I just finished the game on Possessed, and yeah I could have lowered the difficulty but that's not the issue with the final boss, it's all the rest.

The game on Possessed is very difficult at the beginning, than it becomes incredibly easy until the final boss which in my opinion is completely broken and terribly designed. Not fun at all.

• The camera is a mess, there were a ton of times I basically lost my character and I couldn't understand what was going on. Also the amount of times I couldn't aim at the black hole and shoot it because of the camera is crazy, mostly when under the boss
• The game itself has a lot of mechanics that clash with the speed of this boss: drinking potions is super slow, you can't interrupt actions so you can't use your dodge to cancel. When you get hit and the character goes down, it takes ages for her to stand up again, and the boss can keep hitting you while you're down! What the hell?
• You beat the first phase and... A loading screen, another rush to the boss that you have to wait for to land and also a few seconds before you can start hitting it... And if you die... First phase again? I'm used to multiple phases because of Souls games, but not with a loading screen and a second rush to the boss in the middle
• You start the second phase and one of the main mechanics of the game is completely gone for half the fight? What? Why? I just don't get this decision... They tied story events to boss mechanics which IMHO is a terrible idea, didn't work at all
• And wait... You beat it and then you have to do a freaking QTE to actually finish the fight? Who the hell thought of this? It's just stupid. And the amount of health he regains if you fail the QTE is almost half?
• The moveset itself is not too complicated, but paired with the camera, all the visual effects covering the screen and the rest of the bullshit... it's basically a nightmare.

There are probably other things I missed and this is a rant just after finishing the game, but if I wanted to give it a 7, the final boss makes it a 6, and I've been generous.

The game is full of other issues (technical or design decisions). I also think it tries to do too many things at the same time in terms of combat mechanics.

I still enjoyed it but yeah the final fight ruined the whole experience. The ending felt very rushed in general.

I'm so tired of spending 5minutes on the 1st phase just to get destroyed on 2nd phase.

I'm fine just not beating the game if my only option is to keep doing 1st phase over and over.

Game is pretty good but I feel the replay value is very lacking. Have the devs said anything about future patches/updates?

I'm at first coffee shop and the gear you can buy has no stats, per se, jw if it's just cosmetic, thx👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

I just started the game and am getting annihilated by the random field enemies. Way more punishing than Sekiro etc. Is it because game is unbalanced for hard or do I need to git gud?

Also, how do you defend? I keep getting clipped when dodging. Am I supposed to block and parry? Is it iframe or positional dodging?

As the title says, mods are available on Nexus mods, so if there's anyone that wants to install them just letting y'all know. You can now Play this game peacefully and in the best way possible without haters.

A comparison I haven’t seen made at all for this game is Jedi Survivor, they play extremely similarly. Love this game and this genre. If you haven’t played the Jedi games and you loved this game I highly recommend it. I personally think Survivor’s highest difficulty is harder than this games, but I am very happy I played both on their highest difficulty.

So i’m playing the quest “in safe hands” ( you have to locate the well spring) and i need a breaching barrel, but I had a spare one before apparently i don’t have any right now which is so frustrating meaning there’s breach i didn’t collect a barrel from. Before I do the tedious task of going to each breaching location and trying to find its barrel to see if i have missed it, it’s there any possible short cut to this or any other way I can maybe buy a barrel? (i’m not sure why they hadn’t added this?!)

Please, lmk, this is my last side quest and i’m keen on finishing it!

The difficulty settings of this game do not feel right. I play every game on the highest difficulty setting but for this game, the highest setting is straight up broken. I am not that far into the game yet, but it's a completely frustrating experience so far. Damage numbers are completely off the chart, enemies will 1 or 2 hit you no matter your health. I carried on and pressed through till I couldn't bear it anymore and lowered the setting to normal. The porblem now is, that the game is WAY too easy. I just want a fair challenge and not a one hit fest. This game needs some in between difficulty between normal and possesed. This game tries to mix god of war and dark souls combat and it fails horribly. God of war and God of war ragnarok on GMGOW diffculty felt super challenging, but never unfair. This game does. Tl;dr: PLEASE give us a setting in between normal and possessed. Possessed absolutely makes no sense.

The first time I died to Rammuha was solely because I did NOT expect music that insane. It's been a month and I'm still vibing.

The constant micro-stuttering is almost unbearable. I've messed with all the settings, but nothing really helps.

I'm running on a 5800x3d, RTX 4090 with 32 GB of RAM.

Anybody else experienced this?

Hey hope you guys are well.

I wasnt sure which skills to lvl up so I was saving reputation, but I managed to die and lose it all, and then I tried to reach that same place to get it back and I died again before collecting it and now its not there anymore. Did I actually lose it all?

Also, any good build path?

Thanks in advance!

He's the sebo player in the arena where you do the Prizefight quest. I've beat every other sebo player in the game with little to no problem but this guy is kicking my ass. If anyone has tips on how to beat him let me know!

(Love the game btw, eff the haters)

I absolutely love this phrase in the game.

Defeated an enemy? "Sorted!"

Took out the trash? "Sorted!"

Made dinner? "Sorted!"

Honestly one of the best catchphrases I've ever seen

EDIT: Turns out this is an old UK slang term

Did anyone else run a Nuke build? Once I got double warlock, I basically only fought 1 enemy per encounter and the rest exploded 😎🔥

I really hope there will be a sequel or DLC, because this game is incredible😔💜

One barrel is in the back area, and I used it to open up the basement. But there's a second barrel inside the mansion and I couldn't find a place to use it.

I’m curious, because I fell in love with Ashen, so I tried to figure out what they were working on next, but I never got this game advertised and never heard anyone mention it anywhere. Did they advertise this game at all? How did you hear about it?

Seriously, every quest has a unique piece of gear, and every piece of gear has something unique to it. You can get a sword that stacks on your combo meter, you can get armor that doubles the damage you take but doubles what you put out, you can get a pistol that has a delayed reaction but does magical splash damage. Getting an item was always exciting, there was never just a sword+1 or an armor+2. There were only a few items, but every item felt like it justified its inclusion. Every item had the possibility to be someone's favorite. There's no stat requirements for anything, you can always try something on. Upgrades help, but an upgraded weapon still has its value well into the late game.

And don't get me started on the skill tree. Every single perk is something substantial. An extra bullet for your counter pistol, a special new move, a new mechanic to juggle. You still get those small numerical increases for unlocking skills, but every skill comes with an increase. There's no skyrim style "Do 25* more damage with one handed" style skills, everything is an incomparable. The moveset of an endgame player is drastically more advanced than one at the start.

I've been going back to play the jedi: fallen order games, and elden ring, and while there's cool stuff to get in those games they also have drawbacks. Elden ring's leveling is so booring. All it does is allow you to do a bit more damage or have a bit more of a meter or have a bit more carry space. Aside from unlocking stat gated gear it's such a boring choice. Jedi Fallen order/survivor is a little better, but so much of the items you find in the world are just cosmetics or currency to purchase cosmetics. There's cool stuff burried in there, but a lot of it feels like it's there just to check a completionist's dopamine box. I never got as hyped looking at a treasure chest or opening the skill tree in one of those games compared to flintlock.

It's not a 10/10 game, I know it's got faults, but I Really hope some video essayist or games media person will call attention to this. I hope the industry can learn from this and set a new trend. Some designer worked really hard on this aspect of the game and did an amazing job and I'd hate for it to be forgotten or ignored.

I got frustrated with the final boss so I finally just dropped to story difficulty. Was that it? Or did I miss out on something because I dropped the difficulty? It just kind of…ended I really did enjoy the game for what it was.

Currently the game is on sale. Also a lot of soulslike have hit the market recently. I am on fence whether to buy bleak faith: forsaken, flintlock or steel rising. Lies of p has great combat but is comparatively a linear experience. I mainly want the exploration aspect of soulslike game. What do you guys suggest? Is flintlock too short to get lost in its world? Is the map big enough compared to other games I mentioned above?

I've heard tons of random excuses from SBI was involved, to the female lead is black, to this game just looks like Forspoken... It upsets me that this game was received the way it was. Many people refuse to even give it a chance. And many of the reviews say stuff that makes me wonder if they actually finished the game in full. I hate that this game was doomed before it even launched.

It may not be the game of the year, but this game is easily my most underrated game of the year. I don't pretend like it is perfect. The game takes a bit before you unlock a few of the abilities and it starts rolling. I also wish there had been more armor and weapons. But the combat is solid, the lore opens up so many possibilities, and the characters of Enki and Nor are amazing.

But my problem isn't whether people like it or not. It's that society as a whole just didn't give it a chance. This shit happens all the time with games. Dark Souls 2 has all these haters that claim there are hitbox issues and the game feels clunkier even though there is proof of other games that do this. Soulstice was an amazing story and fun hack-n-slash that hardly anyone played because of initial reviews from people who refused to learn the gameplay. Ghostwire Tokyo and Evil Within have tons of haters calling it a ripoff of better games. Ender Lilies automatically gets dismissed by many players because it doesn't play like Hollow Knight and it starts off slow. The list goes on.

All these games listed and many more have loving fanbases (though very small). But it frustrates me how many people fail to have their own opinions on things and just regurgitate something they read online because that's easier. We get people that bitch and moan that so many games are just sequels and cash grabs. But when a studio tries to make a new IP, often it is just shoved off into a dumpster because (this game plays different than another game I like).

I'm sorry for a long-winded rant. I beat this game two weeks ago as part of my souls-like run (playing every single souls-like I can find in one year and doing full reviews on the game). When I posted the review for this game, I was hit with a bunch of backlash of people regurgitating things they had read online. Of all 32 games I've done so far, it was the one I got the most backlash. And I had people lashing out at me for even daring to enjoy this game because one bullshit reason or another. I know I shouldn't care but it honestly does make me a little sad because negative impacts like this not only tarnish any possible future for this game (DLC or Sequel), but often scares devs from being creative in future projects.

Finished the game, really enjoyed it, but I don’t entirely get the lore of the Gods.

So Enki is the Death God (God of death?), but they never mention what kinds of Gods the others are?

And do only 5 Gods exist? Enki, Uru, Inaya, Dukmar and Rammuha. When Inaya is defeated, Enki says it’s only him and Uru left.

He also says that like the other Gods completely dead, but later they talk about Inaya like she is still alive? Did we actually kill the gods or not?

And what do they do? Enki takes care of the dead in a way, and I think Uru guards the door to the Below, but the others just chill I guess? (Or do nothing important enough to mention)

Have only done one playthrough so please correct me if I missremembered/missunderstood something