Morbid: The Lords of Ire

Morbid: The Lords of Ire is not difficult. It is simply tedious. Unfortunately, I could not finish this game and this is the very first souls-like game I drop. I tried to love it, but it kept throwing bullsh*t back at me. The biggest problem with the combat is that parrying is not just one option, it feels like it is the only option that actually matters. Normal attacks do pathetic damage, even after upgrading your weapon, while parries and ripostes do the real work. As a result, most fights quickly become the same repetitive loop: wait for an attack, parry, punish, repeat. This becomes especially noticeable with bosses and minibosses. Once you understand their very limited move sets, there is almost no challenge left. You are not learning complex patterns, adapting your build or looking for different openings; you are simply performing the same parry dozens of times until their oversized health bar finally disappears. I defeated the first boss on my second serious attempt without even using a heal, simply by parrying over and over again. It was not satisfying, it was boring AF. Progression is somehow even worse. Enemies give very little XP, gaining a single point takes far too long, and those individual points barely feel meaningful. The card system offers very little excitement or build variety, and after reaching the end of the second area I still felt almost identical to how I did at the beginning of the game. I thought weapon upgrades would at least provide some sense of progression, but my weapon reached its upgrade limit ridiculously early while its normal damage still felt terrible. Meanwhile enemies just became tankier, meaning the solution was not to improve my character or change my build, but simply to parry them more times. The final straw was discovering that a boss in the second area is essentially a miniboss I had already fought, just with a larger health bar, and the reward for defeating encounters like these is often little more than a single progression point. That summarizes the entire experience for me: more HP, more parries, almost no meaningful reward. I bought it very cheaply, so I do not regret trying it, but after a couple of hours I had seen enough. TL;DR: Not difficult. Not rewarding. Just unnecessarily slow, time consuming and repetitive.

Played it through doing everything except one side quest. Only once though so no NG+, did think about it but maybe later. This was a good experience. I wasn't that fond of it at first. It felt stiff and slow, very difficult even. I know it's the deal but having played a few of these it felt overly hard. This, ladies and gentlemen and all others, was most definitely a skill issue. As I kept hitting my head against the first boss I reached a dead end. This is not possible. Then I decided to try some early introduced mechanics that I hadn't used before and my word was it fun after that. It was at times like rhythmic dancing with the opponents and THAT I can do. The game suddenly turned almost easy, like not EASY easy but compared. Weapon upgrade mechanics were simple and understandable. Getting "levels" or upgrade points to your skills, well, it was done by finding and equipping a limited amount of power-ups. I felt that you got the most important ones right from the start and they gave their most usable skill without upgrading so it wasn't that meaningful. The game looks good. I tried it on switch a bit before and it was bad, then I saw it here and the difference is monumental. Also plays good on pc, no hitching, lagging or any other shenanigans. Story is dark fantasy and ok, I guess. It does have stuff that you only get from reading item descriptions or loading screens. It was interesting to go through those but this was a gameplay one to me mostly, not a great literature art-piece. Although the environments were very very nice, so somewhat an art-piece anyway. What I realized when credits started rolling, a finnish-made game, whoopee and really enjoyed it at the end. A low-budget one for sure, but worth a try. Like you don't need a big budget to buy this at sale like me for some 4€ maybe 5$.

Игра очень бюджетная. Бюджетная во всем причем: визуал и визуальные эффекты, анимации, локации, механики, оружия, предметы, противники, звуки и ост, в целом вест контент. Выглядит и ощущается игра если честно, как будто бы она вышла в году 2006 или ранее. В игре нет практически ничего хоть сколько-нибудь прикольного или интересного, неожиданного и уникального. Но благодаря этому, можно выключить своего внутреннего критика и кайфовать на максимум от этого кривого, невзрачного, некрасивого куска souls like. Не особо сложная, короткая, и на мой взгляд стоит своих денег все равно.

不错的类魂

remind me of PS2 era but with soulslike challenge. i liked the environments.

Ich finde das Spiel super, wenn man erstmal das Parieren verstanden hat (R1 halten und R2 parieren) dann macht das soooo spaß. Mir gefällt dieses Souls Spiel.

除了游戏后期把我卡闪退三次以外，感觉体验都挺好，难度不算高，弹反好强！

It just felt like a chore to play.

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