Public reviews from outlets containing journos are utterly worthless, because the majority of them have connections to certain "consultation" activist companies (basically proxies at this point), which make any of their reviews a worthless read.

The only reviews at this point are those who are literally testing it on their home-built rigs and benchmarking test purposes.

I can already see there being a fanboy moment between regular gamers and Souls fans, and that isn't helping anyone with anything, except to see a bunch of know it alls on the Souls genre acting like they are the high scholars of gaming. From what I have seen from the hour of gameplay leaks, the game does in fact contain trace elements of mechanics from Souls, but the game itself isn't a Souls-like, but it is absolutely borrowing elements, and that is why I am not interested in playing the game to begin with, because I can see for myself visually on what the game is playing like via user footage and of course the gameplay trailers. 

Aside from that little squabble one portion of the net is having, I feel like the focus should be put more on the performance of the game itself, as well as the DEI enforcing game journos to write out the multiple hit pieces on the dev studio (which has become so obvious now, one would have to be willingly blind to not notice this level of pressure).

Not to mention when there is a fuss they post an 8 by default to appease both sides. The 8 could mean a 1 or a 10 or anything in between and doesn't reflect the written review. 

Yes, it's far more like GoW/DMC. The only thing I found souls like was the travel menu. Those bonfires aren't a staple of souls and action games have been doing things like that well before souls. Souls borrowed much from what came before too, metroidvania for example. Everything would be a souls like if you took those subtle elements and isolated them. Soulsborne is a collection of very specific gamep design choices. It's far more related to GoW from what I can see. 

Also, you fell for the trap. DEI is critical race theory rebranded, it should be called what it is, a racist and xenophobic load of shit that pits people against each other based on their differences and parades itself as attempting to do the opposite all to steer the narrative away from true issues like classism. Most people knew this, now they call it DEI and seen in a new less radical light. 

It's also a possibility the game actually isn't that phenomenal, you know. It still scored lower than FF16 or even Hogwarts Legacy and I thought the latter quickly wore off after a few hours and kind of sucked.

I hope it's good, by the way, mind, since I preordered it! But I'm setting my expectations to an 8 out of 10 game, and that's fine.

if someone wants to make a DF thread. they seem to love the game and are exremely impressed but do want some fixes.

They call it a incredible game, with the gameplay being top notch and the presentation being something not of this world.

Maybe so. I have to disagree about Hogwarts though, that game got better the more you played it and deserved a much higher score for it's level of quality. 

Already past 500K concurrent players!

EDIT: holy crap, 680,000 players within 5 minutes!

It’s breaking CP2077’s record for sure! About to be at 900K players in 45 minutes!!!

It’s official. The biggest single player game ever on Steam. Took just an hour! Now to see how high it goes.

The game has blown up on Steam. The number keeps growing.

I'm happy to see hard work pays off, and the over judgemental people can cry some more.