Review: Immortal: Unchained (PlayStation 4)

Unleashed and unforgiving. Can you rise to the challenge? Immortal: Unchained is the latest addition to the genre of ultra-hardcore action RPGs. Take the role of a living weapon, unleashed to stop the source of a cataclysmic event threatening to end all worlds.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 18.41GB Download size.
• Dark Souls like ARPG gameplay.
• Platinum trophy.
• Massive sprawling gameworld with many many secrets, pathways, and shortcuts to unlock.
• Dark Souls like but set in a Sci-Fi world with gunplay.
• Chips- Collect from kills/pickups and used to level up.
• Boss battles of epic proportions.
• Guns randomly drop from enemies.
• Loot lust is strong.
• Gorgeous locations.
• Opening tutorial area complete with a boss.
• Level up- Highlight the stat and see what it changes before committing.
• Loadout- Guns and melee slot. You unlock multiple slots as you level up.
• Atmospheric soundtrack.
• Upon death, you drop any collected bits and have one life to retrieve them.
• Obelisks- Save point but also where you go to change loadout and spend bits and level up.
• Decent loading times.
• Controller- Invert axis, lock on, aim assist and sensitivity sliders.
• Character creator- Name,sex,discipline,skin colour,tatoos,hairstyle,hair colour, body and head tatoos.
• Main hub- Here you can converse with any NPC there, level up and choose a portal (world) to enter.
• Six disciplines- Tracker, Vandal, Raider, Wanderer, Marksman, and Mercenary. Each one has unique strengths and weaknesses and unique stats.
• Damage types- Acid, Physical, Frost and energy.
• Weapons have strict stat restrictions meaning if you don’t match up then you cannot use it.
• Can scrap and upgrade weapons.
• Aspects- Unlock slots, find them from loot drops and add additional buffs.
• Play/unlock worlds and levels how you like.
• Armour shrines- find these and interact to permanently increase your armor.
• Interesting story and characters.

Cons:

• No online interactions.
• Controls take some getting used too, Weird unnatural at first layout.
• Gets a fair bit of slowdown.
• Enemies hit way too hard.
• Bits and progression are weird as bits ()used for leveling) are also needed to pay for portals to open up.
• Not everything gets explained well.
• Constant cheap deaths.
• Sound messes up and skips a lot.
• Despite being about guns, Ammo is surprisingly tight.
• Progress is slow.
• Takes a while to get going.
• At times you feel completely lost.