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Edited this review to be thumbs up rather than down after finishing it. I'd rate it a nice 7/10.

Here's a list of positives:
- The bosses are of extremely good quality generally speaking and feel like bosses that would be apart of Elden Ring DLC. I'd say 5/9 are great!
- The characters feel unique from each other and the synergies are definitely there if you play around a bit
- The game is SIMPLE in regards to building, I feel like a lot of rogue likes can be complex and have a ton of variety when it comes to building. Depending on how you view simplicity, it's either a pro or a con.


This game is the DS2 of the big 20202025, it has issues outlined below but I think that if you're into playing an experimental $40 game you can have fun with this even if you're a first time player. It isn't worth the $40 in my opinion, maybe $25-30.

I think everything below is salvageable as it's primarily around solo / map dynamics / lack of variety but it is disappointing that these extremely obvious issues weren't touched upon.

It makes it clear that the team that developed this game is not the main branch of fromsoft.

The variety is abysmal, every camp is the same, every night feels the same.
The lower timers for day time to end is too restrictive. (based on the initial values from the network test)
They didn't include enough previous dark soul boss fights/enemies. (I read online only 6 in total which is a joke)
There's no voice chat to talk with random players you may queue with. They didn't even give us the bare minimum, they literally said you can ping and THAT IS IT.

Solo on launch is abysmal and I don't know if the changes they are purposing (1 revive on night bosses and more runes) really help the core issue which is that EVERYTHING in this game is meant for 3 PLAYERS therefore 80% of the game is a gank fight by DEFAULT which are notoriously fromsoft's weakest boss fights but it's not just that, it's also the normal areas & it is significantly worse than DS2 in terms of this in my opinion. (I enjoyed DS2 overall by the way but the fact they got it even worse than that is laughable)

I enjoy a good gank fight don't get me wrong but when the entire game is that, literally every cave, every camp, every fortress, every night fight, whatever... it's extremely annoying to deal with. Manageable with optimal farm but that wouldn't get rid of the annoyance of dealing with it 80% of the time you're playing the game unless significant changes were made to the solo mode on the map itself.

The lower timers are too restrictive in regards to the zone closing, every death is a massive impact in current form. Which I get is what they were wanting but the additional mechanic of your runes going on enemies that you then have to kill is annoying, a very dark souls 2 obvious experimentation type of thing to implement as it really only leads to further frustration that isn't skillful and has literally never been present in all fromsoft game to my knowledge. Once again the way the map is setup to consistently gank - would tell me, hey your teammates are expected to somewhat clear out the area to make it easier for you to get your runes back, but when solo it's just another big gank fight that you come back too and you're weaker from the death prior.

I expected more dark soul's enemies not just 6 bosses scattered across the expeditions. Every enemy is from elden ring, maybe an extra move or two that's an AOE typically meant to deal with, once again 3 players. This is just flatout disappointing and one modder could've done a better job than what fromsoft did. I mean this completely literally and 100% genuinely. ONE modder could've added better additional move variety and additional enemies from previous titles in a better fashion than whatever group of people handled this part of the game.

It's extremely unimpressive, which is maybe a result of it being a side spinoff game but still... The way it was marketed had me and many others thinking we'd see a lot more of this. They even gave us SKINS OF PEOPLE FROM THE PREVIOUS GAMES but not a single normal enemy? (I was also in the camp that thought it was the firekeeper from DS3 not duchess, that would've been cooler even if it made no sense canonically)

TLDR: The entire game feels like a challenge mod made by an intermediate modder with a raging hard on for DS2. It is not in anyway the same quality that fromsoft typically does and is very clearly an experimental game in a similar vein to what DS2 was for the souls franchise. I think it's salvageable but clearly this game was undercooked - 7/10

Dope game, hope the developer finishes it!


EDIT after playing a few more hours:

It's amazing that ONE DUDE remade the gunplay on H1Z1 PS3 while implementing a bunch of quality of life features that the game had later in it's life cycle.

The game is remade in a superior engine with pretty much 1:1 feel in terms of the gunplay. The primary flaws within this game are the graphic fidelity, some car bugs, and maybe some map updates/upgrades (destructible objects, visibility, whatever)

This game in my view is already superior in terms of gunplay to the 2025 live version of H1Z1. It got everything right.

Quite literally the best FPS of all time and I would argue the best game of all time.

The item economy and gameplay innovations of this game was generational.

GOATED that'll be all

Literally best single player game of the year

Only con for me was not being able to replay the final part (which may or may not be added) and also the lightsaber depth only being cosmetic

Other than those two things, the game makes you FEEL like a jedi, amazing

lol

Super fun game DUDE. XD

Amazing