Steelrising

So apart from getting stuck on scenery left, right and centre... Let me introduce you to the 'Echoes' idea. Echoes are memories you need to find to unlock new areas or proceed with the game. But they're in places you've already completed - the game gives you stuff, like a grappling hook - so you can access them. But which area is it in? Where in that area? Who knows? So you've got to watch Youtube vids to find out where... Oh. And there's 28 of them. Absolutely forget it. If I'd known this about the game before hand? I wouldn't have bought it. They want you to run through levels you've already completed looking for a white dot hidden somewhere. What an absolute joke.

▶ Al parecer, el corazón de los autómatas hace Tucun tucun tucun y su pistola pacan pacan pacan. ★Historia: En plena Revolución francesa y auge mecánico, suceden cosas con el rey y la reina; un autómata especial surge en medio de esto para resolver las cosas. ★Gameplay: Es un tipo soulslike, pero bastante distinto; tiene mecánicas interesantes y es bastante rápido, el clásico subir de nivel más unos aspectos especiales como módulos y objetos. ★Audio: Normal ★Dificultad: Fácil, es el soulslike más sencillo que he jugado (ESTO NO ES MALO, EN ESTE PERFIL NO ANDAMOS CON MAMADAS DE SUPERIORIDAD POR DIFICULTAD). ★Rendimiento: Tiene problemas. A veces crashea; me habrá pasado unas 3 veces. En ultra no corre muy bien; se bugean las estelas de objetos para agarrar y las texturas se demoran en cargar. ★Tiempo de juego: 16-22 horas; el margen depende de las secundarias. ★Precio: Baratísimo. ★Online: No ★Gráficos: Buenos. Con una estética magnífica y un diseño de autómatas increíble. Las armas creativas y brutales. Los trajes elegantes no pierden afinidad. ★Platino: Extremo, pasártelo sin curar. ★Rejugabilidad: NG+ ★Stream: Si eres main soulslike, sí. ★ Contenido: Campaña principal y DLC de campaña. Antes que nada, hay que aclarar algo... ESTE JUEGO SALIÓ 1 AÑO ANTES QUE 'LIES OF P'. Cualquier parecido vendría siendo en el contexto "Lies of P se parece a Steelrising" y no al revés. El juego me parece increíble, rápido y divertido; es un soulslike que no te estresa, solo quiere hacerte pasar el rato. Se demora un poco en coger contexto, tanto de gameplay como de historia; su fuerte más grande son los diseños y la historia. Hay algo malo con este juego, además del rendimiento, y es que los personajes carecen de carisma, aunque los diálogos sean interesantes. Esto por 2 razones: las gesticulaciones de la cara y que todos se parecen. Entiendo que es plena revolución y el auge de esa peluca pedorra, pero fue difícil entender a quién estoy ayudando y qué estoy haciendo por él. Es un muy buen juego, bastante INFRAVALORADO, denle una oportunidad.

This one deserves more attention than it has gotten. First off it is alternative history which is unique, at least to me; I think the only other games I have that fit this descriptor are the last two Wolfenstein games which were great in their own right. I know other sci fi creates alternate worlds, but this one has actual historical figures in it like Lafayette so it is unique in that regard. This setting and story and nicely put forward, and the gameplay/mechanics could be described as being on the way easier side of the soulslike spectrum. Also you should note this not a highly finished and polished product. I always have to mention when, in a videogame, you can get stuck between objects or between the wall and a chest or something like that, and that for sure happened to me in this one! So consider it a rough, indie soulslike that didn't have a good final edit before release. Like I said earlier, it is quite easy and I suspect even non-souls players will have a cakewalk going through this. At start you can only do normal or some easy setting where you can adjust your statline significantly. Don't know how NG+ works, as I'm not sure if I'm going to do that eventually. I'd recommend not doing the easy mode/stat changing as you very easily become over-levelled and powerful by the end of the game on normal. As for DLC I did it towards the end of the game and my comment for it is that it is fun but short, basically just one extra location and you get a few extra crafting things and weapons but none of them crucial. I got the entire game (base+DLC) for a little over 5 and I'd say it was worth that since DLC is prob less than a dollar of the price. Looking at the entire package (the deluxe ed) I feel you get your money's worth. Hell you can't even see a movie for 5 anymore. Also some positives and uniques for this game include the weapons. I actually like how each weapon ties a specific defensive maneuver to it. So usually in these games you choose to roll way/ block/ or parry as your defensive move and can do any of them with any weapon. But the weapons here will tie in a block or a parry as its special (or it has neither and the roll away is your defensive). I really liked that since I don't like having to constantly figure am I parrying this guy or blocking or rolling, I choose my primary weapon and then I know what my defensive move is going to be. And of course you get a secondary slot and can switch and so on, so very customizable. All in all, good job you scrappy studio that seems to be no more.... Overall: 7/10

I would rate this game about 8.5 out of 10 – I liked the game a lot, but it had some flaws. I would count the extremely bad facial animations/cutscenes and not-so-frequent game crashes among the flaws. The characters did not look natural at all while speaking (it was also fairly choppy), and the game crashed in very unfortunate moments, like the dialogues after killing bosses (I had to kill 1 boss about 4 times before figuring out how to prevent the crash). But otherwise, I quite liked the combat loops and the leveling felt impactful, especially as the Dancer class. I went from a squishy understudy to an unstoppable elegant/graceful killing machine. The setting was interesting and the areas distinct – from the Paris underbelly to Versailles. The story was unique and captivating, even though eventually, quite tragic.

The setting is interesting, the artwork is good, but the gameplay is incredibly boring and repetitive.

首先说下，这游戏的优化很差，基本只有开启DLSS才能畅玩，所以非RTX系列显卡的玩家不建议购买。 还有简中翻译是不完整的，一定要选繁体中文！一定要选繁体中文！一定要选繁体中文！ 如果忽略优化问题，这游戏其实挺好玩的。 作为一款类魂游戏，整体难度不高，数值合理，并且游戏中有个叫“指南针”的道具，相当于指引标识，很清晰，避免了因迷路或找不到任务目标而断掉支线任务的情况，同时它有着一条完整的叙事线，还配有大量CG和完整对话来介绍世界观和人物关系，拒绝谜语人。非常适合想要尝试类魂游戏的新手玩家。 建议购买时直接选巴士底版，包含一个剧情DLC和一把强力武器。

It's like Lies of P and Steelrising were given the same assignment but one got an A+ and the other got a C. LOP was presented by the valedictorian who spent all semester on it and made a product that felt like a Fromsoft developed game published under a pseudonym, while Steelrising feels like it was made by a well intentioned but average student in the class who kind of winged it halfway towards the deadline. I feel like the worst part is that it could have been very good. It's not soulsslop like many soulslike games that feel made purely to cash in on a popular genre (e.g like the original Lords of the Fallen or Hellpoint), there's just too much effort clearly felt here and it gets too much right. Nor is it an ununique but very competent soulslike either (e.g Mortal Shell or A.I Limit), as it was the first released bloodbourne but with animatronic puppets game and has a jumping mechanics before Eldin Ring. And if it wasn't for LOP just doing almost everything that made this interesting better in every way, there wouldn't be anything else like Steelrising (which did release before LOP btw) and I think this would be better received, even if it doesn't deserve it, just for the creativity. But the interesting ideas here just aren't that great and mostly half baked. The robot aspects feel more gimmicky than anything and just playing this like any other souls game is still the meta anyways (enemies and bosses definitely can't handle the hug the booty strategy). I can go into each mechanic (the jump, overheat, ranged weapons, etc) and explain why it's undercooked but from the amount of reviews that already do that it be unnecessary to repeat. But still, I can't give it a thumbs down because it's good enough. It looks great, there's effort into the story, and it plays well enough. So, if you need your souls fix and you've just exhausted even the backups, then this can give it. There is enough going on to be that, especially when the game is less than $6 on sale now for the complete addition. But it's not going to be high up on anyone's tier list.

Если даже сравнивать только с Dark Souls, то игра бедная на механики, оружие, броню, сеты. Больше всего мне не понравилось, что когда бьешь врага, то он никак не реагирует на удары и может без каких-либо проблем тебя бить. Да, игра про роботов, но физику никто не отменял. Локации однотипные, вариаций врагов мало. Не хватает аналога магии в том разнообразии, которое есть в DS.