Congratulations!! Always nice coming across a post of yours, keep it up. ;)

Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion but I found the game aesthetically quite ugly. Many landscapes had a feeling of copy pasted Unreal assets that looked so same-y at points they became confusing to navigate (especially given the lack of a mini-map). The characters had these blank, uncanny stares half the time and the designs for some of them (Esquie in particular) just didn’t look good to me.

I get shit every time I bring this up, but you are not alone! This game is undeserving of the “best art direction” accolades it recieved and they cheapen the other awards it got.

Usually I don’t take pleasure on ending the life of an 8 legged creature… XD but I’ll soldier on

That’s good to know, thanks for the info! I’m at the swamp I haven’t really advanced much XD

I hate this company more every day. Even if my game library is mostly digital now, I’d prefer having a physical copy for my favourite media, always. as it has been said before this is an anticonsumer move, coupled with the threat of account deletion after 3 years of inactivity. With the ai craze balloning the costs of PC components… it’s looking shitty ngl. Don’t think I’ll be moving to PC any time soon.

I’ll be playing more Khazan later today. Hopefully!

Plant thighs on my brain…

I’m playing The first berserker: Khazan. It’s fantastic if like me you have intense soulslike brainrot, it switches up the formula enough with the focus on skills and combos, it also has some nice parry and block action. Gameplay is really solid, bossfights are fun.

I’m moving at a snail pace though, I’m only at the 4th boss. I haven’t played much of anything this past month and some change but so far I’m having a blast.

It’s the recipie for a fun time. You should probably get lost more often!

What else can I say but you have excellent taste :P

Furiously taking notes XD, yeah the tracking in that spell is really good! And I’m doing Sellen’s quest for real this time, did it back when I 100% the game but it must be done right . Carian sorcery sword sounds like a must as well, Thank you. I’ll report back !

^For _the ^umpteenth _time Ludwig <3

Close to him Messmer and Midra many honorary mentions from ER/SotE edit: and Nightreign!

Hard agree on Genichiro, fucking SUPERB fight.

slop

this sounds sexy. :O

I finally got to try Khazan yesterday! I defeated the phantom blade boss and so far I’m enjoying the feel and rhythm of the combat a looot! really fresh take on the genre. I never personally played any CAG’s (but I’ve been toying with the idea of of playing the devil may cry series for a good while, could this game sway me that way?). I’m only two bosses in, but I have already seen some of the fights and I know they are really intense, so hopefully I can keep up. the visual effects didn’t bother me as much as I though they would initially, which is good, I’m reading the action without that much effort. I’m not getting much from the story or the world design yet, but the gameplay feels so good that if that doesn’t change I wouldn’t be super mad about it. I hope for al least some good enemy variety as the game progresses.

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in regards to the question,( It’s the other way around for me. moslty. :P ) scratch that SOMEHOW I read incorrectly. it’s the same for me then

damn, I’m sorry I left you hanging, I’ve been very disconnected from lemmy and in gral lately u.u.

And thank you! I always appreciate you willingness to help out, I’ll 100% take you up on the offer! that Malenia fight is goals, precisely the kind of stuff I wanna do. as of right now I haven’t progressed at all but what I’m spamming most are the glintstone shards, and glintstone stars… I’m using them mostly close range so it kinda defeats the purpose … haha and i’ mixing it up with shatter earth but that one I don’t love as it’s kinda slow… those are the ones I’ve been using most I think. will definitely look at carian slicer, I don’t know why I haven’t equipped it yet since I have the stats XD and I’m using rogers rapier haha, super imaginative I know, but I love a rapier :P

That’s the coolest thing! I’m so jealous, my head is partially buzzed but I wouldn’t trust anyone with the task haha

Humm Solaire’s insignia? XD or … Let me provide some color/pattern inspo. Might be too wild for hair tho hehe

Very informative as always!

One day I might actually learn how to optimize a build in ER (or any other game for that matter) and do a SL1 run but it’s not today…

I did get out of my comfort zone recently-ish and started the “magic” run from scratch (but actually settled on spellblade)… Glint sorceries do some really decent stance damage I’ve come to find! I might go for an all out busted magic run later but I’m a bit afraid the game will lose a lot of the cool coreography elements with the bosses spamming ranged attacks. Right now I’m just before morgott so I haven’t even touched the busted spells. We’ll see how it goes :P

I see, I remember looking for a review of the first one when the latest one dropped and it didn’t gave me a bad impression. But maybe I wasn’t thorough enough.

I guess between this one and thymesia I’ll play the mid/bad soulslikes as well, eventually.

good to know on the plate thing, thank you! oh and that’s what the clock is for? I had no idea. I’m at the entry of the maze. Because of the pace of the game I’m being very careful not to die and I haven’t died that much so I went to get stuff before I dived in. Anyway if anything else comes up I’ll ask you about it… Or look it up like a normal person XD