#Godfall ps5 series#

Godfall feels pretty darn good for the first few levels, but once you get further into the game, you'll find that you've seen pretty much everything it has to offer. This doesn't last forever, as the simplicity of the combat system becomes more apparent, but the game feels satisfying, so you'll probably get a fair way into the game before you realize you're basically doing the same thing regardless of the enemy you're facing or the weapon you're wielding. Parrying an oncoming enemy's powerful attack, darting forward to unleash a deadly sword combo, and swapping weapons to cause an explosion that stuns everything around you feels exactly as epic and awesome as it should. The weapons all have satisfying weight and impact, the animations look cool, and the game feels satisfying to play. You'll want to switch between all of them, though. Daggers are better at building rampage, but they're not as good at breaking breach meters, while heavy weapons are the opposite. While the weapons have different attributes, you'll focus on the same rough pattern of abilities, but with some slight variations. The only real flaw is that it also makes character builds feel the same. It prevents you from just spamming the same light attack combo over and over by giving you shiny flashy effects and tons of damage. It strongly encourages aggression and staying in the fight while also rewarding you for regularly swapping weapons and attacks. I enjoy the modular nature of Godfall's combat design. These are the basic mechanics of the game, and all of the elements chain together. Enemies have breach meters that fill up, and when the meters are full, the enemy is stunned. Rampage builds up as you hit enemies and gives you additional damage as long as you keep hitting the enemy within a certain window. Polarity builds up as you attack with a single weapon, and once it fills up, you can swap to your other weapon, which causes an explosion and boosts the damage of that weapon. Light attacks apply Soulshatter to an enemy, which heavy attacks then detonate for additional damage. Rather than focusing on combos, Godfall wants you to focus on various mechanics that you can chain together to improve your power through solid aggression. It's a familiar pattern, and there isn't a ton that makes it stand out.

If you've played God of War or its ilk, you have an extremely good idea of what to expect here. You have a basic light combo, a basic heavy combo, dodges, blocking/parrying, and three special moves (two individual weapon moves and one 'ultimate' determined by your equipped Valorplate). There are enough branching paths to keep it from feeling completely linear, but it's still a mostly linear experience. There are the occasional side-quests, but they usually involve going to a place and either smashing something or collecting something.

#Godfall ps5 series#

Each level basically offers the same thing: Go through a series of battle arenas, fight enemies and collect the things that drop after they die. Godfall's marketing hype is pretty intense, but once you play the game, it becomes clear that it's a standard hack-and-slash title with loot mechanics. Orin is barely a character so much as a series of pithy one-liners stuffed into a cool-looking suit of armor. There's nothing to sink your teeth into: no memorable NPCs, and no interesting twists or hooks. The game throws out epic-sounding names and countless magical-future superknights, but I'll be damned if I can remember more than the basics. I'm not sure I could tell you anything more meaningful about Godfall's plot than 'brother evil.' The world setting and characters are shallow and unmemorable. This sibling battle has the fate of the universe on the line. The leader of these ne'er-do-wells is Macros, who is the brother of Orin - the protagonist and the last member of the order who's willing to stand against Macros. Unfortunately, a group of knights has gone rogue, and instead of standing against the forces of evil, they are attempting to raise their leader to godhood.

Valorian knights are equipped with armor called Valorplates. Godfall is set in a futuristic techno-mystic society, where the world is divided into realms of air, earth, fire and water.