Codex Lost Review (PlayStation 5)

Codex Lost Review: The new open world, spellcasting action-RPG. The grimoires have been stolen, and civilisation is in ruins. Rise, Curator! Craft ancient elemental magics and challenge the great lords who threaten to fracture reality itself. Uncover the secrets and challenges of the central realms. Roam about the open fields, delve into ancient tunnels, plunder lost ruins, and discover what mysteries lie in wait in its most hidden corners.

Codex Lost Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 19.12GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Action RPG gameplay.
• Five save slots.
• In-game cutscenes and interactions.
• Four spell types – Arcane, Fire, Lightning, and Ice. They are then split up into Basic, are of attacks, and ranged attacks.
• You start the game by picking one spell of each type.
• A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
• Third-person view.
• Excellent lighting adds a lot to the atmosphere of the fantastic-looking game world.
• Invert axis and sensitivity slider options.
• Tutorial signs on the floor that you can interact with.
• Very much a love letter game like Dark Souls and Bloodborne.
• Loadout – staff, mantle, tool, two charm slots, talisman, and three item shortcuts.
• Level up your stats for – vitality, endurance, intelligence, willpower, and memory.
• The Library acts as your safe space and hub; you choose locations to visit from the tablets.
• Handy lock on to target button.
• Enemies will have vulnerabilities to certain elemental attacks.
• You can see the enemy health bars.
• It’s easy to see items and collectables.
• Find and unlock recipes to craft new spells in the library.
• Halycons can drop or be found, and you consume these to get Arcana that is used to level up.
• Unlock new areas and locations.
• You have three bars to manage – health, mana for spells, and stamina.
• Primary spells require no mana to cast.
• Breakable objects cover the world.
• Find crafting materials and resources in the world.
• You have health crystals to heal you.
• Tense atmosphere.
• Dying sets you back to the last portal you used.
• Meet some very bizarre and memorable characters.
• Characters are voiced.
• Unlock shortcuts and find hidden areas.
• Loot chests are hidden all around.
• Your shield is a protective bubble that slows you down but absorbs damage; you can time it right to parry attacks.
• Lore can be found as you discover it.
• You get one life to recollect dropped Arcana from a death.
• Mystery fonts act as a fast travel point, but you can only ever have one activated at a time.
• The compass plays a huge part; finding a compass altar will show you where fonts are and help with navigation, and you can only see them with the compass.

Codex Lost Review Cons:

• Horrible mouse cursor-style system.
• You cannot remap the controls.
• Tutorials are not always ideal; you can miss them, and they can be a bit outdated by the time you find them.
• You, in fact, cannot see any of the controls.
• The controls take some getting used to.
• You don’t get great feedback on damage and being at low health.
• Healing can be slow, as in the animation, and time for it to activate.
• Balancing health and mana is fiddly and frustrating at first, mostly due to the lack of feedback and ability to quickly check in on them.
• The game likes the trick of hiding enemies in tight corridors and on corners.
• The lighting causes you to miss item pickups.
• You can’t actually pause the game.
• Enemy aggro is way too sensitive.
• Cheap deaths are very common.
• It’s not that easy to just run back to the library.

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Codex Lost:

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Developer: Freemana

Publisher: Jandusoft

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