First of all, it's no Dark Souls. But it's also no original Lords of the Fallen. Creators learned a lot on that one and rather than making another souls clone, they made their own thing. If you open enough, try it, you my find it to your taste. If you're looking for Dark Souls 4 or Elden Ring 2, this is not the place.

I love the intro to this game so much. I feel like game designers should be required to play it just to study how you can use mechanics to really force emotional and experiential states onto players that they may be unfamiliar with.

Good game play loop, and I think a more enjoyable combat experience than I had with many "souls" style games. Quick dodgy is not the only way to play, as reading the opponents and understanding ranges of the weapons served me very well.

Narrative is exactly what you expect until it isn't. Get the Walk in the Park DLC, adds to the narrative and gives some neat options for gear.

What to say apart from that, I had a great time with the Surge !

It's an ingenious new way of implanting gameplay into a souls like, and I love it, the feel and ambiance are amazing too, and you can't find that elsewhere on any other license honestly. Half high-tech mecha vibe with gory and sometime horrory vibe, I've got to say it's a well though of cocktail.

Nothing much to say about the bosses, although I like the fact that you have multiple ways of obtaining boss weapons by killing them in different manners.

To me, this is what a souls like should look like, and I really enjoyed my time with it.

Can't wait to start The Surge 2 !

Let's see what Creo left us to deal with !