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The game’s website urges players to “chase legendary weapons and armor.” Well, Godfall is being billed as a “fantasy looter-slasher.” Swap out the sci-fi setting of Borderlands for a fantasy one and replace the bajillion guns with a bajillion of melee-focused weapons, and that’s basically what Godfall will be. Next holiday season, a good portion of the PlayStation community will be gaming on the PS5 and one of those games could very well be Godfall.Īnyone who has played any of the Borderlands games, another Gearbox franchise, is probably familiar with the phrase “looter-shooter.” The franchise essentially defined the genre, which involves, well, shooting tons of enemies and gathering tons of varied loot. Yes, it’s hard to believe that after just seven years, the PlayStation 4 lifecycle is coming to an end. Godfall was revealed at The Game Awards 2019 and is the first confirmed game for the PlayStation 5. While Sony has yet to officially unveil the PlayStation 5 - offering only nuggets of information via exclusive interviews - that didn’t stop Gearbox Publishing and developer Counterplay Games from announcing the first game for the PS5. Revealed at The Game Awards, Godfall is the first game to be officially announced for the PlayStation 5. There’s only three worlds and although they all look different (themed after the elements of air, earth, and water) the layouts are always just windy corridors leading to enemy-filled arenas.By Matthew Liebl 2 years ago Follow Tweet And yet they’re marred by frame rate problems and boring level design.

On a technical level they’re pretty good, not as good as Sony’s first party titles but certainly impressive for a launch game. Nothing in Godfall ever feels as much fun as it should be, even the graphics. But it’s very rare to come across anything that feels like a genuine game-changer and you soon begin to resent the time spent picking everything up and upgrading your gear. Again, there are options within options, thanks to the augment system that can further refine whatever weapons, charms, and amulets you have equipped. Godfall – it’s kind of pretty but that’s not enough (pic: Gearbox Publishing)Īlthough there are no microtransactions the game is filled with literal loot boxes, which contain items that rarely seem very useful or interesting.

This is enabled by weapons having both Northern and Southern techniques, which initiate different special moves once they’re charged up and there’s also a ‘Rampage’ to initiate by getting in multiple attacks in a row and the ability to manually aim at weak spots if they’re flashing. We don’t like to use the word finickity twice in a row, but it also describes the higher level play, which is filled with lots of easily forgotten complications like the Soulshatter attack that will do extra damage if you follow up a light attack with a heavy attack after having primed an enemy’s health bar. There are problems though, with an overly fussy lock-on and a complete inability to interrupt any animation once it’s started, which is no doubt inspired by Monster Hunter but is very frustrating given you have a God Of War style shield that the game is very finickity about how you use. The action is certainly the game’s strongest card though, with a good feeling of weight and impact to all the many different types of weapons. You can see that in the combat and giant-sized weapons but there’s no gameplay focus equivalent to hunting monsters and as a result the combat feels far less distinctive. There are some surface similarities, but ultimately it’s closer to something like Diablo, with developer Counterplay Games claiming that Monster Hunter was a primary influence. There were a lot of assumptions, before release, that Godfall was a Soulsborne style action role-player but it isn’t really.

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