TwentyOne21

Waste of money and time. I ve been a fan of the Nioh games. Platinumed 1 and 2. This one is just flat out rubbish. Bad boss design and senseless trash mobs. More of this Kahazan the forget-about-it- Berserker crap. Mobs just jump and teleport around like idiots. Because devs are not able or not willing to design good fights. My strong attacks 50% dont hit the mob with no understandable reason. You stand in front of the mob target him and your attack hits 180 degrees elsewhere. Fights are not fun just annoying. You fight a mob that can essentially not hurt you then with 2% of his life he one shots you. And if i wanted to play a jump & run game i would buy one and not a soulslike. I died more by falling down into water because the game-controls did not reacted to my speed running and therefore my jump fell short. That did not happen one time. 75% of my deaths came from that. And controls is another thing thats just bad implemented. For everyting i liked nioh 1+2 - the professional control mechanism nioh 3 just ****. JUST DONT BUY THIS CRAP. NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY!

There are games that are not worth your money. And then there are games the developers should pay you back for losing your precious lifetime on them because they are so bad. Code Vein is one of the latter. If not the one. I feel bad i can only give zero points because this rubbish is such a BS it would deserve negative points. I dont know what you have to have in your brain to deliver such a desaster. The story and design might draw your interesst if you are a 12 year old girl. 14 not so much anymore. Technically it is utter trash. How about employing some real developers instead of some script kiddies who dont even know how to handle game engines where you only have to click some buttons?! Honestly i spent around 20 hours with this crap. I tried really hard. I played most of all the soulslike games there are. This one is such a embaressment for the genre. Stay away from Code Pain. Dont support such cheap developers!

Fine small game if not for its technical issues. Fighting system works more often not then it does. Thats annoying because fights could be fun if it did. I dont understand why the industry doesnt spend more money for real developers who know computers. Instead employ wanna be script kiddies who dont even know how to handle game engines. Nice little game you can play thru in an afternoon. Buy only if you dont mind annoying technical issues. Otherwise look for some quailty software. Dont spend more than 5 bucks on it. Its not worth it.

I liked NIOH 1 and 2. Very good games. Wo Long is missing everything that made NIOH good. I played it thru just to get the platinum trophy. Which is some stupid goal of mine: When i start a game my goal is to play it until i got the platinum trophy. In that case this was a big mistake. The game is not worth the time to even start with it. It has some good ideas but those were not thought thru (Moral system -> WTF?! Come on man!). Balancing especially towards NG+ and NG++ is non existant. Melee weapons are essentially of no value, Spells are OP. Leveling doesnt matter a lot if at all. Actual gameplay looks like that: press some buttons, doesnt matter which just wait for special attack from boss: deflect to build stagger -> use critical if staggered. Rinse Repeat. Thats essentially the whole game. You can use some builds to build up stagger faster (guding blade). But that doesnt make up for the bad design. Its flat out boring. If this would have been the first game from TN for me i would have never taken a look at NIOH. And that would have been a real shame.

What a complete waste of money and time! I should have stopped playing that crap after the first chapter boss. But no, i wanted to somehow know if the game designer just had a bad day. Couldnt believe a AAA game could be that kind of rubbish. Now that i defeated the endboss i know: Holy crap this IS a really bad game. Bosses are a joke. You can kill every one in maybe 5 to 10 tries. Just get a good build and you wont be able to die anyways. On the other hand the world kills you all day long. Not with trash mobs. Those are trashly desgined (maybe the developers didnt understand why they are called trash mobs?). The world kills you with status effects and other stuff. To adjust you just have to change your equipment like every 10 minutes. Without any kind of help from developers you have to click every item, change it and so on. There seems to be essentially no testing of gameplay it seems. How have they not thought about this crap? And its buggy as hell, controls dont work and the controller is overloaded. Maybe design a good fighting system instead of bloat it with crap nobody really needs and doesnt work anyways ? Biggest crap ever! STRONG DONT BUY!!!! Holy ****, i cant put it in words how bad this game is.

Another good world design by From Software. Great for exploring. But there it ends. Another unplayable piece of crap implementation of constant input failure and camera hickups. Hey FS: How about investing in real developers instead of employing script kiddies who have no clue? Dont buy such rubbish. Dont waste your precious lifetime with such inept software. FS also doesnt care about QS or updates for serious bugs in their engine. I please dont support such crap! Show character and say NO!

Another good world design by From Software. Great for exploring. But there it ends. Another unplayable piece of crap implementation of constant input failure and camera hickups. Hey FS: How about investing in real developers instead of employing script kiddies who have no clue? Dont buy such rubbish. Dont waste your precious lifetime with such inept software. FS also doesnt care about QS or updates for serious bugs in their engine. I please dont support such crap! Show character and say NO!

Another good world design by From Software. Great for exploring. But there it ends. Another unplayable piece of crap implementation of constant input failure and camera hickups. Hey FS: How about investing in real developers instead of employing script kiddies who have no clue? Dont buy such rubbish. Dont waste your precious lifetime with such inept software. FS also doesnt care about QS or updates for serious bugs in their engine. I please dont support such crap! Show character and say NO!

What a great game. One of my favorites. Nioh 1 was also great. Team Ninja knows how to implement a fighting system that actually does what it is supposed to do. It reacts precisley to your inputs - not like this crap from From Software. Hey FS how about getting much needed help from Team Ninja instead of employing some wanna-be script kiddies who have no clue? Wouldnt that be a great idea!

Well, i can see why people like this one. The world is beautiful designed. Exploring and discovery is so much fun. Options to advance the character and fighting style are good and so give you a great feeling about yourself (your avatar). The story is cheap mainstream rubbish but presentation is good. Then here comes the fighting system. Lets call it as some call Windows NT: Nice Try. Nice idea but its just a complete failure. "Fights" degenerate to a deflect, deflect, deflect, deflect and then deathblow. You dont fight to hit an opponent actually you just deflect to decrease his stamina bar. If thats what you like, ok. To me that never gave me the feeling i actually am fighting. In my opinion that is simply a sign of developers having a basic idea but never were willing to admit that it would not work in that simple way. Boss fights are annoying as hell where i found myself over and over again thinking "heck, let me just get over with this crap so i can enjoy the good parts of the game again". Bosses are unimaginative. It seems From Software has a real issue with the design of good boss fights. They (all) jump around like crazy or have speed moves so you cant hit them. Its feels like they wanted to tell me: heck we have no idea but we needed to implement this rubbish boss because people expect bosses from us. Its not as horrible as in new cheap wanna-be soulslikes as khazan for instance. But its depressing to say the least. Then there are still the game engine issues we all are used to in From Software games. They are just not able to implement a really trivial statemachine. Its not as bad as it is in their other games (like DS 1-3) where you had to restart the game to force it into the next state. But you still have to rest at certain statues. Some FS fanboys find this great (i know) however its a sign of having inept developers. There are more negative stuff to say but i dont have the time or nerve to write this all down. In the end i am doing this review for "fun". So i leave it like it is. This is the last game i was missing of the From Software collaboration. And i must say its one of their worst. Maybe DS2 is worse. I love Bloodborne and DS3 (to a degree also DS1), as i think demon souls is also a good one (I leave Elden Ring out because i think its From Softwares first and final step into the bigger mainstream market where i dont cosider it a real FS game anymore. To much of a "Netflix series" vibe to me. Elden Ring seems to be the last game you should consider to play coming out from FS. This development house is done. Its now about earning money and not so much creativity anymore (see also the upcoming Elden Ring spinoff crap). Anyways this one (Sekiro) is rubbish just because of the reasons i tried to point out. If you like exploring, discovery and a great world together with a good fighting system dont let yourself fooled by this one. Better look for something else.

What an amateurish and badly made game. Beginning with the PS3-ish graphics: Dont let the Demo fool you. After that and especially when the game gets into open sceneries the graphics is embarrassing to say the least. Models of mobs look like 2D amourphous pixel mud. All that combined with uninspired washed out colours. I am playing on a PS5 Pro with an LG G2 OLED TV. Seriously this game looks like crap. And its an affront to everyone who owns a NG Console. Gameplay is bascially the same. From those overloaded unnecessary graphical effects during fights that dont let you see anything but have the only purpose to belie the uncreative mob designs. To the permanent stutter of animations during use of special attacks. Controls dont do what they supposed to do neither react they the way they should. 60% of my deaths come from a control system that doesnt react to my input, regardless of how long i wait or how often i repeat the same input. World and quest design is a shameless a Copy&Past from really good games like NIOH. But implemented just average at best. The game teases you with some small things then hits you in the face with its overall meaningless mediocrity Boss fights are as i already mentioned blown up with graphical effects to cheat over the way too simple and bad implemented mechanics. The world is boring at best, if you are someone who likes to discover stuff stay away from that game. It has nothing to offer as dungeons are way too small the outside world's a joke. I could go on. I already have beaten the game and started NG+. It doesnt get better. Save your money, go look for some other Soulslike you have not played until now. Everything is better than this rubbish! I was waiting for this one and its just such a big disappointment. Not even worth to buy in a sale.

Hands down the best Soulslike. And its not even close. From gameplay to presentation this game is just a joy and shows that you can be able to implement a working control system if you are only competent enough. In times where uneducated so called "developers" try to script something into game engines they dont understand this game is one bright spot. I played it thru until i maxed out everything (i think thats ng 6+ or 7 idk). It was worth every minute of my life. Lets hope the DLC is on the same level. I am looking forward to it.

I seriously considered giving this game a score of zero. But then i decided to up it to "1". In the end the developers put at least some work in this game. Or whoever worked on it, maybe some second hand chamber maids. Who knows. This is - second only to Lords of the Fallen 2 - one of the technically worst games i have ever played from the soulslike universe. Dont misunderstand me: if you want some casual gaming in normal mode (first playthru) i am all for it. Exploring is fun and graphics are good also. You get a game with some nice mainstream entertainement that wont demand a lot from you. But if you are looking for something more challenging (comes into play in ng+4 or +5) this game with all of its bugs is just frustrating to say the least. Inputs do whatever they want but not what you want them to do. Bosses disappear and respawn with full health again because they crossed some invisible border, skills work sometimes, sometimes not and so on and on ..... I dont wanna even start with how many times i died because the game did not react to my inputs: take heal please!!! No... use spirit pleeeease! No.. Take flask pleeease! Computer says NO! And no it wasnt because i didnt wait for the animation to end. Too often i stood still for 2 secs then pressed buttons - nothing. There have to be serious issues with the command queue together with the status of bosses IMO. Also often times you have to let R2 go to initiate another command which is also bound to R2. So for example gaming looks like: R2+x, let R2 go, wait 2 secs, press R2+Button, let everything go, wait .... R2+x. Thats not only annoying its not usable when bossfights get tougher. In the end you have your strategy set up and then just wait for the try the controller is in the mood to actually follow your inputs. What could be an easy kill develops into an agony. Hitboxes are just a great questionmark to me also. Too often i got hit where there was no animation at all. Uncountable times my special attacks hit the boss but did no damage at all. And did i mention the RNG part of timed attacks? A game that has its fundaments build on timing. Seriously i am so annoyed by this game i dont wanna even talk about it anymore. Anyways... boss design is one of the worst i have ever seen. Not only are most bosses not worth their name: In harder modes bosses will either just jump around the whole time or chain attacks constantly. Those developers had no clue how to design challenging fights. Unimaginative to say the least. In the end there are maybe 3 fights that are worth mentioning the rest is - pardon me - rubbish. To have to pay 70 bucks or more for an unfinished and unimaginative game is an insolence. I cant recommend this game at all! Seriously id recommend to stay away from it as long as you can.