The Surge

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It's okay, but only just okay. 1. Level design has some of the best shortcut tech I've ever seen. HOWEVER, it's also a ton of identical maintenance shafts and identical concrete storage areas. It's extremely easy to get lost. 2. Toward the end of the game I felt like my progression plateaued pretty hard. 3. Bosses are tough, but ultimately fair. The biggest enemy you'll likely face in any of them is the camera, and that's never great. There are some nanite blob enemies in the end that are pretty terrible though. You have to grab them and overload with energy, and there's no clear indication that you're able to do this without rubbing yourself against them (which is basically guaranteed to cause damage). I also don't like the fact that it's essentially impossible to stagger PAX enemies using heavy weapons. 4. I wish parries were better. If you do the special attack after parrying, it will lock you into an animation that allows faster enemies to beat you into oblivion. 5. The ability to jump and duck while blocking is pretty much completely useless. Doing this will never put you in an advantageous position. Even the tutorial enemy that introduces this mechanic proves this to be true. You can ONLY attack that robot from behind, and if you're standing in front of it playing Simon Says, you're not fighting it correctly.

Maybe it had something to offer back when it was released, but nowadays, the Soulslike genre has much better to offer than this piece of pure jank. Many areas are extremely dark, with a flashlight that only lights up your own feet, and only if you're stationary. The punishment for dying is huge as you only have 2 mintues to reclaim thee XP you dropped, else it is gone forever. This is not helped by how unfair the combat is, enemies taking something like 20 to 30 seconds to kill, when they can just wipe you in two quick hits with no windup. The level design is convoluted and consists of very bland industrial settings that look like they come from an asset pack. Enemy variety is just simply absent, as you will fight the same dude over and over and over again, just wielding some different weapon (and even that is not varied at all). There is no saving grace, stay away. At least they did better with Lords of the Fallen 2.0.

so, coming right out of lords of fallen, the original to this, i was expecting it to be just as bad. i was surprised. even though i do have some complaints about it. so the story of this game is that you are a wheelchair bound man who joins up with the company CREO because they can give you an exo suit that gives you back your ability to walk. after a botched surgery to implant the suit on you, you find yourself woken up in a crape yard about to be taken to be scrapped. where you then explore around and help other survives as you try to find out what happened. why everyone seems to be mindless husks, finding out that the company had been secretly working on nano tech which went haywire. gameplay, i would say it is 'similar' to lords simply because it is the same company using the same type of gameplay that they used. there are some differences. weapon types are sort of different, and unique in a way given that they are big heavy, or connected to your exo suit. there is an actually cool targeting system where, you can just attack a target, or your can specifically select different parts of the body. after attacking enough and filling up your energy bar, you can cut that part of the body off and gain a blueprint for that piece of armor. or if you cut off their weapon arm you get their weapon as well as arm armor. another cool thing about the game is that, instead of leveling up and increasing stats, which at first is very stupid or annoying, you get core power which allows you to add more mods to your suit. things such as increase health, or damage, or change what type/how many times you can heal. it is okay and kind of something that barely seems to affect gameplay much, until you start getting lots of mods, then you end up kind of feeling like you have become more powerful. not destroying the game, but it feels like you can hold your own against things or even begin to feel yourself becoming stronger than your enemies. my complaint with this gameplay kind of ends up being that, while the game is much faster and feels more responsive, weapons kind of still feel slow, while enemies are kind of stupidly fast. so you can barely get a hit off on an enemy who can blitz through your health like it was nothing. the only other problem i have is that, like lords, it still feels like they made it with the idea that enemies do too much damage because that makes the game harder. my last complaint is only a minor thing, but in order to get a mandatory upgrade to finish the game you need to upgrade your rig. to do this you don't interact with the locker that has it, that opens as you get close. you have to attack it and then you get the ability to upgrade to the new suit. i won't be surprised if they mentioned or explained that i would need to do so, but wasn't paying attention and missed it though. the game looks good though. areas are unique from one another and have a good theme to them. everything is fairly cleanly designed and easy to know... where you are, were, or if there was an area you wanted to get back to but can't remember how you got there. it can be surprisingly confusing to try to remember places you need to get to, want to explore, or find the end game chests again. uh, music is always the hardest thing for me to try to figure if it was good or not, because i just don't pay attention to it, or i spend more time looking around at things for it to register in my brain. there might be something i could talk about but am forgetting, but honestly. the game was a lot better than i remember in my first playthrough, and way better than the original lords of fallen. even if i will say that, the game constantly goes from unbearable to being okay at best. and you know, it's okay enough of a game that i would say it is worth checking out.

엔딩 본 사람들 진짜 리스팩.. 못해먹겠다

god knows how much i had to return to this game, but now iam really hooked! Exceptional souls-like game, quite challenging and feels VERY good even 9 years later!

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