Ember Awoken

Okay I’ve decided to wait a while to do a review. I’ve platinumed most of the Fromsoft games including the base game of ER. This is solidly fine. This comes out far too long after the real hype was there. And absolutely nothing about this DLC ends up being fun. The last boss just isn’t fun. The lore isn’t interesting and the fight goes out of its way to challenge you to the utmost. For what? Why do we care about Radahn. We don’t know even if he accepted Miquella’s proposal. Bosses can be both difficult and fun. Lord and God boss fight is not fun and gives no reward of note. This should have been rethought. I’m not sure how it makes financial success to drop the ball so hard 2.5 years after release. Most of the new weapons are old categories. The boss fights put you through the wringer and give you dumb rewards. I was obsessed with this game before. I really think you would get more out of the DLC by just watching people do it. Edit: after patches and multiple builds, it’s still not fun. Losing a star from 3 to 2.

I’m giving this game 1/5 stars because this is without a doubt the worst balanced Fromsoft game. If you enjoyed Dark Souls or another of their titles… you will be highly tricked into thinking this is going to be just as fun. It’s not. It feels very similar to their other titles. The bosses do NOT have any balance. Instead of actually designing challenging boss fights, they’ve opted to make the bosses INSANE. Oh here’s the Godskin Noble that jump into a ball and roll through you 6 times entirely unavailable. Haha let’s “make” a harder boss! Let’s make them fight that again plus another Godskin that both respawn because their boss health bar is so large. Oh you think you can roll roll roll punish? Nope the boss teleports or rolls away forever (looking at you fire giant). Nope the boss won’t stop comboing you literally 16 times so you need 99 endurance just to run away leaving you no stamina to attack. The second to last boss will not stop stomping and flying towards you doing a ridiculous move combo. You’re at the mercy of dumb luck half the time instead of actually learning how to fight the bosses. The camera is the worst if ever experienced. Targeting works sporadically. You’ll have your camera turned facing an enemy attacking you and you’ll try to lock on but it’ll act like nothing is near you and rotate your camera the opposite direction. Or you do lock on and it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to see anything because it’s so zoomed in because some of the bosses scale much larger than you 99% of the time. It’s stupid you can’t even lock on to bosses just to be able to see so then you can’t even adequately target with sorc/incant or ashes of war even. I have never rage quit a game so many times in my life… and it’s not even all from bosses. They’ve made dungeons stupid too. Trying to get from point A to point B? Well good luck because those mobs don’t even follow game physics. They can clip through walls and attack you. You can easily get pushed off ledges or stuck in a random place you can’t roll away from. Do you know how many times I’ve locked on and tried to roll backwards but it’ll roll me right of a cliff because as I mentioned… the targeting system sucks. It will reorient your character to move in circles around the enemy rolling???? Yes, this game is very popular. That does not mean FromSoft produced a well designed game. It’s quite sad this is what flew off the shelves because they’ve done better.