Bleak Faith Forsaken Review (PlayStation 5)

Bleak Faith Forsaken Review, Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.

Bleak Faith Forsaken Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 6.51GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Display settings – gamma slider, sharpening, saturation, and global preset process (default/cel-shaded/sharp/nightmare/sega/silent dream) which affects resolution and visual quality.
• Controller settings – two default layouts, can remap the controls, Invert axis, and sensitivity sliders, aim assist, aiming sensitivity slider, Haptic vibrations, and deadzone sliders.
• Camera settings – camera shake intensity, camera distance slider, soft lock-on, dynamic lock-on, override directional attacks, lock-on distance slider, and lock-on sensitivity slider.
• User interface settings – ui scale slider, display Hud, combo UI position, general slots position, simplified stamina bar, chromatic aberration, floating mini hid, and floating damage numbers.
• General settings – strafing, directional attacks, archery mode, directional swimming, tutorials, corpse disposal, combo timing, I frame timing, and show cloak.
• In-game cutscenes and character interactions.
• A full 3D world with 360-degree camera control.
• You can skip cutscenes.
• The opening cutscene is long but does enough to grab you and make you want to see what is going on.
• You can pause the game.
• Action adventure gameplay.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play showing text and a video.
• Is a Soulslike game.
• Full inventory and item management system.
• Loot can be found in the world, and drop randomly from enemies.
• Stamina is used for running, jumping, and fighting.
• Loot picked up will show in the log on the right of the screen so you always know what you picked up.
• Find fast travel points throughout the land.
• Despite the obvious dark tone, the world they have created is fascinating and visually alluring.
• Quick select for potions and you can set up hotkeys.
• Combos play a part in the game as a good combo will use less stamina, do bonus damage, and can sometimes make the attack unblockable. Bad combos are the complete opposite.
• A cool thing I appreciate is a stamina bar floating by your shield as it helps gauge when to escape or how close you are to being staggered.
• Combat is about learning patterns, combos, and counters.
• As you earn exp you see your bar fill up.
• You can crouch to help stealth up on enemies.
• The world is massive, you can go about exploring it however you like, unlock shortcuts, and find secret areas.
• You can interrupt combos and attacks easily with dodging and jumping.
• Gear and weapons will show stats and ratings next to your equipped gear and weapons making it easier.
• You can level up from the menu at any point.
• The scanner item you have from the start lets you scan an area for any disturbances or collectible items that may not be visible to you or are from another dimension, it also highlights points of interest, ladders, etc.
• Intentional or not the world allows you to scale it and find little shortcuts off the beaten path with ease.
• Meet some peculiar characters on your travels.
• The game encourages exploration.
• Encumbrance plays a big part as carrying too much will slow you down for rolling and jumping etc. Luckily the inventory menu, it shows a clear easy-to-read percentage.
• As you get and use different weapons and Weapon types your heavy attack changes.

Bleak Faith Forsaken Review Cons:

• A lot of game options to go through, but luckily they have a brief description of what they do.
• Went through objects a fair few times.
• The game just opens, and you know nothing, you may like that or you may not.
• The default settings for the camera are way too sensitive.
• Even after changing the settings the writing in the menus and tutorials is really small.
• Getting on and off ladders is clunky.
• Invisible walls are everywhere.
• Using the menus is not always great, things like hitting equipment on an item or weapon can be done in the wrong section but it does nothing until you find the right section.
• You walk slower with your shield up.
• Combat takes a lot of getting used to.
• The precision to which you have to place yourself in order to loot enemies, in particular, is so precise it’s frustrating.
• It always feels like you are looking for levers and mechanisms.
• The combat is very slow in the attacks and defending.
• No matter what I do the camera always goes crazy in different ways and gets far too erratic.
• A lot of the time the loot you pick up is just potions.
• It annoys me I can loot enemies as they fall.
• Never sure when it has and will save.
• You don’t get prompts for the scanning so it’s down to you remembering to do it often.
• There is a lot of just open or dead space. Every staircase goes on for what feels like hours, simple jaunts across the battlefield into a trek.
• You seem to always be heading up until you hit a wall and then have to go down again and try a different route.
• No difficulty settings.
• Combat eventually gets quite easy, even more so if you have played Souls games before.
• A dark game and with that you miss a lot of interactive points and even people who you can interact with.
• New gear and weapons seem to just be lying around as ordinary pick-ups.
• The constant loot drops in the world look enticing but are usually always disappointing.
• You don’t get any help with guidance or even what your goal is.

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Bleak Faith Forsaken:

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Developer: Archangel Studios

Publisher: Archangel Studios

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