The sounds themselves are good, but the sound design is not ideal… sometimes you can hear something nearby, but it can be hard to tell where things are coming from or how far away they are. The music is atmospheric and often has an electric or industrial theme that fits right in. The game is surreal and dark, so a dark colour palette suits this well, as do the sound effects and music. I find it works very well for the atmosphere of the game, and when splotches of colour appear they stand out in greater contrast because of the usual lack of it. They certainly made their voices known in the 2000’s when Call of Duty, and other large games had a largely brown colour scheme. Technical performance aside, many will probably dislike the very narrow colour palette.
DLSS and dynamic resolution are two newer tools that really help here.īleak Faith performs excellently even on max settings, maintaining a good 120+ FPS while looking stunning… in the usually drab and dreary way it presents itself. The graphics settings are similarly comprehensive so you can increase, lower, or disable screen shake and motion blur which is always nice, and make whatever tradeoffs you prefer to get optimal quality for the performance you want.
It is worth noting that the game controls beautifully with keyboard and mouse, something that cannot be said about any FromSoft game – though they are slowly improving.
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A flaw of the FromSoft games is their terrible PC ports including controls, but they are much better here with easily bindable keys for everything, and options to change key sharing for jump and avoidance, or sprint and avoidance, or completely separate keys for them. Multiple FPS lock settings including the essential unlocked FPS, a FoV slider, camera distance setting, screen shake amount and more. The options menu is enough to make Totalbiscuit smile down upon us from the great LAN cafe in the sky, there is almost everything you could want to customize the game to your liking. The world may look drab and dreary, with a whole lot of grey and brown… but I find it very immersive and fitting for the setting. The formula is actually changed and extended quite a bit so while it definitely feels souls-like, it also feels fresh enough that even off the back of copious hours in Elden Ring recently it’s a lot of fun to play. So far, so Dark Souls all good and enjoyable and many players, me included, are eager for more of this.
You navigate the immense world by progressing past monsters, puzzles and labyrinths to unlock new respawn locations and regularly find ways to create shortcuts around the map such as lowering a ladder or opening a gate which can only be done from one (always “the other” side) and so on. Combat Is the balance and timing of light and heavy attacks, ranged and melee combat, positioning, dodges, blocks, and parry responses. Combat involves choosing when to use target lock (and when it would be a liability), managing stamina, health and restoratives and with difficulty greatly increased the more enemies you let engage you. You play a character with a set of statistics and equipment, with move-sets based on weapon used and magic slotted. If you’ve played any of this genre you know the basics. With most of those fixed, we end up with a glorious game that any Souls player should enjoy – and likely praise for some of the design decisions it takes that separate it from FromSoft games and other Souls-likes. This review was going to be a lot more negative but two patches in the last week have greatly reduced the problems we were having. There has been a long slow burn as the developers teased the game over its development and we finally have it in our hands.
Bleak Faith: Forsaken is a Souls-like game self-published by 3-person studio Archangel Studios, releasing March 11 on Steam.
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