I play games a ton. Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War 4 and Zelda Breath of the Wild being the recent ones. This isn't an open world like HZD and Zelda BotW, and doesn't have the incredible, realistic graphics of GoW4. What it does have is the gameplay value we enjoyed with Super Metroid and the classic Zelda games where you find places that you know you can traverse or probably need some power or item to solve but don't have it but you take a mental note of that spot and come back. That was great adventuring when I played those games and Darksiders 3 does that very well with the gameplay.
The combat is great as well. It relies heavily on combos and dodging but it does it well like what you might have experienced in Darksiders 2. It is very rewarding about mid-game when you are timing the evades perfectly most of the time and are able to take on multiple, hard enemies at the same time. The boss fights are kind of straightforward but take practice especially at higher difficulties. You get a different weapon that can be used as part of the different Hollow powers you get and they have different ranges and stuff that change how you fight. I will admit it would have been nice to have them be more unique and cause you to play differently and add more variety like in DS2 but sadly they didn't and this is pretty much my only real pause with this game.
The story is great. They come straight in to the story, for those that are Darksiders fans, where the horseman War is accused of causing the Apocalypse. Fury, his fellow horsemen is tasked to find and capture the 7 deadly sins and she is given a Watcher to attend to make sure she completes her task. Fury finds out more about what happened with War and Fury starts to see the role that they play in the whole scheme of the story. There are many elusions and there are unanswered questions in the end and I think that is great because it causes you to want more from the series.
The voice acting is amazing. The voice actress they got for Fury really gives her all and all the deadly sins gave great performances. They cast this great and scripted this really well.
The graphics are fine. They aren't God of War 4's graphics and maybe a little less than Herizon Zero Dawn. That is fine. The Darksiders games have always been a little more cartoony anyway and not meant to be mega realistic. Also they seems to be focussing on exploration, just not mass exploration like you would get from Breath of the Wild. They also obviously didn't have the budget for something so massive.
Exploration: Great! There are great puzzles there are hidden paths, there are hidden enemies, etc. You really have to use all the tools they give you to find everything. This isn't as straightforward as a game as other reviews say. Sure they give great segways to the next area they want you to go but there isn't a marker on your map or anything forcing you there. You can port to any area and explore. Actually, I killed the deadly sins in the wrong order from what some would say. I thought that was awesome since I wasn't fully led and handheld in that respect.
Puzzles. None of the puzzles were terribly hard but neither are any of the other games that we play now. There were some where I had to take time with trial and error but it was still fulfilling when I figured stuff out although it is pretty apparent when you scanned the area what you should do. It was fulfilling because they allow you to manipulate the world in unique ways that make sense without needing to throw a fairy at the thing you need to manipulate to lead you to do the thing you need to proceed. I loved seeing a color on a certain thing and thinking, "if I use this tool, I can probably shift that thing around so I can jump and swing here", and then it worked. It was just enough for a player to actually use their brain. Again focus on that they didn't have to put map markers or indicators on the world to help you along the way.
Menu and UI. Needs to be a lot better. It was hard to toggle items in the middle of a fight and the menu wasn't terrible but didn't have a smooth flow. But I wasn't using items for the majority of the game or needing to use my menu for much more than giving points to certain attributes and such.
Overall it was a great experience. I did almost all the trophies except beating the game on Apocalyptic. There are few collectables so it doesn't feel like a collectathon. I completed on hard difficulty and used a fair amount of consumables on boss fights. But I was heavy on some consumables in the end. I am sure on Apocalyptic that I would have to buy those same consumables rather than have 10-12 in my inventory.
Please get this game. It is worth it and was a lot of fun and I would really like it to do well enough to do a Darksiders 4 and improve on the current one and maybe pull in some cool stuff from the other Darksider games.
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Play as Fury - a mage who must rely on her whip and magic to restore the balance between good and evil on Earth!
Harness Fury’s magic to unleash her various forms – each granting her access to new weapons, moves and traversal abilities.
Explore an open-ended, living, free-form game world in which Fury moves back and forth between environments to uncover secrets while advancing the story.
Defeat the Seven Deadly Sins and their servants who range from mystical creatures to degenerated beings.
Darksiders 3 has it problems, but I still love the franchised!
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2018
I love the Darksiders franchised ! The 3rd game is different from last two and I struggle in the begging and died many times, but as I went on I got better and better at the counter combat system fighting through different zones and fighting the bosses. Yes, the camera angles can be bad at times especially when your surrounded by enemies, but I was able to worked with it. It's sad you don't get horse, but I learned to love the 4 hollow powers switching up in combat to create killer counter attack combos. Overall I still enjoyed the story and the game despite its issues. I'm hoping the series will continue and make the 4th game this would most epic part franchise having all 4 horsemen all together!
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2018
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