War is (still!) in trouble, let's take on the role of Fury and... play a Souls-like?
Darksiders 3 is a 3rd person hack&slash game developed by Gunfire Games and published by THQ Nordic where we take on the role of Fury to take down the seven deadly sins.
Graphics
The graphics are great! The special effects are very entertaining, the environments are well designed and the game has good support for all kinds of resolutions, without much trouble.
Setup and performance
Installing the game via Steam is fast and easy, we have good performance with 2560x1440 resolution and high quality.
Sound
Sounds are well done, played without skipping or latency. The samples are high quality and synchronize well with the gameplay.
Sometimes the voiceover is a bit awkward, mostly at the beginning, it gets a lot better further into the game.
A good experience all around.
Gameplay
This is where we hit a snag. The game starts a bit too hard, and the controls are a bit awkward, until you get used to them.
Also the gameplay is a bit too much like Dark Souls: there are savepoints far from one another and you can travel between them, you level up by using souls, fighting is heavily based on counter-attacks (but a lot less strategic), no map, very twisty and "vertical" ambients...
Also I think the weapons are a step back from Darksiders 2: the procedurally generated weapons are gone, instead we have a "basic weapon" (the whip) and we can choose one between 4 secondary weapons (depending on the selected "hollow form").
Each form has its strength and uses, focusing a lot on movement around the map.
Besides this, when you get used to the controls, Fury feels nimble and very mobile and the game starts being really fun.
Extra: Fury
What I really liked the most is Fury's evolution throughout the story.
I was a bit surprised to see a main character, that I honestly despised at the beginning, being fleshed out to become someone totally different (as in behaviour).
I think this is the best part of the game.
Conclusions
This game is quite new, and suffers from a bit of "Envy" towards Dark Souls, the mechanics may seem a bit stiff and just "copied" from the famous game from "From Software".
I think the game doesn't deserve wave the criticism it has gotten, it is not an "excellent" game, but it is a very good one for sure.
As usual, the score assigned to this game goes from 0 (this is the 8th deadly sin) to 100 (this game could resurrect all humans).
I think a fair score is 82/100 , smack in the middle between Darksiders and Darksiders 2.
Now we just need a 4th game to wrap up the story, maybe a 4-player cooperative game with a single-player option where we play each story separatedly...
Right THQ?
This concludes the series of posts dedicated to Darksiders, if you want to see the other posts, just click the following links:
- Link to Darksiders: Warmastered Edition's Review
- Link to Darksiders 2: Deathinitive Edition's Review
Thank you everyone for reading, see you in the next post!
Penaz.