I beat this in the wee hours of this morning. Overall, I don’t regret playing it. It was fairly short and had a lot worth seeing and doing. I got a little bored by the end though, I will admit. Worth playing to see what started souls life. I’d say 6/10 in large part because I am impressed by BluePoint.
Pros:
- Very pretty! BluePoint should make more games and From Software should make games with better graphics
- Awesome music
- Surprisingly cool level design for how old it is (they didn’t change that stuff)
- Insanely fast loading times
- Interesting lore if you don’t mind picking up the scraps like most souls games
Cons:
- They didn’t fix glitches or AI so maybe a little toooo faithful to the original
- Too easy after playing the newer souls games. I started using melee more than magic here and there to make it harder but then was like meh because it wasn’t very hard still so I just stuck with the combo.
- Magic is overpowered to the point it was broken. By the time I realized it I was too invested and didn’t want to try changing things. The range and power of magic makes it feel like you are cheesing everything even when you aren’t trying to. I made it through a fairly difficult stage only to kill the boss in 30 seconds (seriously). The boss slowly walked towards me so I shot it with magic and it died before it reached me.
- The very last boss of the game just kind of writhed around on the ground slowly towards me and I killed it with magic too. I never saw it attack even when it got close to me so maybe it was a fake boss or something? It is part of what made me feel bored.
- I read modern articles about how people think it is hard and it made me sad because that means people are terrible at video games.