Whoever said this game is like God Of War made me spend 60 dollars on a game that is just another Souls like except you dont lose your leveling up progress....which is irrelevant in a game with very few mobs anyway. This game plays NOTHING like God Of War and IS EXACTLY LIKE A SOULS LIKE.

And I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate Souls like....its basically boss rush Souls mode as well, if that's your cup of tea so be it but I'm burnt out on games trying to be challenging for the sake of it and in this game unlike Elden Ring you don't die quickly and neither do the bosses so it's just a tedious grind where if you eventually die you just have to do it again and these fights take way too long. Id rather die faster and the bosses have less health than deal with this.

Also the game has a TON OF BUGS I've had enemies teleport away from me after going away from their spawn point too far, except when they teleport they are restored to maximum health now imagine that with mini boss or boss type enemies that have tons of health and take about 2 minutes of hitting to kill. :)

Graphically this game has horrendous performance with full ray tracing on, it is unusable on everything but the 4080 and 4090 @ 4K even with DLSS and Frame Generation on, I have a 4080 and I had to use DLSS Balanced (not Quality ) and Frame Generation to be able to use full ray tracing on very high. I could've used the Medium setting if the setting wasn't absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ broken and low looks terrible so literally what? A lot of settings seems actually broken in this game too, Render Distance there is NO difference in many if not most objects between High, Very High, and Cinematic as far as I can tell. Basically between High to Cinematic there is very little tweaking so it either looks like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or it looks like next gen ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Because overall this game is just an Unreal Engine environment simulator.

Yes there's good stuff in this game but I'm not going to write about that, I'm going to write about THE ABSOLUTE CRINGE FEST of the dialogue and CHINESE BRAINROT that you will see in the first 15 minutes of playing in the game. The opening is a try not to cringe challenge with the dialogue and it pretty much continues through out the game. With tons of cut scenes (another thing that was lied about) that keep taking control out of the players hands which also get tiresome.

Lets see...outside of the obvious combat elements that are directly ripped off from Dark Souls you also have these fun engaging mechanics and design that also come from Dark Souls:

- Enemies waiting around corners and hiding in areas and are scripted to attack you as part of a trap trigger.
- NPCs with dialogue that you have to keep mashing talk on after they finish talking because they weren't really done talking btw and you just messed up the quest line :)
- Multiple enemies attacking you at the same time or archers shooting from unreachable locations so you must reposition constantly. By reposition I mean mash B the whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time where you're just rolling into a wall or wherever to get around....FUN GAME DESIGN!
- Input delay and missing your inputs, yea the heal input is completely messed up, you have to mash it for it to work it seems to be getting overwritten by just your running input or something, is this intentional? WHO KNOWS figure it out for yourself!
- Mashing the same attack button strings over and over and doing the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing over and over against bosses but mixing up your dodge roll simulator timings with some delayed attacks (as per the standard now in this genre)

I literally just finished Elden Ring, I am so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ burnt out on this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass overrated genre and I was lied to completely about how this game would play, it is not "easy", it is NOTHING like God Of War and IT IS a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Souls like in every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense. I am way too burnt out in life and in general to play games that want to crush my spirit and make me feel like ♥♥♥♥, LIFE IS HARD ENOUGH FOR ME and I dont need this ♥♥♥♥. I want to chill out and just relax, I'mma go play Tomb Raider or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anything else that will allow me to just enjoy my life without having to learn boss patterns and repeat boss fights for an hour. ♥♥♥♥ that ♥♥♥♥.

PS I will come back to this game when I feel better and when this game gets patched to not run like complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and have tons of graphical glitches (there are tons)

Overall 4/10 for me, way worse than Elden Ring and I didn't even like that game.