Like most open world games it has its fair share of issues pertaining to the open world: there isn't much point revisiting most dungeons/caves post first playthrough, the musics overworld and dungeon themes are incredibly lacking, late game spells weren't practical and, though I have mixed thoughts on this, I would've liked to have seen lower leveled areas scale a bit to your own level even if the execution was messy, Oh, and New Game+ is just Boss Rush mode which is a huge sore point to me
Beyond that though this is easily my favourite world and artistic endeavour Miyazaki has made alongside Sekiro. It's also made Dark Souls 3 100% redundant to me despite it being my comfort food Soulsborne beforehand. Just completely dead to me. Like yeah, I gotta ride torrent from point to point and that can be a drag compared to linearly progressing through linear levels, but build variety and availability has never been better and interesting. Also helps that its not trying to relive a past glory when ultimately Miyazaki's output is at its best when he makes Soulsbornes how Nintendo makes Zelda's: similar in feel, but completely separate from each other.
Also just love how Miyazaki fiddled around GRR Martin's brain and was like "okay im turning your story and ideas into a fucked up dark souls ruined world now" and frankly I hope he keeps luring famous authors and continues the slaughter
Beyond that though this is easily my favourite world and artistic endeavour Miyazaki has made alongside Sekiro. It's also made Dark Souls 3 100% redundant to me despite it being my comfort food Soulsborne beforehand. Just completely dead to me. Like yeah, I gotta ride torrent from point to point and that can be a drag compared to linearly progressing through linear levels, but build variety and availability has never been better and interesting. Also helps that its not trying to relive a past glory when ultimately Miyazaki's output is at its best when he makes Soulsbornes how Nintendo makes Zelda's: similar in feel, but completely separate from each other.
Also just love how Miyazaki fiddled around GRR Martin's brain and was like "okay im turning your story and ideas into a fucked up dark souls ruined world now" and frankly I hope he keeps luring famous authors and continues the slaughter
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@witchyking66 true, DS3 stays winning
Slave Knight and the DLCs are pree good so thats fair, its just that apart from navigating the levels and doing builds I just never got attached to DS3, and now that ER exists its specific appeal got beaten among other things
WitchyKing66
2 years ago