Recent reviews by jjaannssoonn

Looks terrible. Lack of HDR really hurts this game visually as the scenes are all too dark and muddy looking. It's unbelievable that in 2023 a AAA rated game was released without HDR.

All of the characters look and act weird. It's hard to get immersed.

Overall there is a lack of polish. It feels like an older mass effect game without a good story and supporting characters with worse graphics. I would have refunded this if I didnt buy the key elsewhere.

I truly love space games but after almost three hours, this brings me no excitement. It seems like they were just checking the boxes using a list that is more than a decade old. Shame..

Playing this game on PC is a struggle.. No effort at all was put into giving you the keyboard/mouse shortcuts to navigate the menu and game. The default bindings are terrible. Seriously, how do you even quit to desktop?

Was any effort put into porting this to PC or are they just expecting PC players to pay full price for a crap experience?

I really want to get into this game but they are making a terrible first impression.

Buggy as hell but tons of fun if you dont let the bugs get you down. Ive been going as slow as possibly and completing every side quest that I find and have not hit a game braking bug yet.

Tip for new players: Focus on side quests.. Some of them are just as good or better than the main quest line.

Let me first start off by saying I have never played a Dark Souls game, ever. Dark Souls 3 is my first foray into the Dark Souls franchise. Let me list a few pros/cons and then we can dig deeper..

Pros
- Beautiful graphics, plays well on pc
- Challenging but doable

Cons
- Terrible port to PC
- If you are a mouse/keyboard user then your treated like a minority
- Umm no exit to desktop option? really?

I am a hardcore mouse/keyboard user. I do all of my gaming on PC and feel like a drunken maid with a controller. Immediately starting I had no clue what keys did what. All of the menus are coded to tell you what controller button to push. Is it really that hard to let someone set the keyboard as their default? I had to initally cross reference what buttons on the controller are on the keyboard. After this you then realize the default keyboard mappings are horrible. It really irks me that they couldnt spend a little more time and polish it better for PC users. This would have went a long way to making this game awesome.

All this being said I keep coming back. The game is perfectly challenging to make you feel accomplished once you get past a boss or area. I just unfortunatley cannot recommend to my pc brothers until they make it more user friendly to us.