Thanks for watching everyone, I hope you enjoyed my review. Thanks again to Spiders & Nacon for the early review code. Also I apologize that the video is only in 720p I don't know why RUclips isn't letting my video be in 1080p 🙃 Anyway my Metroidvania video is coming, subscribe for more & share if you think it deserves it. Thanks.
@@EndymionTv creators who address new subscribers directly, is a dying art and so every day, RUclipsrs like you become more valuable, because you're more rare! Try not to ever lose that edge and you'll only succeed. 🙏
@@EndymionTv it gets old fast once you blow up. That's why most lose it. This is real grass roots though. Like door knocking. You're putting the time in and that'll ONLY pays off for you in the end.
Rule of thumb: if ign gives it lower than an 8, i check it out. If it gives 8 or higher im skeptical. Theyre such paid off shills. This game looks awesome and i loved greedfall so spiders has my trust
Spiders is making significant improvements with each game. I hope they'll eventually grow big enough to remake Bound By Flame into what it should have been.
I remembered playing that game and I thought the ending was so abrupt and the game felt incomplete. Their next game is Creedfall 2, that should be very good.
Now I know why I had so much trouble in the beginning. I went to another area first and fought the 2nd boss before the 1st. And in that area all of the enemies where a lot stronger. I finally started on the area with the first boss you mentioned and I’m breezing throigh
This game is truly a hidden gem. Fantastic visuals, excellent sound work, and an amazing musical score. It is a shame it didn't sell better, but I hope more people give it a chance.
I think its a really funny coincidence that this, Thymesia and Lies of P are all coming out months apart. I managed to play through Thymesia but it def didn't click with me the way I hoped it would, so Steelrising was a pleasant surprise! I'm hoping they patch in a way to respec at some point though, my first run is power based and I've been going through with that one fan glaive weapon, but I've been having a blast!
I know it's 1 year later, but we just got this game in PS+, and it's pretty awesome. At start it feels a little clunky, the movement of robots is not like humans, but when you adjust and get weapon you like it gets really good.
People were excited when they saw Life of P but all I could think of that game is Steelrising (since the artstyle and premise looks kinda similar).. This is definitely one of the most anticipated games and glad to see positive reviews of a game from multiple people.. When games like Saints Row 2022 and The Last of Us Part 1 makes me wanna quit gaming all together games like these makes me proud to call myself a gamer..
@@EndymionTv Thanks, mate.. BTW, liked your 50 mins overrated masterpiece critique and subbed your channel for Themesia review.. U keep up the good work, bro 👏
I read that when NG+ is released they will add new weapons as well as main story fixes and special moves. Can’t wait, also your review was excellent. Keep up with the good work.
Went into this thinking it was going to be meh, to just Ok. Now that I'm in the final chapter and haven't been able to put it down since starting and this has become one of my favorite games this year.
@@EndymionTv especially because I'm 520 hours into my first playthrough of Elden Ring, because I'm 38, so replaying games is just not worth it and I've respected a pitiful 5 times. Still haven't nailed it.
Thanks for the review, just picked this up today. I only just realised this is made by the same studio that made Greedfall, one of my favorite RPGS of that year ( had one of the best companion systems ever ). It's really cool to see a game studio make such great progression throughout their games.
If only this game had the combat system of like the surge (1or2), it would be perfect. Everything else is good but the Combat and hit detection really sets it back. Best to wait for it to drop to 20$ or less. And that relates to all spiders games. Even greedfall wasn't worth anything above 20$. A shame coz these games have potential but I guess being a small studio you can't clean up your combat system.
I'm glad indie devs like spiders are still going strong because they might make a lot of janky games but you can't deny they have a lot of passion to make something different I finished Steelrsing 2 days after its release (including all side quests) and although I enjoyed the gameplay and its story the difficulty scaling was beyond bad. I had bosses that I could kill in under 10 seconds and only died to 2 overall because I got too greedy By the end I hadn't put a single point into HP and had over 100 health pots and all of the collected consumables left. If the games difficulty and scaling of power was handled better I could recommend it but as it stands now its just too easy... No boss should take under 10 seconds and this even includes the final boss that took me around 40
Thanks a lot for this review. I've been on the fence with SteelRising for a while, but based on some things you said and the fact that respec will be added, I've decided to buy it. I really liked the UI during your gameplay, reminds me of Elden Ring with a minimalist approach instead of Ubisoft-like tittles with a gazillion icons on screen.
While I love Spiders and am looking forward to grabbing this game there's just something about this video that reminds me of a 'Raid: Shadow Legends' sponsor promo.
Top 5 favorite games of 2022. Right next to Elden Ring man. I’ve been following Spiders since Mars War Logs and they finally NAILED it!! I’m so excited to see where Spiders goes next! I am in love with this game
I wish the performance was 1440 and 60fps on os5, but other than that, I have nothing to complain about. people say it's too slow, but there are allot of weapons that change that really fast. add in the parry and it's a damn solid game
I'm a big fan of Spiders. I've loved everything they've done since Bound by Flame, but man, they need to hire some combat designers and animators. I think Steelrising has more jank than Greedfall. They do so much right here. Rpg progression, level design, atmosphere, story, and visuals are all fantastic...but that combat just isn't good. I still like the game, but studios like Spiders and Piranha Bytes gotta clean up the jank. It's not charming anymore.
Good to hear this turned out well. It seems Souls-likes are really coming into their own now, growing past simple imitation into something truly unique and special.
I don't have a PlayStation 5, nor a computer powerful enough to run at a comfortable and mandatory 60 fps, but I'm definetely interested! I love France, I love Paris, I love the 17th-18th century, steampunk vibes and I love Soulslikes. Oh and women, I love women. And Automatons. So yeah, this game's got a lot of good things going for it. But sadly, I'm in incapable of supporting them at the moment. If they make a port for PS4, highly unlikely, it'd be a different story. Hey, anybody got a spare PS5 just lying around they can toss me? 😜 Someday that elusive console will be mine, dammit!
This really does look pretty good. I get some NieR Automata vibes mixed with the soulslike feeling as well, which is really only a good thing. Looking forward to this!
Nice review! Game looks cool, but there's something about its movement that feels really off to me. I don't want to say too much hitstun because even the air dash pauses for a really long time. Anyway, good luck with King's Fall!
She moves a little odd animation wise cause she’s an automaton. So her joints are animated to reflect that. Don’t worry the actual game is just as fluid as any other
Great game, loved it, one of the best games I've played in years. My biggest gripe is the fact that there is no French dub. I am a French speaker, so it would have made perfect sense to play the game in French considering the setting.
I was hype for greedfall when the trailer dropped played it had a blast when I saw this game I was hype because of spiders studio and I don't play many soul games but see how you can adjust the setting to fit your play style I'm game
Even though I just bought it today this will be one of the first games I've technically pre-ordered in ages. Hope it doesn't disappoint, at least I got that 2 hour refund window if it does.
@@EndymionTv yeah it looks unique enough for me to enjoy it. Kinda makes me think of it as a Souls Lite more than a Souls Like but in a lot of cases that's a good thing
I think about the french accents the reason probably is they couldn't find either french voice actors or anyone who could do a decent french accent as many french people can't speak English at all or well enough.
Could be, but I believe canadian voice actors are usually hired in those cases, so maybe the english accent with peppering of french words is a deliberate choice.
there is no NG+ and after finishing it on 100% in 16 hours i can't really say it's worth 50€.... at least i bought it on greenmangaming for 36€. and if it was on steam/consoles for 35-40€ i think that would be good, but 50€ for A - AA game is too much.
Thymesia was a great game imo and now we have yet another good Soulslike Steelrising. Along with Lies of P, we Soulslike fans eating pretty good. 🔥 Oh and great review btw sir thank you.
Looks incredible and your biggest problem are the British accents lol Would you pefer a 'Mr Bean phoney French accent'. The only people playing this in French wil be the French or French speaking countries. We're playing a game with robots in 18th century France lol I wouldn't give it too much thought...they could have American accents.....the acting has to be good however.
I have never been so glad that I am not a native English speaker who can identify different accents. As long as the acting is not so bad that me with my half ass English can notice, its all just "English" to me. Makes me enjoy way more low budget games with immersion breaking accent than others. I call it a win. Lol.
Nah just that they should have French accents at least. I mean imagine playing Assassin’s Creed Origins & they have British accents you’d be like wtf Actually Cleopatra has a British accent in that game now that I think about it lol
@@EndymionTv Well having an accent doesn't have the same sense as speaking another language. When speaking english with a foreign accent can't be justified ingame, better to immerse the player in a kind of consensual speech, there's already enough hints of where the action takes place. Ideally offer a full local voice acting in the rare cases the funds are available, but frankly accented english is just exoticism of poor taste in my evaluation. Must be a cultural thing. Anyway thank you for your review, very well constructed, informative and enjoyable.
Developer should not be very proud of a game working at launch. That is the the very bare minimum that should be present. AS a fan of the dev I'll be picking this one up. They've had a few duds but have been getting better with each new game (minus Bound By Flame which was just terrible).
I definitely think this review hypes up the game more then it is after playing it on ps plus. I know people clowned ign for saying 6 but that seems fair
In short, this is the most competent "souls like" since I played Nioh and Code Vein. While not perfect, it's supremely satisfying and even impressive in some ways
Hmmm.. So are the different " levels " connected via open world? or are all locations separated and force fast traveling with the map? ... Game looks like it turned out pretty cool, I been waiting a long time for it to release.
So I'm not very good at the souls like games I've tried a couple of them I seen this game and it looks amazing planned on getting it but after your review I went ahead and bought it thanks for the help you make this game so hype for me
Me as a new souls player was complete shit at the start when i first played elden ring (my first souls game) I'm at Ng+3 i never thought I'd get this far, elden ring imo Is a good introduction to the souls world. Elden ring is definitely game of the year material
Yes, I would say surprising. I didn't even know this game existed till like a couple days ago and, I was like okay why haven't heard of this game? However, when heard it's souls like gameplay I was like ok have to play it now. After all beat, dark souls 1-3, Ashen, code vein, remnant of the ashes. However, sadly internet down loading is not at best today, so I'm waiting...
I played Spiders last game Greedfall and while I had a moderate amount of fun with it, the game drags on to an unreasonable degree with excessive padding. Hopefully they learned their lesson and trimmed this down to be lean and mean.
This doesn’t have any padding main story wise. Side quests do take you back to levels but they open up more with new areas via metroidvania elements so it’s fine
I will never understand why people complain about the length of a video game. You're getting more for your money and it bothers me when games are short. Anything under 30 hours should not be full price. Not that this game is but my point is I like to enjoy a game not burn through it. I don't know I guess it's the reason I still buy physical. I want something for my money and paying $70 for a game like Rift apart where you can platinum in 12 hours is unacceptable in my opinion. I don't care how good it looks or how good the gameplay is. That's way too much money for a short DLC
@@robk5437 If you think I'm complaining about the length of the game then you missed the point. It's not the amount of hours I had a problem with, though it was a factor, it was that much of that time spent was on pointless busy work. Talk to npc, now go to a town halfway across the map to talk to another npc. Once you do that, come back to original npc to complete part 1 of the quest, and on and on and on. Too much of the game is filled with needless tasks like that that do nothing but extend what should've been a nice 16-20 hour rpg package into a 45 hour slogfest it had no right in being. My issue is pacing, and Greedfall has some terrible pacing. Likewise assuming that your getting more "value" out of a game simply because it is longer is a lie. A game that takes 100+ hours to finish but is dull for 90% of it isn't a bargain, it's a scam. I've replayed Dead Space 2 dozens of times, and that only takes roughly 7-10 hours to complete and yet that was a much better experience throughout that Greedfall simply wasn't. Again, it's not an issue of time, but an issue of pacing.
I had 2 crashes on ps5 but neither were progress losing, the ppl look weird af as well. Overall I must say I really enjoy it so far. I would recommend this for anyone who enjoys "souls-likes".
Really interested in this game, but have a huge backlog. Also they have priced it at 60 Euros not 40 (Dollar and Euro usually the same). Will pick this up in a sale probably or after seein a lot of hype online
Tbh, adding difficulty sliders ((or a version of (i.e. not losing exp, etc)) is a very real turn off for me. For instance, Sifu. I absolutely loved it. I got distracted by ER, and apparently, they add a difficultly slider. I haven't been back since. Again, just my opinion, but I feel it adds variables into the intended exp that hurt more times than help. Also, have you not played Nioh /2? It's easily the greatest 'souls like' ever made. The combat is, legit, second to none. The stamina regen thing, is called a Ki pulse. Team Ninja did it first
I’m curious why would you stop playing a game cuz they added more difficulties for people who can’t play hard games? I can’t play them too? That’s not fair lol
Other then the frequent skipping and frame drops, this is the best non souls souls likes I've ever played, finally they got the combat right l, closest to Bloodborne, I don't like how bosses have that glowing smoke but only this and mortal shell got it 95% right
Have you played nioh 2 ? I have more hours in it than i have in all souls games combined and even tho i love FS games so much nioh 2's combat is much more fun and deep. I'm super excited for the next team ninja game, wo long fallen dynasty is apperantly their version of sekiro ( but also character creation, coop and 7+ weapon types ) imo one thing that team ninja always did better than FS was the combat
Gotta agree that nioh 2 has technically the best and deepest combat out of any soulslike. However the design leans more into having a million systems instead of keeping the concepts simple and applying them in intricate ways.
Is this game UE4 based? It looks it. If so how is the input lag and overall control feel? I've never been able to enjoy UE based soulslikes because something always feels wonky with the controls. I really wanted to love Mortal Shell but it just didn't feel right.
Two bloodborne-likes for 2023? Hell yeah! I just hope this game has rapiers, cus fuckin baroque france and no rapiers would be very sad. The rapid cooling kinda looks like the nioh ki pulse.
i see in every video about a game review now someone commenting on IGN😂 Honestly it seems they like something if theyre paid to They gave the far cry 6 dlcs 5s and 6s. But i actually thought they were better than that. I like the Vaas one. His saying is doing the same thing again is the definition of insanity, and at the ending you choose to leave the loop or stay to do the same thing. I just thought this was clever. Cool gameplay too Ign clearly just rush a game to push a review before they actually get to enjoy it
I played the Trial.. I was pretty disappointed with the experience. This game felt janky AF.. I feel like this game was rushed out and needed another few months of development. I don't know if much changed since the games release.. I was far more pleased with the surprise of Remnant From the Ashes. -- I may give this game another look.. but there's a multitude of titles like out now, and a bunch more on the way. I'll be more annoyed by these companies half-azzing a Souls-like title just to have their IP released around interests in Souls-like games.
NOT GONNA LIE this is borederline improvement from Souls like.. so I can consider it as "SEKIRO-LIKE". TODAY guys we are witnessing Evolution. BRO it's technically a 9/10 by now since they can just patch those problems up. This should get a lot of playerbase support too. We need more games like this. I can feel how good it is by just watching it lol.
The biggest surprise with this game is the poor performance on PC. I still don't understand where all the resources go into. Playing it with an acceptable look makes it hard to get stable 60 FPS in 2k resolution (i7-8700k, RTX3080ti). You wonder why at times when looking at what's actually represented on screen during those low FPS. The usual suspects (raytracing/shadows) hit half as hard as you'd suspect, animated foliage does far more and DLSS doesn't offer the quite the boost you're used from other games. I hope they fix this, the game itself has an interesting setting and artwork and is great fun when running smooth.
8.5/10 is very generous for this game, I think IGN giving it a 6/10 is right on the money for the problems the game suffers. Don’t get me wrong, gameplay is solid and fluid, but far too easy to break the game with a dancer/immobilise build and defeat every boss in under a minute. And the game is extremely buggy, textures constantly wouldn’t load in at all, or would take a full minute to load into the game world. Got stuck multiple times on objects, clipped through the map, etc.
I like this game and I also Kinda don't like it. I don't know what it is about the visuals but I feel like it could have looked a lot better with a slightly bigger budget just feels like its missing some polish in the presentation, models look great but maybe some different kind of rendering technique and maybe a little more color because everything looks very grey/brown/sepia. I may check it out at some point tho.
Just be warned it's French as hell. You'd think people would get this but apparently not. From the one playthrough I've played it doesn't explore the robots, how they work, how they came about, or much involving them. I think there's one quest line that kinda talks about them? But that's it. So if you're not interested in the French revolution but robots you're going to have a hard time with the story.
Thanks for watching everyone, I hope you enjoyed my review. Thanks again to Spiders & Nacon for the early review code. Also I apologize that the video is only in 720p I don't know why RUclips isn't letting my video be in 1080p 🙃
Anyway my Metroidvania video is coming, subscribe for more & share if you think it deserves it. Thanks.
10 minute video:. I just like comment and watch. Ride or die. No clue what this game is 🤣
@@brandoncobb5352 thank you!
@@EndymionTv creators who address new subscribers directly, is a dying art and so every day, RUclipsrs like you become more valuable, because you're more rare!
Try not to ever lose that edge and you'll only succeed. 🙏
@@brandoncobb5352 Thanks man, I try to reply if I can. Not every comment gets sent as a notification but when they do I try my best. 🤘🏻
@@EndymionTv it gets old fast once you blow up. That's why most lose it. This is real grass roots though. Like door knocking. You're putting the time in and that'll ONLY pays off for you in the end.
I knew it! When IGN gave this game a 6, I knew right away that I should play this game.
Rule of thumb, if IGN gave a bad/mediocre score the game is good
Same goes for movies sadly
Rule of thumb: if ign gives it lower than an 8, i check it out. If it gives 8 or higher im skeptical. Theyre such paid off shills. This game looks awesome and i loved greedfall so spiders has my trust
@@zakizdaman and shows lol they have such a hard on for she hulk its disgusting
lol me too
Spiders is making significant improvements with each game. I hope they'll eventually grow big enough to remake Bound By Flame into what it should have been.
I remembered playing that game and I thought the ending was so abrupt and the game felt incomplete.
Their next game is Creedfall 2, that should be very good.
Im going to pick this up today. Glad to see Spiders get the gameplay mechanics right. I could not get into Greedfall because the controls.
I hope more French developers make amazing games like this
First baguettes now games? Unreal
What’s amazing about it?
Try A Plague Tale: Innocence then the sequel, Requiem.
@@simmo303 very cool games indeed, my friend love them and he is very picky with games.
@@kato2395 Involving and quite upsetting in parts. No third will be made.
I do hope they will make sequels in different time lines and conflicts,i love it.
And btw,a great review from you.
Now I know why I had so much trouble in the beginning. I went to another area first and fought the 2nd boss before the 1st. And in that area all of the enemies where a lot stronger. I finally started on the area with the first boss you mentioned and I’m breezing throigh
This game is truly a hidden gem. Fantastic visuals, excellent sound work, and an amazing musical score. It is a shame it didn't sell better, but I hope more people give it a chance.
I think its a really funny coincidence that this, Thymesia and Lies of P are all coming out months apart. I managed to play through Thymesia but it def didn't click with me the way I hoped it would, so Steelrising was a pleasant surprise! I'm hoping they patch in a way to respec at some point though, my first run is power based and I've been going through with that one fan glaive weapon, but I've been having a blast!
I know it's 1 year later, but we just got this game in PS+, and it's pretty awesome. At start it feels a little clunky, the movement of robots is not like humans, but when you adjust and get weapon you like it gets really good.
People were excited when they saw Life of P but all I could think of that game is Steelrising (since the artstyle and premise looks kinda similar).. This is definitely one of the most anticipated games and glad to see positive reviews of a game from multiple people.. When games like Saints Row 2022 and The Last of Us Part 1 makes me wanna quit gaming all together games like these makes me proud to call myself a gamer..
I enjoy games with ridiculously weird premises & Steelrising is exactly this. So I think you’ll enjoy it
@@EndymionTv Thanks, mate.. BTW, liked your 50 mins overrated masterpiece critique and subbed your channel for Themesia review.. U keep up the good work, bro 👏
Putting those two games together is... definitely unorthodox.
Definitely seems like there have been several "Bloodborn-likes" lately. Thymesia, Steel Rising, and Lies of P next year.
Are there a lot of spiders in the game?
I read that when NG+ is released they will add new weapons as well as main story fixes and special moves. Can’t wait, also your review was excellent. Keep up with the good work.
When ?
@@Oznerol1234 last month
Went into this thinking it was going to be meh, to just Ok. Now that I'm in the final chapter and haven't been able to put it down since starting and this has become one of my favorite games this year.
I wasn't sure about this game but was intrigued. Hearing you speak so enthusiastically about has swayed me to give it a shot. Keep up the good work.
You had me at "Souls, like"!
Respec is mandatory at this point.
Yeah I agree it should be mandatory
@@EndymionTv especially because I'm 520 hours into my first playthrough of Elden Ring, because I'm 38, so replaying games is just not worth it and I've respected a pitiful 5 times. Still haven't nailed it.
I don’t like respecing
I like making a choice and then having to stick with it
It encourages more play though
Thanks for the review, just picked this up today. I only just realised this is made by the same studio that made Greedfall, one of my favorite RPGS of that year ( had one of the best companion systems ever ). It's really cool to see a game studio make such great progression throughout their games.
If only this game had the combat system of like the surge (1or2), it would be perfect.
Everything else is good but the Combat and hit detection really sets it back.
Best to wait for it to drop to 20$ or less. And that relates to all spiders games. Even greedfall wasn't worth anything above 20$.
A shame coz these games have potential but I guess being a small studio you can't clean up your combat system.
Absolutely loved this game. Also, what a way to make experience enjoyable for everyone. Auto assist mode is genius!
I'm glad indie devs like spiders are still going strong because they might make a lot of janky games but you can't deny they have a lot of passion to make something different
I finished Steelrsing 2 days after its release (including all side quests) and although I enjoyed the gameplay and its story the difficulty scaling was beyond bad. I had bosses that I could kill in under 10 seconds and only died to 2 overall because I got too greedy
By the end I hadn't put a single point into HP and had over 100 health pots and all of the collected consumables left. If the games difficulty and scaling of power was handled better I could recommend it but as it stands now its just too easy... No boss should take under 10 seconds and this even includes the final boss that took me around 40
Thanks a lot for this review.
I've been on the fence with SteelRising for a while, but based on some things you said and the fact that respec will be added, I've decided to buy it.
I really liked the UI during your gameplay, reminds me of Elden Ring with a minimalist approach instead of Ubisoft-like tittles with a gazillion icons on screen.
Just watched your soulstice review as I've picked it up and this review just now, you're great man! Subbed 🤙
While I love Spiders and am looking forward to grabbing this game there's just something about this video that reminds me of a 'Raid: Shadow Legends' sponsor promo.
Love me some creative robot designs, I’ll need to play this while I wait for Lies of P
Top 5 favorite games of 2022. Right next to Elden Ring man. I’ve been following Spiders since Mars War Logs and they finally NAILED it!! I’m so excited to see where Spiders goes next! I am in love with this game
Got it on sale rn for $30 and having fun with the game. Just give yourself time to get past the slow beginning and it opens up. T
I wish the performance was 1440 and 60fps on os5, but other than that, I have nothing to complain about. people say it's too slow, but there are allot of weapons that change that really fast. add in the parry and it's a damn solid game
I like Greedfall a lot even with its flaws, I usually not soul-type gamer, but I might give this a try.
this game is actually pretty good for introducing the souls like gameplay to the ones who are inexperienced. Give it a try
So it's got Ki pulse from Nioh and Caryll Rune buffs from Bloodborne. Both lovely soulslike features.
I'm a big fan of Spiders. I've loved everything they've done since Bound by Flame, but man, they need to hire some combat designers and animators. I think Steelrising has more jank than Greedfall. They do so much right here. Rpg progression, level design, atmosphere, story, and visuals are all fantastic...but that combat just isn't good. I still like the game, but studios like Spiders and Piranha Bytes gotta clean up the jank. It's not charming anymore.
I sort of agree, but I got used to the combat patterns
Hopefully they clear it all by greedfall 2,steelrising looks way more fluid but i havent played it
Spiders is such a good developer (greedfall was fantastic and underrated) so ive been down for this since day 1
I really really enjoyed Technomancer & Greedfall, I beat both of those a while back. Steelrising is my fav game from them tho
Greedfall was amazing and the first Spiders game I played. Had a great old school Bioware feel to it I was missing from AAA developers these days.
@@JediHobbit89 right!? The dialogue really nails it in that game
Steelrising and ELEX 2 were both respectively my most anticipated games for 2022! So hyped. 🎉 Awesome review dude.
Thanks for watching! I haven’t play ELEX 2 yet myself either. I will probably pick it up in the fall
@@EndymionTv I loved it. Solid sequel that improves on the first in almost every way.
Steelrising is a good introduction for Nioh imo the cooling system is a good way to get the ropes on ki restoration in nioh.
I don’t want to be a robotic killer maid. Add character creation and I’ll play. I want to be a giant troll of a man with a beard like a Viking raider.
Good to hear this turned out well. It seems Souls-likes are really coming into their own now, growing past simple imitation into something truly unique and special.
First Sifu(sekiro kung fu), then Thymesia(sekiroborne) and now this.
What’s unique?
@@aryabratsahoo7474 sifu is not Sekiro king fu
I don't have a PlayStation 5, nor a computer powerful enough to run at a comfortable and mandatory 60 fps, but I'm definetely interested! I love France, I love Paris, I love the 17th-18th century, steampunk vibes and I love Soulslikes. Oh and women, I love women. And Automatons. So yeah, this game's got a lot of good things going for it. But sadly, I'm in incapable of supporting them at the moment. If they make a port for PS4, highly unlikely, it'd be a different story.
Hey, anybody got a spare PS5 just lying around they can toss me? 😜 Someday that elusive console will be mine, dammit!
Uhhh yea get an Xbox series x
I absolutely love your videos man! Keep up the great work!!
Thank you for this review. I was on the fence, but I bought it after watching your video. ;)
I was lucky, 2 days ago found it at $1.89.
I'm loving it
This really does look pretty good. I get some NieR Automata vibes mixed with the soulslike feeling as well, which is really only a good thing. Looking forward to this!
*Is a robot*
"Wow, getting serious Nier vibes from this one!"
Insert reddit soyjack pointing at an android.
The game is nothing like Nier, at all lol
Nier Automata is amazing, I Platinumed that game, if they wanted to make a Nier Souls spin off I’m all for it
@@OrphanCrippler1 Lmao, exactly bro. These people are so stupid, swear to christ.
Nice review! Game looks cool, but there's something about its movement that feels really off to me. I don't want to say too much hitstun because even the air dash pauses for a really long time. Anyway, good luck with King's Fall!
Character's animations are all nervous aside from the walking speed so it feels like she's dragging her feet and suddenly going full sprint
She moves a little odd animation wise cause she’s an automaton. So her joints are animated to reflect that. Don’t worry the actual game is just as fluid as any other
@@EndymionTv not from the reviews I’ve seen. Most say the combat is still and janky
@@PeopleRTheProblem combat is actually really good. Feels way better than it looks.
I’m not a souls and souls-like fan, but this game looked interesting to me so at some point I will try it out.
Great game, loved it, one of the best games I've played in years. My biggest gripe is the fact that there is no French dub. I am a French speaker, so it would have made perfect sense to play the game in French considering the setting.
I was hype for greedfall when the trailer dropped played it had a blast when I saw this game I was hype because of spiders studio and I don't play many soul games but see how you can adjust the setting to fit your play style I'm game
So sad the Lies of P took the spotlight away from it, looks fun! I’ll get it someday, I need to finish some stuff from my backlog first
Best review I have seen of this game that’s convinced me to get it. TY
My grandpa was a huge fan of an ancient show called Doctor Who, it looks like this entire game is based on the episode with Madame de Pompadour 🤣
Even though I just bought it today this will be one of the first games I've technically pre-ordered in ages. Hope it doesn't disappoint, at least I got that 2 hour refund window if it does.
I think you’ll enjoy it more than you think
@@EndymionTv yeah it looks unique enough for me to enjoy it. Kinda makes me think of it as a Souls Lite more than a Souls Like but in a lot of cases that's a good thing
I think about the french accents the reason probably is they couldn't find either french voice actors or anyone who could do a decent french accent as many french people can't speak English at all or well enough.
i'm french and this seems the more plausible explanation to me as well :)
Could be, but I believe canadian voice actors are usually hired in those cases, so maybe the english accent with peppering of french words is a deliberate choice.
Why in the hell did they use full English voice acting but with random French phrases inserted into the English speech?!
"One of the easier souls like of the year"
of the year....
OF THE YEAR...
JFC
there is no NG+ and after finishing it on 100% in 16 hours i can't really say it's worth 50€.... at least i bought it on greenmangaming for 36€. and if it was on steam/consoles for 35-40€ i think that would be good, but 50€ for A - AA game is too much.
Steelrising came and went without me hearing much about it and well I will give the developers massive props for the steampunk aesthetic.
Looks very cool ,
nice it's not another medieval fantasy setting.
Omelette au Fromage Esti !
It’s a good game
Thymesia was a great game imo and now we have yet another good Soulslike Steelrising. Along with Lies of P, we Soulslike fans eating pretty good. 🔥 Oh and great review btw sir thank you.
Thymesia was a fun time, I think Steelrising is better tho IMO and thank you!
@@EndymionTv that's great to know. Can't wait to play it then.
This looks like Thymesia with a different skin. And that’s a compliment.
Better than Thymesia imo
I tried many games after Black Myth Wukong and Steelrising is the only one get me addicted.
I absolutely love this game! Got it for pc & just got it for ps5 aswel!
Looks incredible and your biggest problem are the British accents lol Would you pefer a 'Mr Bean phoney French accent'. The only people playing this in French wil be the French or French speaking countries. We're playing a game with robots in 18th century France lol I wouldn't give it too much thought...they could have American accents.....the acting has to be good however.
I have never been so glad that I am not a native English speaker who can identify different accents. As long as the acting is not so bad that me with my half ass English can notice, its all just "English" to me.
Makes me enjoy way more low budget games with immersion breaking accent than others. I call it a win. Lol.
Nah just that they should have French accents at least. I mean imagine playing Assassin’s Creed Origins & they have British accents you’d be like wtf
Actually Cleopatra has a British accent in that game now that I think about it lol
@@EndymionTv Well having an accent doesn't have the same sense as speaking another language. When speaking english with a foreign accent can't be justified ingame, better to immerse the player in a kind of consensual speech, there's already enough hints of where the action takes place. Ideally offer a full local voice acting in the rare cases the funds are available, but frankly accented english is just exoticism of poor taste in my evaluation. Must be a cultural thing.
Anyway thank you for your review, very well constructed, informative and enjoyable.
Developer should not be very proud of a game working at launch. That is the the very bare minimum that should be present. AS a fan of the dev I'll be picking this one up. They've had a few duds but have been getting better with each new game (minus Bound By Flame which was just terrible).
I definitely think this review hypes up the game more then it is after playing it on ps plus. I know people clowned ign for saying 6 but that seems fair
In short, this is the most competent "souls like" since I played Nioh and Code Vein. While not perfect, it's supremely satisfying and even impressive in some ways
Is it historically accurate?
I'm really impressed with whats on offer from this game, so imaginative!!! 👍🏿👍🏿
What about the story? Is it good or bad?
I never skip a Spiders game!
Euro games FTW
This game had no promotion, ghost release. I'll get it for a sale for $20-$30 by blackfriday
Marketing costs a lot of $. Not a big studio.
Well I’m the promo I guess lol so enjoy it and support smaller studios!
Yeah because this is the second time Iv'e heard of this game since the reveal trailer
Hmmm.. So are the different " levels " connected via open world? or are all locations separated and force fast traveling with the map? ... Game looks like it turned out pretty cool, I been waiting a long time for it to release.
Each level is its own contained level. And you fast travel between them but they are all pretty big and diverse
So I'm not very good at the souls like games I've tried a couple of them I seen this game and it looks amazing planned on getting it but after your review I went ahead and bought it thanks for the help you make this game so hype for me
I’m happy this review helped you out, enjoy the game! 🤘🏻🔥
Me as a new souls player was complete shit at the start when i first played elden ring (my first souls game) I'm at Ng+3 i never thought I'd get this far, elden ring imo Is a good introduction to the souls world. Elden ring is definitely game of the year material
Well done bro im always looking for more soulsbournes 👍
Thank you!
cant wait till steel and lies of p characters are joined with other souls protags in fan art
I see mixed reviews in Steam and that's due to the game not being optimized in PC. I'd like to see a review/comment from a PC gamer. 🙂
Yes, I would say surprising. I didn't even know this game existed till like a couple days ago and, I was like okay why haven't heard of this game? However, when heard it's souls like gameplay I was like ok have to play it now. After all beat, dark souls 1-3, Ashen, code vein, remnant of the ashes. However, sadly internet down loading is not at best today, so I'm waiting...
Is there side quests or collectable lore?
I played Spiders last game Greedfall and while I had a moderate amount of fun with it, the game drags on to an unreasonable degree with excessive padding. Hopefully they learned their lesson and trimmed this down to be lean and mean.
This doesn’t have any padding main story wise. Side quests do take you back to levels but they open up more with new areas via metroidvania elements so it’s fine
I will never understand why people complain about the length of a video game. You're getting more for your money and it bothers me when games are short. Anything under 30 hours should not be full price. Not that this game is but my point is I like to enjoy a game not burn through it. I don't know I guess it's the reason I still buy physical. I want something for my money and paying $70 for a game like Rift apart where you can platinum in 12 hours is unacceptable in my opinion. I don't care how good it looks or how good the gameplay is. That's way too much money for a short DLC
@@robk5437 If you think I'm complaining about the length of the game then you missed the point. It's not the amount of hours I had a problem with, though it was a factor, it was that much of that time spent was on pointless busy work. Talk to npc, now go to a town halfway across the map to talk to another npc. Once you do that, come back to original npc to complete part 1 of the quest, and on and on and on. Too much of the game is filled with needless tasks like that that do nothing but extend what should've been a nice 16-20 hour rpg package into a 45 hour slogfest it had no right in being. My issue is pacing, and Greedfall has some terrible pacing. Likewise assuming that your getting more "value" out of a game simply because it is longer is a lie. A game that takes 100+ hours to finish but is dull for 90% of it isn't a bargain, it's a scam. I've replayed Dead Space 2 dozens of times, and that only takes roughly 7-10 hours to complete and yet that was a much better experience throughout that Greedfall simply wasn't.
Again, it's not an issue of time, but an issue of pacing.
I had 2 crashes on ps5 but neither were progress losing, the ppl look weird af as well. Overall I must say I really enjoy it so far. I would recommend this for anyone who enjoys "souls-likes".
Really interested in this game, but have a huge backlog. Also they have priced it at 60 Euros not 40 (Dollar and Euro usually the same). Will pick this up in a sale probably or after seein a lot of hype online
That’s fine get through the backlog!!!!
@@EndymionTv cheers! Just finished my Ghost of Tsushima plat and on to Fallen Order next. Thanks for the great video btw
Tbh, adding difficulty sliders ((or a version of (i.e. not losing exp, etc)) is a very real turn off for me. For instance, Sifu. I absolutely loved it. I got distracted by ER, and apparently, they add a difficultly slider. I haven't been back since. Again, just my opinion, but I feel it adds variables into the intended exp that hurt more times than help. Also, have you not played Nioh /2? It's easily the greatest 'souls like' ever made. The combat is, legit, second to none. The stamina regen thing, is called a Ki pulse. Team Ninja did it first
I’m curious why would you stop playing a game cuz they added more difficulties for people who can’t play hard games? I can’t play them too? That’s not fair lol
Other then the frequent skipping and frame drops, this is the best non souls souls likes I've ever played, finally they got the combat right l, closest to Bloodborne, I don't like how bosses have that glowing smoke but only this and mortal shell got it 95% right
Best game I played this year. Loved everything about it, finished it twice. In game plus you'll get cool new enemies and weapons.
Have you played nioh 2 ? I have more hours in it than i have in all souls games combined and even tho i love FS games so much nioh 2's combat is much more fun and deep. I'm super excited for the next team ninja game, wo long fallen dynasty is apperantly their version of sekiro ( but also character creation, coop and 7+ weapon types ) imo one thing that team ninja always did better than FS was the combat
Gotta agree that nioh 2 has technically the best and deepest combat out of any soulslike. However the design leans more into having a million systems instead of keeping the concepts simple and applying them in intricate ways.
Still needs a patch or two , I’ve had so many crashes during my playthrough
Is this game UE4 based? It looks it. If so how is the input lag and overall control feel? I've never been able to enjoy UE based soulslikes because something always feels wonky with the controls. I really wanted to love Mortal Shell but it just didn't feel right.
It’s very responsive & tight to play. I think it’s made with the Silk Engine??
I HATE Souls-like games…..but LOVE this one!!! Not sure why. Just clicked with me.
I’m glad you are enjoying it!
I don't know why the accent bothers you. Jean Luc Picard is the most British French man ever and no one dared give him shit.
Two bloodborne-likes for 2023? Hell yeah!
I just hope this game has rapiers, cus fuckin baroque france and no rapiers would be very sad.
The rapid cooling kinda looks like the nioh ki pulse.
i see in every video about a game review now someone commenting on IGN😂
Honestly it seems they like something if theyre paid to They gave the far cry 6 dlcs 5s and 6s. But i actually thought they were better than that. I like the Vaas one. His saying is doing the same thing again is the definition of insanity, and at the ending you choose to leave the loop or stay to do the same thing. I just thought this was clever. Cool gameplay too
Ign clearly just rush a game to push a review before they actually get to enjoy it
Souls like. Good or bad. I'm in........
You’ll like it!
I played the Trial..
I was pretty disappointed with the experience.
This game felt janky AF.. I feel like this game was rushed out and needed another few months of development.
I don't know if much changed since the games release..
I was far more pleased with the surprise of Remnant From the Ashes.
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I may give this game another look.. but there's a multitude of titles like out now, and a bunch more on the way.
I'll be more annoyed by these companies half-azzing a Souls-like title just to have their IP released around interests in Souls-like games.
this is such a cool game i was so sad it needs an RTX
It's because the British/English accent and language is cool! That is why it is spoken all over planet earth.🤪
That's great! 🧡🙏🏼
NOT GONNA LIE this is borederline improvement from Souls like.. so I can consider it as "SEKIRO-LIKE". TODAY guys we are witnessing Evolution.
BRO it's technically a 9/10 by now since they can just patch those problems up. This should get a lot of playerbase support too. We need more games like this. I can feel how good it is by just watching it lol.
The biggest surprise with this game is the poor performance on PC. I still don't understand where all the resources go into. Playing it with an acceptable look makes it hard to get stable 60 FPS in 2k resolution (i7-8700k, RTX3080ti).
You wonder why at times when looking at what's actually represented on screen during those low FPS. The usual suspects (raytracing/shadows) hit half as hard as you'd suspect, animated foliage does far more and DLSS doesn't offer the quite the boost you're used from other games. I hope they fix this, the game itself has an interesting setting and artwork and is great fun when running smooth.
8.5/10 is very generous for this game, I think IGN giving it a 6/10 is right on the money for the problems the game suffers.
Don’t get me wrong, gameplay is solid and fluid, but far too easy to break the game with a dancer/immobilise build and defeat every boss in under a minute.
And the game is extremely buggy, textures constantly wouldn’t load in at all, or would take a full minute to load into the game world. Got stuck multiple times on objects, clipped through the map, etc.
it never stopped crashing it's broken I traded it but i really liked it shame
I like this game and I also Kinda don't like it. I don't know what it is about the visuals but I feel like it could have looked a lot better with a slightly bigger budget just feels like its missing some polish in the presentation, models look great but maybe some different kind of rendering technique and maybe a little more color because everything looks very grey/brown/sepia. I may check it out at some point tho.
Just be warned it's French as hell. You'd think people would get this but apparently not. From the one playthrough I've played it doesn't explore the robots, how they work, how they came about, or much involving them.
I think there's one quest line that kinda talks about them? But that's it. So if you're not interested in the French revolution but robots you're going to have a hard time with the story.
a soulslike with difficulty settings?! and it doesnt ruin the game?! fanboys are not gonna like this
Lol it’s fine
Steelrising 2 speculation going around.
This game runs like garbage, looks similar to Greedfall in terms of graphics but has the FPS of a powerpoint presentation.
You have a ps5