The Darksiders series is not only unique in its concept, but for its potential to become legendary. Imagine if different studios worked on the different horsemens’ combat? If only they had a larger budget allocated towards MOCAP, coop implementation, fleshed out stories! I hope publishers don’t abandon this, because after all, Strife still needs his game .

Every Darksider starter pack: 1. Hack n slash combat 2. Important Intro Boss with good storytelling 3. Well thought Puzzles 4. The Problem always involves the Council 5. Ya boi Vulgrim with amazing deals 6. You play as a Horseman. 7. You ride a horse sometime in the game. Darksiders 3 doesn't have #7.

I still can't believe a Darksiders 3 actually came out.

I think it's about art direction and generally how the game feels and looks. They've changed engine from their homebrew to UE4 and Joe Madureira also wasn't working on it. Hence it just doesn't *feel* the same.

I do like how the combat of each game emphasizes how differently each Horseman fights. War is a massive juggernaut with 11 health bars. He can block, parry, or just armor through enemy attacks. He smashes enemy defenses through the sheer force of his attacks. He cleaves through hordes of enemies with ease. Death is a whirling dervish of blades. While much squishier than War, he's by far the fastest of the bunch. He excels in keeping the pressure on with constant attacks and never letting up. He has various magical abilities and great mobility that let him deal with crowds easier. Fury is a precise duelist. Being slower than Death, she relies on more precise dodges rather than dashing half-way across the arena. She specializes at creating openings and counterattacking, picking apart her enemies' weaknesses. She struggles against larger groups, mostly relying on Wrath attacks to clean out the fodder so she can keep her focus on the more dangerous enemies. I do wonder how they'll characterize Strife's combat in Darksiders 4. Sure there's Genesis, but the overhead isometric camera skews it a bit, and he shares the gameplay seat with War.

Enjoyed all three , still hoping for Strife to get his own game.

I feel this one gets hated on far too much, I really enjoyed getting 100% on this game

I find each game to be fitting to their respective horseman. War is straightforward and no nonsense so he gets a straight to the point no sidequests game. Death is considered the strongest and in game you can get absurdly powerful with some gear combos. Fury was considered the weakest so she got a game that would whoop ass the most. It works out real nice.

This took a second playthrough before I fell in love with it. I liked Fury's character arc. They have all been solid games. I want... I need more...

So... the Lord of Hollows is wearing the Ark of the Covenant on his back, right?

As a combat junkie, DS3 was my favorite of the 3 right away. I thought 1 and 2 were extremely different already so I never thought this didn't feel like Darksiders.

Darksiders 3 felt like Dark Souls and Castlevania had a baby and I’ve always loved it for that

Extremely high quality videos from u my man, we don't get much of these anymore. Keep up the fantastic work for real.

I'm enjoying this series of videos! I'm watching the segment about Fury's arrogance and anger now and I wanted to bring up not only my favorite line in the game, but one of my favorite things spoken by any horseman in the series. I loved it when Fury and Usiel agree to work together and she tells him, "If I discover you have in any way lied to me, you will wish it was one of my brothers tearing out your heart." WHAT. A. THREAT.

This is by far my favourite of the three. I get why people thought it was disappointing but for me it was a pleasant surprise as someone who could never fully get into the first two games. The difficulty and gameplay was a lot more engaging and the looping design of the world was great

Goes without saying but another fantastic video! Darksiders 3 was a strange one for me, the difficulty I was not expecting and if I’m honest I’d rather they went back to something akin Darksiders 2. That being said, I ended up really enjoying DS3, I think your point about Fury’s character arc is spot on as well!

Another excellent review, and I'm glad you were able to appreciate the game on a second playthrough. Changing up the gameplay mechanics in a franchise is always a risky move, but I guess the devs felt like the Darksiders 2 style was outdated and they needed to go with what's currently more popular. Speaking of franchises that changed their style, it would be interesting to see you cover the Castlevania Metroidvania-era games. Those were actually the games that got back into gaming (I was a gamer as a kid, gave up video games entirely in high school, and then became a gamer again in my 20's after discovering the Metroidvania games.)

Idk i think darksiders(war) fans had a bit of an adjustment period for the change to D2(death) and it was a long wait for 3 but this soulslike change..... Eh love this game tho

Well, the thing with Fury is, when you first see her, you understand right away that she's not like her brothers. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that her brothers weren't like HER. After all, War, Strife and Death were unique among the Nephilim, in that they had no interest in marauding around the known worlds, killing everything they saw just for the sake of killing. That's why they agreed to the New Pact, so they could put a stop to the slaughter. Fury, on the other hand, was EXACTLY like the other Nephilim. She only agreed to the New Pact because she had sense enough to see the writing on the wall...and she knew that if SHE didn't sign on, somebody else WOULD...and she decided she'd rather make a deal than be dead. But then, as Darksiders III draws to a close, you see Fury graduate from being a Nephilim to being a HORSEMAN, probably for the first time ever. Unfortunately, this metamorphosis is kind of one of the main plot holes of which you speak. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love where Fury ends up, too. And I understand how the whole point of the story is for her to see herself in the Seven Deadly Sins, as she takes each one of them on, and ultimately come to the realization that she just doesn't want to be that way anymore. But you don't actually see her EXPERIENCE anything in-game that calls for that level of introspection. She just changes and grows, primarily, because the game SAYS she does. Meanwhile, we're sitting there going, "Uh...I'm sorry? I was there with you the whole time. When did YOU allegedly learn these lessons?" At least, that's just MY thinking on it.

Good script writing bro, great video all around

Just found your channel and love your videos already man keep it up 👍👍

Love the vid great work keep it up!!!

Hell Yeah! more Darksiders from the man who makes the best retrospectives. Darksiders 3 was different but as someone who fellin love with the Souls games in between Darksiders 2 & 3 I absolutely loved the combat chnage and the challenge. The game hands down has the best AI and most well designed world. I loved having no mini map and great landmarks. The puzzles and platforming is even more natural plus I love the metroidvania style. In case people say they just jumped on the souls cline train that's not true actually the lead game director was a huge souls fan and decided he would like that to be the direction they went in. Darksiders 3 probably alsobha some of the best boss design in the series honestly. Most bosses in DS2 were easy and DS1 was all gimmicks. The Darksiders series has always been a drastically different game with each entry. Obviously the game is different and how you feel about 85 as a Darksiders game is entirely your individual opinion but for mebit took the puzzles, combat, and exploration of every game and brought it to a new level for better or worse in some ways.

I really enjoyed Darksiders 3! It deserves more love from fans.

Darksiders 3 maybe weak in gameplay department, but it makes it up in story and lore department. Fury is the only horseman who shows clear character development while playing the game . She began as furious, incapable of remorse , cocky but ended up being a great protagonist .

Nice one my man banger as usual 😎

I played darksiders 3 last year when it came to games with gold and i loved the game. I never played the 1st 2 darksiders but i hear they are better so i gotta check them out.

You actually get 8 weapons if you do the dlc and a few of them for me personally are way better then the main game ones. I mostly had a mix of dlc and main game weapons when I played.

As someone qho has been playing the series since Darksiders 1, i have to say 3 might be my favorite. It holds all the Darksiders pillars, it just has a different weight for each, but for me, i found it alot more enjoyable. 1 have the metroidvania element to it's world exploration but not to the same extent as 3. Where darksiders 2 was just filled with big empty fields that genuinely bored me when i had to drag ass across them. It had the most dungeons but the first 2 worlds felt like doing the same single dungeon over and over again. Especially in the kingdom of the dead. Darksiders 3 is shorter but it's snappy. The style is honestly on point for me and the combat, while it can kick my ass, doesn't keel locking me in a room to fight hoards of enemies over and over like the first 2 and it felt like a more even mix of exploring and puzzle solving at the same time. Where things flowed i to each other, rather than walking into a space an knowing 'ah, this is an arena room' or 'ah, this is a puzzle room.' Which is something 2 is more guilty of than 1. 1 and 3 have a nice even mix of puzzle, explore, fight. And 3 doesn't drag it's ass in it's intro or in any of the specific regions. So i think it's a Great game and a GREAT Darksiders game. Because to me, the games having those pillars but finding a new way to remix them in every single game is absolutely my favorite part of the series.

Didn't watch the video yet, but gotta say, I believe they should've stuck to the formula of the first game, which is a god of war clone with the diffirent flavour, and improved and built up from that, instead of changing the formula each game (a slasher, an action RPG with leveled items, and a souls-like). Maybe instead of dedicating each game to each horseman, they could establish some basis for all 4 characters and then tweak it for each of the characters to suit their style and put them as diffirent episodes in one game, so we could see some chemistry among them. I also just hate, that the cliffhanger of the first game was left unresolved for 3!!!! Games!

Very enjoyable, underrated game. If I had to make 3 critiques: 1) The absence of the Horse (for virtually the whole game) greatly diminishes its "Darksiders feel" and curtails exploration. 2) Ditching the amazing loot system of the second game (or even a variation of it) felt like a massive let down. 3) They should have better implemented the Jump as a second defensive mechanic in combat - or had some other rock-paper-scissors mechanic to add variety and depth. Hopefully we get to see Darksiders IV at some point, maybe they will even do a Kickstarter for it.

Darksiders 3 with classic combat is really fun and i keep comboing enemies to death. The new hollow alternatr weapons are even better. They need to increase the full gsme speed by just 15% and it would be really good.

I always appreciate when people get past the original hate hype on Darksiders 3 release and can find love and enjoyment in the game. As a fan of the franchise, I was sooo bummed out by all the negativity when the game released that I didn't even bother to pick it up. At least, not till about a year later. I got it on discount and booted it up with very low expectations. It took a little bit to get going, but man, I didn't realize that the game was tailor-made for me. That's what it felt like. It hit the spot so perfect. It really quickly became my favorite in the franchise, which I know is super unpopular. Darksiders 3, up until very recently, was my favorite non-FromSoft soulslike (just being beaten out by Lies of P, and maybe Lords of the Fallen reboot, and Black Myth: Wukong on the way)

controversial opinion... Darksiders 3 is my favorite of all the Darksiders games. At the time I was so bored and burned out with games and I had never played Demons or Dark Souls before. Darksiders and Devil May Cry were the only series that could still keep me engaged and even then I still would get bored part way through unless it was Darksiders 2 or Devil May Cry 3. Darksiders 3 though... oh man it was such a breath of fresh air! The combat, the map, the snarky dialogue... I needed it. Plus it being called a souls-like made me buy dark souls, demon souls, bloodborne and elden ring which are now the LOVES of my life. So for me the changes were positives hope they stick to the new formula for Strife.

I get what your saying my man, a lot of peoples expectation for Darksiders 3 was disappointing, at first I was frustrated because the game kept loading at first and it took forever to progress into the game, after a while, I gave it a second chance and I was a little pleased with the game but you are right though, it doesn’t stack up to Darksiders 2 and the fact that Michael Wincott voiced death. If any of you who don’t know who that is, he’s the main space pirate in Alien Resurrection with the deep voice

I really liked this game. It was a fun ride, despite some misplaced loading "screens" on my base ps4

It's one of those games that I absolutely hated on release, yet found to be really good upon returning in several years. The addition of classic combat mode, NG+, different armors and, above all, Keepers of the Void with its focus on puzzles made the game feel so, SO much better for me. GG to devs. Now if only those lazy hacks would finish patching Darksiders 2.

Fun fact: Last time, "it requires all four" horsemen to defeat a weaker Seven. Shows how powerful Fury really becomes. According to the official summary, "proves" herself even as "the most powerful of the horsemen".

I beat this game in Apocalyptic difficulty, it was harder than any Soul-Borne because the mechanics were straight up broken.

For some reason, the 3rd installment of a certain game franchise disappoints me such as Shadow of the Tomb Raider from the TR trilogy reboot, Watchdogs Legions, Dark Siders 3, DMC 3, Trine 3, Mafia 3, Syphon Filter 3,Dino Crisis 3, Fatal Frame 3, Uncharted 3 and Dark Souls 3 (might continue playing it before I play Elden Ring and Sekiro).

I was shocked that this game came out. Ultimately, I think the first one is still my favorite. But I immediately was in love with the return to earth and the Book of Revelations feel that I missed from the majority of the second game. The design of the sins was also top notch. I really liked this game. It only added to my love of the series.

Catching up on this, was sad to hear you didn't enjoy Darksiders 3 the first time, it's definitely an acquired taste I think, even if you do like Souls likes. You already know previously I really enjoyed this game. BUT I am also pissed by it because I was aiming for 100% completion, and I played at a time some of the trophies were bugged. And so I played on the hardest difficulty and BEAT IT on it too... But the trophy never popped, not even retroactively, not even if I try to go back to the checkpoint. So I need to do the WHOLE GAME AGAIN to get it. Maybe I will, I don't know. I love the game, but I don't know if I love it enough to do hard mode again 😩

Favorite scene of the game is after fury's horse dies and shes wounded by wrath and screams I'll tear you apart while breaking his sword

No horse and no finishers, at least to me, are what makes this not feel like a Darksiders game, especially combat-wise.

I know you’re a game channel, but I’d be fascinated by your views on the Abomination Vault book

Fury really took me out of the game early. The way she is towards War at the beginning made me so upset. All I could hear was Death saying...."My brother War....I would protect him above all". It seemed like she didn't give a damn about her brothers and just wanted to rule over them.

I wasn't going to give darksiders 3 a chance but thanks to this great video... yeap I'm picking it up 😁

i really wish to hear about starting 5th franchise of these legendary games

Played all three, and they are still fun playing them once in a while. Just shows how good they are crafted.

I loved the first two to pieces, but third one was kinda meh for me. Lack of puzzles killed it for me.

Just started playing Darksiders Warmastered Edition on my Xbox Series X. So its good to know what ill be getting up to in the sequels.

Darksiders TWO was the BEST. I really liked the RPG elements like stats, skill points and the several special attacks you had. DS 3 is a step down, i mean DS 3 offers no skill tree, no special attacks all you do i ONE fury attack at a time instead of several like in DS 1 and 2 and ohya DS 3 has nog gear like DS 2 had.

Can anyone tell me if Darksiders 3 has the Zelda like puzzles that Darksiders 1 and 2 had. I really want to play this but am worried it is just a straight up run and gun game with no problem solving elements.

I feel like the game need combo or animation canceling something on the line of the dmc reboot where you start a combo with one weapon and finish with another also when I picked this game my hope that it would have been something similar to DS2 that look system was needed

I actually loved Darksiders 3. I think this is a perfect example of how a darksiders game turned soulslike is done right, when taken that new road. They took a risk and I think it paid off when comparing the other soulslike games out there. Another reason I enjoyed Darksiders 3 is it seemed to have much more emphasis on it's fun combat system and way less on the puzzles, unlike the first 2 Darksiders games, which also had fun combat as well aside from the many puzzles they're known for.

Game holds a special place in my heart unfortunately the last present my brother got me before he past unexpectedly , shit i played for alot of hours i put it on the hardest mode too

For PC: for Darksiders 3 and Genesis, enable "-dx12" as a launch command to get MASSIVE performance boost. Also use TAAU and resolution scale set in ini (67% is fine). The games will look the same while running 2 to 4 times faster.

Anyone noticed the final sin is a mix of furys brothers vs her overall I'd rate a 6.5 it's fun and cool but they have alot of long drawn-out area to get a little dialog and it has a bad enemy balance set up when they level with you but you have diminishing stat boost level 28 was most ideal level the combat was fun but I over leveled first time took alot of hits and I got 2 hit by enemy's also I was level 200. But stay at a low level and collect everything and you'll be okay it's a lot of fun to explore but that's a large part of the game that is also optional I'm sure a story run is extremely quick imma be doing it soon on reckoning but I got bfa on challenging

I just got done with playing the first three in a row and for me, three is the best. It's the only one I got super invested in and nabbed all the achievements. It was so much fun!

I can understand when people say it is not a Darksiders game. Personally I see this very differently because every game so far massively changed some aspects of the previous one so it is hard to even pinpoint what a darksiders game is. The original purpose was a more mature Zelda with Hack ´n slash elements. Then Darksiders 2 rolled along and brought in a lot of rpg systems and bigger maps already skaling down the Zelda aspect somewhat. Lastly 3 brings in Metroidvania style gameplay and changes the rpg mechanics to be more soulslike to acomodate the metroidvania style. Now which of these would qualify as THE Darksiders experience? I would say none of them since all of them offer very different gameplay experiences. It is truly up to personal taste. My favourite is definitely 3. While Death is my favourite horsemen in pretty much every category his game itself has a lot of flaws I just can´t get past every time I try to play through the game again. Meanwhile Darksiders 3 pretty much gives me everything I like: A more character driven story instead of plot driven, Metroidvania style gameplay and a more deliberate and methodical combat system. Now slap Death into that gameplay system and it would be the perfect Darksiders game for me. That is not to say it does everything perfectly. Oh it absolutely does not. It just caters more to my tastes than the others and that is why it is my favourite of the trilogy.

Man my first playthrough of this game was on Apocalyptic difficulty. And it kicked my teeth in until I got the life steal augment for my weapons

For the narrative I think they kind of missed a good landing but for the franchise, I enjoyed it none the less. I really want a Strife game that plays like Dante's Gunslinger style.

I never finished other Darksiders game, but this game caught me for the first moment, shame in the performance at launch. But now runs smooth as butter on PS5 and Series X.

With the recent news on Legacy of Kain, would you recommend the Darksiders series? Some LOK fans have recommended this game to me.

Every entry was different. D1:Zelda D2:Looter D3:Souls DG:3/4 ISO All have plus and limitations but great worlds and atory

To be fair, it's not gunfire games fault that Fury ended up being the douche she was early game. I remembered DS3 having a leaked or something like that and the story of DS3 ended up being the same as those cutscenes and how she was in those cutscenes were exactly how she was in DS3 proper. So I think they just took what was already there and just worked it into the game.

I really like this game. 100 percented it on Steam. I really don't understand why it got so much hate. Maybe because of the initial performance issues and that some fans can't deal with or don't like the souls like gameplay. Well performance issues are mostly fixed and the gameplay is really good if you judge it on its own terms. I don't think that the game deserves as much negativity as it got. In my opinion it lives up to the other two games. I actually like Darksiders 1 & 3 more than Darksiders 2, since DS 2's quest design was pretty stale and the frequency of climbing around and solving puzzles was to high for me or maybe i just perceived it in this way, since i didn't enjoy going into dungeon after dungeon which didn't feel substantially different or really unique, like it is the case in Darksiders 1.

I played all the Darksiders games and Darksiders 3 and I had a strong love/hate relationship. It is also the only game that I ever got all the achievements for lol, not just for the series, but in gaming period.

really enjoyed this

Yeah.. on release I could not wait to get my hands on this, I really, really like Darksiders, Darksiders 2 is on my top 5 games of all time and, so, when I booted this up for the first time, I played couple of hours, quit the game and was thinking "why? why did they do this like this? why?" It took a few years before I gave it a second chance and I'm super glad I did.. I ended up really liking this and have now beaten it multiple times and can now say that I'm glad they did the way they did 😄 Also, I'm pretty sure Lust is a dude..

i love the fury and this game funny enuf i bought it a long time ago and honestyl i havent finished it yet but from what i played i do like it,i just been to bussy with other stuf but i do want to finish it one day.

Been waiting for this for a long time, personally I liked the game but didn’t think it was great and definitely thought it was a bit weaker than 2

I didn't finish this one...I despise souls like games and hate the fact that every 3rd person action game needs to be one now. But Darksiders has a great story and I really hope some day it gets finished

I literally started playing it some days ago, and I started from the 1st on Apocalypse difficult, 2nd too and now this. Aaaand... This crap is literally Dark Souls Even Harder Than Normal difficult 😓

For Darksiders 4, I want it to be a hybrid between Red Dead Redemption 2 & Bulletstorm with just a splish-splash of Skyrim. @$&+ Yeah.

I tried to play darksiders three for a little while and could never get into it tbh. Loved both other darksiders games tho! I even bought a book expanding the lore of the universe as well!

I had always heard about Darksiders and tried out 3 as my first and loved it

Love the video. The game is very enjoyable

I get what you mean when you say 3 feels darksiders adjacent certainly the Zelda inspired level design present in the previous games were replaced by the more metroidvania style while combat changed a little by being more methodical and souls like, as you said in the video Darksiders 2 changes fairly drastically from 1 in some areas making it hard to define the darksiders experience. When I look at the whole series though and see how differently they all play to each other I feel like the darksiders identity is defined by change at this point. While some might blame that on it being developed by a different team by the 3rd entry or more cynically believe each entry is just lazily ripping off of the latest gaming trends, I see it as a series that has never been afraid to mix up the formula to provide a fun experience while proudly wearing their inspirations on their sleeves. I think it also adds to just how different the horsemen are and how they fight to see it reflected in the overall gameplay experience across the series.

I kinda wanted them to keep going with the gear system! You know? It was fun but for me it got boring real quick and just went back to 1 and 2

I had a similar experience with DSIII. Admitedly, the previous installment really spoiled me. I expected another expanding world with puzzles and platforming and gigantic bosses I have to figure out the gimmick in their defeat... but the game grew on me after a replay and when I played again on Switch, I decided this game is now my second favourite of the franchise, Below DSII and above the first one. While I play in the "classic" mode, because I also played (and love) Bayonetta, I sorta connected well with Fury's fighting style, finding great satisfaction in a succesful dodge followed by an even more satisfying crushing counterattack. And while I found the concept of returning to post-apocalyptic earth tedious compared to the rich enviroments of its predecessor, once again they managed to make that simple enviroment truly spread out into many unique areas. Yes, you are in a single city, but places like the nether, badlands, the Crag, they all look so unique its hard to believe they belong to a single area. As a character, Fury is a delight, unlike her brothers, she showed the most distinct character growth and development and her fighting style feels like a mix between War and Death: Agile but tankier. A true "death by snu-snu" Rider xD (and design-wise she is perfect.) The true lacking part of DSIII in the end was the soundtrack. Jesper Kyd is really hard to top and this game favoured silence and ambient noise for atmosphere, which works, but it's not so unique as DSII's fantastic tunes. Also, I don't want to be THAT guy, but... Lust's pronoums are "they" ;) The character is canonicaly non-binary (noticeable in design and voice) and the game actualy uses "they/them" when refering to Lust, but since Gunfire are not woke idiots, they knew this is not something to draw attention to but simply act casual. The game does make a plot-relevant hint of it by saying how Lust takes many forms, not just lust for sex, which was brilliant. They could've easily gone for the femme-fatale, harem kind of Lust but no, they went for the many meanings the word "lust" have and made it a trickster of desires.

If Death is the necromancer of the the party then fury is an elemental wizard or Blaster caster

I haven't played much of the Darksiders games but I would like to give my input on whenever I see this type of thing happen. When a studio makes a great game and than takes it's sequel into a new direction. I appreciate it because if the likely hood of them being able to capture the same lightening twice is unlikely. In other words if they made Darksiders 3 more like 2 in all likely hood it would just be a weaker version of it rather than being something unique you can play instead when you're in a different mood. You still have a reason to go back to Darksiders 2 when you're not in the mood for 3.

any free level point that i found went to my health. putting everything else into damage and arcane.

I thought I was crazy because I always liked Darksiders 3 it was fun it felt more like a hack n slash game than a Zelda clone so I could see why fans might’ve been disappointed

Yes it is Souls formula never worked with this game Yet the devs are obsessed with it Hell, they even made remnant 1&2 just bc they like that formula

I wanted to get into this game so bad, once I figured out they went the dark souls route it turned me off. Loved 1 and 2😢

I hate the gameplay against normal enemies, if two gang up on me, i have to be ultra instinct Goku or my life bar is down (and i have been upgrading my stats) it doesn't feel like I'm one of the nephilim that made a pact for great power with the council

At first I also wasn't a huge fan of DS3. IN general I don't like Soulslike games and playing it on apocalyptic didnt do me any favors, but after the gameplay-related frustrations wore off, Fury is my fav Horseman thus far (going from uncaring bitch to self-proclaimed protector of humanity warms my heart) and after re-playing DS1 and DS2 on apocalyptic, I can actually appreciate the challenge that is DS3 combat, because the first two games are actually pretty easy. I really liked the Hollows system (although the unique/legendary weapons of DS2 with unique passives etc. was also very cool) and the story development, but I really hated trying to find adamantine ngl

I think they missed the mark with this one.In my opinion the combat should be like Castlevania LOS style rather than soulslike.In the previous games you felt the power of the horsemen but in 3 you were soo fragile.Also i really missed the dungeons and the exporation was kinda lame because of the rewards.Anyway great video i cant wait for Genesis.Dont let the top down camera fool you it is a truly a darksiders game you will be suprised.

Hell has no Fury like a Woman after you killed her horse...d>_0b

Normally, I don’t care for “X is a good game, just not a good Y game” , when many out there often just apply it to games that aren’t 100% identical with another instead of products that share little to nothing in common (more extreme cases). - however, while I was curious & uncertain about 3’s intial “mixed” reception - more recent videos breaking it down (MassiveG made a good one too) make me actually eager to try it once I finish 2. ~ (Funny enough, It’s also easy to forget that when it first came out: Darksiders 2 was initially viewed as a “wild departure”, similarly to 3’s more recent launch. Hindsight is 20-20 like the that sometimes.)

I'm working through getting my 100% achievement at the moment and after one playthrough and around 80 hours spent I think I can pinpoint what the game sorely lack - memorable set piece, or more specifically memorable boss fights. The bosses are cool and shiny and all but there's literally no mechanic to any of their fight, apart from Gluttony - who barely has some. All you have to do is press dodge and counter whatever acrobatic moves they pull - culminating in the final boss fight that really embodied the whole game's "dodge counter boss mechanic". There is no Darksiders 2's Guardian fight to be had here (I can still hear the theme), or even Destroyer fight from DS1. And then there's the lackluster puzzles. Pretty evident that they're missing I and II's lead designer Hadyn Dalton's touch. As for the different combat and general design, I'm not bothered about it. Darksiders 2 was wildly different from the first as well (and was also chided a bit for it). Every Darksiders game did things a bit differently.

I'm busy replaying all the games

One of my favourite things was how different all three games were from each other for me why it feels a little less like dark sides is because the story is minimal and it doesn’t feel like your working for what you were in the first 2 games wars redemption and corruption if the sins had directly worked for Lucifer and helped cause the end war something like that make it feel like it’s actually of the story not war caused all this he’s in chains go get sins that was very blah

The souls like style almost made me quit the game, because I couln't defeat the first boss. (I hate souls like games) I was so happy to have the game at release date and than that happened. I played it just because I had spend so much money on it. Too much bugs, unlikable main character, so often got lost in the game, to summit up, too much frustration. I will give the game a try again, but like you said, it feels too alien.

KZfaq recommended been plugging me with these smaller channel game reviews

Rampage's corpse was eaten by Gluttony.

I played all three games recently (Did all the achievements in 1 and 2, now I just need to finish NG+ and The Crucible in 3 to 100% it as well) and I ADORE Darksiders 3. It's hands down the BEST game of the three. I love Fury's character and how much she changes with the story. I really like how condensed the world is, just like in Dark Souls 1, compared to the first and second game, which worlds were stretched out like in Dark Souls 2 (yuck) I loved the last bossfight (Darksiders 1 and 2 seemed kinda bland on this part) I love the foreshadowing that was shown throughout the game (although I only realized it after finishing the game once 😅) The combat was great - Darksiders 3 on Reckoning was an actual challenge, unlike Darksiders 1 and 2 on Apocalyptic. The leveling system is nice, better than in Darksiders 2 The one thing I did not like was how squishy I was throughout the game. It's because of the Reckoning difficulty level, but I was being one-shot by mere mobs most of the time, despite putting points into health lol. It was kinda annoying, but it made me fight most of the enemies and bosses hitless, so I guess it's okay. Overall, best game I played in 2023, can't wait for Darksiders 4, will probably preorder it

I love this game. Perfect length. 2 was too long, 1 was amazing, I wanted about 20% more time with it. Characters were great. The story was terrible. XD but I love 3 the most. It just did it for me.