around thirty hours of pure, exhilarating action, retaining most of the strengths found in classic high-speed action games.
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IGN Spain - Rafa Del Río - Spanish - 7 / 10

Lost Soul Aside is an experience with ups and downs, where some elements work brilliantly and others fall short. On the negative side, we have a forgettable story, flat characters that are impossible to connect with, and a world that, in the end, we don't really care about. On the positive side, there's platforming with good and bad moments, lots of madness, and fast-paced combat full of clever mechanics that you'll enjoy more as you progress through the game.
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PPE.pl - Wojciech Gruszczyk - Polish - 5 / 10

Lost Soul Aside is a game that can impress with its spectacular combat system and impressive boss battles, but otherwise it is full of simplifications and unfinished elements. The plot often loses its logic, exploration disappoints with its corridor-like structure and technical errors, and the graphics are stuck in the PlayStation 4 era. Advertised and priced as a AAA title, the game is actually closer to a mediocre AA title. It's a game that may satisfy fans of dynamic action, but in a broader context, it's hard not to call it a big disappointment.
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PlayStation Universe - John-Paul Jones - 5 / 10

There's no getting around the fact that Lost Soul Aside feels like it belongs in the mid 2010s and honestly that would be fine were it not the fact that the game feels so compromised in so many other aspects of its design that it's difficult to shake the feeling that it just feels outdated, rather than a heartfelt love letter to the past. Though the soundtrack is frequently excellent and the combat reliably exciting, neither are enough to save Lost Soul Aside from tumbling into a deep abyss of rank mediocrity, which is a shame; especially considering the sheer amount of graft that has gone into the game since its inception all those years ago.
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Push Square - Robert Ramsey - Unscored

We're torn on Lost Soul Aside. On one hand, it's a very intricately made action game, full of interesting combat dynamics backed by an impressive degree of player expression. But on the other, it's a pseudo RPG with a really poor story, crappy characters, and a forgettable world. Right now, it's looking like a cautious recommendation for action afficionados, but we'll have to see how the rest of the package shakes out.
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The Beta Network - Anthony Culinas - 8 / 10

Lost Soul Aside is a game of two halves: a phenomenal action core with enjoyable platforming, wrapped in a bargain-bin story and a sprinkling of half-baked RPG fluff.
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So far ironically they're not as bad as I'd thought they'd be.
 
Eh.....I won't lie, I kind of expected this result.

I've come to find that, the more hyped a game is, the more disappointing it will inevitably be.
 
poodaddy said:
Eh.....I won't lie, I kind of expected this result.

I've come to find that, the more hyped a game is, the more disappointing it will inevitably be.
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It was hyped? I remember some hype 10 years ago about 3 minutes long demo. After that? No hype at all. Hyped games selling good at least for a day, no matter of their quality, look at wuchang as a recent example. This game has 3k peak on steam, no one cared about it from the get go.
 
Ar¢tos said:
GTA 6 will be absolutely crap by that logic.

I saw zero hype for this.
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I don't give a damn about GTA, so I can't speak to that.

As for zero hype, I don't know what to tell ya man. It was in development for a decade, and plenty of us were watching closely.
 
Based on the demo I expected this to get somewhere between mid 60's to low 70's reviews.

Seems a bit lower, but I still had fun enough with the demo that I'd pick this up for like $20.

RetroGamingUK said:
Can the forum stop hyping Chinese games now?

Black Myth was a flash in the pan.
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Why? Because this one game isn't great?


Do we also stop hyping up Nintendo games because Drag X Drive has a 61 metascore?
 
Yikes, I thought this looked pretty interesting but reviews tell another story.
I think there is a surprising lack of this specific flavour of japanese/asian action games this gen. Most of them have been more or less souls-inspired. The biggest release would probably be FF16, wierdlly enough.

I hope Tides of Annihilation delivers, it looks more promising than this ever did IMO. Can't think of much else going for this style outside of that.
 

Bright Memory Infinite, also made by a single developer who later got help from publishers team, is sitting at 85% on Steam. And it also had 63% rating on OpenCritic.

This game currently has 57% on Steam, let's see if the dev can fix it up and it gets better reviews couple years from now.

But this game should've been multi platform to begin with. Hopefully the dev makes enough money to retire on.
 
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Tobimacoss said:

Bright Memory Infinite, also made by a single developer who later got help from publishers team, is sitting at 85% on Steam. And it also had 63% rating on OpenCritic.

This game currently has 57% on Steam, let's see if the dev can fix it up and it gets better reviews couple years from now.

But this game should've been multi platform to begin with. Hopefully the dev makes enough money to retire on.
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What are the chances. I actually just played Bright Memory Infinite for the first time today.

It's only 2 hours long, but for a mostly single dev it was pretty fun.
 
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Bruh, the mid 2010's had a lot of RPG's that looked way more interesting and better than this.

Let's not slander an entire window of RPG's just because of this one.
 
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emivita said:
This is the 2025 edition of Forspoken, isn't it? It's only inviting at 10/15 bucks.
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I could luckily cancel my order before it was delivered. I will pick it up in a few months for next to nothing. I actually bought Forspoken for almost nothing as well. Haven't played it, and probably never will, unless I'm desperate for something to play. And looking at my backlog, the desperation will take a long long time to happen
 
RetroGamingUK said:
Can the forum stop hyping Chinese games now?

Black Myth was a flash in the pan.
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Alicia Keys GIF by Recording Academy / GRAMMYs

I'll keep hyping them until im on ccp payroll

Although im still sour about game science shitty gamescom.
They hyped a huge black myth announce after begin silent about Wukong's dlc for a long while. Of course everyone were holding on to their butts for a wukong reveal, and instead they give us this lazy cgi trailer for the next black myth, the one only nerds care about with a protag whose most glorious feat is marrying his sister (to someone else thank god).

Then Yang Qi pulls out a post on his weibo where he complains working is hard, the drive isn't there anymore and although he promised something it was to much of a hassle to do so instead they will work on the new game and no one knows when wukong's follow up will arrive. What the hell is that dude doing ?? He sounds like a AAA western studio dev.
My guess is they saw how much money they made for the first one and greed overcame them. They now want to make the dlc a full blown sequel and sell it full price. if so they will eventually fail like the western devs, for the exact same reasons.
 
For fuck sake. I contacted my local Amazon(not Amazon USA) on Friday morning early after playing the demo to cancel my order before the courier delivers my game later the afternoon. They cancelled it and I received my refund this morning into my bank account. Get a call from a courier, says he's here with my delivery. Told him I cancelled it Friday, says he can't return it, has to deliver.

Contacted Amazon just now, told them I cancelled it on Friday before delivery, they cancelled it and refunded me and the money is back in my account. And yet the courier rocks up today again to deliver it. Amazon told me it's fine, to keep the game even though their refunded me already. I'm not complaining, but geez, now I have a copy that I will most likely never play
 
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Signalis said:
For fuck sake. I contacted my local Amazon(not Amazon USA) on Friday morning early after playing the demo to cancel my order before the courier delivers my game later the afternoon. They cancelled it and I received my refund this morning into my bank account. Get a call from a courier, says he's here with my delivery. Told him I cancelled it Friday, says he can't return it, has to deliver.

Contacted Amazon just now, told them I cancelled it on Friday before delivery, they cancelled it and refunded me and the money is back in my account. And yet the courier rocks up today again to deliver it. Amazon told me it's fine, to keep the game even though their refunded me already. I'm not complaining, but geez, now I have a copy that I will most likely never play
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Gonna boost those sales somehow.
 
Signalis said:
For fuck sake. I contacted my local Amazon(not Amazon USA) on Friday morning early after playing the demo to cancel my order before the courier delivers my game later the afternoon. They cancelled it and I received my refund this morning into my bank account. Get a call from a courier, says he's here with my delivery. Told him I cancelled it Friday, says he can't return it, has to deliver.

Contacted Amazon just now, told them I cancelled it on Friday before delivery, they cancelled it and refunded me and the money is back in my account. And yet the courier rocks up today again to deliver it. Amazon told me it's fine, to keep the game even though their refunded me already. I'm not complaining, but geez, now I have a copy that I will most likely never play
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Game is so bad even Amazon don't want it back. Sheesh.
 
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Game is so bad even Amazon don't want it back. Sheesh.
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Yeah I was thinking the same thing earlier. Laughed when I thought about it. Amazon rep in the live chat was like: "No worries, you can keep it." probably figured getting it returned was more hassle than the game is worth
 
Copypasta from my comment from the OT
DO NOT TREAT THIS AS A 1ST PARTY SONY GAME!!!!!

I'm near the end and I got all weapons and I'm actually having a lot of fun.
It's not a bad game as most people paint it, not a buy for 60$ though.
The lack of combat feedback is frustrating, would have made this the perfect combat system ever.
The weapon's customizations are actually pretty cool, aside from aesthetics, fine tuning every weapon and using it for sth particular in fights is super important, it either makes you an overpowered guy, or just facing spongy enemies.
I'm playing it on PC and it's not the worst game I've played this year from a technical standpoint.
If you've got a PC and on the fence about it, and you're like me, a boomer who likes silly games and mindless but challenging fun games from the PS2 era and weird hack and slash games from the PS3, Action RPGs like POE2 or Diablo, this is gonna be a great game for you. I'll probably play it again. after a while to see what they've done with the updates.

But really, just stop shitting on this game, I'm going sideways here, but this kind of reception is what makes devs afraid of doing new things, games are either 10/10 or just a pile of horse shit nowadays.
There must be a place for games trying to do sth new, even if they don't kill it first time, not all AA games are gonna be Expedetion 33
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poodaddy said:
Eh.....I won't lie, I kind of expected this result.

I've come to find that, the more hyped a game is, the more disappointing it will inevitably be.
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Tbh, I never understood the hype for this game.

Gaf really does often have terrible taste. They'll shit all over a game like Ghost of Yotei (which looks actually really darned good), while frothing at the mouth for a game like this that never looked like anything other than a cheap old nasty DMC knock-off with really really bad character models and no consistent visual style.

At least games like Wuchang, Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade have stunning visuals and superb, unique and very visually appealing art direction. This game, had none of that and yet many on Gaf seemed to be creaming their jimmies over it. It made no sense to me.
 
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adamsapple said:
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Bruh, the mid 2010's had a lot of RPG's that looked way more interesting and better than this.

Let's not slander an entire window of RPG's just because of this one.
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I don't think he's talking about the exceptional RPGs, I think he's talking about the dime-a-dozen 6/10 or 7/10 experiences with jank or awkwardness, but fans were very forgiving of them because they offered something different or unique:

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March Climber said:
I don't think he's talking about the exceptional RPGs, I think he's talking about the dime-a-dozen 6/10 or 7/10 experiences with jank or awkwardness, but fans were very forgiving of them because they offered something different or unique:

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Funny enough, I recently bought Infinite Undiscovery, haven't played it yet, will play it during the winter lul. Somehow I've completely avoided playing it since it came out.

RE: Lost Souls.

At least the game runs well, the performance seems to be solid on base PS5's Performance mode. Although it seems to run pretty soft and is generally more like a mid to early PS4 era game in terms of texture and environment complexity.

The voice acting is so fucking bad tho.
 
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It's so wrong to call something bad because its "old" when Devil May Cry 1 and 3 are much better than most of the recent games in the genre.

Imagination and great game design make up for technical issues and low budget. Unfortunately, they did not get their priorities right for this one, considering the small resources they had.
 
If you want something to scratch the Devil May Cry, OG God Of War, Berserk and Claymore itch. Then buy and play Soulstice. It pretty good and I enjoyed it a lot.
 
TheThreadsThatBindUs said:
Tbh, I never understood the hype for this game.

Gaf really does often have terrible taste. They'll shit all over a game like Ghost of Yotei (which looks actually really darned good), while frothing at the mouth for a game like this that never looked like anything other than a cheap old nasty DMC knock-off with really really bad character models and no consistent visual style.

At least games like Wuchang, Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade have stunning visuals and superb, unique and very visually appealing art direction. This game, had none of that and yet many on Gaf seemed to be creaming their jimmies over it. It made no sense to me.
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Who was hyping this game recently? In the past, I've only seen people hopeful of it.
 
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