Warning: Anyone going to pay money for this game do NOT buy on recommendations without watching the first area up to the fourth boss. I advise this because this game is only for a subset of Souls players. If you enjoy going into Nioh DLC without an end game build, if Sen Fortress is a highly rated area of yours, if you like or don't mind severe status effects and dealing with multiple at a time along with tricks, traps and the game ill preparing you for a boss that increases aggression and speed triple or quadruple that of what has come before (think Lies of P Laxaisia), you will find a fresh experience. That boss I mentioned may be a Genichiro moment, I haven't beaten her yet but I suspect more of a Laxasia moment cause I fear the "difficulty" will go right back down afterward.
I won't comment further until I spend more time with it cause there is still fun here and despite this design it's fresh and I still want to continue but I know for a solid fact this game isn't for the vast majority as of right now. I also realise the Souls influencer community have shown they are a bunch of shills or extreme hypocrites, I know for a fact they know for 100% certainty that this is not a game for the majority of players and yet mention nothing, the first thing anyone who cared for their audiences finances would warn about the design of this game. People who have spent years complaining about this type of design in FS games. I can only assume some want to be able to milk a guide, the fighting cowboys and what not, whom in particular showed the second area of the game funnily enough cause he knew the first area was a complete trash fire of end game souls spam. Stating he wanted to avoid spoilers but surely the first area would be better suited for that. Instead he nitpick and pulls out the most minor stuff while brushing past such drastic design decisions aswell as enemies all being the same, levels that look so samey they are hard to navigate and other issues.
Alas, I just want to advise majour caution here, you could end up with a severe dud on your hands depending on what you enjoy out of these games, esspecially if you are a Elden Ring newbie or you are in this for the stellar blade experience. Asides from the frustrating design the game wants to be too many things at once, most notably souls and at the same time WuKong, this could fall into place but I'm five bisses in and it yet has to do so. AILimit is on sale for 28 euro, I wish I had went with that. While I've not played AiLimit the community speaks highly but I'd already recommend going with Khazan which is only 10 euro more, if you need a souls fix and missed that one, that's a really solid game once you get familiar with it's systems and flow.
Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 25 July 2025
