Hardly taxing, but it at least made me think.Įnvironments also improve as the game goes on.
In one, I used my force power to knock a beam round and round, following up with stasis to freeze it in place when it was perfectly positioned for me to use as a swinging anchor point. The puzzles are better in the last third, where you’ll have to combine powers you pick up during the story in quick succession. Puzzles are unimaginative early on: I lost count of how many times I had to lead a bug to a pool of fire, watch it fill up with flames, and throw it at a cobweb to reveal a path. There’s no wall-running or climbing as in Darksiders 2-you’ll be whip-swinging between conveniently-placed metal bars a lot, which offers little challenge. Outside of combat, puzzling and platforming are underwhelming.
Those moments were annoying but they were rare enough that they didn’t ruin the game, and the developer is promising a release hotfix to patch the worst problems.Īlso note that Darksiders 3 is playable with a mouse and keyboard-controls are remappable, too-but is really built for a controller and I'd recommend using one. I didn’t encounter many bugs or glitches, but in one area, on two separate occasions, the game randomly froze every five seconds, and I could only fix it by restarting. I got generally stable performance across the world, and my GTX 1070 could run Darksiders 3 on the highest settings at a steady 60 fps, with occasional dips into the 50s-although my framerate tanked briefly during one boss battle. Fury changes too much during the story, and too suddenly, for it to feel like a natural character arc, which makes it hard to care come the finale. I caught glimpses of the unabashed corniness that drew me to the first two games, but Darksiders 3 takes itself too seriously. He’s also wonderfully sarcastic and has a cutting tongue-more than can be said for most of the cast. Chip away his health bar and he’ll jump out of his seat, swinging a giant club. Sloth, for example, sits on a throne carried by smaller bugs, directing his army. The seven sins draw on familiar tropes-underwater sea monsters, giant bugs, a huge man in fire armour-but they all have different quirks that stop them feeling boring. But when I fought bosses that summon minions, like the giant bug Sloth, I ran into the same camera problems as when I faced big groups of grunts, which makes them feel disproportionately hard. One-on-one battles, including in the late-game, are too easy: learn the attack pattern, dodge at the right time and counter punch. Difficulty is therefore uneven: it feels right for small groups of hard-hitting enemies, but battling larger groups of often weaker foes is frustrating.