Anyone who has both Game Pass and PS+, don't even think about playing it on PS5 if you can play it on Series X or PC instead. 60 fps makes a huge difference, and Microsoft weren't cheap assholes like Sony was by giving away only the last gen version. PS5 didn't do too well at locking down 60fps in Digital Foundry's testing even if Sony hadn't been cheap. Series S shoots for 1080p60 but actual fps varies all the way from 30 to 60 at times so I wouldn't recommend playing on that either.
I think on PS5 it's 60 FPS now or close to it. They patched the game quite a bit.
Anyway I got this for $10 so I've been giving it a try this weekend. Can anyone help me make sense of this damn game? I've platinumed Demon Souls, Dark Souls 1 and 2, all three of their remakes, Elden Ring twice, and Bloodborne. Didn't plat, but I beat Code Vein and Wo Long without much trouble. Even beat Returnal.
This game though pretty much whoops my ass, I spent 4 hours on it (enough to get halfway through the game or more from the looks of things) and I'm not even sure if I made any progress. It's one of those games where the first area is probably way harder than the rest of the game from everything I've read, but yeah that first area is ridiculous.
Am I supposed to be in the Reverie? It seems to reset and randomize every time I die, so I can't learn the area because it's always different. That's the only place where I can play as anything besides the default Shell with the default weapon though. I did some grinding as the default Shell (in the "real world") for souls and got some stuff with those souls. Surprised there doesn't seem to be any leveling up. Haven't been able to really do any grinding in the Reverie as Eredrim because I can't go back and spend them once I'm out in the battlefield.
Using the hammer and chisel and Eredrim, which this thread said is the most OP shell.
Is there any particular way to gimp this? Cause at this point I just want to progress. Having 2-4 adds jump on me sometimes when I get into a fight is so obnoxious. Whenever I get a one-on-one fight I do fine and I understand the stone mechanic (very cool idea) but then every couple fights I get adds from some unseen alcove and get ganked. Maybe I should just start new Returnal Cycles until I start with a really good initial skill, since that's random too?
Does this have like, heals? Only thing I've found is an item that makes your next stone block heal you a bit, which is kind of anemic. I have Heal Riposte, but the parry in this game seems to have a miniscule window that doesn't make much sense (had zero issues parrying in Wo Long or Souls) and I usually just get hit anyway so I'm more inclined to roll instead. Even when I do get a parry off, my character takes longer to animation-recover than the enemy does! I get a hit or two and then roll away, no critical hit which is needed to activate the heal because it takes so long to actually riposte.
First 30 seconds of this say Eredrim can stack up a damage bonus as he defeats more enemies without dying, and the bonus just keeps going and going. I don't seem to be accumulating any buff though. Maybe it has to be unlocked? That's probably the key, even if it's very nerfed now (stacks to 100 instead of going beyond that, which is still good)
Regardless, after four hours of making seemingly no progress I was ready to toss this in the trash and spend this time on something else, but I figured I'd ask on here before I do that and see if I can get some insight on this game. Looks like it's actually pretty easy once broken, I just don't know how to start it really.
EDIT: No wonder I'm so confused, I've been playing the DLC. They basically put access to the DLC right there in the central hub with nothing indicating that it's DLC. So all this time I've been playing this roguelike game as Eredrim, I was playing the DLC. The regular game isn't a roguelike and seems to be more about just making your way to the 3 dungeons and getting through those. Not sure whose idea it was to put the DLC in the main game and have it right at the start so a lot of new people will think THAT is the game. Time to leave the Reverie and start trying to book it to the dungeons and get Eredrim and the hammer/chisel for real.
EDIT 2: Found a video that does a good job explaining how to gimp the game (i.e. make it manageable/fun) and followed that:
Doesn't take too long to run around grabbing this stuff and the game is much better after that, feels like normal Souls difficulty now rather than an un-fun mess. The dual-wield weapon makes the game a lot more playable on a first run.