Recent reviews by falsy

super janky Elden Ring prequel (good game)

Guys who are pushing 30 will tell you this is a good game, even the best souls game. Do not trust them. They are the same people who for whatever reason think that a 2v1 gang fight is the pinnacle of boss design. This game is somehow more jank than DS2 while not having as much content. Only reason people still enjoy this game is nostalgia, if you dont feel nostalgic about a game that came out in 2011 because you arent in the age bracket that should be considering having children instead of stanning videogames there is literally no reason to play it over other souls games.

+ You can actually change refresh rate instead of being locked to 60 fps in 2024 (hello Elden Ring)

− Everything else

Update - working towards finishing the game as it is the only souls game i havent finished, maybe in the next 5 years it will be done. Cannot put up with the horrible progression design, garbage enemies, horrid boss fights, terrible locations, the clunkiness, the awful hitboxes, the non-existent sound ques, the trash moveset telegraphing, the slowness, and overall the entire game for longer than an hour per month.

Best game ever made GOTY of every past and future year, this is THE game, truly a game of games, and the best souls genre game ever created. Absolute masterpiece.

Completed challenges:
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- Deathless any%
- No weapon upgrades any%
- RL1 any%
- Deathless all rememberances
- Randomized deathless any%
- Incant only 165 bosses
- Sorc only 165 bosses
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The purpose of this review is to focus on bosses as thats what makes or breaks a souls game.
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BOSS SPOILERS
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Before Mountaintops access the game is a solid 9/10. After Mountaintops access the game falls off hard, in terms of both exploration and more importantly main / important bossfights. Only exception being Maliketh / Beast clergyman, Hoarah Loux, Radagon (not Elden Beast) and Placidusax.
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Bosses that suck ass:

Rykard - RNG meme gimmick fight, imagine a boss that gets made more tolerable by a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ randomizer mod lmao

Malenia - Only way to reliably dodge waterfowl is extremely unintuitive and if you dont dodge it its over, her poise breaks are immensely inconsistent because she just randomly gets hyper armor on almost every move, even the dashe

Elden Beast - Too RNG dependant, one of the 2 fights in the game where it feels like you are being played by the game instead of playing the game, you have no control whatsoever

Fire Giant - The 2nd one, annihilate all bugged fire breath move that will hit you no matter what, rolling RNG, arena is angled and full of rocks so you cant even hit him if he decides to roll on one of them

Godskin duo: Just why honestly. Its so easy to make a duo boss good, they already did it with Demon prince's and never managed to replicate it again. I guess Miyazaki got his memory wiped or something

All of the wywerns (Agheel, Borealis, Adula, ...)

Crucible knight duo - "just kite for 10 minutes lol"

Fallingstar beast - resistant to every single type of melee damage which makes the fights last longer then they should, "just use incant/sorc lol"

Valiant Gargs - Why the ♥♥♥♥ was the poison breath neccessary

Dragonkin soldiers, especially the Nokstella one - horrible visibility and poorly telegraphed moveset

Fortissax - Awful visibility, the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ is too big and his sound Q's are bad so you cant really tell what hes doing until you hear something explode behind you while hitting his leg which is followed by a wave that hits you for 70% of your HP

Lansseax - Same problem as Fortissax except he does even more damage and his arena is way worse
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Bosses that kinda suck ass:

Morgott - very RNG dependant but all of his moves are dodgeable so every death is basically a skill issue, however, sometimes he will be a complete pushover and sometimes he will clutch up like crazy

Elemer / Bell Bearing Hunters - If you arent familiar with the shield slam cheese this boss is just unfair

Godrick - stop delaying your attacks for 55 seconds you ugly bastard, also the P2 flamethrower attack is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage and random as ♥♥♥♥ because it just bounces of off every surface like a basketball please someone teach Miyazaki how fire works

Regal ancestor spirit - i dont hate this boss tbh, just think it could've been so much better. Also whats with them just giving bosses in this game annoying roll attacks that last for solid 15 seconds for literally no reason
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SUMMARY
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Theres a lot of really bad fights, however, most are good. On top of that, it is by far the most challenging souls game released by From, even if the difficulty is oftentimes artificial. Theres also way more options to deal with the more challenging encounters then in prior games where your only option was to just bash your head against the boss until you killed it. The skill in this game does not simply come from being knowledgeable about fights but also combining that with the knowledge of the immensely large item pool.

Combat system is ♥♥♥♥. Lots of bugs, Otherwise a great game.

Midir + L + mid + DS2 better

witcer👍

ng+, death march, sign build, mastercrafted griffin gear, eredin boss fight. 3/10 +Caranthir bugged out and just stood on the same place, didnt even attack for the entire time so i was just slapping him with 160 damage for 3 minutes.

jk, i played through Witcher 3 about 8 times after i pirated it from piratebay, then bought the GOTY edition for 15 euros, played both dlcs and went into ng+ with the character, completed the standart game again and im still not bored of it. Definitely worth your money in all occasions.

9/10 because the horse is a degenerated piece of ♥♥♥♥. Otherwise 10/10

open beta

Its been 5 months and movement is still garbage. You can fix subtick all you want but as long as it gets disrupted by inconsistent counter-strafing and unpolished texture edges / bumps it will never feel good.