Blades of Fire

Blades of Fire is an engaging action-adventure with an intriguing story, challenging combat, and a well-developed Forge mechanic. Exploring the world and collecting items and lore makes the experience even more rewarding. A must-play for fans of tactical action and new fantasy worlds.

Blades of Fire might not revolutionize the genre, but it doesn’t need to. What it offers is a polished, confident, and deeply satisfying action experience grounded in clear design principles and executed with purpose. By drawing inspiration from giants of the genre and combining those ideas into a streamlined, compelling whole, MercurySteam has crafted a surprise that deserves attention. Whether you come for the satisfying weapon crafting, the intense yet accessible combat, or the story of rebellion and divine legacy, Blades of Fire delivers a memorable journey. It’s not bloated, it's not pretentious, it’s just good game design, executed with passion.

Blades of Fire isn’t for everyone, and that’s fine. Losing your best weapon only to be transported right back to the beginning of a segment with only degraded and broken remaining weapons can be a truly painful experience, but if you persevere and push on, you’ll soon discover that Blades of Fire is a real gem. Its original focus on weapon building is refreshing, and there’s something about it that feels modern and yet so distinctly old-school. Blades of Fire is challenging and punishing, it’s true, but as Taylor Swift once said, “Nothing safe is worth the drive.” Prevail through the peril, and Blades of Fire will reward you.

Blades of Fire is a well-made package focusing more on crafting creativity than physical battles. It forces players to take a more thoughtful approach instead of prioritizing fast-paced action.

At its best, this blacksmith action adventure endears with great characters, engrossing action, and retro simplicity. Attempts to chase industry trends often hold it back.

A flawed but interesting attempt at a mash-up of everything from God Of War to Dark Souls, but where crafting weapons is often more fulfilling than using them.

MercurySteam's worldbuilding adds clutter, not depth, obstructing a concept that's left feeling embryonic. [Issue#412, p.104]

Hai creato una GEMMA. Uno dei migliori giochi a cui abbia giocato quest'anno, non lo dico per lusingarti.

A blend of Soulslike and RPG mechanics centered on weapon crafting, allowing you to build an arsenal tailored to defeat opponents based on whether the weapon deals slashing, thrusting, or impact damage. The narrative feels rushed, and characterization is very superficial.Combat is fun but often repetitive, as the variety of attacks is limited, relying almost entirely on timing your strikes, parries, and dodges. The boss fights lack interest, featuring few mechanics that distinguish them from standard encounters.However, exploration is rewarding, thanks to a well-crafted world and map design.

The biggest and most important question - is Blades of Fire really the successor of Blade of Darkness we have all been waiting for MercurySteam to finally deliver?And the answer sadly is no, not by a long shot. While fun enough on its own, the key components are simply not there. No combo system, despite the chosen control scheme lending itself excellently to be used for one. No multiple distinct characters with diverse playstyles. While the number of available weapons is larger than the combined arsenal of the 4 BoD heroes, the movesets are actually not nearly as diverse, due to a 90% overlap of the available moves within the 7 weapon categories, with very few exceptions. And while fairly mature, Blades of Fire is not really a Dark Fantasy, like Blade of Darkness. And unlike Blade of Darkness which is nearly endlessly replayable, i failed to see a real reason to start a New Journey in Blades of Fire.I really hope that this game flopping as bad as it did does not take MercurySteam down.. hopefully they will live on to give us a future, more refined evolution of what they tried to do here, and also hopefully they can manage to secure the funds to put it on an actual games tore that people use, instead of the graveyard that is the EGS.

As much as I wanted to respect and love the potential But over complicated things and annoying fights against bigger numbers that feel like boss fights The sad part is even the easy setting which I prefer to enjoy my game as if it doesn’t exist I played an hour before deleted it and downloaded it again and played for another hour and just couldn’t handle the frustration I understood something a long time ago if the first area you can’t pass by peacefully then it’s a lost cause and a suffering simulation like demon souls and the rest

Forging is boring af, gameplay is old, story is like the oldest one ever seen. Litterally fallen asleep with the controller in hand never happened in 31 years.