An Objectively Correct Review of Code Vein
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"Anime Souls" may be closer to From's more Lovecraft-inspired game in terms of how it plays, but it stands on its own as a good introduction to the genre - if you have a taste for its anime stylings.
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Anor Londo in the streets but Blighttown in the sheets? I haven't played this game but that phrasing paints a hell of a picture.
That bad ending is one of the greatest endings I've seen. JRPGs seem to just be sappy and such. I was happy to see something like that bad ending lol.
I love how the character creater allows so many different hair styles yet they forgot "bald".
Also facial hair. I think I ended up moving sideburns onto my chin or something.
Nah, the anime chin scruff goatee in the face paint section is available.
Wow, this is quality content right from the start. I think your channel is going to grow like crazy in the future. have my sub.
Thanks for the love! Keep watching this space, I'm hoping to prove you right. :)
Clarification of story, beware of spoilers. Also, message to Serothel and Murasame enjoyer afterwards.
Regarding what lies outside the Gaol of the Red Mist, those monsters were implied to exist during one of the Isis vestiges (probably the first one). However, taking into account how difficult it is for the average person to not only get the vestiges in the Cathedral, but also remember them among the many mind-burning hours of gameplay there, I’d give anyone a pass.
Also, I’m glad to see another Rin Murasame fan out here. Her story made me cry, and it made me realize the importance of a self-insert character with low character development in video games. It allows for both the player and developers to spend more resources and time on the NPC’s, allowing for investment in the greater story. Although I love my player character, I can remember pretty much all the supporting cast’s names and most of their last names. And most importantly, I’ll never forget the image of Murasame carrying that massive backpack. That is objectively one of the best scenes in the game.
Ah, good catch. I've slept once or twice since then so it's fuzzy, but I must have missed that due to Cathedral brainrot. I've been considering revisiting the game, so I'll listen close if I do.
As for Murasame, preach it! I think CV handles its ensemble cast well, and I appreciated there being a fleshed-out character who fills a non-combat role.
Honestly this is by far the best and most honest review for this game I've seen. Keep up the good work bro you've earned my sub!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I watched this video and thought wow this is a high quality youtuber you really deserve more attention. definitly sub.
Thanks so much! I'm so grateful for the support.
Quality review. Im actually a little annoyed at the fact that you're getting downvoted, while the other dude that posted the most bland review i've ever seen in my life got like a million views. Shame, but have a sub, you've earned it.
Thank you! I appreciate the support.
Good script, witty at times, and a pleasant vocal delivery. You should do more reviews.
Technically we're always thirsty. It's that we don't tend to think of our Ichor count as blood. But that's what ichor is so we're fine...just feeding on other vampires/lost.
But overall Great review. I'm half-and-half on the idea of God Eater being part of the Vein universe, and I can only hope that further CV games use the aragami sparingly, focusing on some sort of smaller threat (I haven't played GE so I wouldn't know if such a thing exists in what I understand to be "Anime Monster Hunter"). The idea of some street brawl being interrupted by a giant monster that you can *try* and fight, or hide from sounds interesting. Like playing soccer with your friends in the street, and then a car comes. Someone shouts "Car!" and you guys scramble to grab the goals and ball before they get close, wait for it to pass, adn slowly set back up. That could be fun but I don't know.
I'm with you on the lack of clothing options and arbitrary limits on accessories. Sure, framerate is important and I definitely would have made a yeti-like hair monster if I didn't have a hard limit on what I can add, but I feel like they should have compensated with more base clothing options. Even breaking down the NPC clothes and offering them as accessories would have gone a long way in letting us have yet more obscene freedom in CharGen. Also RIP dominos sign. I remember reading about that and had written off CV as "Code Geas, the game" but I think that might've been the intent. Another "Code X" IP with an inexplicable connection to an American pizza franchise.
Glad you enjoyed the review! The GE hill is mine to die on. Seems like most people are fine with it, but I want it even less after playing the DLC. Those aragami boss fights were something.
Never played God eater, but God DAMN I loved this game! I think.
After watching a ton of reviews and even playing the demo this review finally convinced me to buy it.
I hope you like it!
holy shit an actually good code vein review. suuuuuub
I'm flattered! Thanks!
This was a well-made and entertaining review. Good work.
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it.
playing city ruins from nier automata in the back. my man
Man, I really hope I end up likeing this game because at the time I finish my character there will be no refund for me anymore.😂
Skyrim mods taught me never assume the data of clothing
Just played through code vein and i loved it, it does have flaws like boss difficulty balance and in my opinion too many vestiges but i think its strenghts like visual design for bosses and characters and lore really outway the flaws. Its a solid game with great waifus and a nice change of pace from the game who shall not be named
Subcribed from your ace combat 7 video and now that you put some Nier automata music imma ask you to review that plzzz love your style
It'll happen eventually! Automata is one of my favorite games so I absolutely want to discuss it, but I want to make sure I do it justice so it'll take some time.
I actually disagree that Code Vein being in the God Eater universe makes Code Vein less interesting. I think it actually does the opposite. Think about this - how many connections does this revelation finally reveal? Are Revenants and the BOR Parasite somehow related to the creation of the Blood Unit? What about the Red Rain? Does Fenrir know about the Red Mist and if so, why is it such a classified topic that nothing can be found in the databases regarding it? Have they been researching it?
Of course, all of these God Eater concepts were concocted before Code Vein began development (or at least, we can assume so, but there's no saying that some of these connections were planned since the game was in pre-production), but these are also concepts that could very easily be connected to Vein in some way.
So yeah. I think the world is inherently far more interesting as a result. It makes me feel like the story and events unfolding with the Gaol are only a slice of the chaos that's occurring around the world, and it also leaves us with some exciting prospects for the future. Plus we're getting to fight a Vajra, Hannibal and Marduk in the upcoming DLC's, so there's likely to be more story there too.
This is an interesting interpretation, and IMO a more optimistic spin on my feelings.
Generally, I feel like when an "original" piece of media is secretly connected to something else, it inhibits the "original" media because it must now abide by the rules of the greater canon it's taking part in. Sounds like what you're saying is sometimes that can be a good thing, which I agree with, I'm just skeptical that this will be the time it pays off whenever I see it.
@@serothel Indeed. We simply have to rely on them to do it right. However I believe that a connection between these two universes is really hard to screw up.
We'll just have to wait and see. Shift might not tell the best standalone stories compared to other games, but they are pretty great with world building.
Pardon my late arrival, but if I may make a belated interjection. While I personally wasn't much phased by the reveal, I can understand why some might find it disappointing. Mostly in that all those implications raised by the reveal are sort of a one-way street.
Sure the existence of Code Vein might raise some interesting questions for fans of God Eater over how everything now interconnects, but I think Code Vein itself benefits less from that dynamic. The revenants within the Gaol of the Mist are just so disconnected form any of the other events in the world that simply learning the "horrors" of the great collapse are actually arigami, doesn't really otherwise change anything about their situation.
Maybe if the mists fell permanently it would have implications for how the revenants would adapt to an outside world that is far more hostile than they were expecting, but in all three endings revenants remain isolated from the outside... the only minor exception being the "best" ending where the player and comrades venture beyond the mist.
I'd admittedly be interested to see a sequel based on that ending, which could maybe make the reveal more relevant, but given the game's lack lust sales and reviews I won't be holding my breath. I think the most we can hope for is that maybe Louis and the gang might show up for supporting cameos in future God Eater games, although having bounced off my attempt to get into that franchise, that's little comfort personally.
Been watching most of ur vids today, ur gonna go places man I can just tell
I'm hoping so. Thanks for the vote of confidence!
I bought the game with all dlc for 7.22 euros so frankly I can't complain. Plus I love the game I want a sequel.
Damn, why is this not more popular? I mean this has quality and talent... Damn, well, why don't you do a god eater(s) review?
Welp, this review convinced me...
I'm *DEFINITELY* getting the game.
The God Eater stuff and connections (For me at least) basically sold me on this.
Huge God Eater fan right here.
Thanks for the excellent review.
Probably the best Code Vein review out there and no it's not because I read the title... Riki still best girl though :)
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! We'll have to agree to disagree, as Louis is clearly best girl, but I'm grateful! :)
@@serothel Glad to see we agree on something.
Good shit dude. Quality Review
I really hope they make a sequel to this game. This is one of the 2 souls like games that I both really liked but also beat (the other being NIOH). I really want to see the world after the end of this game
Would be cool if we got create our own camp/city, getting more survivors and merchants to join your base. This will make it bigger, and you get more knowledge for venturing further into the world.
Yeah I definitely want to see more from this world. I was fairly hooked throughout and hope that we get more from this team. I believe the game did pretty well commercially so here's hoping
@@serothel Yeah, I heard they did well. And that makes me even more hopeful for a sequel and not a one and done deal.
Still interested for Scarlet nexus though
@@lordplague3555 Ditto! I'm very much looking forward to Scarlet Nexus. Everything I've seen says it's going to be right up my alley.
@@serothel same here! I wonder if it is open world-ish or kinda small area based? I try to keep myself in the dark here. I do know that there is no character creation though.
@doomslayer420 time will tell^_^
I am in no hurry
Wait what me who roll off the cliff the heck ?
Anyone saying this game is easy just because you have an npc companion is losing it. A lot of the bosses are either random in their attack patterns or they have attack chains that go on forever. This game is the bad kind of difficult where it is unfair.
Fun fact: you can look up the skirt of your female character while they're walking. You can even do it as early as when you start the game.
CRAP!!! I hate god eater weapon designs and mechanics so damn much I don't want to play it but I'm almost at the end of code vein FFUUUCCCCKKK
I know the feeling. After finishing Code Vein recently myself, I tried the demo for God Eater 3, but bounced off it hard. I just could not get even remotely invested. I did watch the anime and, well... I suppose I moderately enjoyed that, but it's probably not going to be something I ever rewatch either.
However, I must protest that the weapon designs all suck. At the very least I love the Blanched Great sword, having maned it for most of my second playthrough of Code Vein.
@@EmeralBookwise fair enough my good sir
Good review. Get my sub.
Thank you!
SOULSy
Why is dark souls censored?
Thanks for asking! The short version is "I thought it'd be funny."
The long version is that Dark Souls has been so incredibly influential to action-RPGs that the discourse is kind of tainted. Everything gets tied back to Dark Souls, whether it's deserved or not. In a small act of rebellion, I thought it'd be funny to review a "Soulslike" while treating "Dark Souls" like a bad word, so I bleeped it.
@@serothel lol intresting. Thx ^-^
Nice.
Nice work, have a sub
Thank you!
An excellent review for one of my fav games
Thirsty indeed
Whenever I get a hankering for a Soulslike these days, this pops up in my search results, but I can never convince myself to give it a shot. These character designs are too much for me. I can't take this game seriously in the slightest when every last female character model is sexualized to the point of being a walking dakimakura or something. I sometimes think I've become too much of an old fart for anime these days.
Also, great video - very informative and much appreciated.
@doomslayer420 Why do the fans of this game always assume that anyone who dislikes it is offended? I am in no way offended at all, hell I endorse sexualization as a tool in character desgin, so long as it is well done!
That wasn't a political statement regarding gender stereotyping or anything of the sort - I just find this character design second-hand embarassing. Sorta like those sweaters or leggings with hentai on them.
My point is that there is a fine line to tread with this sort of thing and for me it just flings itself so far off that line that I can't take it seriously at all. (Acknowledging the ridiculousness doesn't mean it can't have merit, by the way)
@doomslayer420 And here I thought you wanted to have a discussion. Oh well, guess you know better how I feel about things than I do. Have a good one.
@@HansAlRachid: Just a show of support, but the female designs in this game bother me too, at least a little, not so much it prevented me from otherwise enjoying the rest of the game, but seriously...
The problem isn't so much that the girls are sexualized, it's how they're are sexualized in the most crudely pandering way. Two of the female companions are wearing little more the shredded rags and the third is basically slumming it in her lingerie. I could be fine with any one of these characters, but all three is overkill.
What's worse is that they all actually have better designed outfits in the DLC... which would be great except said DLC can't even be accessed until near the end of the game, and even with the DLC they will still otherwise only wear their base outfits during cutscenes.
In my view, these Dark Souls styled games are cheesy pieces of junk. They' pretend to be RPG's but are no different than Mario Brothers or Sonic the Hedgehog. Every one of them overuses the gravity death mechanic, much like Mario/Sonic, in an equally as annoying a fashion.