Yeah not gonna lie, I went through this whole video thinking, "I thought this game had like, martial arts?" and then realized I was thinking of Absolver
@@saltnvinegar6607 No Absolver is made by SloClap. It's sad seeing two such similar and great games with so much potential, just waste it. Absolver with its utter lack of content and Ashen with its Epic store exclusive.
@@joelfilho2625 TBF the most ridiculous spectacle in 3 was seeing people running around in full Havel's, duel wielding greatswords, while somersaulting and farting fireballs...the katanas were extremely tame in comparison.
Who needs this? That is so unimportant. What is important is all things that make Souls a great multiplayer game. Souls is a game to play with other people, for many playthroughs, for many hours.
@@Joseph-Thomas OK MATE, I said that for the humor, I personally love dark souls especially the 1st one. I am a PC player so I haven't given bloodborne a try
I played the game myself on launch, and I wasn't really surprised with the lack of exposure since it was honestly a forgettable experience, it didn't hurt but it did disappoint, the positivity in this video looked like a joke at first, now I don't know what to make of it.
Played this with my friend. It was such a great experience. I wasted a lot of time farming up nearly a million scoria without knowing how close we were to beating the game. I wish it was longer, but still a beautiful game.
Eyo Inferno. There's this program called DS4Windows that tricks windows into thinking your PS4 controller is an xbox controller. I personally use it all the time and it works flawlessly, it lets you play games like Ashen with a PS4 controller without steam having to be open..
Ashen keeps me up at night sometimes, I fucking love it so much. The art style is so beautiful , and the music, and goddam, it was so good, aghhhhhh. I've played this game through around 5 times now, just because of the whispers, that bit where the diasora lands, fucking stunning.
It's been flying under the radar because it's a paid exclusive for the epic launcher. As interesting as it looks, I can't be bothered to download yet another launcher for one or two games.
TheCorrupt It's not an epic launcher exclusive. It will be coming to steam soon (It is listed as "Not yet on Steam" in the steam store) and it is on Xbox One
@@aexofspades8520 That makes it a timed exclusive but an exclusive nonetheless. I'm sure the game will get the attention it deserves once it's released on other platforms.
@@Skeletor4753 yeah valve is so gredy, so much in fact that once that exclusivity contract runs out epic will take the 30% that those greedy bastards called valve take >:
Everyone has an opinion, but i disagree with basically everything other than the music. The gameplay left much to be desired, multiplayer is a mess, weapons all feel so painfully similar, no real customization, 0 incentive for anything past a single playthrough. The harder game mode is just the same exact thing, but with health and stamina cut in half. That's it.
Krystof. Almost every big company has ties with China, including Valve. I hate that hellhole of a country just as much as you, but choosing to boycott a single, arbitrarily picked company from a whole bucket of China shills is going to do exactly nothing for anyone besides you, who now doesn’t get to play some games.
@@Grancop00 Valve doesn't have any major ties with China, they can act as they please. Epic, on the other hand, is basically controlled by Tencent. We've already seen they probe through our personal info. Epic is NOT a good platform.
I played this game day one on xbox game pass. Although it was good and I enjoyed it for the 20 to 25 hours it lasted. This game does not even come close to even the worst that souls has to offer. Hardly any enemy variety. little to no character customization. No backstabs, parrys or any skillfull technics to use in combat. Its literally mash RB on every enemy till they die. Not to mention there's only one armor slot no gauntlets, no legs, head.. one piece of armor for your entire character. No tank builds, or shield builds, nothing.. theres only close to 15 weapons in the entire game and they play the exact same. Co op is a mess you have to endlessly wait for someone to randomly join. Instead of summoning them in manually. No pvp of any kind. This game excels at its world and art design. Which was pretty much a mix of journey, inside, and absolver. Every aspect of the game in some way feels unoriginal. Its just an amalgamation of ideas already present in the industry. Its decent with an insanely large asking price of 40 dollars. With hardly 0 replay value. This as dumbed down as dark souls can get.
"skillful comabt" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Darksouls skill is who's able to best exploit the broken mechanics of the game. From busted hit boxes, to useless weapons and armor, there is hardly anything skillful about it.
What about system requirements? On the Steam store with a TBD release date the requirements only say Windows 10... Does that mean it won't even run on older Windows?
"Hey guys i just killed a jew, hahaha, thats so bad right? Lmao cya guys later" Extreme example but my point still stands. Like what is in these people's heads.
Nitr Hiir What exactly makes clickbait bad, in your opinion? (I’m not saying it’s good, I just want your side) it seems to me that it can vary wildly, and in this situation wasn’t bad at all. Of course also, clickbait is regularly used all the time by creators simply because using a boring title won’t... well, get anyone’s attention. So, the creator gets low views of that video, and low ad revenue, and less money produced from that, on what could have been a video they put a lot of time and effort into. It’s necessary, in a lot of cases.
I really like the feeling of learning enemy patterns and mastering a game, but I find the stats and items of DS to be daunting. This seems like a good game to jump into.
I thought that at first too and had no idea what I was doing when I first played DS3. I sucked ass so I quit then came back later and just muscled through by looking up the best weapon guides. I'm now good without ever micro-ing the stats or items. Just find something you like and stick with it.
@Decadent Descent probably cause you beat the real deal more times than you've beaten your dick when you figured out how it worked. Lol I really enjoy the fluent co-op this game provides compared to souls games, but this is WAY TOO SHORT. We had to stop playing to makw the playthrough worthwhile
@@Facehate666 Yeah, and it's particularly annoying because those games are not even all that difficult. Anyone who grew up on NES/SNES platformers knows what I'm talking about.
I didn't care for it. The game didn't really give me any incentive to play. The world was dry and boring, and lack of character customization gave me less to do. The game trying to push me toward quest objectives was annoying. There wasn't really anything in this game for me.
Thanks for reminding me this game existed waited for this to release on steam and it’s probably my favourite game period. I can not describe how much I love the aesthetic and charm of the game, my only gripe is the voice acting for some characters namely Eila, please make more game reviews like this but Whatever you work on I will always be a happy camper!
I feel like the fact that it's only available on the Epic games launcher contributed a lot to how unnoticed this game went. I've been waiting for this game (Quite passively though) and didn't even know it was finally out
It doesn't affect the core gameplay, but I think assisted climb and other co-op only mechanics are one of the worst things about the game. There are places in not blight town where you can assisted climb both you and your partner of into your deaths, like over a wall with no floor on the other side, and the fact that co-op doors exist, and how they added a rune to go solo that you need to waste a slot on or need to enable disable the companion to get past them every time. Like why does the rune even exist, the bosses don't seem to get more HP in co-op so isn't being solo punishment enough? Another kind of minor complaint is that you get upgrade materials up the ass, but it seems like you couldn't reasonably get enough not souls to use them all without grinding, but I'm not sure on that, and in a way I prefer it over needing to go into NG+ every few max upgrades.
Fair points. I felt like I had way to fucking many around the last bit of the game. I felt like the climbing was well done mostly and you just have to be careful when you do it high up. Look before you leap and all that~ The game sorely needs a NG+ for sure though.
Bought this game on your recommendation to play with my bro, had a really good time. Beautiful music, pretty world, decent controls and movement. Simple enough, but not bland.
1:08 My only issue with Dark Souls is the absolute mountain of "Souls-like" games. For example, Surge. Loved the setting, premise etc, but I abandoned it after less than 30 minutes, because it turned out to be Souls-like. I hate how I keep finding gmaes I love the look of, only to find that they're Souls-like, which I suck at. Steelrising got the formula exactly right. It's a Souls-like game, but you can do things such as reduce damage taken etc. This means you can adjust the difficulty to suit you. For example, I reduced the damage I take by 100%. I play games purely to have fun, after all. I didn't change how much damage I inflict, because the game doesn't allow that, so it's not like I can 1-shot every enemy, including bosses.
I mean... Why bother playing if you just turn damage off? And that last bit sounds like cope and trying to justify it. "It's not like I can one shot enemies, so it's fine". I mean, sure, but you also turned damage off so it doesn't matter. You don't have a reason to dodge the enemy and can just wait on them with reckless abandon. I mean, if that's what stimulates you, then pop off, king. But it sounds really boring.
Had zero expectations and the game still managed to dissappoint me... time to delete the epic launcher and my account. Mediocre soulslike and failed coop. Kinda amazing how the big selling point: It's COOP was such a disappointement. You don't see how your coop partner looks. You can't trade items. You can't communicate. The coop partner randomly turns invisible in certain areas. The only reason to play coop is to make combat easier... if that is even possible since combat is already so simplified and boring. World also looks boring and completely the same in many places. No magic No pyro No miracles No archery No parry and riposte No backstab No kick/shieldbreak Barely any way to customize your equip... Just grab a weapon and spam away while mindlessly following quest markers.
@@moo.7643 Dropped items can not be picked up by coop partner. Shield bash is mostly useless, it takes to long and I could have simply stun locked most enemies for the same effect + damage. Alternating light and heavy attacks doesn't make the combat complex. With a 2 handed weapon do a running attack, combo into light attack and then one heavy attack... wow great now I can spam this combo until I find a different weapon...
@@kiritokirigiya5279 More like how much of this script came from Ashen. Cause it just kinda sounds mostly like excuses why Ashen is Darksouls 2.0 rather than actually promoting the game in a way that actually shows its better. It really just looks like a dumbed down darksouls graphics with the pure purpose to make combat more fluid. Which isnt exactly automatically better. imo.
A large completely dark area where you have to use a lantern or some other form of light so you don’t fall off edges or get killed by enemies, sounds, familiar...
Jamega The only good boss(in main game. I haven't played the DLCs) that feel actually feel like bosses and not just enemies with big healthbars were The Abyss Watchers,Sulyvahn,Twin Princes and SoC. All other bosses were diappointing
Pei Laz I agree, Sekiro will be much better than Ashen which is better than DS3. Therefore,Sekiro>Ashen>Trash>Dark Souls 2 & 3(I like to put DS2 and DS3 together because both of them together ruined Dark Souls)
@@Dev-nr4dw Fantasy. That's like saying "My fanfic that I totally took from my faaaavorite series? Yeah. It's better than the original lol, even though any soul or meaning in my fanfic was knowingly and blatantly birthed from the original in the first place. Lol."
@@gamernation1400 I don't remember him mentioning fashion at all. But my comment wasn't in relation to the video. It was in relation to the og comment and how Dark Souls often has multiple options on armor- and clothingpieces, whereas this game has a very limited amount, which is sad to me, as the subreddit fashionsouls is where it's at.
Texture_Turtle Hey guys, i bought robux with my mom’s money and my brother said im big gay, what should i do? Cut off my own dick or follow my dream of being the best RuneScape player in my neighborhood?
I use keyboard for all of the Dark Souls games, and while it's hard and annoying at first, I got used to it. The only really annoying part of using a keyboard is that the Dark Souls games assume you're using a controller, so even if you do not and never have had a controller hooked up to your computer, all of the button prompts and things like that show up as what they would be for the controller. I also have that issue with Nioh, come to think of it. The only way to know what key to use for something is to either just mash buttons and see if it works or go into the part of the menu that lets me rebind things, and even then, there are plenty of actions (like rating messages, or changing what stats show up in your screen) that aren't specifically mentioned in the rebinding thing, so then I'm stuck with just pressing random keys.
It's annoying that games need a launcher at all. What happened to just having an executable with desktop and start menu shortcuts? Just because Steam is convenient is no excuse either. No reason why games without launchers couldn't be accessed via 3rd party game library management apps that would be nice to have but not mandatory unlike the (laughable) Steam store DRM.
That's what I love about GoG. You buy the game, you own it, no bullshit drm (unless sometimes because the game has multiplayer but the single player content is 100% playable).
Bitter Cynic For the actual answer that isn’t circlejerking over memes; it’s easier for the consumer to browse games and see sales. It’s easier to have coordinated sales. It’s easier to allow multiplayer, hell Steam even lets devs use it's API. Many executables aren’t easily detected by game congregation platforms. It also allows for integrated game forums that don’t require upkeep and automated refund policies - not all launchers have them but most do. When developers put their game on a platform they are paying to make things more convenient for the customer, because then more customers will give them money. If you want everything to be an executable okay but you are only making things way, way worse for yourself.
@@stevelarry3870 It may have been convenient at some point but it's practically a monopoly and has stagnated for years and it shows. Finding actually good games has become borderline impossible without relying on "influencers" that dig through the piles of shit for you. Communicating with other players is actually more convenient on external platforms like Reddit and Discord. In reality Steam is just a store, a store that keeps games you paid for hostage. It's not even a good store anymore.
Bitter Cynic It’s a monopoly that’s stagnated because we landed on a few very good options. Steam does a fine job of finding good games for you, obviously it’s not going to give you perfect choices just like browsing Apple TV won’t give you perfect movies. But it works quite a bit, especially for indie games that wouldn’t get a place on most influencers channels. It’s well known there is a lot of crap on Steam, but I have never had any of that shovelware appear on my storefront. It’s a good option that wouldn’t be there without the launcher. Communicating with other players works fine on Steam, but obviously it’s not going to work as well as a platform dedicated to it. But that’s not one of the reasons why launchers are a good idea, and it’s clear you know that because you ignored all of the other ones. Steam is a store and an updater and an online organizer and a modding platform and a marketplace - and while you may not appreciate how well it does those very important things, other people do. And they are very important. It’s a good store that does everything it needs to, so much so that both game developers and consumers have picked it for years.
Ashen is like Dark Souls for kids. It introduces all of Dark Souls' mechanics in simple, easy to digest ways without ever really overwhelming the player, and then has a couple of it's own to make it unique. It took the lessons from Dark Souls 2 and Bloodborne, put them in a nice little box, and said "Huh. Well... you missed a spot." and put the bow on top. I will admit, Ashen's atmosphere feels much thicker than Dark Souls', and I think that's due to music, art style, and lack of loading screens for the most part. It is a lovely experience, though not one I was inclined to experience a second time. It was fun, while it lasted, but the lack of true build variety sort of tanks the game's replayability. For what its worth, it's worth it definitely.
Hey, Inferno! I logged in just for you to say that your USB connector issue is probably the cable itself. I have the same issue with the DS4 controllers. The contact pins get stuck in the head after some time of reinserting them. Run your finger over the connector, and you'll be able to feel a difference between a beat up cable vs a new one. Also, thanks for exposing me to Ashen, I'll definitely put it on my wishlist for Steam.
The attacks in this game lack the feel, the weight, that makes Dark Souls combat so satisfying. And in Ashen, the feel bland, just like the rest of the game really.
@@noalb3108 I'm gonna have to stop you right there! When Dark souls came out it was a huge success to the point of creating its own sub-genre,a lot of people don't like when you compare a souls-like game to dark souls,but the truth is,without DS,most of those wouldn't have been a thing,with Dark souls' deep and interconnected world,a deep story and lore that has much to it than what first meets the eye,and a challenging but (mostly)fair gameplay experience,a mere indie game can't top it especially in 2019 when a lot of good competition already came (Mainly Bloodborne and Nioh...)
Played Ashen on Xbox one almost completely co op with my brother. It's probably one of the better game's to have come out and offer co op. We connected via password and it wasn't always spot on. Yet after a few attempts it was golden and brother and I were on our merry way. We're currently stuck on Sisna. She's a fast one... damn boss brings me back to the Ornstein and Smough wall I faced years back. Great review !
Nothing will ever top DS. However, Ashen is its own game and is actually very cool. I wish it had Magic elements for combat but all in all its a fantastic game.
Sometimes youtubers sign contracts that they cannot get out of and realise that too late. We've seen a lot of people on this website praise games like Far Cry Primal or the newest Assassing Creed because they were required to. Lets all give InfernoPlus the benefit of the doubt.
Ashen is beautiful. I played it on Switch, it’s honestly Dark Souls but more relaxing at it’s relaxing bits and honestly more frightening during the harrowing deeps of its dungeons.
I really liked the game, I felt like I was playing a shadow of the colossus version of dark souls. The first time you play it seems like a bad and simple game but it gets more and more interesting and challenging in a way that holds you and makes you want to play more.
watched around 30 seconds of the video, but inferno, you're known for complaining. Nonetheless, i played ashen upon release, and during the PC multiplayer fix. I've beaten the game once, and done part of the NG+ cycle, and mind you, i have well over 300 hours in both dark souls 1 and 3, 2 being the exception- still working on that one. From the getgo, the game is clearly a near ripoff from a basic unspecific lore perspective. The comparison between "light" and "fire" in this sense is extremely similar; Not exact, but similar. From a combative standpoint, ashen follows the same stamina-based combat, dodging works similar to bloodborne, rolling when not locked on, and dashing when locked on, with the same system of s we're all familar with, patterns we're used to, and timing is great, which is crucial. However, weapons themselves are odd, they're either two handed or one handed, and there are no real other forms of damage than physical, and they don't really "scale" based on your statisitcs, because stats don't really exist. Due to the nature of the open world, the developers couldn't figure out balancing, which is a serious problem mid game: the more and more that you complete quests, stamina and health level up, as well as possible new things to do, like unlockables and specific perks, named "talismans". Backstabs don't exists, parries don't exist, weapon arts don't exist. It's always the same, you just hit an enemy over the head, nothing really interesting happens. The bosses are cheap, uninteresting, and really really easy, even for newcomers with minimal experience. Granted, they shouldn't be bullshittingly difficult, but they should pose a challenge that can be achieved and reward the player. Now, to the good. The amount of bugs that don't exist in an indie game like this, is really impressive, and there was clear attention to detail, especially in the world building. The amount of amazings sights I saw, the fucking amazing soundtrack, and the geogriphical variation is incredible, and enemy placement is fairly decent. Ritual stones(bonfires) mimic dark souls 1, really only one warpable one per area, and smaller ones outside of important areas are used aswell. The artstyle is something else i thought was amazing, it looks simple, but it's smooth, complex, and was given attention. The dungeons are thought out, and pose a challenge, but unfortunately, later dungeons aren't balanced. Because you need to do quests to level up, there are really a set amount you have to do to even come close to doing decent damage, and pose a challenging threat. Instead of having enemies indepently scaled, they should've scaled with the player, this would've solved a lot of problems, but, there would be some downsides, which is understandable.
Ashen is just so ungodly easy compared to dark souls it's not even funny. I really loved the game, but it's Dark Souls for casuals basically and that's coming from a casual lol
No offense but, Dark Souls is not hard in any shape or form. It is not hard, it just takes time and patience. I grew up playing mega man, super mario bros. and other old school classics and having to restart all the way to the beginning w/o "bonfires" or save points is incredibly hard as a mindless toddler. But that said, I've beaten most of those games either from complete boredom of having a limited variety of games or that I was a dumbass kid with no taste. (ive lived in a secluded forest thicket of an asian country so in 2005 is the time where nintendo games was only invented like yesterday or something.) After finishing the 3rd dark souls game I was disappointed that the final boss is ridiculously easier to beat than a self portrayed "hardcore gamer" who just keeps spamming his frayed blade without knowing the repercussion of getting parried, stabbing him in the stomach with a 7.5 inch chaos dagger, causing lethal internal failure and ultimately dying whilst taunting him mercilessly with that sweet sweet *point down emote* but without having to parry (apparently you can't since the boss is most likely a "Gamer God," the highest rank of the most oppressed group of all). The final boss was the epitome of "Hey, I beat the guy! So does that make me a *hardcore gamer* too?" Either way, I rate; Dark Sauce is not hard out of: casuals_are_a_myth.avi A big thanks to the many members of the merchants guild, you're all wonderful, have a good one...
@@miraqen7801 I just beat three today and half way through on the other games. For first runs and not looking into the meta for each game, dark souls is harder in my opinion simply because the fights are harder to learn (in my case at least, I thought ashen was far more predictable. To me personally, ashen wasnt hard in any shape or form). I could kill bosses in ashen within 3 trys if not 1 but there are some that stumped me for hours on souls games. I simply see ashen as the casual souls because starting from scratch on each allowed me to compare them on a first run basis. But hey, some people just agree better with different mechanics
@@zabahad5050 So I just deleted almost 500 words worth of constructive criticism because I'm actually retarded! But luckily enough, everything can be summed up to this: Enemy/Boss patterns will be more predictable the more you play the said "souls-like" game because the enemies and bosses always spawn at the exact same location with the exact same armor, weapon, shield what have you and it all boils down to repetition until you complete or overcome a barrier of challenge, it takes time to memorize basically. On the other hand, some games without that static/unchanging patterns like randomness and chaos (usually roguelikes for example) requires more skill to play as you need to adapt to situations more than your item build because most of the time you don't even get the item/s you need for that strategy to work which will lead you to using your wits and skills to identify and adapt to the new patterns, resistances or buffs etc. your enemy will have in that moment. That being said, playing a game with set patterns and repetition will get easier and to combat that, they will need to get more health and damage and a few movesets here and there to increase difficulty, but like I said, patterns can be learned as opposed to chaotic random scenarios. In conclusion of this chapter III of my Harry Potter sequel; Predictability will heighten-up your momentum against, well, predictable enemies and as the game progresses with you, through permanent upgrades or save points littered throughout the game, you will be able to foretell that the next set of challenges the game is going to throw at you will get more and more complicated but can be learned (given enough time) while randomness can prove to be more of a stunted malignant growth of puss and mucus and instead of holding your hand, it betrays you by giving you a false sense of hope that you might beat the run or hope to RnGesus himself that he would piss on your mouth at the hopes of a better luck on hitting your enemy with a 95% chance to hit but instead, it slaps you in the fucking neck with rough sand paper for mittens, shank you with a rusty corroded meth needle in the stomach, tying your hands with barbed wires, dumping your barely-alive twitching drugged-out body into a sack, filled with fire ants and beating you senseless with a 2x4 while they drag the bloody sack that you currently reside in as you experience an epileptic shock, moaning in pain, eyes rolling at the back of your cranium until RnG finally says: "You know what kiddo? Go fuck yourself." *As he yeets your lifeless body in a heavily-wooded area, the last thing you hear is the default dance emote music as you picture him dabbing, screeching inaudible Chinese insults.* So moral of the story, Subscribe To PewDiePie. And a big thanks to the lovely people of the merchants guild who keeps not funding my patriotism towards our holy messiah ssethtzeentach. that's it see ya.
you ever just see a video title that looks like someone swinging a baseball bat at a hornets nest?
Now imagine the baseball bat being an unupgraded club, and the hornets all having their homonym ring
Italian hornets
@@advena688 Homonym Ring, nice. Very Nice.
Yeah not gonna lie, I went through this whole video thinking, "I thought this game had like, martial arts?" and then realized I was thinking of Absolver
true
U be using game pass
Also a fun Souls like game
Holyshit that's true
Same
The visual *a e s t h e t i c* looks just like Absolver.
Yeah and Absolver looks exactly like World's Adrift. :/
@@noxinabox3506 thats not accurate
@@noxinabox3506 untrue. wa is alot more *curvy* where as absolver has alot more edges
Monolith Preacher i agree
@@saltnvinegar6607 No Absolver is made by SloClap. It's sad seeing two such similar and great games with so much potential, just waste it. Absolver with its utter lack of content and Ashen with its Epic store exclusive.
if they make Ashen 2 will people call the first one "ashen one" ?
HMMMMMMMMMM
That Lady actually made me buy some fingers that make people invade me without my will.
@James Bell ej
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Seek seek lest.
"Ashen has no Katanas, and therefore it is the best Souls game."
*WEEBS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
Don't forget about the tryhards...
How dare he dishonor us weebs.
Talos is the one true waifu.
Skyrim is the worst elder scrolls game. :O
@@MatthewManney *Everyone would like to know your location*
I love the art style of this game. So simple yet so much detail in the environments.
A bold statement from someone within katana range.
@richard killface you're right tbf. Dark souls (mainly 3) had some ridiculous weeb sticks.
@@joelfilho2625 TBF the most ridiculous spectacle in 3 was seeing people running around in full Havel's, duel wielding greatswords, while somersaulting and farting fireballs...the katanas were extremely tame in comparison.
@@vulpesviridi5499 Quite. Other than the dual katanas (whyyyy?) katanas were the LEAST anime in DS3 xD
asking why a Japanese game has katanas is like asking why so many western games feature arming swords
@@joelfilho2625 great point.
*BuT doEs it HAve PoIsE?*
Poise boys
I think its called stun resistance
That's basically what it is
*AYAYAAAAAAAAAY*
The Rock
so much dark souls mentioned made me want to play dark souls.
Dark souls didnt have any lip synch to speeches
Ashen made it easier.
NO FACES AT ALL.
Who needs this? That is so unimportant. What is important is all things that make Souls a great multiplayer game. Souls is a game to play with other people, for many playthroughs, for many hours.
+@@micha3695
I think it was a joke, dude.
DS2 added some nice headmovements which were really nice
Dark Souls is just Ashen but Bad
how to beat the ashen with 0 die
Dark souls is just dark souls but bad
long monotone reeing
@@robertwyatt7188 the first dark souls is bad. the second is not great. the third is ass cheese. only bloodborne is ok.
@@Joseph-Thomas OK MATE, I said that for the humor, I personally love dark souls especially the 1st one. I am a PC player so I haven't given bloodborne a try
9:09 You improved your town so much you gained the technology to change skin color
I had to watch the full video to be sure that you were not being sarcastic about the game being good, this is so rare
Assuming everything is sarcastic until proven otherwise is the best coping mechanism I could ever think of
I played the game myself on launch, and I wasn't really surprised with the lack of exposure since it was honestly a forgettable experience, it didn't hurt but it did disappoint, the positivity in this video looked like a joke at first, now I don't know what to make of it.
Even if you don't understand it, the poise is working as intended.
i didnt enjoy the souls games, i just sunk 300+ hours into them out of pure frustration
This statement works sarcastically and genuinely.
Hanlon Caldwell
Agreed
One needs to "git gud" to enjoy the Souls games, you probably still suck
Summarization of dark souls
In short love ahead
Why it went under the radar - epic launcher basically
its coming soon to steam but who knows how soon v'-'v
I was super excited for it and ignored that fact. But in the end I got a refund. Not enjoyable for me.
Yeah if it's on epic it's a no for me.
Yeah if it's on epic it's a no for me.
@@RewZes It says it'll only be on the epic games launcher until the end of december this year. :/ so it wont be on steam for an entire year sadly
Looks like a rip-off of Mario kart
-dunkey
I thought it was Minecraft Royale ;-;
GTA 6 Copy anyone?
TheSteamBreaker gta 6 isn’t even out yet u idiot hehehehehehehehhehehehehe hohohohohehheehheheh
@@gettingnewbread5434 as yes thank you for correcting me
Let me quickly adjust my try hard meme joke
Gta 5 copy anyone?
Played this with my friend. It was such a great experience. I wasted a lot of time farming up nearly a million scoria without knowing how close we were to beating the game. I wish it was longer, but still a beautiful game.
Ashen is the Fortnite of Dark Souls
Wrong it's the legend of Zelda
Lol
Reported for speaking about Fo*****
@@zroom4335 but tloz is the OG ds
@@asmer3302 Zelda is Dark Souls on the easiest difficulty
Enough of this talk of homosexuality. I know what you, my audience, truly desire. Big... Muscular... Men...
Wait...
"I've compared Ashen with dark souls a lot. This is where it stops...
SO THE COMBAT IN ASHEN IS LIKE IN DARK SOULS"
Sorry for the delay~ RUclips is borked right now and uploading videos in 4k doesn't work. :/
Ashen in 1 shot when
Eyo Inferno. There's this program called DS4Windows that tricks windows into thinking your PS4 controller is an xbox controller. I personally use it all the time and it works flawlessly, it lets you play games like Ashen with a PS4 controller without steam having to be open..
Make Ashen 76 mod next pls
Do you actually bot like dark souls I can never tell
you should get demonetized for greentexting on youtube
You are supposed to declare it when you are advertising
@@Voknerech10Z Whoosh!
@@Voknerech10Z whoosh!
Ashen keeps me up at night sometimes, I fucking love it so much. The art style is so beautiful , and the music, and goddam, it was so good, aghhhhhh.
I've played this game through around 5 times now, just because of the whispers, that bit where the diasora lands, fucking stunning.
I was like "this looks really good, how have I not heard of it?" then I was like "oh, egs"
I’m five years late but what is egs
It's been flying under the radar because it's a paid exclusive for the epic launcher. As interesting as it looks, I can't be bothered to download yet another launcher for one or two games.
TheCorrupt It's not an epic launcher exclusive. It will be coming to steam soon (It is listed as "Not yet on Steam" in the steam store) and it is on Xbox One
@@aexofspades8520 That makes it a timed exclusive but an exclusive nonetheless. I'm sure the game will get the attention it deserves once it's released on other platforms.
TheCorrupt it's on Xbox & ps4. So.
As small as the studio is they were better off putting it on the epic games launcher because Valve is greedy as fuck
@@Skeletor4753 yeah valve is so gredy, so much in fact that once that exclusivity contract runs out epic will take the 30% that those greedy bastards called valve take >:
6:20 "This is where it stops.... -While Ashen's core combat is very much like Dark Souls"
Love this game. Hope they make a sequel.
Ah it’s not on steam, no wonder I’ve not heard of it before. I hate having too many launchers installed
I got the epic launcher for the free game every 2 weeks thing lol
I already have 5 launchers but I have no problem
It's on Steam but it is not released and has no release date. store.steampowered.com/app/649950/Ashen/
Free game every two weeks? Looks like Papa Heroin addict is getting the Epic Games launcher
Any exclusive on epic might come to steam 1 year later :(
DS Players: "Rip-off cunt."
Ashen: ...
*Terraria: "First time?"*
Everyone has an opinion, but i disagree with basically everything other than the music. The gameplay left much to be desired, multiplayer is a mess, weapons all feel so painfully similar, no real customization, 0 incentive for anything past a single playthrough. The harder game mode is just the same exact thing, but with health and stamina cut in half. That's it.
Yeah the sound and music was really well done, at least in the parts he showed with it turned up...
not much innovation, not much love.
This video is a paid ad, so)
the animations look clunky too, especially for two handed weapons
what did you expect from someone who uses PS4 controllers ?
"Ashen is like a Dark Souls tutorial, but less"
ftfy.
I really wanna play this game but I also don't want the President of China looking through my computer files
The fuck you mean by that?
Big Daddy Cocaine “it on epic store, so it bad >:(“ circlejerk
Krystof. Almost every big company has ties with China, including Valve. I hate that hellhole of a country just as much as you, but choosing to boycott a single, arbitrarily picked company from a whole bucket of China shills is going to do exactly nothing for anyone besides you, who now doesn’t get to play some games.
@@Grancop00 Valve doesn't have any major ties with China, they can act as they please. Epic, on the other hand, is basically controlled by Tencent. We've already seen they probe through our personal info. Epic is NOT a good platform.
@@krystof5271 China is communist?
I played this game day one on xbox game pass. Although it was good and I enjoyed it for the 20 to 25 hours it lasted. This game does not even come close to even the worst that souls has to offer. Hardly any enemy variety. little to no character customization. No backstabs, parrys or any skillfull technics to use in combat. Its literally mash RB on every enemy till they die. Not to mention there's only one armor slot no gauntlets, no legs, head.. one piece of armor for your entire character. No tank builds, or shield builds, nothing.. theres only close to 15 weapons in the entire game and they play the exact same. Co op is a mess you have to endlessly wait for someone to randomly join. Instead of summoning them in manually. No pvp of any kind. This game excels at its world and art design. Which was pretty much a mix of journey, inside, and absolver. Every aspect of the game in some way feels unoriginal. Its just an amalgamation of ideas already present in the industry. Its decent with an insanely large asking price of 40 dollars. With hardly 0 replay value. This as dumbed down as dark souls can get.
Agreed imo if i would buy an souls singleplayer it would be the surge, have everything right (except map variety)
Or sekiro
@@wasdwasd4995 Nioh is also a great game
@@visionsofentertainment The stands are way too much weeaboo for me
"skillful comabt" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Darksouls skill is who's able to best exploit the broken mechanics of the game. From busted hit boxes, to useless weapons and armor, there is hardly anything skillful about it.
I'd like to get it, but it's for the Epic Launcher.
Aw, what? That sucks.
I think it's on Xbox game pass
It's coming to Steam as well.
On steam it says "not yet on steam" so maybe put it on your wishlist
What about system requirements? On the Steam store with a TBD release date the requirements only say Windows 10... Does that mean it won't even run on older Windows?
It's intuitive, it's also... intuitive.. And some even say it's intuitive.
Oh wow, by complete coincidence I'm watching this a day before the launch date.
They took Dark Souls 1,2,3 bloodborne,demon souls and turned it into one game without Dex
And no Magic from what I could tell.
No, they took dark souls 1, made it shittier and for kids
@@loubloom1941 hard to make dark souls 1 any shittier lel
@@yahiaaymankamaly3518 *angry comment about how ds1 is perfect and ds2 is a shitpile of dogshit*
@@yahiaaymankamaly3518 ding dong ur opinion is wrong
This new Absolver DLC looks amazing!
What's with this current trend of clickbait titles where the RUclipsr also calls out how it's clickbait like it's okay. It really isn't.
"Hey guys i just killed a jew, hahaha, thats so bad right? Lmao cya guys later"
Extreme example but my point still stands. Like what is in these people's heads.
If it's justified, it's not clickbait, and in case you missed it, here's the timestamp 0:14
@@eris2576 How the fuck is it not clickbait?
Nitr Hiir What exactly makes clickbait bad, in your opinion? (I’m not saying it’s good, I just want your side) it seems to me that it can vary wildly, and in this situation wasn’t bad at all. Of course also, clickbait is regularly used all the time by creators simply because using a boring title won’t... well, get anyone’s attention. So, the creator gets low views of that video, and low ad revenue, and less money produced from that, on what could have been a video they put a lot of time and effort into. It’s necessary, in a lot of cases.
So many feelings hurt here... Can anybody here recover from this
I really like the feeling of learning enemy patterns and mastering a game, but I find the stats and items of DS to be daunting. This seems like a good game to jump into.
I thought that at first too and had no idea what I was doing when I first played DS3. I sucked ass so I quit then came back later and just muscled through by looking up the best weapon guides. I'm now good without ever micro-ing the stats or items. Just find something you like and stick with it.
When he said "...dark and foreboding." Holy shit that music is so good.
I'm glad you're enjoying Dark Souls: Easy Mode
So Dark Souls?
Dark souls is already easy dude, c'mon.
It’s harder than dark souls lol. Most dark sounds are easy
That crazy new and inventive dodge system Holy moly, never seen that before, that system probably deserves the GOTY for 2018 specifically.
Elden Ring really was a response to this game's new mechanics, wasn't it?
Directly comparing all these gameplay elements to the Souls games just makes Ashen look less appealing.
@Decadent Descent
Then go play Demon Souls, because THAT is the real deal.
@Decadent Descent probably cause you beat the real deal more times than you've beaten your dick when you figured out how it worked. Lol I really enjoy the fluent co-op this game provides compared to souls games, but this is WAY TOO SHORT. We had to stop playing to makw the playthrough worthwhile
@@simpletonapollo9723 ds1 is the real deal
God, the souls community is so elitist and awful.
@@Facehate666 Yeah, and it's particularly annoying because those games are not even all that difficult. Anyone who grew up on NES/SNES platformers knows what I'm talking about.
I didn't care for it. The game didn't really give me any incentive to play. The world was dry and boring, and lack of character customization gave me less to do. The game trying to push me toward quest objectives was annoying. There wasn't really anything in this game for me.
I'll give you an updoot, anyway, cause I like your content.
@@KoyFoster Wait did you say that to yourself or someone said that and it's not showing for me
@@inidjilin I didn't want to edit my original comment.
I agree... this seems to be a paid add
Just git gud
Thanks for reminding me this game existed waited for this to release on steam and it’s probably my favourite game period. I can not describe how much I love the aesthetic and charm of the game, my only gripe is the voice acting for some characters namely Eila, please make more game reviews like this but Whatever you work on I will always be a happy camper!
I feel like the fact that it's only available on the Epic games launcher contributed a lot to how unnoticed this game went.
I've been waiting for this game (Quite passively though) and didn't even know it was finally out
when's the dlc that adds in the textures?
it got stuck behind the update that will add poise to dark souls 3. we'll be waiting a while.
I havent seen much of Ashen and i had no idea it had this much to it. Thanks for showing it off, i'm gon a wishlist this instantly~
Dash on one tap, but roll on double tap? Sounds familiar somehow... Like games about Blood and Japan had the same thing.
I know it from God of War.
It looks ok but definitely not better if take dark Souls any day but this game looks alright
Hey, you said Bloodborne had one katana in the beginning. That's incorrect, there's two.
whats the 2nd? rakuyo is more of a rapier if thats what ur gonna say
Rakuyo is a sabre, not a katana
It doesn't affect the core gameplay, but I think assisted climb and other co-op only mechanics are one of the worst things about the game.
There are places in not blight town where you can assisted climb both you and your partner of into your deaths, like over a wall with no floor on the other side, and the fact that co-op doors exist, and how they added a rune to go solo that you need to waste a slot on or need to enable disable the companion to get past them every time. Like why does the rune even exist, the bosses don't seem to get more HP in co-op so isn't being solo punishment enough?
Another kind of minor complaint is that you get upgrade materials up the ass, but it seems like you couldn't reasonably get enough not souls to use them all without grinding, but I'm not sure on that, and in a way I prefer it over needing to go into NG+ every few max upgrades.
Fair points. I felt like I had way to fucking many around the last bit of the game. I felt like the climbing was well done mostly and you just have to be careful when you do it high up. Look before you leap and all that~
The game sorely needs a NG+ for sure though.
Bought this game on your recommendation to play with my bro, had a really good time.
Beautiful music, pretty world, decent controls and movement. Simple enough, but not bland.
1:08 My only issue with Dark Souls is the absolute mountain of "Souls-like" games. For example, Surge. Loved the setting, premise etc, but I abandoned it after less than 30 minutes, because it turned out to be Souls-like. I hate how I keep finding gmaes I love the look of, only to find that they're Souls-like, which I suck at. Steelrising got the formula exactly right. It's a Souls-like game, but you can do things such as reduce damage taken etc. This means you can adjust the difficulty to suit you. For example, I reduced the damage I take by 100%. I play games purely to have fun, after all. I didn't change how much damage I inflict, because the game doesn't allow that, so it's not like I can 1-shot every enemy, including bosses.
I mean... Why bother playing if you just turn damage off? And that last bit sounds like cope and trying to justify it. "It's not like I can one shot enemies, so it's fine". I mean, sure, but you also turned damage off so it doesn't matter. You don't have a reason to dodge the enemy and can just wait on them with reckless abandon.
I mean, if that's what stimulates you, then pop off, king. But it sounds really boring.
Had zero expectations and the game still managed to dissappoint me... time to delete the epic launcher and my account.
Mediocre soulslike and failed coop.
Kinda amazing how the big selling point: It's COOP
was such a disappointement.
You don't see how your coop partner looks.
You can't trade items.
You can't communicate.
The coop partner randomly turns invisible in certain areas.
The only reason to play coop is to make combat easier... if that is even possible since combat is already so simplified and boring.
World also looks boring and completely the same in many places.
No magic
No pyro
No miracles
No archery
No parry and riposte
No backstab
No kick/shieldbreak
Barely any way to customize your equip...
Just grab a weapon and spam away while mindlessly following quest markers.
you can drop items, theres shield bash that stuns enemies, you have to alternate between heavy and light attacks to find combos
@@moo.7643
Dropped items can not be picked up by coop partner.
Shield bash is mostly useless, it takes to long and I could have simply stun locked most enemies for the same effect + damage.
Alternating light and heavy attacks doesn't make the combat complex. With a 2 handed weapon do a running attack, combo into light attack and then one heavy attack... wow great now I can spam this combo until I find a different weapon...
It's a small indie developer. I get it's not your cup of tea but damn dude, chill.
The fat conductor laughed
"You are wrong."
God this looks so cool, I'm most likely buying this soon but I'm too busy with college at the moment.
How much did they pay you XD
that was my first thought when i read the title of the video lmao
@@kiritokirigiya5279 More like how much of this script came from Ashen. Cause it just kinda sounds mostly like excuses why Ashen is Darksouls 2.0 rather than actually promoting the game in a way that actually shows its better.
It really just looks like a dumbed down darksouls graphics with the pure purpose to make combat more fluid. Which isnt exactly automatically better. imo.
Literally one of the first things he says is that the better than souls is a joke, he does this with a lot of games if ya new so he isnt sponsored
1:55 isnt that the same as nioh you could quickstep or dubtap to roll
A large completely dark area where you have to use a lantern or some other form of light so you don’t fall off edges or get killed by enemies, sounds, familiar...
*Bug Souls*
"Two words. Zero-"
"Lenny?"
"-Dex"
"Oh"
More like Dark soulless
@@Dev-nr4dw you cannot compare this to Dark Souls, at all. Literally one area/level in DS3 has more detail and innovation than this entire game
Jamega
Did you play Ashen? Do you think Anor Londo in DS3 has any soul?
Jamega
The only good boss(in main game. I haven't played the DLCs) that feel actually feel like bosses and not just enemies with big healthbars were The Abyss Watchers,Sulyvahn,Twin Princes and SoC. All other bosses were diappointing
Pei Laz
I agree, Sekiro will be much better than Ashen which is better than DS3. Therefore,Sekiro>Ashen>Trash>Dark Souls 2 & 3(I like to put DS2 and DS3 together because both of them together ruined Dark Souls)
@@Dev-nr4dw Fantasy. That's like saying "My fanfic that I totally took from my faaaavorite series? Yeah. It's better than the original lol, even though any soul or meaning in my fanfic was knowingly and blatantly birthed from the original in the first place. Lol."
No joke, my phone keyboard is set to Dvorak. Mainly to mess with people though.
No new game plus
No invasions
No real weapon variety
No builds
No complex level design
Wow so much better than souls
no.
fucking.
magic.
At all.
No sorcery.
No magical buffs (with spells).
No throwing lightning bolts.
No pyromancy.
No.
Fucking.
FASHION!!!
WHAT THE FUCK!?
@@gamernation1400 I don't remember him mentioning fashion at all. But my comment wasn't in relation to the video. It was in relation to the og comment and how Dark Souls often has multiple options on armor- and clothingpieces, whereas this game has a very limited amount, which is sad to me, as the subreddit fashionsouls is where it's at.
@@gamernation1400 Are you able to understand the English language, my friend? Because that is the opposite of what I was saying :')
How long have you been a dev on Ashen?
@Knee Gas Why does it link to Minecraft porn
@Knee Gas I sexually identify as an attack helicopter
Texture_Turtle Hey guys, i bought robux with my mom’s money and my brother said im big gay, what should i do? Cut off my own dick or follow my dream of being the best RuneScape player in my neighborhood?
@@memorylane3866 yes.
@iDrunk RS r/inclusiveOr
That big boy is a big girl so your still technically right about it not being gay
A year later and I have to say I would probably smash after thinking about it
Meh the game is alright. Not better than Dark souls imo
He is sponsored
@@Scherminator9999 he was obviously joking with the ashen is better than DS lol
I use keyboard for all of the Dark Souls games, and while it's hard and annoying at first, I got used to it. The only really annoying part of using a keyboard is that the Dark Souls games assume you're using a controller, so even if you do not and never have had a controller hooked up to your computer, all of the button prompts and things like that show up as what they would be for the controller. I also have that issue with Nioh, come to think of it. The only way to know what key to use for something is to either just mash buttons and see if it works or go into the part of the menu that lets me rebind things, and even then, there are plenty of actions (like rating messages, or changing what stats show up in your screen) that aren't specifically mentioned in the rebinding thing, so then I'm stuck with just pressing random keys.
The prompts in Ashen adjust if you are on a keyboard.
@Flame Disgusting miscreants, all of you.
@@matu1157
-Remove all unnecessary keys (leave ASD on the keyboard)
-Bind ASD to lock on, move forward, R1
-Time to fckin pwn some n00bs
Guys
we did it
we beat epic
Ashen is on steam
they have no more exclusivity
we won
I barely heard about this game today, I might get it but I'm not a fan of games that are too dark to see anything most of the time. :/
@@Morgan_Blackhand I'll be honest nothing in this game is that dark. Plus you get a lantern so.....
It's annoying that games need a launcher at all. What happened to just having an executable with desktop and start menu shortcuts?
Just because Steam is convenient is no excuse either. No reason why games without launchers couldn't be accessed via 3rd party game library management apps that would be nice to have but not mandatory unlike the (laughable) Steam store DRM.
That's what I love about GoG. You buy the game, you own it, no bullshit drm (unless sometimes because the game has multiplayer but the single player content is 100% playable).
But without a launcher, How will these companies shill you their virtual merch?
Bitter Cynic For the actual answer that isn’t circlejerking over memes; it’s easier for the consumer to browse games and see sales. It’s easier to have coordinated sales. It’s easier to allow multiplayer, hell Steam even lets devs use it's API. Many executables aren’t easily detected by game congregation platforms. It also allows for integrated game forums that don’t require upkeep and automated refund policies - not all launchers have them but most do.
When developers put their game on a platform they are paying to make things more convenient for the customer, because then more customers will give them money. If you want everything to be an executable okay but you are only making things way, way worse for yourself.
@@stevelarry3870 It may have been convenient at some point but it's practically a monopoly and has stagnated for years and it shows.
Finding actually good games has become borderline impossible without relying on "influencers" that dig through the piles of shit for you.
Communicating with other players is actually more convenient on external platforms like Reddit and Discord.
In reality Steam is just a store, a store that keeps games you paid for hostage. It's not even a good store anymore.
Bitter Cynic It’s a monopoly that’s stagnated because we landed on a few very good options.
Steam does a fine job of finding good games for you, obviously it’s not going to give you perfect choices just like browsing Apple TV won’t give you perfect movies. But it works quite a bit, especially for indie games that wouldn’t get a place on most influencers channels. It’s well known there is a lot of crap on Steam, but I have never had any of that shovelware appear on my storefront. It’s a good option that wouldn’t be there without the launcher.
Communicating with other players works fine on Steam, but obviously it’s not going to work as well as a platform dedicated to it. But that’s not one of the reasons why launchers are a good idea, and it’s clear you know that because you ignored all of the other ones.
Steam is a store and an updater and an online organizer and a modding platform and a marketplace - and while you may not appreciate how well it does those very important things, other people do. And they are very important. It’s a good store that does everything it needs to, so much so that both game developers and consumers have picked it for years.
The ambient music in this game is just amazing.
Best use of lantern is dragon dogma, you can equipt/hang lantern to your belt
"jumping and climbing is mapped to the triangle button"
"Hold y to climb up" lmao why do I think that's so funny
Ashen is like Dark Souls for kids. It introduces all of Dark Souls' mechanics in simple, easy to digest ways without ever really overwhelming the player, and then has a couple of it's own to make it unique. It took the lessons from Dark Souls 2 and Bloodborne, put them in a nice little box, and said "Huh. Well... you missed a spot." and put the bow on top. I will admit, Ashen's atmosphere feels much thicker than Dark Souls', and I think that's due to music, art style, and lack of loading screens for the most part. It is a lovely experience, though not one I was inclined to experience a second time. It was fun, while it lasted, but the lack of true build variety sort of tanks the game's replayability. For what its worth, it's worth it definitely.
Hey, Inferno! I logged in just for you to say that your USB connector issue is probably the cable itself. I have the same issue with the DS4 controllers. The contact pins get stuck in the head after some time of reinserting them. Run your finger over the connector, and you'll be able to feel a difference between a beat up cable vs a new one.
Also, thanks for exposing me to Ashen, I'll definitely put it on my wishlist for Steam.
Having played all dark souls and ashen I can say with firm confidence that. "Yeah it alright"
The attacks in this game lack the feel, the weight, that makes Dark Souls combat so satisfying.
And in Ashen, the feel bland, just like the rest of the game really.
Just purchased it on psn sale it's half price atm and definitely a hidden gem as I've never heard of it before I saw your review
Ashen is Dark souls But mediocre at best..
Dark Souls itself is mediocre at best.
@@noalb3108
I'm gonna have to stop you right there!
When Dark souls came out it was a huge success to the point of creating its own sub-genre,a lot of people don't like when you compare a souls-like game to dark souls,but the truth is,without DS,most of those wouldn't have been a thing,with Dark souls' deep and interconnected world,a deep story and lore that has much to it than what first meets the eye,and a challenging but (mostly)fair gameplay experience,a mere indie game can't top it especially in 2019 when a lot of good competition already came (Mainly Bloodborne and Nioh...)
@@حسابعشوائي-ه9ث haha bloodborne is made by fromsoft but other than that i completely agree with you
nesznoe2 ooooooohh
This game probably flew under the radar because it's exclusive to Xbox and the Epic Games Store for the time being.
Played Ashen on Xbox one almost completely co op with my brother. It's probably one of the better game's to have come out and offer co op. We connected via password and it wasn't always spot on. Yet after a few attempts it was golden and brother and I were on our merry way. We're currently stuck on Sisna. She's a fast one... damn boss brings me back to the Ornstein and Smough wall I faced years back. Great review !
I would love this game alot more if it had builds/character leveling, there is so little replayability as is
its a shallow, hollow copy of its fore bearer that just doesn't have any of the heart... OR SOUL that made the original the masterpiece it is
@@jtms1200 You mean that it doesn't have lasagna town with giant dragon butts?
git gud
I really like Ashen a lot however, it’s no Souls.
Souls is the greatest game ever conceived by humans in our Galaxy!
That's Knack.
Ealdy
Never played it.
Checked it out though and I’m not sure it looks that great.
Definitely no Dark Souls lol
Nothing will ever top DS. However, Ashen is its own game and is actually very cool. I wish it had Magic elements for combat but all in all its a fantastic game.
11bravo1789
Agreed and I also want back stab but I like Ashen too 👍🏻
I love Ashen as well. Great video
Sometimes youtubers sign contracts that they cannot get out of and realise that too late. We've seen a lot of people on this website praise games like Far Cry Primal or the newest Assassing Creed because they were required to.
Lets all give InfernoPlus the benefit of the doubt.
these graphics remind me of that one kung fu game
Absolver?
I loved this game and it’s extremely fun with a friend recommend 100%
Ashen in 1 hit when?
But ashen has nothing to do with dark souls, he just sits on his floor and eats 150 year old olives from his dirty sofa everyday
Ashen is beautiful. I played it on Switch, it’s honestly Dark Souls but more relaxing at it’s relaxing bits and honestly more frightening during the harrowing deeps of its dungeons.
It's on the Epic launcher, which is the answer to why it's overlooked. Could have been a hit if it launched on Steam.
The bosses dont even look as thicc as the bosses in Dark souls
Coming back to this review years after the fact. Good stuff.
I really liked the game, I felt like I was playing a shadow of the colossus version of dark souls.
The first time you play it seems like a bad and simple game but it gets more and more interesting and challenging in a way that holds you and makes you want to play more.
watched around 30 seconds of the video, but inferno, you're known for complaining.
Nonetheless, i played ashen upon release, and during the PC multiplayer fix.
I've beaten the game once, and done part of the NG+ cycle, and mind you, i have well over 300 hours in both dark souls 1 and 3, 2 being the exception- still working on that one. From the getgo, the game is clearly a near ripoff from a basic unspecific lore perspective. The comparison between "light" and "fire" in this sense is extremely similar; Not exact, but similar.
From a combative standpoint, ashen follows the same stamina-based combat, dodging works similar to bloodborne, rolling when not locked on, and dashing when locked on, with the same system of s we're all familar with, patterns we're used to, and timing is great, which is crucial. However, weapons themselves are odd, they're either two handed or one handed, and there are no real other forms of damage than physical, and they don't really "scale" based on your statisitcs, because stats don't really exist. Due to the nature of the open world, the developers couldn't figure out balancing, which is a serious problem mid game: the more and more that you complete quests, stamina and health level up, as well as possible new things to do, like unlockables and specific perks, named "talismans". Backstabs don't exists, parries don't exist, weapon arts don't exist. It's always the same, you just hit an enemy over the head, nothing really interesting happens.
The bosses are cheap, uninteresting, and really really easy, even for newcomers with minimal experience. Granted, they shouldn't be bullshittingly difficult, but they should pose a challenge that can be achieved and reward the player.
Now, to the good.
The amount of bugs that don't exist in an indie game like this, is really impressive, and there was clear attention to detail, especially in the world building. The amount of amazings sights I saw, the fucking amazing soundtrack, and the geogriphical variation is incredible, and enemy placement is fairly decent. Ritual stones(bonfires) mimic dark souls 1, really only one warpable one per area, and smaller ones outside of important areas are used aswell.
The artstyle is something else i thought was amazing, it looks simple, but it's smooth, complex, and was given attention. The dungeons are thought out, and pose a challenge, but unfortunately, later dungeons aren't balanced. Because you need to do quests to level up, there are really a set amount you have to do to even come close to doing decent damage, and pose a challenging threat. Instead of having enemies indepently scaled, they should've scaled with the player, this would've solved a lot of problems, but, there would be some downsides, which is understandable.
CrazyForBananas Yeah this game sucks inferno only played it to get attention
CrazyForBananas
So you easily beat the final boss? Bullshit
i bought this game a while ago but never played it...ive gotten a controller and now ill give it a shot:D thanks for making this vid
Ashen is just so ungodly easy compared to dark souls it's not even funny. I really loved the game, but it's Dark Souls for casuals basically and that's coming from a casual lol
No offense but, Dark Souls is not hard in any shape or form. It is not hard, it just takes time and patience. I grew up playing mega man, super mario bros. and other old school classics and having to restart all the way to the beginning w/o "bonfires" or save points is incredibly hard as a mindless toddler. But that said, I've beaten most of those games either from complete boredom of having a limited variety of games or that I was a dumbass kid with no taste. (ive lived in a secluded forest thicket of an asian country so in 2005 is the time where nintendo games was only invented like yesterday or something.)
After finishing the 3rd dark souls game I was disappointed that the final boss is ridiculously easier to beat than a self portrayed "hardcore gamer" who just keeps spamming his frayed blade without knowing the repercussion of getting parried, stabbing him in the stomach with a 7.5 inch chaos dagger, causing lethal internal failure and ultimately dying whilst taunting him mercilessly with that sweet sweet *point down emote* but without having to parry (apparently you can't since the boss is most likely a "Gamer God," the highest rank of the most oppressed group of all). The final boss was the epitome of "Hey, I beat the guy! So does that make me a *hardcore gamer* too?"
Either way, I rate; Dark Sauce is not hard out of: casuals_are_a_myth.avi
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@@miraqen7801 Holy shit, is that a ssethtzeentach reference?!
@@tvsty5830 wasnt expecting a fellow merchant on this caravan but yes my gaming brethren, tis he, lord sseth's holy words of many wisdom.
@@miraqen7801 I just beat three today and half way through on the other games. For first runs and not looking into the meta for each game, dark souls is harder in my opinion simply because the fights are harder to learn (in my case at least, I thought ashen was far more predictable. To me personally, ashen wasnt hard in any shape or form). I could kill bosses in ashen within 3 trys if not 1 but there are some that stumped me for hours on souls games. I simply see ashen as the casual souls because starting from scratch on each allowed me to compare them on a first run basis. But hey, some people just agree better with different mechanics
@@zabahad5050 So I just deleted almost 500 words worth of constructive criticism because I'm actually retarded! But luckily enough, everything can be summed up to this: Enemy/Boss patterns will be more predictable the more you play the said "souls-like" game because the enemies and bosses always spawn at the exact same location with the exact same armor, weapon, shield what have you and it all boils down to repetition until you complete or overcome a barrier of challenge, it takes time to memorize basically. On the other hand, some games without that static/unchanging patterns like randomness and chaos (usually roguelikes for example) requires more skill to play as you need to adapt to situations more than your item build because most of the time you don't even get the item/s you need for that strategy to work which will lead you to using your wits and skills to identify and adapt to the new patterns, resistances or buffs etc. your enemy will have in that moment. That being said, playing a game with set patterns and repetition will get easier and to combat that, they will need to get more health and damage and a few movesets here and there to increase difficulty, but like I said, patterns can be learned as opposed to chaotic random scenarios.
In conclusion of this chapter III of my Harry Potter sequel; Predictability will heighten-up your momentum against, well, predictable enemies and as the game progresses with you, through permanent upgrades or save points littered throughout the game, you will be able to foretell that the next set of challenges the game is going to throw at you will get more and more complicated but can be learned (given enough time) while randomness can prove to be more of a stunted malignant growth of puss and mucus and instead of holding your hand, it betrays you by giving you a false sense of hope that you might beat the run or hope to RnGesus himself that he would piss on your mouth at the hopes of a better luck on hitting your enemy with a 95% chance to hit but instead, it slaps you in the fucking neck with rough sand paper for mittens, shank you with a rusty corroded meth needle in the stomach, tying your hands with barbed wires, dumping your barely-alive twitching drugged-out body into a sack, filled with fire ants and beating you senseless with a 2x4 while they drag the bloody sack that you currently reside in as you experience an epileptic shock, moaning in pain, eyes rolling at the back of your cranium until RnG finally says: "You know what kiddo? Go fuck yourself." *As he yeets your lifeless body in a heavily-wooded area, the last thing you hear is the default dance emote music as you picture him dabbing, screeching inaudible Chinese insults.*
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