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[Fess]

Played 30 min. Seems super mid. Funny that a low budget souls clone still looks more modern than a lot of Japanese games these days and this is not $70 either.

Fatigue is super limited. No block. Enemies aren't reliably hit stunned. It just seems like another slow souls grind.

I'll give it a bit more time but this seems like a barely passable 7/10. Better than Mortal Shell but worse than Lies of P.

You can upgrade your stamina, and get block capabilities, and many other things. Unfortunately it become grindy fast if you rely on building up your stats and skill tree. The skill tree just keeps going, slooow.

But yeah otherwise it's spot on how I feel as well. Played a couple hours. My main annoyance here is what you say, attacks don't seem to affect enemies much. At least not with the sword, the halberd/axe is better but too slow instead. The action just isn't satisfying.

Then there are other annoying things. Like enemies that empty pretty much your whole lifebar by grabbing you. Brutal poisonous attacks draining your life and I have no idea how to get an antidote yet, they have a million systems going so I guess you can craft something idk. And that devilish thing appearing after too many deaths, like the Hollow Knight shade you have to kill to get your geos back, but this is way harder. And there are far too many surprise encounters from hidden enemies, the devs are trolling the player a bit too much I think. And as usual nowadays loot is boring.

In the end I'm just not having fun.

UE5 keeps on being my most hated engine too, small stutters here and there for no obvious reason.

Would go with 6/10 right not, not sure I will keep playing. Harsh, but I'm not having fun, so

Haven't finished Black Myth yet and that is similar but of much higher quality. I should keep playing that instead, or just do another Elden Ring playthrough, or finish Avowed, or Stellar Blade, or go back to Stalker 2, play more of DOOM, go through Oblivion Remaster, finish Radiance in Hollow Knight, give Expedition 33 another chance - all better use of my time than this, imo.

They should've had a demo.
It looked so much better in trailers than it feels playing at least early on. Could've had a late game demo so you get an idea how it is when you've filled out the skill tree a bit more. Feels like they have a ton of systems going but the game gets tedious before you even scratch the surface and realize that I might get better.

On the plus side. It's not just a boss rush game. And regular enemies can be challenging. In general I like the map layout.

 

[DavidGzz]

It's funny that the OT contains booty when she has none. Gonna need a mod stat.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Strawman argument. Didn't say I "hate hard games". You said that. I've played and finished all the other souls games that people consider hard.

Its not harder than any other souls-like on the market, so thats a lie. Much easier than Lies of P and about the same as Wukong.

 

[Zuzu]

Interesting. On pc with max settings I haven't encountered bad textures, some are a bit lower res than others but in general they look quite good. In which area did you see these bad textures again?

Btw I am finding the level design in this game amazing, much better than Lies of P and Kazhan Berserker

Here's some examples of poor textures from the first area of the game. This is running in quality mode on the Pro. Hopefully these photos properly show some of what I'm talking about:

1) Low quality textures for the stone floor, the bits of wood on the ground and the wax candles etc.

2) The metal texture on the cauldron thing is low quality

3) Terrible rock textures on the left of this image.

4) The yellow flags in these images are all low quality

5) Low quality wood textures on the railing

6) Low quality sandbags and textures on the wood cart to the right

7) Low quality stone work

 

[Gonzito]

Here's some examples of poor textures from the first area of the game. This is running in quality mode on the Pro. Hopefully these photos properly show some of what I'm talking about:

1) Low quality textures for the stone floor, the bits of wood on the ground and the wax candles etc.

2) The metal texture on the cauldron thing is low quality

3) Terrible rock textures on the left of this image.

4) The yellow flags in these images are all low quality

5) Low quality wood textures on the railing

6) Low quality sandbags and textures on the wood cart to the right

7) Low quality stone work

I can confirm these low res textures are not present on pc on max settings

I am very sensitive to these issues and I would've noticed right away.

Hopefully they can fix it on consoles

 

[SJRB]

If you're in the starting area, like literally the first area past the temple, go left and see a big guy in full armor swinging a massive spear who obliterates you in two hits, then that's the game's way of telling you you're not supposed to go that way just yet.

This is a classic Souls trope.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

If you're in the starting area, like literally the first area past the temple, go left and see a big guy in full armor swinging a massive spear who obliterates you in two hits, then that's the game's way of telling you you're not supposed to go that way just yet.

This is a classic Souls trope.

Beat him on my 2nd try but yes lol

 

[Gonzito]

If you're in the starting area, like literally the first area past the temple, go left and see a big guy in full armor swinging a massive spear who obliterates you in two hits, then that's the game's way of telling you you're not supposed to go that way just yet.

This is a classic Souls trope.

Lol I learned my lesson pretty quick with that guy

 

[Mozart36]

So I tried it today. I like it so far. It is not great by any means, but far from being bad or boring.

I don't like that enemies track you during their attack animations, for example when they do charged attack, it should go in front of them, but if you dodge in a specific time, they just turn during the animation to follow you and it looks weird and stupid. Or when those goblins are shooting, he is aiming where I was before so it should not hit me at all, yet I got hit while standing behind him. Like wtf. Another thing is the hit reg as a lot of you already mentioned. Sometimes enemy hitting me is not clearly visible during the fight and my health is suddenly halfed. I died a lot fo times thinkg I have full HP. Have to constantly look to my health bar to be sure I really dodged some attacks.
Graphics is not bad, but I don't think DLSS is working correctly (using latest .dlls did not help). I also have a lot of framedrops and stutters. On the weekend I will try it on my main PC, so far I've played on 4090 with 5950x and I think I was CPU limited a lot, because my GPU usage was dropping to low 70s% a lot and fps sometimes dropping from 120 to like 40 and back, which leads to stutters.

Despite all those things, I like the game. I managed to kill the first main boss on my first try, which felt great.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Alright, Wuchang's version of Blighttown done, boss took about 5 attempts, whose next?

 

[winjer]

Here's some examples of poor textures from the first area of the game. This is running in quality mode on the Pro. Hopefully these photos properly show some of what I'm talking about:

1) Low quality textures for the stone floor, the bits of wood on the ground and the wax candles etc.

2) The metal texture on the cauldron thing is low quality

3) Terrible rock textures on the left of this image.

4) The yellow flags in these images are all low quality

5) Low quality wood textures on the railing

6) Low quality sandbags and textures on the wood cart to the right

7) Low quality stone work

That is an issue with MipMaps not loading properly.
Probably some issue with vram management.

 

[Gonzito]

If anyone is struggling with difficulty, I really recommend you to put all your points into an Axe build.

It demolishes everyone lol


Great game by the way. This is a wonderful surprise and I sam saddened that people are bashing it on Steam because of performance. Underneath that, there is an amazing game here

 

[TrebleShot]

I did some gameplay on YT in Ultrawide 5K, bit of commentary on there but I test a few things out, not really the best player in the world.
Its a half decent game, I think alot of the hate is a bit extreme though.

 

[Fess]

If anyone is struggling with difficulty, I really recommend you to put all your points into an Axe build.

It demolishes everyone lol


Great game by the way. This is a wonderful surprise and I sam saddened that people are bashing it on Steam because of performance. Underneath that, there is an amazing game here

Can you make an axe build faster? Early on when you get the halberd, it's way too slow, enemies hit you before you're done swinging it. I want a faster build, only time I use the halberd now is for that swift weapon swap special, then it's great as a powerful finisher.

Going by my early game experience it's not for me. Too many things annoy me. But I guess if I would be done with everything else that gives me some challenge it could work. I'm installing it on the living room PC right now. Maybe it suits the couch more than the desk.

How do you deal with poison btw? I was in that temple area and some guys in rags poisoned me, had no health potions so just had to stand there witness the health go down to zero long after the enemies were gone. Then a respawn and that annoying shade thing appeared where I died, smacked me with like 1% health left, lost the "souls". sigh…

 

[Gonzito]

Can you make an axe build faster? Early on when you get the halberd, it's way too slow, enemies hit you before you're done swinging it. I want a faster build, only time I use the halberd now is for that swift weapon swap special, then it's great as a powerful finisher.

Going by my early game experience it's not for me. Too many things annoy me. But I guess if I would be done with everything else that gives me some challenge it could work. I'm installing it on the living room PC right now. Maybe it suits the couch more than the desk.

How do you deal with poison btw? I was in that temple area and some guys in rags poisoned me, had no health potions so just had to stand there witness the health go down to zero long after the enemies were gone. Then a respawn and that annoying shade thing appeared where I died, smacked me with like 1% health left, lost the "souls". sigh…

The axe is obviously slower but I have a trick. Charge attacks with R2 a few meters from the enemies. That way you make sure that you will hit them and even stop their attacks. It's all about timing. The Axe has the benefit as well to be able to block attacks early on although maybe other weapons have this skill too I am not sure about that.

Remember that this is an rpg and in the beginning the game will be harder and become easier when leveling up

As for the poison, make sure to take every item you encounter in the map, you probably have in your inventory the purple flower that cures corruption, the green I believe cures poison.

Just be patience and learn, the game is very rewarding when you put time into it

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

One-handed sword that scales with magic is Instant respec is now becoming a standard (though I wouldn't want to see it in FROM's games) and it's fun to freely experiment with different stuff. I spent the first few hours with a spear, next few hours with an axe and now the one-handed sword. Dual blades is something I usually love but it didn't click here, might go back to it later and try again.

 

[MarV0]

Here's some examples of poor textures from the first area of the game. This is running in quality mode on the Pro. Hopefully these photos properly show some of what I'm talking about:

Spoiler

Forget the textures, what is that disgusting armor? I thought this game was gooner approved.

 

[DavidGzz]

So, I entered blight town from the side with the wall of fire that for some reason wasn't hurting me and beat the boss, now it appears I am entering blight town from another location(under the bell). Did my game glitch out? Do I even need to continue down that way since I beat the boss?

 

[Northeastmonk]

If anyone is struggling with difficulty, I really recommend you to put all your points into an Axe build.

It demolishes everyone lol


Great game by the way. This is a wonderful surprise and I sam saddened that people are bashing it on Steam because of performance. Underneath that, there is an amazing game here

Where's the axe? I put the spoken language to Chinese for an authentic experience like I did with Wukong. Just beat the boss at the top of the temple. Is the axe one shotting things? My longsword is a +1 and it's doing decent damage.

There was a tougher enemy. A warrior with a spear. I killed him, but it took a bit to shave off his health. I noticed a "demon" was summoned and they were attacking each other. How's the stamina drain or pose damage with the axe? I used that DLC blunt weapon that can shoot out sand. It worked great on one boss and then beefy enemies like that spear guy, damage was compared to my longsword.

One-handed sword that scales with magic is Instant respec is now becoming a standard (though I wouldn't want to see it in FROM's games) and it's fun to freely experiment with different stuff. I spent the first few hours with a spear, next few hours with an axe and now the one-handed sword. Dual blades is something I usually love but it didn't click here, might go back to it later and try again.

Do all one handed swords scale with magic? I noticed long swords boost strength, so does it scale with strength? Whatever attribute is allocated the most on that particular tree or are you finding a sword that specifically scales with magic?

 

[Gonzito]

The centipede can suck my dick, motherfucker

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

One-handed sword that scales with magic is

Ah, another disciple of the one true god one-handed sword

Did my game glitch out?

Sounds like it, if you didn't open the path you can't go back up to the sanctum, but the boss down there leads to the beach, not sure if you can access the mine shaft from that side though

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Do all one handed swords scale with magic?

Nope, the first one-handed sword I had scaled with Agility. Basically you will want to respec your points to focus on the branch of the skill tree that has nodes that will boost your primary weapon. I never even use my secondary weapon, unsheath attack isn't worth it, would rather use those points for magic spells.

 

[Luipadre]

The centipede can suck my dick, motherfucker

easy ass boss The whole area before it tho... i hate these poison/corrupted zones. Game continues to be really good, level design is *chef's kiss*

 

[Gonzito]

easy ass boss The whole area before it tho... i hate these posion/corrupted zones. Game continues to be really good

Lol, I was stuck there for an hour. Just defeated him luckily, some of his attacks are very nasty and yes I agree that the poison area was a bit annoying but it wasn't that long.

Great game

 

[DavidGzz]

Sounds like it, if you didn't open the path you can't go back up to the sanctum, but the boss down there leads to the beach, not sure if you can access the mine shaft from that side though

Shit. What event makes the fire wall dissipate?

 

[Luipadre]

Shit. What event makes the fire wall dissipate?

Nothing, you just go around it

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Ho pt. 2



Finally hit my first true roadblock boss, this might take a while lol

 

[SilentSpecter]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Ho pt. 2



Finally hit my first true roadblock boss, this might take a while lol

Commander Honglan ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuca80kmuI

Yes, the toughest boss so far. Took me almost an hour to beat. Restarted the build 5 times.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Yes, the toughest boss so far. Took me almost an hour to beat. Restarted the build 5 times.

I've gone fully parry build which I've completely ignored up until now, getting close, phase 2 though

Edit:

Boom, only took about 30 minutes in the end, parry for days on that monkey ass

 

[Lux R7]

i played 4 hours and this is a great game imho. Fun, challenging, a really good souls-like.

 

[SJRB]

Patch is up on Steam.

 

[balls of snow]

Beat the boss at the top of the temple. So far my main issue is the TINY af stamina bar. You have these combos and by the time it ends she can barely dodge out of the way. Might go trainer for unlimited stamina.

 

[Gonzito]

Fourth boss defeated. I am having a blast papitos

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

My colorblindness really fucks with me in this game

Having trouble seeing enemies and shit at times, everything blends in with the background

Definitely a me problem

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Just beat the fifth boss by only pressing two buttons the entire fight lol, one-handed sword supremacy!

I can definitely see her filtering the fuck out of people though.

For anyone wondering why I glaze one-handed sword so much:

Spoiler: fifth boss spoilers

 

[MagiusNecros]

For anyone wondering why I glaze one-handed sword so much:

 

[PanzerCute]

Started the game today on SeX and I really enjoy it. Gameplay and level design are very strong.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I bought my bro a copy so I have bought 2 copies!

Wonderful game. I'm voting with my wallet on this one, but also gamepass players don't sleep on this one.

Legit steamdb page:

https://steamdb.info/app/2277560/charts/

I'm hoping that the bad steam reviews don't hurt it, it seems to have performance issues on PC(based on steam reviews) but PS5 Pro seems fine. I'm sure they will patch this up, despite everything the game seems pretty popular and seems like it is in the zeitgeist now. If they patch it PC people will come. The game should do well for them unless their expectations were wukong level or something. The only thing hurting this game is competition from other soulslikes and the PC issues and a few bugs that probably should have been taken care of already, but that's pretty common. I can't blame them for UE issues when other giant companies have had similar issues.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

one thing I find annoying is how there's no i-frames on knockdown, you can just get combo'd to death; just now a mine knocked me down and then a cannonball hit me in the head for the kill lol.

 

[TGO]

I imagine the usual Steam review bombing shit:
Some kind of anti pirate program in it
Some kind of performance bug
Game crashing

Those 3 will usually instantly nuke a game without anything to do with the game proper.

I can tell you on ps5 pro it's been a blast,

The usual "I can't play this at 8k 240fps, this game is shit" review bombing

Anyway, kinda tired of all these souls games so not sure if I should pick this up, is it stand out title?

 

[Arsic]

The usual "I can't play this at 8k 240fps, this game is shit" review bombing

Anyway, kinda tired of all these souls games so not sure if I should pick this up, is it stand out title?

I personally think it's different enough but I would still say the best one to play that isn't by fromsoft is lies of p.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

An UE5 game with textures muddier than ER? holy shit that's new. Was gonna try it on GP, but everyone is shitting on the game so bleh.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Man cloudspire is fucking massive with paths everywhere, so much shit to explore.

 

[xenosys]

30% reviews on Steam? Even the Chinese aren't tolerating one of their own by the looks of it.

Refund central.

 

[Edmund]

The usual "I can't play this at 8k 240fps, this game is shit" review bombing

Anyway, kinda tired of all these souls games so not sure if I should pick this up, is it stand out title?

The game is really really good!! I'm enjoying it so much more than Wukong and Khazan.

The exploration and level design is fantastic!

 

[Rocinante618]

Looks cool but nah I'm no way going to buy this atm, looks like 8GB VRAM is bare minimum and given it's UE5 old version yeah this shit is not going to run well on my mobile GPU. 505 is publishing so expecting this 80-90% in 2 years. That's when I'll dip provided issues are fixed and I have upgraded to a better GPU with enough VRAM.