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You want my sausage? you never find better!

Souls Meets God of War but you are Monke

10/10 Would buy from China again

Beat the final boss before it gets nerfed
never again
10/10

The game is great, overall it has a lot of potential once its out of EA, so here are some of my concerns:

Early game the difficulty is STEEP, even when i was doing side things and leveling up, the game was always a bit ahead of me, and death is quite punishing.
some enemies have "BS" poise and combos that lock you into death, some have a one shot mechanic, some do way too much damage.

I come from Souls games so its not that this game was "too hard" or "too easy", it just seemed to be unfair in a lot of situations.

--- Update --- I am max level 30, the gear I managed to get and experimenting with different weapons, I went into greatsword + strength and heavy armor, I am pretty strong right now and nothing is challenging anymore except the final boss.

there is a lack of QOL features, why can't I craft things using materials that are in my chest near me? Why do I need to go grab them and have them in my inventory? its such a simple thing that adds so much.

There is no Respec, I don't know how this didn't make it to this initial release.

Overall, the game seems to end rather early in my opinion, I felt like i didn't really get to experience a lot of the game, overall, I noticed there are 3 tiers of progression, from Copper, to Iron, to Silver.
I did not make it to an area where you can farm silver or any of those Tier 3 materials, as its not in the game yet.

However, you can get them dropped randomly by enemies or respawned chests.
another issue is that some materials (like clay) stop respawning once you level up enough, so you can't even upgrade your town anymore.

I don't know how many tiers there will be, but i really hope its more than 5. because this EA felt fairly short.

It was fun, frustrating, but with updates I hope it get's better, I will update my review once these issues are fixed.


Edit: 5/5/2024

after so many hotfixes and patches, game is good, game getting better, don't have many negatives to say, GOTY potential

Review after Finishing the game at 55 Hours:


The game is great, the combat is the core of this game, killing mobs, climbing monsters, riding dragons, experimenting with different weapons and skills, having creativity in your gameplay.


However, the obvious performance issues, lack of enemy variety, lackluster story, "stealth" missions are basically a joke, armor layering isn't as good as the first game.


Just like the first game, in the same cycle, the game feels unfinished, my critique is that after 55 hours of exploring the entire map, I maybe missed a quest or two, or a few quests were incomplete due to them not being informative enough, or not having multiple saves for me to go back and fix those mistakes, in NG+ I will mod the game to have multiple saves for sure.

Overall, The game needs more content, just like the first game, the DLC Fixed these issues and elevated it to new heights, and I hope they pull off the same trick with this one, add more bosses, more enemies, more armor, more weapons, more skills, more vocations, just more more and more.

Fast travel in this game can be better, i'ts very annoying to go from one end of the map to another 2 times or even 3 times to tell the other quest giver what the other quest giver said, like sure, let me just use 3 ferrystones for this? come on, have some more creativity with quest design.

Exploring dungeons in this game is always fun, exploring the map is always fun, going to new places and discovering areas of interest is fun, of course as long as you are not backtracking for the 3rd time in a row. I went into at least 50 Dungeons and all of them are unique, none of them are reskins, but serve the same premise, enemies inside, with loot, and maybe there is a boss inside, sometimes they would add a boss in a dungeon I'd never seen in the main map of the game, some bosses were only present at night, and I still have not killed 1 boss type.



SPOILERS: The final zone is on a timer, Allegedly, which I really dislike, let the players roam free and take their time playing, a game that is already lacking in content should not rush you to finish the game, there is no "Final Boss" if you seek to do the TRUE ending, there is no "oh my god this is gonna be hardest battle ever" type feeling, I really wish they had that.


Final Verdict:

The game is at LEAST a 7, and at MOST an 8, with the DLC that can potentially fix all these issues, it can easily go up to a 10, I just hope Itsuno and Capcom listen to player feedback and make this game even greater.

I can stop whenever I want

We dive together or we don't dive at all!

Remove PSN Requirement!

PSN is not available in a lot of countries around the world, what are those players suppose to do? either break sony TOS and lie about their location and risk their account deletion, or they give up playing the game and waste all the time and money they already spent on the game.

IF and IF sony doesn't make it a requirement for those specific players, why make it mandatory for those players where PSN is available in the region?

simply keeping it optional would have been fine, but no, they just had to get greedy and blow it up.

edit: Sony has backed down, good riddance to psn, game good, Sony bad, changed review back to positive.

FOR KARL!

If they keep making good balance changes and adding more free cosmetics, weapons, maps...modes...etc.

This game easily has the potential to beat our generic shooters of the modern age.

refreshing game

> Keep losing ranked games with new civs
> go back to mongols
> tower rush every game
> Get conq

10/10