2 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 117.0 hrs on record (79.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: 13 Mar, 2022 @ 7:22pm

Currently 79 hours in, had 4 crashes so far, one of which locking up my whole system and subpar performance.

That being said, I have enjoyed those 79 hours immensely, engaging in all the aspects of the game I wanted to engage with and skipping or postponing whatever I didn't feel like doing at the time. Open world nature of the game gives you that choice.

Combat feels good, enemies are nicely varied, areas look stunning (the skyboxes especially are pretty and add a lot of ambiance), the open world, tunnels/dungeons/catacombs and "legacy dungeons" all had their own feel to them and felt like I was in a living world (Legacy dungeons basically being what the old Dark Souls maps were. There's no horse to navigate with and overall tighter area design) and I found the story and questlines so far engaging and interesting.

As mentioned before, the performance on PC is not the best, suffering from frame drops and crashing. Some of the times you end up fighting the same boss designs multiple times, which felt a bit copy pasted, but in some situations it made sense why this design would show up again. And later into the game you start having some bosses/minibosses as basic enemies, which can either feel like "here they go again copy pasting", or feel like "I had problems with this earlier and now it doesn't even deserve the title of a boss".
Both of these feelings came up at least personally.

If the performance was better, would probably give it 10/10.
But with the current performance, personally it stands at a 9/10 or a 9.5/10 on a good day.
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