I’m slowly warming up to the game. In Bleak Faith, dodging and parrying doesn’t always seem to be the best option. Here you score points by retreating and you have to organise your stamina carefully. But what I like positively… There are no swarms of enemies. I think it always took away a lot of atmosphere in Soulslike games when enemies stormed towards you like Diablo. I like the slow discovery and looking around. You look around and wonder what has happened here, sometimes I get scared of the next enemy because I’ve been following the environment and haven’t seen what’s going on in front of me.
I like the mixture of Dark Souls and Stalker. Even if I’m still guessing what happened. Sometimes I think a catastrophe with a new technology (dimensional portal, warpreisen, a gateway to the afterlife?), then I think I’m in the afterlife again and it’s all echoes of the past, souls that can’t find their way. In any case, things are getting a bit more interesting and exciting now, and I’ve already been able to exchange a few words with other travellers. But they were just scraps, or rather pieces of the puzzle, and I can’t really do anything with them except use them as an impetus for further speculation in my head.
Above all, there always seem to be many paths, when you are here for the first time everything seems huge and you constantly have to decide which way to go. But you actually want to discover everything. I just let myself drift through the area.
I’ve also familiarised myself with the crafting system, at least I can make healing potions and mana potions. You can also dismantle equipment and find new recipes. I’m still looking for something like experience points or levelling options. As I have values for strength, intelligence etc., I assume that I can increase these somehow. Next stop… I don’t know. The gloomy atmosphere really lets me escape from everyday life and adds a lot of flair. The breaks in combat really give you time to mentally engage with this world and think about how you would behave in such a situation.
