Working on Remnant 2. The first one I’d consider a Souls game, but this one isn’t nearly as punishing. The first one you basically had to play co-op to make any real progress, but this one feels optional.

If there is anything I really dislike about the game is that the enemies scale to your most upgraded gear, unless their level is naturally equal or above to your own when you first arrive at a level. At higher levels, all the advantages you’ve accumulated makes you punch well above your weight category, but it artificially forces you to progress very carefully, and there IS a chance that you accidentally tally upgrade your weapon by finding it in a chest or a co-op partner finding it in their own game. Not cool.

That aside, I LOVE this game. The music, the atmosphere, even the RNG that decides which bosses/encounters/loot spawn into your procedurally-generated map. There are so many unique items and Traits depending on which bosses you fight and how you deal with them that the replay value skyrockets.

Re-roll a campaign level to engineer story scenarios, or re-roll in Adventure Mode to farm items, or do the Boss Run Mode to fight your favourite bosses in different ways.

The Remnant games elegantly sit at the intersection of Soulsborne, Rogue-like and Looter Shooters, while managing to stay true to their own identity (Backrooms mini-level notwithstanding).

So are you saying Twilight > The Walking Dead. Coz I agree. Well said.