But it’s mostly the same drill that you’re familiar with. There are two slots on the character equip screen, but it’s not obvious how these work. Silver can equip two sets of weapons and shields, maybe. As I said, this is a pervasive issue with games like this. But nope, things mostly just play like a worse Dark Souls. The game should probably have its own combat instead of copying something else’s if it wanted to come at it from a different angle.Īt the very least, some new things could have been brought to the table to really change things up. It tries to balance these by giving enemies less health and reducing their damage, but this style of combat doesn’t work well for crowd fighting. The Last Oricru is also strangely focused on having you fight groups of enemies at once. Every little thing knocks Silver out of his strikes, as well.
#The last oricru plus#
It lacks the sense of weight and power the FromSoft games have, plus the attack buttons can be unresponsive. The city streets are overly samey and mostly bereft of memorable landmarks with which to right yourself. The second major area, a Naboru city, features sewers that are very easy to get lost in. Areas are confusingly laid out and visually redundant. The Last Oricru does a poor job of copying this. Areas are memorable to keep you from getting turned around, and it’s quite easy to return to bonfires and get back to where you were upon death. In the FromSoft games, exploration is usually a joy. If it isn’t, then the game does a bad job of conveying how sneaking works. If it is indeed impossible to sneak past the guards, the game does a bad job of conveying that you don’t actually have the power to change things. The Last Oricru autosaves constantly, so it’s not like I could try again. I don’t know if this is the case, though. From what I can gather, it seems impossible to not get seen, as the guards saw me even when they were looking in the opposite direction. Immediately after being told this, Silver got seen, and an NPC then lectured me on how grossly I failed at the simplest of tasks.Īggravated, I restarted the game and got back to this point. Towards the end of it, I was tasked with sneaking past some guards to go grab a weapon.
The initial monastery section functions as the game’s tutorial. Her better character design and voice acting makes me feel like an opportunity was missed, although I suppose that’s quite appropriate for The Last Oricru. Honestly, I wish Petra was the main character. He looks like some kind of generic hipster slapped in a fantasy game.
#The last oricru full#
He has a full beard and a partially-shaved head on one side with long hair on the other. It doesn’t help that Silver’s character design is atrocious. His voice is too light and sarcastic, and he feels funnier than he probably should. Silver’s voice actor doesn’t fair as well, nor does he feel like he fits the character or game.
Another human, Petra, has an actor that nails her lines. Not all the voice acting is great, mind you. You can listen to major characters speak for minutes on end, which is all fully voiced. The narrative elements come out of the gates swinging from the very beginning. If Spiders could do it with GreedFall, I feel like this could’ve been something a bit more compelling than another Dark Souls derivative. The Last Oricru would have probably been a lot better off if it did its own thing instead of aping something else and trying to staple it to its narrative elements. The combat and exploration feel at odds with the storytelling. However, the gameplay just didn’t quite cut it for me. The world-building is solid and the central conceit of choosing to ally yourself with The Last Oricru‘s factions kept me wanting to see what was next. The characterization and dialogue are, surprisingly, very good for the most part. The humans awake in a monastery run by monks of the Naboru race, which is at war with the Ratkin people. Silver came to the planet Wardenia with his shipmates, only for something to go horribly wrong (as is wont to happen). You play as a human only known as Silver.
The story is honestly quite interesting here. As such, it really didn’t need to try and copy something it never had any hopes of emulating. The thing that really smarts is that Souls combat and level design are in this game, but it mostly wants to be a story-focused action RPG. Many 3D games that aim to be “ Souls-likes” typically miss the mark on all of those things and more. I like the FromSoftware games that inspired them, but those games work because of their meticulous world design, careful combat balance, and fantastic gameplay options. As a rule, I typically don’t enjoy 3D Souls-likes.
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