Bonfireside Chat 189: Ashen (Part 3)
Added 2021-09-05 18:09:52 +0000 UTCYou should be warned that we're really cranky in this one. As we head into the territory of the Shadow Worshippers, Ashen finds even more ways to turn us off to what might otherwise be its charm. We hit the Palace of Lathyrus and finish out the game, despite the game's best efforts to repel us with its dungeon design and noun soup story. If us being down on a game brings you down, you know what to do with this one.
Comments
I fully get that this game is rough. I really adored the art style, music, and general tone, and Vagrant's Rest was such a great hub world. But I watched my wife play this and didn't experience the hell first hand. I could tell she was infuriated with the later dungeons and the DLC, though, and she's a very experienced Soulsborne player. It sucks that I'll never play it myself and she won't revisit it either because wow, the mechanics are fucking ROUGH. I wonder if the studio conceived of this as a graphic novel, or an animated series. It almost would have been better that way.
Colleen Nerney
2022-07-29 16:06:46 +0000 UTC
