I wanted to play a souls like but was bored of all the actual Fromsoft games (I’ve played them a fucking lot) so I started up Remnant: From the Ashes to give it another shot. I got passed 2 bosses a few years ago when I was given the game, but didn’t get into it at all.

I’m reading more of the text this time and the story is kinda cool. Very Stargatey. The style is kinda weird for weirdness’ sake though, and the RNG is fucking annoying (I keep getting super unlucky and having event swarm after event swarm and then I don’t even get any good loot!). The bosses are hella bullshit difficulty. Like knowing the patterns isn’t really helpful since the main boss doesn’t really do much, but so far all of them have spawned swarms of small, fast moving enemies that do more damage than the giant monster does when it hits you with a big-ass brick.

I kinda want to see if the second one is better. I would imagine it has to be to have gotten somewhat popular. I hadn’t heard of the first until it was gifted to me; but the second one was all over the net when it first dropped.

That isn’t to say it’s a bad game. It’s one of those things that has the right ideas, but the implementation is just not very well done.

Edit: God damn. I just finished it. When I made this comment, I thought I was only half way through. That was short as shit. I got… 12 hours on this character. My God. I wasn’t even rushing! I was checking every single nook and cranny and exterminating every enemy before leaving a zone.