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The randomness in the boss fights in conjunction with the fact that this randomness can make them a half hour long, or longer, makes this game incredibly frustrating. I have to do a half hour fight over again because **** dice rolling wrong over and over and over? This is bad game design. Im just jaw agape at the screen on the baroness fight, rolling "wall" over, and over. Its obviously rigged to make you have to fight her twice. Its maliciously designed. Like why? Who is this game for?

At first I thought this was a good game until I realized the developers never even tested the sledhammer character. They do know you cant get past the 2nd boss because your stamina is so laughably low...right? This game is a good game ruined by improper, lazy balancing. You probably wont get past the 2nd boss, and if you do, you just get a crap character? That cant beat the 2nd boss......? Huh?

First of all, this is an OBJECTIVELY BROKEN GAME, as wayyyyy down the line from this game's release, there are GAME BREAKING BUGS. IF YOU GET HIT GOING TROUGH A LOADING ZONE YOU CAN LITERALLY LOSE YOUR SHELL AS IF YOU JUST STARTED THE GAME LMAO. So yeah. Do with THAT information what you will. I restarted the game, and luckily the shell warped back to me somehow, but I DOUBT I will be that lucky again. So, onto further peoblems. Parry timing isnt correct. Imagine designing a game with literal incorrect input timing. Like the hubris required to think "we're smarter than every other game dev ever" its just shocking. If the parry timing was correct, it would be consistently when the attack is about to hit, you press the button, unfortunately that isnt the case at all. Dont believe me? Download the game yourself. Try to parry the first boss. Thats right, the first one. Also, within the first 2 hours of play, I have had multiple instances of the game not responding to my input. Which is awful when the boss fights are wayyyy too long. L2 is harden. L2 is. Harden. Period. If the gauge is full, and i press it. It should work. But no. The button didnt register. So theres that 30 minute boss fight (awful and boring) down the drain, because the game messed up on the 100th time i pressed L2. It isnt acceptable. Also, this game is just terrible. The level design is literally some of the laziest I've ever seen. Just uninspired mush of the same assets copy and pasted over and over again so you HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU ARE, WHERE YOU WERE, WHERE YOU CAN GO, OR ANYTHING. It's uninspired trash, with 0 artistry at all. You will get lost, because EVERYTHING looks the same. Oh, and as you are walking around aimlessly, there are unavoidable traps hidden everywhere! Yep, some LITERALLY unavoidable unless you know the exact place where they are, which is impossible, since like it said, EVERYTHING LOOKS THE **** SAME. This is a terrible experience. Through and through. Oh and you wanna know the icong on the cake? This game is free with ps plus, is only like 15 hours long, and the completion rate is 8.5% LMAO(its not even a hard game, its just reaaallly boring) The reason I give this game 3 points is for the potential of the harden system, and the shell system. Also the voice acting and audio, plus some animations are pretty cool.

Let me preface this by saying, READ the user reviews. Theres bots, many saying the same thing, giving it a 10/10. Im not saying From did it, but I'm also Not saying they Didnt. Now, onto how this game was developed- They read all the hate Dark Souls 2 got for being boring lazy and easy, so they just said "screw it" and copy and pasted bloodborne enemies until its impossible to even move without 6 (of the same exact) enemies pushing you up against a corner. Just extremely lazy attempt at "difficulty", when 1 on 1, the enemies are easy as hell. Its just awful. You cant fight 3 bloodborne dogs and 3 enemies that can teleport and spam magic. Or any of the other examples of awful, literally unwinnable enemy placement. That isnt combat. Thats just lazy. Oh. And theres of course things you will never find unless you look them up on google (google -aka fromsofts excuse for a quest guide), but I **** you not, theres a weapon that you need to kill a boss, and there 0 way youd ever know how to use it without looking it up. Literally 0 indication of what to do, how to use it, anywhere in the game. You hold down L2 to use weapon skills right? Obvious. Great. But would you ever think to hold it down for SIX SECONDS WHEN THERE A BOSS RUNNING AT YOU? 6 S E C O ND S??? Thats just bad game design. You cant damage a MAINLINE BOSS unless you GUESS to hold down L2 for SIX SECONDS. (YOU DONT HAVE 6 seconds except for ooonnnneee moment in the fight) I mean cmon guys. Everyone knows that you cant excuse that. Oh. And when you beat that boss, you get teleported to the next one. Youd think, oh if I die, I'll just get to retry, right? hahahahahaha what are you, logical? This is Fromsoft. You die, and then get sent back to the last bonfire. So you go back to the boss room, and theres a bonfire **** where ****.... boss? Youknow? The one i just fought? Can i figure out where it is? Ask someone in the game surely? No. Oh. Its that bad, huh? I have to reach out to the "Fromsoft Quest Guide( ****)" oh, but nobody has actually played this far and there misinformation everywhere, nowhere can i find where to go. Lol but 10/10. Maybe play the game before going onto message boards to defend the indefensible. Speaking of indefensible- the input lag, queuing, and hitboxes. As we have seen more recently with the terrible dropped inputs and hitboxes of Sekiro, and the awful input queuing and dodge lag of Elden Ring, clearly whoever used to be in charge of making that aspect feel smooth just isnt at the company any more. It feels extremely clunky, and it only got worse when Elden Ring iterated upon it.This game was when it started to rear it's ugly head ot seems. And its a shame that their older games have better dodge mechanics and less input lag. Technology should improve. And there isnt an excuse. Another thing- Balancing and progression- a foreign term to this development team. I'm on the final boss and I just realized the **** stick with a couple nails sticking out of it (from the beginning of the game) is literally more powerful than any other weapon, whether from a Lord or not. That's not balancing. Sorry. You know what else is dumb? How for about 50% of the game, your best move is developing into the vitality stat, to up your equip load and damage negation, as every other stat has a crazy low first soft cap. It's almost as if they didnt play their own game lol So, anwyays, I beat this game. It felt extremely hollow, as the last boss is just completely down to RNG and input lag whether you can win, and I beat with a **** stick, since it was stronger than weapons enchanted with godly powers. One of the worst experiences I've had in a game.

AI isnt actualy AI, its rigged to always win. Even on normal. I literally got so many combos and the cpu just brushed it off like nothing happened, immediatley got a 5 combo EVERY SINGLE MATCH, THE SAME THING. Its all rigged. This isnt game design.

Man, I heard this was a bad game. But wow. Didnt know to what level it was. At the beginning of the game and already the jump attack is bugged, doesnt work as designed. Bosses are too easy, getting to the boss is harder than the boss. Level designs are boring. Shrine of Amana is some of the worst game/level design I've seen in my life. Just randomly falling to your death and getting magic spammed, wow FUN. The weapons and armor are unbalanced as hell, I see no reason to use anything other than the Battle axe i got hour 1, which makes the game trivial. Just like. Seriously? Its almost as if the devs never played a video game, nevermind testing their own their own, before designing and releasing this.

Um. What? I couldnt make it 10 minutes into this game before facepalming and shutting it off. Its just a memorization SLOG. sighhh. God modern game devs really dont know what actualy difficulty is.

Die in one hit no matter what = "balancing" lol learn how to design a game before designing one? Maybe? Im really far in the game and im fighting the same enemies as level 1 and still getting 1 shot. Its literally one of the worst games I've ever had the displeasure of experiening. Which is a shame, cus the combat is pretty decent with its cool combo system. But just awfully executed with everything that surrounds it. Just an absolute painful experience that is not fun. There is no balance or sense of progression (not to mention lack of proper story). Just really dissapointing feeling to get 1 shot at level 80 or whatever. Idk. Just really sad game design, feels maliciously diesigned badly on purpose at points.

Welp. I beat the game. Nobody actually played past the first level who gave this game a good review. It feels like an absolute prank, the enemies are damage sponges and you die in 1 hit no matter what. That's right, the entire game, no progression, just as weak as you were at level 1, when youre level 1 3 0. (And fighting the same boring enemies too!)Have fun. It is one of the worst progressions ive felt in a video game in my life. Absolutely unbelievable. This is the most insultingly bad attempt at "difficulty" I have ever seen. Die in one hit no matter what = "balancing" lol learn how to design a game before designing one? Maybe? Its literally one of the worst games I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing. Which is a shame, cus the combat is pretty decent with its cool combo system. But just awfully executed with everything that surrounds it. Just an absolute painful experience that is not fun. There is no balance or sense of progression (not to mention lack of proper story, actually pretty insulting to actual historical events, completely changes Hideyoshi into a figure to be revered rather than a slaughterer of Koreans). Just really dissapointing. Idk. Just really sad game design, feels maliciously designed badly on purpose at points. (OH AND the DLC is INSULTINGLY bad, I'm talking the worst boss fights I've ever experienced in 20+years gaming, just completely unplaytested trash that feels like cut content)

Just plain doesnt even function, you go to dodge with full stamina and the input lag is so bad it just feels awful, and unplayable. Wow.

Wow. ****. Literally not even close to playable. Sad. Sad. Not sure ive played a worse game. There is so much unnaceptable jank in this awful excuse for a "game"(well really it's an elaborate prank, just a series of literal jump scare pranks and jokes on the player), for example, the enemies can hit you through walls through pure buggy mechanics. Even sycophants will admit this is unacceptable. The player isnt allowed to hit enemies through walls. The rolling direction is broken, the camera **** ass, the input queuing is sloppy, the etcetera etcetera **** Un. Ac. Ceptable. From a "remaster".

Nope. One too many times a bug has F'd me over and made me lose an hour of progress. Never. Again. Un. Ac. **** Ceptable.

Every single boss is a tedious slog. Most overated nonsense of all time. Sigh. Tried to come back to it. Everyone agrees battling the bosses ****, even if they like the game. So why is it a "10"? Because of the developer. Literally. The bosses are the worst I've ever experienced. Play Micolash, take off the rose colored glasses, and defend that fight. You cant. You cant defend Rom either. So....thats a huge percentage of the game that is just trash. I mean come on.

When the first man invented the map, and the compass, the developers of this game would have laughed at them, because they appearantly think theyre uneeded. **** every direction looks exactly the same, so theres no indication of where to go? Too bad. We're lazy devs. Oh you lost your scrap? Good luck finding it. Oh and guess what? Theres a time limit. So you have to "find" your scrap without a map, without a compass, because we pranked you and put 2 enemies out of sight in the middle of a dialogue section for a guaranteed death in the middle of god knows where, surrounded by wall b number 3332 that youve seen 3331 times before, so you have zero clue where you are. It is literally the most sad attempt at level design i've seen in my decades of gaming. Truly an absolute slog.

Well, on to the 6th review of Elden Ring (since Metacritic deletes any reviews for cold hard cash) This game is unacceptabley rough. Anyone who plays it will agree the platforming is in an unacceptable state. The environments interefere with gameplay in unintended ways CONSTANTLY. Dropped frames will **** with your gameplay A LOT. Also, From did NOT balance this game, seemingly at all. No matter what health, or defense, armor, etc. 1 shots are guaranteed, and at other times bosses can be 2 shot by you..... Its literally one of the least polished games ive played in decades maybe. This game has the worst input lag, and dropped inputs, i've seen...well since...sekiro. Sekiro dropped inputs constantly, this game doesnt do it as much, but the input lag is 1000000 times worse. Nearly unplayable. Bloodhounds step and summons exist to mask this.Anyone will agree after playing,this game needed more time in the oven. If you arent willing to admit that, you are lying, or From told you couldnt say anything negative, or youd lose access. Play on the horse and platform around for 5 minutes and that ALONE will tell you all you need to know. Input buffer has seemingly gotten worse (somehow) with subsequent updates. Dropping the score down to unplayable. I cant express how unfathomabley uncomfortable the input buffer is. Its unconscionable

Playing the game online is impossible with the input lag, Its literally saying i jumped when i never pressed the up button, thats how bad it is. Waste of time and money, for a game with no actual story mode *facepalm*

Every time you get hit, it's because the game acted in an unexpected, janky way. Leveling up HP does nothing, some enemies 1 hit kill you with undodgable BS, or stun lock you so you cant move and 1 hit kill you. There are so many situations that have 0 to do with skill, it's unreal. The hitboxes and animations feel like theyre from 2009. Like some of the hitboxes are the worst I've seen in a LONG time. Literally, there will be a plank of wood, and your character will move AROUND IT IN A 6 FOOT RADIUS. This means platforming/falling (necessary to progress) will 100% get you killed in a playthrough. You wont avoid it. speedrunners will avoid this game like the plague due to the inconsistensy of this game's systems. The people giving this a 10 should be investigated for fraud, theyre being paid. The bugs alone push it down to an 8, the non updated systems push it down to a 5, but the absolute sheer amount of **** that is unpolished in terms of modernization and balance, puts it down to a ONE. The absolutley mind boggling stupidity and bull****tery of the AI coexisting simultaniously is one of the most facepalming gameplay experiences of the modern day. You'll see enemies attack random objects, or kill themselves for no reason! But then, other times they will SPAM in a way where you cant even escape! Another thing, the camera doing unexpected movements, or your character not obeying you will get you killed, 99% of the time. You can be locked on and your character will face away to shoot projectiles due to a bug??? Not even to mention how OFTEN THIS GAME EATS INPUTS. TOO MANY TO COUNT. Also locking on doesnt prioritze threats, it feels so maliciously coded, just to F you over. Everything feels so dated other than graphics. Use this UI, for example, and tell me it's acceptable in 2022. Go ahead, I dare you. Idk man...just reallllly tough to defend. We deserve better for next gen.

Welp. After about the 30th time the game didnt register my jump input,resulting me falling, jaw agape, i can say with confidence this game isnt functioning properly. The controls are nowhere neaaaar consistent enough to be playable. AVOID.

Lost all my progress of 1 hour from being instakilled from a bug on my first run. What a waste of time and money.

First of all, I love racing games, I almost always enjoy a good racing game. This game is everything wrong with modern racing games. The campaign mode is literally rigged to make you play as long as possible, similar to mobile game tactics. There is only one, (yes one) way to unlock cars, which is through LOOT BOXES. The only currency you can use is the coins, which you earn in campaign, but not nearly enough to actually get good cars, oh yeah, and the cars performance is DIRECTLY tied to how rare it is in the loot boxes. I have literally one car that can keep up on the straights (upgrading is BS, a lie (boost is nerfed with upgrades wtf)) with NORMAL AI AFTER HOURS OF PLAYING Also, the AI will interfere in your race if you are too far ahead, sending you to last place at the last lap as punishment, sometimes flipping your car over for NO REASON. It is an absolutely amazing example of the problem with modern games, and is literally one of the worst racing games I have ever playedn **** this game, **** its greedy tactics, **** LOOT BOXES

What a joke. A downgraded version **** that already doesn't hold up when you actually play it.

Doesnt have a functioning camera, therefore the game is unplayable, therefore cannot recieve a score. What a shame.

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Arcade battles are rigged, every input by nine the phantom read to the nearest .001 of a second, unnacceptable

The combat doesnt function properly, walking through enemies, defense glitches, completely scripted deaths when bosses have almost no health left after 20 minutes of fighting. Awful combat even if it functioned. This game is one of the worst gameplay experiences ever, and I'm 40 hours in. Wat a waste of time.

This game is only hard if you think holding down l1 for 5 minutes is hard. The illusion of difficulty is created by the game decided you didnt press the button you pressed, or deciding you DID get hit, when youre literally 10 feet away from the enemy's hit, doing exactly what someone else did on video (theres tons of proof of bad hitboxes, and BS online, game eating button inputs on an unnaceptable level (and the devs know their sycophant fans will defend the games bugs online, and send death threats to anyone giving below a 9/10) im playing on a brand new ps5, brand new controller, the game eats inputs randomly. It just does. Period. That alone bumps this gane down to a 5 given the nature of it. The corrput game journalism industry will tell you this was a great game, dont let them fool you. Go from playing better games, back to this, and it feels unplayable.seriously. i just beat demons souls in 4 days after purchase prior to giving this another shot. It hasnt improved in 2 years. Its still broken, and its fans are STILL liars. The amount of bots From bought to give this game 10/10's is criminal. No one with this input lag on Console, would in their right mind, give this game a 10. It is INHERENTLY FLAWED. Every. Single. Death. Is. From. The. Game. Messing. Up. Period.

This is one of the most unfunctional games I have ever played. You cant lock on to the enemies that you want ro lock on to. THE LOCK ON IS RNG BASED. THE. LOCK ON. IS. RNG. Unplayable.

Wow, reloading level over and over to get a good RNG on the enemy attack locations is...reaalllly good design. I **** not like the creat undodgeable death zones with the RNG or anything. Oh wait.. yeah this games design is LAuGHABLE. But the animation is very good. I have played hard games, this isnt one of them. Its entirely based on luck.

This is one of the most poorly executed games ever to be released in my memory. Why you would take the time to develop a game, then make sure to make it UNFUN in every way possible. Every feature of this game makes it worse to play than *decades* old snowboarding games. The physics are the WORST part though! Oh my god, it's as if someone who didnt know how to make a game was hired to do the physics. There are very poorly designed challenges that require you to do things that the physics engine will maybe pull off 1/1000 times? Maybe? (Even given the same inputs by the user) For example, good luck grinding in any consistent way on rails for challenges that require this. It just isnt going to happen. Honestly, one of the worst playing ganes available on consoles and in general. About as enjoyable as walking on a bed of nails while eating a bowl of stale cornpops with diarrhea

I guess ZERO refers to the rating they wanted you to give the game by not explaining how the game saves. They have a complete disregard for your effort, time, and quality of life in this game. What a waste of my time.

Terrible gameplay, terrible controls. Half the time you have to press the same button 10 times to get your input to register. The game simply doesnt function as it should. What a shame. Do not get this. The online is as if your controller doesnt even matter. You press buttons, 100% SURE you did it. BUT THE GAME IGNORES YOU. THIS GAME DOES NOT FUNCTION.

It's star wars, so even if it is a souls clone with cringeworthy platforming, I guess it should get a 10/10? Not sure. But this game fails at what it tries to do very often -Too often in my opinion. The game gives you instructions on how to to play, but then breaks its own rules without warning. The battles are completely inconsistent, even when the same inputs are put in by the player. The framerate on base ps4 is laughable at times, the entire game stopping to to load some sequences. There are just so many times more issues than a normal soulslike that it is impossible to list everything. The pacing of the bonfires is all over the place, the checkpoints completely random at times before bosses, a big no no in a soulslike. Give me checkpoints or dont! Dont tease me! This is such wasted potential. So many little things that should have been ironed out. The main thing is, this game is just not fun, and it should be. The whole time I'm just wondering how the game's inconsistency will kill me and piss me off.

Work up all the way to the final boss for the biggest troll in gaming history! An undodgeable 1 shot that will make it so you cant finish the DlC you bought! What a funny joke!

This game had me playing it until the very end. Although I was hooked, could I reccomend it? Not sure. Some of the level design is very lazy, copy and paste, everything looks the same. Some boss battles are just poorly balanced for all builds, and clearly needed more time in the oven. New game plus with enhanced enemies really brings out the glaring flaws in the combat system when facing bosses. Sometimes, they will be way too easy, not even dealing 1 bit of damage. Other times, a big weapon swing will kill you in 1 hit outside of your hitbox, with no chance of a dodge, along with your partner, meaning no revive. After many hours, I KNOW the makers of this game could do better with some aspects of this game. Interested to see what else they can do given more resources. I'd like to see more assets, and less recycling in the level design, along with better balancing with more QA tests. Also,