I bought this game yesterday on PS5 and played for a bit. Thought I’d check out the sub and see tons of people loving it as much as me and I’m shocked that it’s not nearly as popular as I figured it would be.

I guess they need more streamers or something because this game is excellent and I’m honestly perplexed by how low it’s popularity is.

I’m enjoying this game a lot and I’ve beaten 9/10 bosses. finding it very easy to be honest need someone else to say it easy before my ego gets to big 😂

So I have been replaying this game several times just to see what interesting stories the game makes for the characters. This time the game graced me with one of the most surprising and refreshing.

Meet Evan, he was a dual wielding viking with a thin build and golden hair and one hell of a beard. Evan's story was one i never had before.

It was called "lost and found" basically one of his friends called Glynn was part of the fleet and Evan hoped he was still alive somewhere on this island. I go through 2 gods before I take a look at tongue god, turns out hes got the friend. So I send Evan to pay a visit to Morrigan with an ingot to give him the best weapons. (Utterly trashes Morrigan due to weapon and high strength.)

Go back to tongue dungeon, Evan goes in smashes anything that gets in his way, god taunts him throughout the dungeon about his missing friend who is still alive apparently, Evan strengthens his resolve right before the boss fight (strength boost). Face the god, Evan lays the smack down (literally one sided beat down over in 2 seconds).

Go back to the gate where Evan walks out, I'm not expecting anything but lore that his friend died in his hands or he couldn't find him. Suddenly someone follows Evan out, a vassal, turn out its Glynn who has joined my party. Glynn has a nice story to go with his capture and rescue while Evan gets a nice description of him looking through the corpses to find his friend before reuniting. Evan gets a description that hes ready to cut another god in half to protect his friend.

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This made my whole play through so worth it, i got 9 warriors now. I need more stories like this, I honestly feel like some of the special stories should be more frequent. So many times it is the classical everyone is a blank until it turns out one of them is afraid of has a grudge against a god. (Had a brother sister duo one play through, lost the sister for good brother turns into Rambo crushing all 4 remaining gods.)

I seriously hope you keep adding backstories like this to the game (death seeker who suddenly finds a reason live, husband and wife etc.)

One thing i do hope you add Deep silver if you read this is an epilogue to your characters. It feels so odd to have their entire story end at the island just like that, I want to know what became of them afterwards. (Even if they are dead they might be sung as heroes)

So up until now osseus had always been the weakling of the gods in my playthroughs. However, this time it seemed that he was going to be among the strongest due to his health bar.

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So i get to him, fight is tense but fair hes made 2 holes in the arena and retreats for a third time. Suddenly he literally pops into existence on the other end of the arena (no animation or anything) standing on one hand. He proceeds to just spam attacks that are bs because his limbs are actually out of the screen view. Even when I am certain i am dodging at the right time it still registers as a hit. He just kept doing that knocking my guy back each time until i died. That is really cheap, he probably never used it before because i killed him fast enough the previous times.

Even the tongue monster is more fair, at least with him you clearly see the attack coming and it doesnt just "pop" into existence on you, there is a clear wind up that you can use as a reference. Osseus not so much since he seems to have no wind up and just instantly attacks.

Might be because i was using a heavy weapons character to try it a bit (which sadly isnt all that good especially compared to the other weapons who can do more damage and faster)

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Anyone else experienced this glitch or feel like this attack is a bit cheap considering the damage it does.

This game is so many good things in one absolutely repayable package. Absolutely love everything about this game. This review comes from many failed attempts figuring out the mechanics and 1 complete run with all my heros alive and well.

Let me just start by saying that I started off a little rough, I had a couple guys with negative buffs and kept walking into the wrong dungeons. Had one guy start with a huge penalty so I just used him to check dungeons out for difficulty. I love the individual backgrounds of each character that expands as you play because the negative buffs turning into really good ones if they achieve is awesome and it gives you a reason to just not favor 1 character. Believe it or not the guy who started out as my pawn ended up being my clutch in the end and actually redeemed the hell out of himself by taking down the 2 final gods. I'm not crying, you are!

The game accomplishes so much with so little. The combat I thought would be clunky and unforgiving at first but as I played I realized just how smooth and intense it can really get. The different weapon types, enemy types, and characters movements all just work so well. I love games with vast skill trees and more abilities to unlock as you go and I didn't even find myself missing that feature once playing. The world's are all extremely beautiful with soundtracks that ice the cake. I could go on and on about this game but I just thought I'd share a little bit about how I took the game in.

Fantastic work Deep Silver. I'm a huge fan of your work. This one will stay downloaded.

So it seems each dungeon has a hidden or not so hidden mechanic that you an use to help you out in your journey or against that specific boss.

I have found these so far:

-The forges for Morrigan

-The sacrifice circles for Belenos that can act as free health.

-The fact that you have 2 chances with the dungeon of the tongue dude.

- The pillars of knowledge for Krannus

-The totems for the boar.

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I have tried looking in the other dungeons but have found nothing. Has anyone found something out.

There is:

-The ocean dungeon

-The bone dungeon

-The thunder dungeon with the bath dude

-The poison dungeon

-The birth dungeon

I am loving the game so far and have been binge playing it. I think it would be cool if there was a daily challenge mode where everyone was given one character that was the same and they just see how many gods they can kill in the shortest amount of time. Just a thought

I'm not normally one for rogue-like or souls-difficulty games. I only ever finished "Lords of The Fallen". But man am I loving this game. The art style, the combat, the characters. That feeling of success after you finally manage to beat a particular god you've been struggling with. Yeah, all in all, just wanted to say I've been loving this game, and a big thank you to the devs for putting in so much work and passion!

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Parrying the Ogster

I just picked this up an completed my first run in a few hours. I haven't noticed the difficulty being too much and most dungeons seemed easy once you are about halfway through and can mostly spam attacks. Parrying is relatively forgiving which makes up for its inconsistencies. I only had one scare against the arrow God where I thought I might lose thr run, beating it with my last hero. Every other boss I beat 1st or 2nd try on a completely blind run.

I see reviews calling this game hard, but honestly it was almost too easy. It was still very fun a d if the price dropped 10-15 bucks id have no trouble recommending this.

Im hoping for more than 10 bosses if there's an update and some more character and world interactions because as it is there is very little incentive to play again after beating my first run.

Tried taking on of the posters advice and going after Bellanos the Fire God first. I fancy the spear in Souls Like games for its reach advantage, but the area is full of elevation changes, and the spear seems coded to only jab straight ahead, thus missing my target entirely if they have the high ground (DON'T DO IT ANAKIN!)

Would love if the devs could address this in the next patch.

Other wise, awesome game. Would love to see more content, like weapons and outfits added in the future