Recent reviews by Hayden

Great DLC. Amazing bosses, interesting NPCs and of course great story. "It's gonna be as big as Limgrave" - Yea... it's bigger, much bigger. Wherever you go you will see something above and below you so there is always this feeling of "I wasn't there yet!". Boss fights are extremely fun but some can grind your teeth to dust (lookin at you last boss).

Overall im satisfied with the content - weapons, spells, design choices of enemies and land. 11/10 from me.

One small note - I dont have high end PC yet I didnt encounter as much problem with FPS or stutter as others...

REVIEW EDITED AS OF 1.0 LAUNCH! READ BELLOW MAIN TEXT.

DISCLAIMER! :I have about 4 years of experience in Path of Exile, thousands of hours in both Diablo 2 and 3 and MY opinion is directed to people that want to spend their free time mostly on LE.

I finished all acts and played a bit of endgame content called Monoliths. Gameplay is faster than Diablo 2 but not as fast as Diablo 3. There is skill passive tree for each skill u unlock on any class but not as complex as in Path of Exile. Crafting is very easy to understand and requires just a little of experience to know what is worth doing and what is not.
Game itself is very casual friendly and probably everyone will understand mechanics in the game with no biggie...

...But why negative opinion then? Im gonna make it into points that are mostly my experience with the game and a bit of observation from the other media.

1. Balance - Balance of the classes is in very bad spot. Some characters like Sorcerer are outshined by Runemasters wich are same class but different mastery and will most likely not be balanced even for 1.0 version of game. Characters like Sentinel use up too much mana and are very high on buff managment (u need to constantly click 2-3 abilities to keep the dmg up, while other characters can even just stand and do nothing and deal even more damage with lower costs).

2. Gear - Gear progression seem a bit simple and not really rewarding since many of uniques can be just target farmed and exalted gear (wich is high affix tier rares) are big lottery most of time and you just need to farm ♥♥♥♥ ton of echoes just to see that sweet exalted gear icon reward. Crafting while being simple is very random with its "forging potential" cost, wich can drop down from 1-20 sometimes with one craft (while items have moslty about 30 of it) But thats not the worst aspect of a game, its just another small issue.

3. Endgame - Oh boy this is probably biggest problem of LE. Echoes while being interesting idea are getting boring pretty fast. The main idea is to run as much of them and reset them via corruption. Said corruption will increase difficulty of played echoes and it can be done up to 100 corruption or infinitely on Empowered Monoliths (100 lvl+ monoliths).
Problem with those monoliths is that killing monsters inside of em is not rly worth it. You can just run asap to objective, do it and claim your reward. Why would you kill monsters for random exalted drops if you can just find node for them and do objective that drops 10 of said items for you? Doing echo is 1-2 minutes max so instead of wasting time you can just do 10 echoes and be more profitable.

4. Bugs, bugs and connection issues - I just recently bought the game so I thought it's because of increasing popularity.. but no. Turns out game is in bad state for about year at least and they didnt do much to fix it. RAM leaks, constant bugs, connection problems even with max 30 ms. Not gonna even care about fixing some small missing texture problems (White cages, freking white cages). My friend had rly good time playing with me, but ONE buggy death was enough to ruin experience for both of us, since he could not respawn, TP to me teleports him outside map, Telegraphed attacks go either invisible or just hit u from diff angle or totally diff skill...


I really do hope game will be fixed on 1.0 but chances for that are minimal since studio is so small. Devs need to start fixing small issues instead of adding more and more into the game that's not even half finished. Remember that this is just my opinion and I could be wrong about MANY Things, but I tried to be as honest as possible.

EDIT : Bugs gone, server issues finally gone, data consumption is still ♥♥♥♥, boring items, boring endgame, boring skill progression. If you look for a game that doesnt change between levels 25-100 this game is for you. If next cycles didnt bring anything good to endgame this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. (Also they apparently didnt change endgame slightly since 0.8 version...)

Okay so I finished most of the game (didnt pick up all spells and weapons as of full release of game) but here's my judgement for this game..
Positives :
1. Game feels how King's Field successor in same art style should feel like. It's great, fluid, fun and you have a lot to explore.

2. Weapons are somewhat interesting and can be leveled to unlock their true potential or sometimes change them between state of light/dark. That make your arsenal very deadly but also versatile.

3. Spells are somewhat op.. So far playing magic is relatively easiest way to win whole game.

Negatives :

1. Lore - ... Holy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god how much I hate how story make no sense after finishing 80% of the game. It feels like Kira did make pretty good job on 3/4 of project and then write something on his knees while in the public transport or toilet. Im not gonna go deep into it here, I dont want to spoil but it just felt like wasted potential in so many ways.

2. Game is pretty short, after 16 hours of initial playthrough I finished all locations, did all side quests I could and met all of the NPC's. I know this game is pretty cheap but cmon.. there is still so much potential just like with lore/storytelling. It could be made into literal Dark Souls sized RPG.

3. Bugs (as of 1.0 version) - Reason I lost will to play Luancid. Saves that corrupt themself somehow, time traveling npcs (sometimes they are where they should be, sometimes they gone or in old location, it is rng from loading the same save), items for secret ending of game does not spawn and im not sure it will spawn again on new save according to other players feedback. Sometimes game have some collision problems with Coffin spell but thats not important but worth noting.

Overall rating - 6.5/10. It is still small project and I still wish it be updated further with more content (but probably not..)

After 100+ hours, finished main quest, finished many side quests and locations (at this moment few are unfinished) I must say this is best soulslike that From Software gave us so far. Amazing story, amazing characters, fantastic weapons and armors (especially boss weapons, god I love those). Rune system seems nice, crafting is useful, spirits are great and of course bosses.. god, those are like combination of all FS games. If u ask about optimization - It had problems at stars but after day 1 patch (wich was like 90mb?..) It works perfectly fine and im playin on Max settings with my GTX 1660 TI (just care about RAM tho). I highly recommend it to souls veterans AND newcomers since this entry give u a lot of flexibility with your build and the way u gonna play the game - You can either go straight to endgame bosses or progress slowly and get everything u can before even facing first story boss.

pros :
- Nice Gameplay
- Very nice weapons
- More souls in soulslike
- Amazing storytelling
- Dog

cons :
- We don't have more Elden Ring in form of DLCs :^)

Fajna gra.

If u don't like shootin zombies like a normal person, then You are just stuuuupid :I

Gra jest toporna, nudna i nie ciekawa, mapa jest generowana praktycznie tak samo, nie ma ładu nie ma składu. Gmodowa wersja nadal przebija pod każdym względem, a co najważniejsze pod względem broni :/

Po kilku godzinach się nudzi....