The first one was so good. The sequel has dark souls 2 graphics but it doesnt improve on anything unlike dark souls 2. Every two minutes my party calls me gay. I cannot restart the game without spending real money. Theres no fast travel unless you spend real money on it. It crashes every five minutes. This game is horrible, legitimate contender for worst game of the year. Which is sad because a lot of work was put into it. Oh well, I guess gamers need to suffer and hexbear needs to gaslight me into buying this piece of shit.

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    8 months ago

    You can restart the game by manually deleting your save file, and you’ll get placeable portcrystals later even if you don’t buy the cash shop one. The only things you can’t get without the cash shop are the slightly-lighter camping set, the sound pack that replaces some sounds and music with DD1 sounds, and the heartfelt pendant, which is supposedly for gifting to NPCs but I haven’t figured out why I would want to do that.

    And honestly, “DD1 again” is still a pretty good game. Also I think the balance changes in the early game (most notably goblins and wolves not being super sweaty encounters for level 1 characters) makes early exploration a lot more chill.

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    8 months ago

    The game isn’t horrible (especially once you ignore the ridiculous and false claims people have made in regards to the games microtransactions like in the OP) but it’s incredibly mediocre. It’s a sequel to a decade old game that neither manages to improve on the originals strengths nor its flaws and ends up feeling incredible uninspiring and unexciting as a result.

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      8 months ago

      Even a 5/10 is extremely bad in video games standards cause aren’t nobody got time for that.

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    8 months ago

    Obvious bait, but I won’t be getting it until they do fix the issues and (hopefully) remove denuvo. I wish it had been released in a complete state, but this is the reality of AAA studio releases for the last 15 years.