![]() ![]() The characters are bland, the story is dull, the setting is derivative, and the finished product is too buggy and bloated to truly enjoy. Every aspect of the game feels like a barrier to the one thing I enjoyed: combat. ![]() ![]() I want to like Steelrising, I really do, but it just won’t let me. The fights do look cool, I’ll give them that, but they’re all style and no substance. Hardly the mechanical titans the plot holds them up to be. I didn’t have to switch up my weapons or playstyle and could just wail on them till they fell. The boss designs are cool, but they can all be beaten the same way. No boss took me more than two attempts, but I never had to grind, so I can’t have been overleveled, and I’m not exactly a pro gamer, so I don’t know why everything was so easy. It was a beautiful sharing of hits, blocks, counters, and staggers. The first mini-boss helped me to truly get the combat. It’s a subplot that’s handled in a bizarre, tactless way and feels truly tokenising.įinally, the boss fights. Except for the singular Black character who is on a mission to liberate the slaves in France and her colonies. ![]() They’re all middle-aged white men in wigs who I could barely tell apart. The characters I met during the course of the game didn’t help breathe any life into it either. Most people would think taking the people out of Paris would improve the city, but it just makes it dull. Even with the clockwork clutter strewn across the streets, it’s still just Paris, only soulless. There’s no intrigue to Paris like there is to Yharnam. This is a stripped-down, semi-open world variation on the formula and it still doesn’t stick the landing. I know it’s not fair to compare Ubisoft’s triple-A offering with Spiders’ double-A ability, but that’s the competition, and life isn’t always fair. The 18th-century Parisian setting has been done before, and done better by Assassin’s Creed Unity. Old-school-mechanical-Bloodborne-like isn’t even a one-off any more, with Lies of P around the corner. That’s the only unique thing about this game. ![]()
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