Ashen

Started out great, and then... nope.

To preface this, beat every fromsoft game and numerous souls likes yada yada. I've played some BAD souls likes. This game was passable until the artificial difficulty kicks in at the seat of the matriarch when they have a long labyrinth full of mobs that overwhelm you in the dark. I don't care what anyone says, this level is not good design. It's trash because the devs don't know how to make a challenging encounter without putting you through a gauntlet of ♥♥♥♥ enemies all at once. This really turned an alright game into a bad one. Reminds me of The Ritual path in Demon's souls if the ritual path had a head injury.

Had this game on my wishlist for a long while and got it via a bundle. Knew it was mixed, but wanted to give it a shot anyways. Had fun with it, but the mixed rating is understandable. Thought of 100%-ing it for a little while, but saw that I had to replay the whole game on cripple mode and pay for a dlc that would have cost me almost more than the bundle I bought. Figured it wasn't worth my time. For the rest of the game as a whole it is fairly simple. Soul's Like, minimalistic (unfortunatly also in enemy combat design) and vague come to mind. I realy loved the visual changes throughout the game. It made the game feel so alive to me. It felt like a somewhat chill game to me. Only started having trouble near the end of the game. lastly I felt that Items that I could pick up started to feel very useless in the end. There are better games worth your time, but if you got the game in a bundle or free somehow, give it a shot.

Like it!

a lot of these negatives seem like some weird form of bias. this is a banger

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