Darksiders Warmastered Edition

Игрушка πZдатая. За сюжетом следить интересно. Все персонажи запоминающиеся. Но пара ложек дёгтя в бочке с мёдом всё же есть. Первое - управление не отзывчивое. Война то и дело порой отказывался прыгнуть перед обрывом и падал в пропасть, как мешок с говном. Ещё нужно быть пианистом при использование гаджетов. Второе - это уже камень в огород локализаторов. Звук в игре работает криво. Играя в наушниках, звук оказался очень громким, каменных гигантов не слышно совсем. Перед финальным боссом у наблюдателя была реплика на английском. По факту это всё мелочи, и играется довольно бодро. Лично мне первый Darksiders напоминает греческую трилогию God of War. И лично мне это нравится.

Someone played Twilight Princess, read the Bible and associated fanfiction like Dante's Inferno, took a big swig of Edge Juice, and then made this game. A bit too much running around in giant rooms before you unlock the horse, but they don't make you go in the REALLY big rooms until after the horse, so clearly this was a tuning issue rather than a structure issue. Zelda-esque puzzles with really fun combat. Best to play around Halloween (or the next time some charlatan predicts the end of the world). Remastered version is strictly an upgrade, considering it's THIS art style, like, holy crap.

Good and fun game. Excellent remaster. Received huge technical updates in 2026 to increase performance, fix some issues (FPS-dependent camera for example) and adding SSAO, which is all amazing. Developer KAIKO is showing again that they know their audience. Hope that the new 2026 version can have its shader-compilation stutter issue fixed. While I know that that is a really complicated issue to solve, it would really make this new updated version the ultimate way of playing the game.

Darksiders plays like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Devil May Cry had a baby, on a budget. It's mostly linear, has a story, there's a bunch of platforming and puzzles, and there's a lot of combat where you hack and slash through things with combos. None of it's as slick as the aforementioned games, but it gets close enough to be fun. Despite being the oldest game in the franchise, Darksiders Warmastered Edition is the least problematic of the lot. It plays great on ultrawide displays, there's a RenoDX mod for great HDR, and I didn't run into any crashes or notable bugs. It's also the only Darksiders game without major perspective issues, as it has a FOV slider unlike 2 and 3 and doesn't have whatever wonky perspective Genesis pretends to be using. The main issue during gameplay are the controls. They're fine for the most part, but certain segments are very rough. Anything to do with aiming is a nightmare with a controller, but trivial with mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately the engine doesn't support both inputs at once, so switching for one of those wonky aim segments requires restarting the game. I toughed the forced aiming segments out using the controller, but it was frustrating. Aside from that the only other problems Darksiders has are weak writing and presentation of the story, as well as a terrible audio implementation particularly for cutscenes. The storytelling is improved retroactively by Darksiders 2 and both the gameplay and style the game has are enough to carry it through. As for the audio: prepare to hear dialogue and only dialogue. Music and sound effects are tuned so low during cutscenes they might as well be inaudible. A shame, because the music is actually pretty good. This audio issue is also present in Darksiders 2 and seems to be an engine problem. It's possible that playing with full surround speakers might resolve this, but any stereo or headphone user will have the same issues during cutscenes. Gameplay audio is generally fine. If you're looking for a solid action-platformer, this is pretty much that. And while the "sequels" are much more problematic in various ways, they both have their charms as well.

I was jonesing for a 360/PS3 era game and a replay of Darksiders scratched that itch. No skill trees, no endless loot drops to manage, no bloat... Just a lean action game you can finish in 15 ish hours. The dungeons hold up pretty well too. It's kinda hard to put down once you're in the thick of it. The combat is kinda basic and there's a shooter section that drags a bit, but hey it wouldn't be the 360 era without one of those. Now I kinda want to revisit II and play III and Genesis for the first time as well.

This is my cozy game. In my opinion, one of the best action games ever made.

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