Lords of the Fallen
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Soldato
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As this is now on GamePass, I started playing it last night. Just killed the second boss this evening.
So far it's... pretty good, I guess. The umbral realm mechanic seems to be the only real factor that distinguishes it from the pack of Souls games and Souls-likes, but I haven't appreciated it much yet because I keep thinking the umbral realm is dangerous and I should only be in there when necessary. I think that might not be quite right.
Combat feels okay so far. Kind of slow, though nowhere near as slow as the 2014 LotF, and with quite generous dodge i-frames and fairly spacious parry windows. Though saying that, the second boss seemed to be crying out "parry me!" and I still got the timing wrong and just decided to dodge instead after getting clobbered a few times. Fortunately, that seemed to work perfetly okay anyway.
I wouldn't say I'm totally loving it so far, but it's piqued my interest enough to keep going with it. Playing as a preacher and upping radiance mostly so far. Hopefully that's a good tactic...
So far it's... pretty good, I guess. The umbral realm mechanic seems to be the only real factor that distinguishes it from the pack of Souls games and Souls-likes, but I haven't appreciated it much yet because I keep thinking the umbral realm is dangerous and I should only be in there when necessary. I think that might not be quite right.
Combat feels okay so far. Kind of slow, though nowhere near as slow as the 2014 LotF, and with quite generous dodge i-frames and fairly spacious parry windows. Though saying that, the second boss seemed to be crying out "parry me!" and I still got the timing wrong and just decided to dodge instead after getting clobbered a few times. Fortunately, that seemed to work perfetly okay anyway.
I wouldn't say I'm totally loving it so far, but it's piqued my interest enough to keep going with it. Playing as a preacher and upping radiance mostly so far. Hopefully that's a good tactic...
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Tbh, the original I thought was really quite clunky, and overall an average game at best. It's still for me the weakest of the 20 or so Souls-like games that I've played.
So far, the 2023 version feels far better to play. Unless someone was a completist for this genre, I'm not sure I'd recommend starting with the 2014 LotF instead of just skipping over it to the new one.
So far, the 2023 version feels far better to play. Unless someone was a completist for this genre, I'm not sure I'd recommend starting with the 2014 LotF instead of just skipping over it to the new one.