10/2/2023 0 Comments Bleak faith forsaken ign![]() ![]() It took us a bit to get used to what the game threw at us, but after the first boss, we quickly liked the exploration and the different areas we came across. While the world is pretty large, for a Souls-like game you reach the next area or biome rather fast, which is great if you’re looking for a quicker Souls-like experience. You do so by fighting and gathering resources and equipment to make your life easier. What do you need to do? Make sure you don’t die by the many enemies waiting as you push forward. Where you are going exactly? Nobody knows. First of all, the goal is to get ahead while making your way past some bosses. There are a few things to unpack in this action-adventure Souls-like game. The music portrays what the graphics don’t do that well, namely presenting the player with an open and mysterious world full of echoing mysteries lurking in the darkness. ![]() There are some synths, choirs, and ambient tracks in the soundtrack, but also a little bit of rock. The music, however, sounds very cool and matches the game, even though the soundtrack is a collection of a few different genres. We also appreciated the smaller sound effects, such as the attack sounds, though they sounded much more generic and actually a lot like the original Dark Souls sound effects. ![]() While wearing a pair of headphones, growling creatures can give quite the fright, and it took us a while to differentiate between different creatures. Creatures in this game can be grotesque, dangerous, or otherworldly, and it’s a mixed bag of weird stuff for the player to experience. That being said, animations for characters are fine and the visual design of certain enemies is excellent, which might be one of the best things the game has to offer. Instead, a lot of the world feels half-assed in terms of design and unnecessarily large, which makes the player move a bunch without any purpose. The other fifty percent of the game’s assets are generic medieval assets, which stupidly makes the game even more of a Dark Souls clone, unable to fulfill the atmosphere the trailer or screenshots promised us. Sadly these are copy-pasted all over the world, making the game feel a bit bland. It feels like original assets make up about fifty percent of the game. While this might be true, in reality, the game feels rather generic. To those who haven’t played the game yet, it might look like the game takes place in a cool, dystopian city full of forgotten technology and machinery, like a dark fantasy setting. We really want to like Bleak Faith: Forsaken, we really do. All we know for sure is that you start off as an anonymous character similar to other Souls-like titles. It’s one of those games that’s pretty much open to your own interpretation. Characters you meet that talk to you instead of attacking you are often gifted with a single line, which also doesn’t help you much. This is somewhat a tradition in Souls-likes, but Bleak does not only largely skip the expected cutscenes or explanation that you would get in “normal” games, but it also combines this lack of information with weirdly confusing graphics that make the game almost feel like some arthouse Dark Souls. It does not even give you some core tutorials which leaves you in the dark about important abilities. Bleak Faith: Forsaken looks nice when looking at some screenshots of the game, but it undoubtedly, unfortunately, falls more into the latter category.īleak Faith: Forsaken is an incredibly vague game regarding storytelling. We also appreciate all types of Souls-likes here, even though it seems rather hard to create a good indie Souls-like, and instead, we often see half-done games that mostly focus on recreating the atmospherewhile letting the player deal with poor game design or mechanics. ![]() Every gamer who likes a challenge likes a good Dark Souls adventure. ![]()
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