[h2]From a slow and awkward start, Darksiders III proves to be the most different one from the trilogy.[/h2]
Drinking from a souls formula, it offers slower paced combat where you need to be more strategic and thoughtful. For souls fans, the combat here may feel good, but not as polished as some other dark souls games. Darksiders III is really weak when it comes to puzzles, since there's only a few in the game.
[h2]The story is where this game lacks the most.[/h2]
It goes into a totally different route, where you start talking with the council in front of War. This scene may feel a bit disconnected from the story that has been told before, specially because we don't see this scene in the first game when War is being judged by the Council.
From that, the start of the game is really weak. After killing the first four enemies in the game, you'll need to face the first boss, which is not a very common thing to see in good level designs. Usually there is a breathe room for players to get used to the commands before facing any challenge. And this is another weak point of this game. There's very little challenge, and sometimes this makes the cut scenes feel weird, since they promise so much, and it only takes you one minute to kill the boss.
[h2]Lack of sense[/h2]
Darksiders III will many times show things that makes no sense at all. In one of the weirdest boss battles (against Wrath), you may be stomping the boss, but when the cut scene starts, he is destroying you, and for some weird reason, you call your horse to the fight, IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAVE?!?! That makes no sense at all and if not for the gameplay, this would be enough to drop the game. And strange enough, there's never a conclusion to that story.
[h2]Strenghts[/h2]
The game may feel disconnected and shallow, but there's lots of good things about it as well. The introduction of human survivors in this game gives Fury and the player a purpose. Now you don't want only power, you want to help humanity, even if at the start Fury wants to know nothing about them.
The different abilities that Fury gains throughout the game gives you enough gameplay diversity as well, something that I did miss in the first two titles.
Last but not least, Fury is a very interesting character. She is probably the smartest of them all, since she already knows many of the enemies and knows what to do. She doesn't go around asking for tips like War and Death.
Story apart, this game is probably my favourite due to the fun factor. It is strange, but stick to it and you'll probably like it :)
