Skip to main content

Older Soul Review - Be a Pattern, Beat a Patro

Ok, it's just there, hidden at the sight: Eldest Souls, another independent tribute / clone / inspired by / reminiscent of the Dark Souls formula, this time in a pixel art game up downwards. At this point, we are so flooded with Soulslike games that it is the rare action game that is not done next to the mechanisms that have made from software on the map. Leaving the boredom aside for a moment, the particular variant of Eldest Souls is to remove almost anything except the bosses.

There is a story, but not a lot of one, and it is told to the Dark Souls through cryptic messages and fragments of guarded traditions. It does not matter much because, throughout the process of restoration of humanity, the player is simply directed to a series of increasingly difficult bosses. If you are the kind of Dark Souls player who considers the NPCs, the construction of the world, the development of characters and the legions of enervilians such as unrelevant soft stuffed animals - the boss - then the souls The oldest will be downright in your wheelhouse. If, on the other hand, you appreciate the souls games for their regular and rhythmic progression and their rewarding loops, Eldest Souls may seem more frustrating than gratifying.

The Boss Rush games are not new, not even for the third-person action games with the aesthetics of Pixel Art. What Eldest Souls makes explicit, it is the idea that the true essence of Dark Souls is the difficulty and the requirement of impeccable timing, associated with the patience and aggressive play style that made Bloodborne so different for the time. This is the underlying vanity behind Each Eldest Soul's boss. Memorize the diagrams, find the opening, attack and hope to have enough endurance to retreat before being nailed by an AOE attack or a vicious shot.

The aggressive game is linked to healing because a successful loaded attack will partially fulfill your health gauge, although there are also some consumables. Beat a boss and you are rewarded with a jurisdiction and a fragment of boss, which can be applied to passive and active skill trees divided into three specialties: Windslash, Berzerk Slash and Counter. In Dark Souls, engaging in a character class implies a relatively permanent choice. But Eldest Souls wisely allows the player to reconfigure his point assignment at any time, potentially helping to find the key that unlocks a successful fight. That said, all the world's enhanced skills do not have a radical impact on the flow and rhythm of the fight and never give the character the impression of being divine, just slightly more capable.

Trolling in Plain Sight - Dark Souls 3

Any game that has the courage to realize its convictions is worthy of praise, including Eldest Souls. Where things are starting to become problematic, it is in execution and mechanics.

The first problem comes from the artistic direction and the camera of the game. Eldest Souls is an attractive pixel art game, with a feeling of bad mood and melancholy in its environments and decaying structures. Better still, its imaginative and varied bosses, which, unlike some Soulslike games, do not recycle yet and still the same design. The problem occurs when the player's character moves behind the boss and it suddenly becomes difficult to attack or dodge precisely. Depending on the design of the boss and AOE effects or other complications, this can be extremely frustrating, especially given relatively small boss arena.

The second problem concerns slow character movements and the management of endurance, which never feel very well. I understand that watching endurance bars that run out and turn them into a winning combat style is a feature and not a bug, but Dark Souls attenuates the problem with a plethora of options - Shields or weapons improving endurance , spells, consumables and of course an upgrade path that focuses on its increase. Not so many older souls. At its periphery, Eldest Souls has NPCs and secondary quests that reward the player with useful objects, and there are a lot of control points. In most cases, make a quick return to a boss and another attempt is painless and there is no real penalty to die.

For the fan of Dark Souls who sees every game from software as a validation of the "Git GUD" mentality, Eldest Souls will probably scrape a persistent itching. For all others, especially those who appreciate the souls type games for their travels and not their boss destinations, older souls may seem too concentrated on one thing, no matter how successful it is. Eldest Souls is designed around frustration and challenge, and if it's your idea of a good time, then this game is for you.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

FIFA 22: FUT HEROES presents Lars Ricken and more Helde

Electronic Arts raises a closer look at the recently announced FUT Heroes in EA SPORTS FIFA 22. From a German point of view, three heroes are represented: Lars Ricken, Mario Gomez and Jürgen Kohler. All three players will be playable in EA Sports FIFA 22-Ultimate team as items and represent unforgotten moments in which footballers were fan lingings. Fut Heroes have a unique league-specific chemistry associated with their respective hero moments. Lars Ricken - "Golden Boy": Ricken was one of the key players in the final of the UEFA Champions League 1996/1997. For Borussia Dortmund, he achieved a goal for 16 seconds after his inception and secured the BVB with the title win. To date, it is the fastest gate that has ever achieved a one-way in the premier class. Together with EA SPORTS FIFA, Ricken returns to the Munich Olympic Stadium and remembers the then triumph. Mario Gomez - "El Torero": With more than 200 Bundesliga goals in some of the largest clubs, Mari...

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Roster fuit via le Nintendo eShop

It was probably one of the strangest game announcements of the year so far (and we had strange) - Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl is a next combat game in the tradition of Super Smash Bros ., Featuring classic characters from the huge nickelodeon cartoon library. Nickelodeon was a little suspicious with exactly who will appear in the game - but a recent publication on the Nintendo Eshop seems to have revealed a little more the list of game fighters. Initially, Nickelodeon published the game pocket with most of the characters cutting down to hide their identity. However, with the recent list of Nintendo Eshop for the game, complete and non-censored art has been revealed, showing some other fighters who will be in the initial version of the game. The characters on which we have speculated on the basis of the steps that We have been shown with the announcement of the game, like Aang of the last airmaster, have been confirmed as present, as well as more surprising inclusions like Ren & St...

GTA V-Graphics Modes: Fidelity Vs. Performance Vs. Performance RT explains

While Grand Theft Auto V approaches his 10th birthday, Rockstar Games continues his overwhelming support for the title, with the latest re-publication of the title appearing this month on next-generation systems. With an overwhelming amount of content that has already been produced for the game, there are still plans to do more with this game, because Rockstar is not hanging around with the functions of the game and what will work on your new system. But what does GTAV offer on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S / X, which does not offer on the current generation systems? What do the new graphics options mean for you? Find it in this guide in which we treat new features and graphical options for the Next-Gen debut by Grand Theft Auto V! Grand Theft Auto V - Explanation of the graphic options Whether you are a veteran that returns for another hype through the game, or one of the few who will be experiencing it for the first time, there are many new features that help you to imp...