Recent reviews by Lamren / Val

Remember the VAC BANNED servers on 1.6 ?

This is basically Counter-Strike : 2.
I'd only recommend it for fun maps and modes, but do not take this ♥♥♥♥ seriously in a competitive mindset, it is simply not worth it. Absolutely infested with cheaters like never before.

As far as pushing and refining what made dark souls great, this is the furthest we've gone yet. It will never cease to amaze you with just its artistic direction and thoughtfulness.

I do hope that in the future, we will have more options for combat than rolling (think lies of P or lords of the fallen), but 100 hours in my 2nd playthrough feels like I'm playing the game for the first time again.

Can't wait for the DLC.

I'm not entirely sold on the new weapons yet, but aside from that the game offers more content on every aspects, more diversity in its playthrough so you get less annoyed by repeating the same levels over and over, and there is a whole lot of content to plow through.

Difficulty feels definitely higher than in Hades 1 though, some bosses feel downright impossible without a god tier build.

This is the best souls-like that isn't from Miyazaki on the market with a very unique artistic direction, excellent and memorable bossfights, a seemless optimization which is rare nowadays and a decent story.

It is fairly hard and unforgiving, so I don't know if I would recommend it to someone who has never played a souls game in his life, and if you've loved Bloodborne you're gonna love this one !

Would have been my game of the year if Baldurs gate 3 didn't exist.

Unfinished unstable garbage that has barely had any relevant fixing done (in contrast to its NUMEROUS urgent issues) in more than one year.
Has basically no single player content, but unfortunately the netcode is one of the worst ever conceived for a fighting game. You can AND will have teleports and rollbacks playing with friends that you never had any issue with in any other game on this planet.

The game has a LOT of paid content even though it's a full priced retail game, it's basically the biggest cash grab out of the biggest name in fighting games.

I would NOT recommend getting this game for any higher than 10€ when you have so many amazing fighting games that offer 100 times the content this game does, with an actual FUNCTIONAL online mode and a lot of features that are lacking in this game.