Frossenkar
2016
gives me a fucking headache man...controlling your character properly can get hard in this game's endless gimmicky areas with lots of tight spaces where it seemed like even the developers knew they were bad, not to mention the camera feels like it's fighting the environments and having to backtrack through everything in the first half of the game whenever you wanna get something done in another area is such a chore, and even when you do get the lordvessel it's awfully selective in which bonfires you're allowed to teleport to, all of this combined with a very lackluster boss roster with only a few highlights where almost every single one of them has a bad runback and it was getting really hard to enjoy even the good parts of this butt-ugly game
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2018
the improvements over 7's gameplay and music are commendable and the game handles Kiryu and his legacy very well but the overall plot leaves something to be desired because more often than not stuff doesn't land as well as it should since the game just wants to do too many things with not enough time to spend on most of them, however even if it isn't as tight of an experience that gaiden was it is still more than a worthwhile entry in the end