Recent reviews by Wykydtron

First things first, beginning of the game is atrocious, we can just swing left and right, no combos, no skills, nothing and enemies are designed for our full set of skills, final boss of tutorial is especially annoying.

BUT

After we progress to proper game and unlock combos, skill and new weapons game changes entirely its surprisingly good.
They did good job at balancing parry and dodge mechanics, both are legit and just as good, its great because both playstyles are perfectly viable. So people like me who hate parry and blocking can just dodge everything and vice versa with skill trees for each weapon supporting both options.

Especially love glave that has combat clearly inspired by xianxia/wuxia style making it fast and flashy.

Visuals are great, really nicely styled anime visuals and nice incorporation of some cool elements of xianxia style into European climate creating nice blend of styles.
Music is mixed bag, it goes from very good to where is it?

They also made great choice in placing many bonfires so we never have to run for ages to get to where we failed and our "souls" are automatically kicked out of boss arena so we dont have to waste time on picking them during fight.

What i dont like is how much commitment attacks require and typical delayed boss attacks. Dodge window could be little bigger too especially considering how some bosses have 6+ hit combos.

Performance on 4080 was solid tho it did stutter here and there for no reason.

Overall it shapes to be strong 9/10 but they really need to redo or just remove intro part of game, it will scare off many people by how clunky and unforgiving it is when we have no access to most moves.

its "fun" i have fun its kinda what i expected but... GGG lied during all the previews etc.
Let me explain
They said game will have less loot but it will be better and much more materials will drop so we can keep upgrading our weapons.
guess what? you dont get any good drops from super hard bosses not even rare item just scroll, 5 gold and white or blue trash, promised abundant materials dont exist you have to save few orbs that you get to use on actually good gear.
They said it will be easy to respec because now it cost gold, but they failed to mention you will not get almost any gold and what you get you HAVE to spend on new gear because nothing drops.
Do you know how bad drops are? On my sorc in ACT2 i did not get single amulet and only one ring... yeah.
Also since they want to force people into using market you will never get legendary for your character, absurdly i got more legendaries then rings and amulets and guess what? none for class i play, switched to different class and guess what same story legendaries droop for different class.

Difficulty is absurd, if you dont get extremly lucky with gear you may not even finish first ACT. You also need to know from the start what you want to do with your build as passives are one thing but if you buy all the skills to test them out insted of upgrading selected 2-3 you will miss a lot of dmg so much in fact you may brick yourself.

I like the game, everything else is great, love the design, visuals, how skills feel and so on but man loot/difficulty issues are serious with that one.
Oh and im not saying it should be easier, im saying it should be much more balanced and there should be some learning curve not steep slope from start of the game.

I also still dont know who came up with dump honor in ascention trials, im sorry but how are close range characters suppose to do it? ranged one sure i did it with sorc but monk or warrior? good luck i guess most people will never get ascention for their class.

Somehow never knew that series existed. Discovered it after friend told me he is surprised SE released uncensored none woke game.
Bought it and i love it.
Can't believe i missed such unique series of games that actually are different then your average old school jrpg.

See SE you can still release good games if you concentrate on whats important instead of woke agendas no one wants.

so far 9/10
Im gonna be honest when iv seen first trailer i assumed its not real, combat looked to fluid and scripted to be real and playable but here we are its here and its real.

Probably most fluid and fun combat system ever created, perfect balance between difficulty and fun. I absolutly love hoe all enemies including bosses naturally react to our attacks, no need for some obscure mechanics, counter attacks when enemy attack flashes etc its all so natural without that usual gaming nonsense. Its new standard for me.
Beautiful visuals, music and even English VA sounds perfectly.

Only thing holding me from giving it 10/10 is are technical issues tho nothing serious happened so far there were places where game dropped to 5fps (on rtx4080) for no reason, luckily never in combat(so far).

Greed and Grind the game.
Every step you take is monetized.
While grind is nature of such games here its amped to maximum of being unfun and not worthy of doing, some of better items may very well take several months of daily grind if not year just for one item for one character.
People report game also magically refuses to drop last needed part for free characters doing what it can to make you spend even a little money.
Gameplay loop of half of quests is absolute garbage with quest forcing you to transport items and that disables everything but running and jumping, such joy... on lower difficulty level some defence missions are slog with enemies spawning too slow to be interesting while on higher difficulties everything but p2w team will be destroyed in seconds, no middle ground.
It has potential, shooting is fun, movement is fun, some character designs are good but lets be honest, nexon will just double down on greed and shut it down in few months.

Also be awere paints are one time use! yeah greed is that absurd with that one.
Also game had 2 or 3 betas, i played last 2, nothing changed since then, same bugs, same technical issues just nerfed all fun mechanics to make sure you have to pay for power not actually get it from using character skills.

OK i leave my last negative review intact.
After playing some i decided to give it positive because i had fun and in the end its what matters the most. I still think monetization is very predatory / grind is artificially prolonged to force players into shop and drop rates are fake but if someone is looking for decent grind shooter its worth to give it a try. It has potential, devs shown some good will and if it they keep it up it may become very good game in future.

Because DLC is garbage. Last boss in DLC is impossible without specific build, killing all fun from making own character.

People need to stop defending garbage just because its from From Soft. DLC is just unfun and unfun games are pointless.

1. Bosses are absolute garbage, infinite stamina, infinite poise, never ending attacks with 0, ZERO openings, mostly AOE attacks - you have to use:
a. cheap extremely unfun shield build
b. summons
c. new OP broken ashes of war and spam them like crazy
They took all the skill and fun out of bossfights since no matter how good you are at avoiding attacks you will never be able to attack due to lack of any meaningful openings, i had situation where 2 summons where unable to even land single hit on boss because he was spinning all the time.
To top that they have boring and uninteresting designs to begin with.

2. Camera, it ties to boss fights, its extremely unusable, being stuck inside wall, floor or boss for most of the fight.

3. Exploration... what exploration? - thats biggest flop and fail
Guess what reward you will get for finding hidden passage or that glowing item somewhere on ridge - well its gonna be cooking book that is useless, rope or smiting stone(2), there are no rewards for exploration, all the weapons (if any at all) are in the open. I have never seen more unrewarding exploration if not for new scaling mechanic i would not bother to even explore anything.
Maps are just typical from soft copy paste of same 5 ideas they had in Demon Souls, poisonous swamp, sewers, random uninteresting castle now with more open space or GIGANTIC empty spaces just to put horn thing that gives you amulet if you use it... its garbage, can look cool but in its design its uninteresting and boring.


4. New weapons - if you even find any they are only positive thing for most part, new types of weapons, flashy attacks from arts tho some like dancers weapons are USELESS due to way too long animations, some new weapons have WORSE scaling then basic starting weapons from base game... most is balanced for pvp no one plays

5.platforming elements - because thats so much needed in such game especially with such enormous chain hitboxes in that one place...

Base ER is easy 9/10 for me and easy game that i played with my own build, no need for meta anything or "mandatory 50-60" vitality because i was able to avoid everything while in DLC its just impossible we are forced to use meta builds.
DLC is 2/10 extreme artificial difficulty for sake of difficulty the game, no rewards for exploration, uninteresting design of most things, boring empty map.
Its just unfun to play and that is for me biggest failure of any game, feels like chore and is extremely uninspired. Please From Soft take a break from souls like games, clearly you guys did too many and are already out of ideas.

Its perfect sequel, its just like DD1 but better in everything.

Yes it has performance issues on i5/rtx4080 in 4k, rtx on, dlss quality - in wilderness runs in 100-110FPS, in major city averages 50FPS.

Finally, typical Japanese rpg garbage mtx and paid character editor coupons(tho buyable in game for in game currency too). Its should not be legal to have so much pointless cash grab mtx that is absolutely useless.

I understand negatives it gets but i give it positive still as its such a fun game to play, its everything i wanted from DD2.

Game itself is great. Its just like last game with Ichiban, just more. Very easy 9/10.

BUT BUT BUT

You have to buy deluxe edition to get full game, basic edition doesn't have NG+ or last dungeon.
Pricing is absurd i got it only because i was able to get basic edition for much cheaper.
SEGA is is on track to become most scummy company out there. If you are not HUGE Yakuza fan avoid anything made by sega like wildfire, such scummy practices needs to end.

UPDATE.
I still think its great game but man, its outdated.
Dungeons are EXTREMELY boring, collecting memories for Kaz is nightmarish chore(fans remember it all anyway, first times dont care).
Game is cheating in combat, bosses especially in dungeons deal %HP dmg, no matter how much levels you get they can kill your party in 2 hits and they will because our companion AI is designed to make sure they get hit by all AOE attacks.
Its still 9/10 for story and characters but that combat system and style of gameplay is garbage.

Anyway after what Sega boss said its last good Yakuza, everything after will be full on WOKE ESG cancer, so enjoy last good Yakuza game.

Pokemon: yes,
Zelda: yes,
Every survival game ever created: yes

Amazing mix of all games ever created, we need more games like that, design for fun, not taking itself seriously.