Eldest Souls Reviews

i enjoy it so far

Get good or die trying.

For all the people that left a negative review on this game I have but one thing to say: "Git Gud" In all seriousness, the game is good, fun, challanging, engaging, but not perfect. It has a few bugs here and there that can ruin the fight (i.e. get stuck behind the boss and cannot move, either bug or a not so well thought boss hitbox) but i encounterd i think 3-4 bugs in my 100% run. The most consistent bug is with the skill tree meniu: I equip a shard, i try to put another shard in another slot, the meniu opens the little window with all the shards to choose from but bugs and I can't choose any shard. The solution is to close and open the meniu again. Not a serious bug, but it is there. What I think it is worse than the occasional bugs are the consistent TELEFRAG ATTACKS that some bosses have. For those who don't know, telefrags mean the enemy is spawning (in this game, the attacks) randomly (not necessarily), and that random location is where YOU, THE PLAYER, STANDS. It is an undodgeable attack that actually can be dodge by PURE CHANCE. You either predict the attack or get lucky. I also but attacks that don't spawn right into the player, but are so fast with no reaction window, in the telefrag category. No reaction, no "get gud" situation. BUT THEN AGAIN, this happens fairly rarely in this game, I think only 2 bosses have such attacks. [spoiler]The deer has a sweeping attack that you have to predict, and the void guy disappears and than multiple clone of him appear at random on the field, damaging surrounding area (and you)[/spoiler] These telefrags make this game harder if you want to 100% it, since there is the no hit achievements for each boss. And yet, I did it, 100% in 24 (not continuous) hours. Ignor the negative reviews, those are people that don't understand that this game is suppose to be hard. Last thing, I think the real price should be like 10$-12$. For how much the game costs with no discount, I prefer Hollow Knight. Wait of a sale and buy it.

this game is not worth the effing time. no reason to make the first boss take this long to beat.

Nice game under pretty much all aspects, visually it manages to be quite charming and beautiful without the need of overly complex graphics, the OST is really good and that is [b] very VERY [/b] important in a game where you are gonna need multiple attempts to beat the bosses. Speaking of bosses, some of them can be kinda bs/annoying [spoiler] that fat putrescent rotting corpse at the third floor, The Rotten Crown or whatever is beyond annoying with the stuns, the AoEs that push you away and the minions but most of all the small ahh arena, the one before him, The Rejected Daughter, is just kinda unclear with how you can cure the poison (either that or the pools of water bug out sometimes) but dodging with good timing or using a parry solves the problem [/spoiler]. In a playthrough you will probably get 1/2 weapon skins which is nice if you find your playstyle early on but kind of a bummer if you don't since you might not get the one you like in time and therefore not get to "full build", other than that the buildpaths are innumerable with even more variety depending on the shards you put in your slots, seriously this system rocks and my only complaint is not being able to use it more in the first playthrough cause it was so much fun finding what worked and what didn't depending on my abilities and the boss in question. 20€ seems slightly steep but if it goes on sale anything less is good and if it gets at prices of €15 or less the game is worth a shot at the very least since even ignoring the artistic and thus subjective side the game does have a decent playtime, some replayability with NGs adding stuff to fights and to your character (both in a positive and negative way with more/better infusions and debuffs based on NGcycles) and nice bosses plus some lore, could have been expanded a bit but it was still nice.

just an overall good inde souls-like. fun boss fights, good rpg mechanics and has replayability

good game, just finished it on easy mode with 230 deaths and around 7 hours. Was ragging a lot, but game's good and doable, just get good shitters. Now gonna suffer in new game+ Also good story, art style, great vibe in generall.

The game isn’t what I expected at all, it is NOT a souls-like in a sense that you go around gathering souls from mobs, leveling up and then killing bosses, no, it’s PURELY a boss gauntlet. I hated it at first because the bosses were really tough and had some unfair mechanics, plus the dodge and direction aiming weren’t that responsive but once I got gud the game actually became fun. There’s a bit of customization for your build where each boss gives you a shard that you can equip in one of 6 different slots and each slot has a different effect. It’s worth playing through once and testing your patience and NG+ cycles if you’re a masochist, I won’t be playing it a second time. Also, the asking price is a bit high get it on sale. Overall score 6/10

i cant believe people are giving this a bad review because its "too hard" and blaming it on being clunky. get good noobs you aint built like that, i am enjoying ng+

I've so far only played for 0.3 hours...but I've also beat the first enemy/boss (was surprised from other reviews that this is really a boss gauntlet-type game?) Some would say, "You haven't played long enough to review accurately!" Others would say, "How'd you beat the boss in that amount of time?" Honestly, I'm as surprised as you are, but I think I might, just maybe, slightly have an idea as to how I beat it...I went with the recommendations the game gives you during combat. Just trust the fact that preconceived notions about games in general, especially a game like this, will kill you faster than any "skill issue." You could be the best player ever, but if you don't accept the fact that this game might play a bit differently than you're used to, it's going to kick you to the curb, because you didn't play by its rules. I think the age of, "Git gud," is over. The more apt phrase is, "Adapt and learn." If you're up for the challenge of this overarching type of game in the first place, at all, then I'm sure you can survive and thrive here, and enjoy it, if you try it *for what it is*.