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Darksiders III: Deluxe Edition (PC)

As I said in my previous post, this game takes its cue from Dark Souls. Although at first I was going in to dismiss it as a clone, they took alot of liberties with the mechanics until ultimately I can no longer say its an outright clone. It's still lacking in the depth that other games have but it's got its own kind of charm going on. I do love being able to be a badass in a dark soulsy environment, and the exploration and environments are very varied and vast. Things you see in the distance always remind you that there's always something coming.

But. I can't explain, perhaps it is the lack of other things to do and potential. For example, there's only 3 stats in the game and 4 kinds of armors (5 with the DLC). There's only 4 kinds of weapons (8 with the DLC), no sidequests, no extra bits, the battle system is simple timing with dodges and punishing. But maybe that's a good thing ya know. I do miss the PS2 era action games where you're not bloated with all these extra 100% completionist BS. Which brings me back to my point about this series. Sell it at 30 usd, not 60. Have this game be represented properly. Otherwise, it'll just look like it pales in comparison to the greats it is forced to compete with like Dark Souls, which it totally isn't upon further inspection.

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