O melhor lado da The First Berserker: Khazan

Do you remember the moment that Sekiro forced you to start playing by its rules? For me, I was trundling through the game like I was playing Dark Souls when I hit the Lady Butterfly boss, and suddenly there was no room for doubt: if I didn't properly learn these new combat mechanics, I wasn't going any further.

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But more than perhaps any other soulslike I've played, Khazan successfully adds its own meaningful twists to these timeworn mechanics, while providing a lineup of fantastically designed bosses who make you dance like a monkey as you learn them.

Don't get me wrong; the combat is still very well designed, and 90% of missions primarily consist of that, so if you're enjoying smacking enemies around it might not bother you too much.

It's something I've always admired about Sekiro—how it pits you against bosses that force you to engage with its systems.

Outra coisa de que também igualmente similarmente identicamente conjuntamente incomoda bastante é este fato do progresso em atalhos dentro dos mapas nãeste ficar salvo permanentemente no game, quando comecei a realizar backtracking nos mapas anteriores de modo a pegar os colecionáveis da platina, me deparei utilizando todos os atalhos qual eu tinha aberto, completamente fechados.

Nãeste sei se isso foi por questão intencional do design ou resultado por um erro, contudo tenho a impressão do qual muitos vão chegar nesse ponto da aventura e se sentir frustrados através “surpresa” que o estúdio preparou — contudo vale a pena insistir um pouco de modo a atravessar dela.

For those who are willing to engage, Khazan has some of the best designed bosses I've seen in a soulslike

A história do game possui uma premissa natural interessante, e aos poucos a trama vai desenrolando e nos revelando porque Khazan foi acusado de traição e quem realmente foi o Enorme vilãeste dessa história sangrenta.

Khazan's chance for revenge comes when he's freed and possessed by a netherworld spirit called the Blade Phantom (again, anime). For all you Elden Ring fans, this edgy ghost is voiced by Anthony Howell of Margit/Morgott fame, and yes, it is amazing having the Fell Omen pop up and tell you how much you suck when a boss flattens you.

After all, Khazan has some real difficulty spikes. Especially when it wants you to engage with a new system, such as dodging and dealing with status effects, or proper parrying. Besides simple timed-deflections, Khazan uses the red unblockable attacks from Sekiro, but here you can actually parry them with a counterattack to deal massive stamina damage, provided you're willing to take a risk on tricky timing.

Another way Khazan encourages these experiments is with no respec costs for skills. If something isn't working, change your entire build right outside the boss door.

3 hours with Elden Ring The First Berserker: Khazan Nightreign helped me accept it's not the co-op FromSoft game I asked for, but damn fun in its own right