The First Berserker: Khazan

B A N G E R. alot of cool mechanics and playstyles available, and a huge bonus for freely being able to deselect skill nodes to try other stuff out that fits your flavor. Story was good nothing extraordinary but i liked all the characters and the voice acting was amazing. I played on expert mode for my first run and it was awesome. The levels are pretty straightforward and don't have much challenges if any ; the bosses however skyrocket in difficulty in comparison, which is good. I dont like when these games have gimmick or even easy bosses, but everyone i ran into felt some sort of challenge and some were cranked to 11 ; Maluca made me feel like i was playing an entirely different game at one point. It kinda feels like black myth wukong and sekiro had a baby and wo long fallen dynasty delievered it.

难度适中，画面很好看。打折买的，很划算。

El mejor soulslike que he jugado, junto a Lies of P

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mid game, save ur sanity and go play lies of p/sekiro or any other souls like instead. input system likes to drop inputs, very fun when you just stand still vs boss full aggro. game was fun for the first hour but then you start seeing the repeats. everything is pretty much brute force hack n slash and almost no mechanics involved when you get the hang of it. spell caster bosses are broken as ♥♥♥♥ and will throw everything you learnt out the window. mobs are repetitive and I mean very repetitive since you basically play the same stages over and over as you progress and are forced to do side missions to level up.

The longer I played, the less I enjoyed it. After a year and a half and multiple attempts at getting back into it, I think I will call it quits. I originally played the demo back in January 2025 and really loved it. Difficulty was just right (playing on the middle difficulty settings), the world design seemed promising, the art was lovely and the souls-like gameplay was on point. I bought the full game half a year later when it went on sale. In the meantime I had played other souls-likes that I really enjoyed, so when I was still in the mood, I went back at it with Khazan. In those six months since I last played it, something had changed, though. The game felt a bit different and for some reason I lost interest quickly in the souls-grind and lowered the difficulty, so the number of attempts at bosses could be low. Maybe I screwed myself with that decision, but that's how I continued to play the game. It wasn't bad at any point, it is a competent souls-like, the world is still stunningly beautiful and the combat is still fine (yes, I made it easier, but that does not change the combat, only the number of times I can screw up before I am dead). So what changed? Maybe the fact that the weapon and armor progression in the game is complete ♥♥♥♥. There are three weapon types and essentially two armor types, with every one of the million weapons and armor pieces you find being a slight variation with different and incrementally better stat boosts. You can spend hours in the menus and crafting tables min-maxing your equipment, only for it to not matter anymore ten steps into a new region. That was really annoying. And they know it is annoying, because the developers give you an in-universe option to change how your armor looks while still allowing you to min-max your equipment every ten steps. Some people probably love that, but for me this is just MMO garbage design that breaks the immersion. Maybe it was the story, which for hours and hours did not really go anywhere. My inner Rain Man also did not allow me to continue the main story while there are side quests to pursue, but since those sent me back to the previous levels (albeit in a different configuration), I ended up staying in the same level for too long and losing knowledge of and interest in the what the story was actually about. Yes, yes, Khazan seeks revenge, huzzah. But half of the characters you meet are paper thin, then you hit it off with one of those characters, resulting in a bit of a comedic long cutscene about your travels and how well you enjoy each other's company, only for the game to stab you in the back the second that cutscene ends. It makes sense, I guess, maybe, for Khazan and *his* revenge story, but it also feels a bit like pointless filler. Like episode 13 in a 22-episode season of Supernatural, if you know what I mean. So my the time between play sessions grew longer and the actual session time shorter. At this point, I would probably have to restart to have a chance to remember what's actually going on, but unfortunately I really don't want to. A shame. Probably my fault, because I lowered the difficulty and removed (most of) the challenge and focused too much on side quests at times where I should have continued the main quest to keep my motivation up. Nevertheless, looking at my backlog of other 400+ unplayed games (some of which being really promising souls-likes), I might just postpone this one forever.

Forgot to grab a piece paper and have to replay the game for true ending, other than that it's pretty fun