Real talk, I'd compare it more to God of War than Devil May Cry.

Was this video made to spite Darksiders fans? Because it's clear to me that you did not pay attention to the story, game mechanics, and world building. I don't really got to explain what you got as many other users already pointed out like game play MarlonMacielBrando, Александр Пушкин, etc. From the game play footage you showed it looked like you were trying to speed run the games, which might be why you missed parts of the story and therefore getting your facts wrong. These games are not meant to be speed ran through the first time playing. Stop Brute-forcing your way into playing games and then complain that the game wants you to do something specific and not your way. Its why you were stuck at the puzzles, you missed the lore, and ignored game mechanics like the D2 ball run. You can press R2 and it'll launch the boulder. You didn't need the bombs and you just wasted time doing that.

Darksiders 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Its one of the most criminally underrated games of all time, I played it and I couldn't believe no one was talking about it. Its awesome

This whole comment section is just coping

Best way to describe these games is "Almost there". They had so much potential, but they never reached it. And this is so frustrating.

I think he missed it on both war and deaths personalities. War wasn't all edgelord, he care about balance more than the others did. All he was doing was proving he didn't mess up to preserve the balance and get revenge on those who did, like ulthaine who gave him his gun and helped cause the mess or the angles who caused the whole thing to happen in the first place. While war didn't care about anyone else because he wanted to save his brother from eternal punishment. Throughout the second game the nephilim (The race of the horsemen) keep being brought up and how death Slaughtered them to preserve peace and balance bringing in guilt and a choice between saving humans or his own race and showing him saving the humans over his own race to save his brother war.

Judging by what you wanted Darksiders 1 to be, I think you'd love the God of War series (on the PS2 and PS3). It's basically everything you were asking for

The only thing I have to disagree is about the lack of campy. Like, I thought that everything being overly edgy was kinda the point, not really meant to be taken 200.00% seriously, just enough to complement the edginess

Eh, I like all three. Each for slightly different reason.

Somewhere Whitelight just got irrationally angry (like full Arthur fist meme) and has no idea why.

Kbash: “Death is so mean to all the NPCs!”

Darksiders 2 actually sold quite well. The problem was that THQ was already falling when they released the game and hoped that it would sell a fuck ton of copies and then some.

The only thing I’m mad at on fury story is that she didn’t rage out beat the crap out of gluttony after eating the dead corpse of her horse

But...can we talk about how amazing wars voice is for a second? One of my favorite parts of darksiders 1. Well actually darksiders 2 as well. Love war and deaths voice

THQ Nordic has nothing to do with THQ. They just bought the name after THQ died.

the problem is that Darksiders 3 just threw most elements of the first two games off the window. The second one evolved lots of the elements of the first game, and it has good pacing something that made the first one so frustrating. We 've gone from crazy combat and unwanted RPG loot with gadgets that should work on both combat and puzzles to hit-hit-hit dodge Action RPG with 2 puzzles for each environment.

Ah yes, Darksiders, my favorite Middle of the Road Franchise and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Just finished the darksiders 2 section and I realized I missed something, exploring isn't 100% necessary and it shouldn't be. You can explore or not, your choice but there is rewards, in darksiders 1 you can find more health and more wrath to increase your combat successfulness plus you can level up your weapons as you do so, and that armor that you lightly touched on, greatly reduces how much damage you take and provides healing on successful strikes, a pretty useful item. Plus finding artifacts grants additional souls which can help you get upgrades or purchase healing items or new moves etc etc. Again it's not necessary but if you want it's there, as for death you barely touched on the story if at all, he is there to resurrect humanity and clear his brother's name, also hes death, a horseman of the apocalypse, he doesnt need to make friends and they aren't wanting to be his friend either, as for that bomb hopping section you actually have a way to shove the ball meaning that bomb climb up the ramp was the incorrect way to do it, hints why it took so long, some gameplay things you just need to play around a little to really get, multiple times they mention who the end boss is and why he is important, if you only remember him from the intro scene you werent paying enough attention.. yes the games borrow stuff from other games but I personally dont mind, each of the horsemen feel unique in their movement and individual combat, again they share similarities, there are only so many ways to swing a weapon after all. Again sorry for the rant, one more darksiders portion to finish

I love the second game with a passion. Was meh about the first and have yet to play the third.

Legit question: the bomb jumping thing?