Remnant: From the Ashes

I'll be honest, I had no real idea or interest for this game before playing it. I'm not a fan of the souls genre, but I do enjoy a challenge. You will die a lot, but not to the point of giving up on a boss. Unfortunately, a big part of the challenge is manoeuvring your character with the stiff controls and limited FOV. I really wish the camera wasn't so close to the protagonist, because it takes away from the experience. Frankly, it makes some deaths feel like they weren't your fault, which is always a bad thing in challenging games. After almost obtaining the platinum for it, I must say, this game did not disappoint overall. If you can find a friend to go through the story with, it's a solid 8/10. If not, then I must say it's more like a 7.5.

I really enjoyed this game. It's hard, which is nice. The shooting and the gameplay is good and suits and contributes a lot to the feeling of the game. Graphics are good enough and works well. The boss fights are overall very good. There's definitely a geat difference in difficulty between the bosses, which is good imo. They are generelly quite different from each other and gives you a different challenge and makes you do unique things/gameplan each time. It's also very nice that the semi open world and dungeons are different for each save, though I don't know if I like that you don't get all bosses in each save. Especially since the game is very short, around 15h if even that. Though it gives you more reason to replay the game which is definitely something you would do if you enjoyed your first playthrough.

The weapons and armors loot and overall progression over the game are overall a disappointment. You start with you class weapons and then you can buy the starting weapons from the other classes. Then you can't buy or craft new ones apart from the ones you can craft after killing bosses. And there's very few you find from loot. Kinda the same goes for armors. A lot of the weapons are cool though and it's good that you don't just use a regular gun all through as that would be boring.

Imo it's diasappointing killing enemies, discovering and looting in the semi open world and in dungeons as there's not that much loot, the main reason is to loot iron and better metals to upgrade your weapons and armor pieces. And to just clear the path to get to the next area, dungeon or main boss.

The core of the game is really good but it could have been so much better. Things I would like: * Longer game * Bigger semi open worlds, now it's just a path * Gear loot or gear crafting resources from regular enemies and elite enemies.

Wouldn't really recomment playing solo. I played it 2p and you can difinitely see it's made for 3p (or 2), for example there's usually a lot of smaller enemies that keeps spawning during the boss fights. In terms of difficulty I would probably play normal if solo. If you're 2 you can play normal and hard if you're experienced or want a challenge. Wouldn't touch the upper two difficulties unless you're 3 or really want a challenge if you're 2.

I hadn't even heard of this game before it's release. I just read somewhere that it was like dark souls with guns. I love the dark souls series. Tough games but with a nice balance, nothing that can't be achieved with practice. This game is very much the same. Nice trait system and a good choice of guns. I mainly played solo on my playthrough but the co-op is fantastic. You can jump into peoples worlds and face a multitude of bosses who you may never encounter in your world.

All in all it's a fantastic game and it's not even a full priced game.

I played on PS4, I haven't seen the game in disc version yet, only available to download on the PS store.

I don't even know what Souls-like even means until now. A Remnant from the Ashes is the first RPG, Souls-like game that I played and the first Souls-like game with guns. When I first started the game I started off with a sword and as I progressed I got my first two guns when I picked a class.

And as I progressed in the game the more that I level up my character and unlocked more levels to go the more difficult the game increased as usual. The game has an infinite backpack capacity to help players choose their own combat style, armor, and resources to fit. The game loot system is not very similar to games like Skyrim or Dragon's Dogma but it is still good. The shooting in the game is actually good even though it can't free aim at the other enemies and so is melee combat even if there is no target lock. And adding in-game gun mods that are added with fantasy magic is something that I have never seen before including guns that are filled with fantasy magic. Enemies were almost very fun to kill although I get killed instantly because of lacking upgrades and not enough items for healing. And Simulacrum is absolutely very rare to get when not upgrading my items and Dragonheart wisely.

This game also encourages me to play it with friends meaning if that boss or level is difficult I need players in order to beat a level. The only criticism is that this does not have a chat option for players who don't have a speaker which makes it frustrating that it is more of a speed run rather than a campaign because I missed on secret item or spot so side mission to activate.

I really like the campaign story in this game. It's not actually too perfect but it's actually pretty good. Although the story felt a little bit confusing, it's good but a little confusing. Sometimes I just always wonder what my character's place look like before he sailed off or why he use the starter sword called "The Blade of Adventure" I think of my theory that is a family heirloom.

In conclusion, I say that this Souls-like game with guns is something to look up to. And I hope that this game will have its own sequel to expand more of this story.

Graphics are pretty good, nothing special. Gameplay is not great. Movement in the game is also not great. And there's no way to know if a bad guy is coming up behind you (while fighting other bad guys) until they hit you.