You have to be constantly mindful of your stamina metre, and you?re mostly swinging wildly at enemies, hoping your weapons are headed in their general direction. But, at the same time, Ashen?s combat just feels really shaky. Seeing as Ashen draws very heavily from that tradition, it should go without saying I?m lousy at it. On the one hand, I?ll point you back to what I said up top: I?m not big on the challenge of Soulsborne games, in large part because the combat is something I just don?t have the patience for. I also felt like I was missing something important when it came to the combat. Without that, you?re stuck with an AI companion who seldom does much to help you, which really takes away from one of the game?s big drawing points, which is supposed to be - and I quote - ?a massive open world, akin to the passive multiplayer of Journey.” Maybe it all works better if you have Nintendo Switch Online, but if you don?t, then I suspect that, like me, you?ll feel like you?re missing something important. On top of this, there?s a co-op aspect to Ashen that seems geared towards online play - which, I?ll confess, is something I don?t have on the Switch.
The save points are also pretty infrequent here, so the end result is that you wander around for awhile, then get killed and lose all your stuff, and you have to wander around even more just to get back to where you started. While it?s kind of neat to have to explore a world with not much idea of what lurks around the corner, at the same time it felt like the structure of Soulsborne games - where you push through an area, figure out where to pick and fight your battles, and move on - works better in more limited spaces. Ashen takes place in an open-world that seems rather sizeable. The game?s design also, arguably, works against it. They vary a little here and there, but none of them are all that memorable. Where those games made you feel like you were constantly engaged in epic battles with big, scary monsters, here you?re generally fighting faceless, nondescript enemies. In fact, if anything, I found even less to like here than in, say, Dark Souls or Demon’s Souls. I?d like to say that Ashen changed my mind about the genre, but…well, that would be a lie. I don?t play games to be constantly challenged, and, obviously, that?s pretty much the whole point of those games. I know that puts me in a minority - particularly around these parts - but they?re just not my thing. Confession time: I don?t like Soulsborne games.
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