DO NOT BUY Lords of the Fallen

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Lords of the Fallen, and as an avid fan of

soulslike games, I knew I just had to play

this game. Unfortunately, so far it's been

kind of bland, boring, and disappointing,

kind of like an Elden Ring clone but

lacking in luster in almost every single

area. So obviously this game has taken a

lot of inspiration from games like Dark

Souls and Elden Ring, and it tries to

imitate those games right down to every

single detail. And I guess that's what

they were going for here. They wanted to

capture the interest of Souls players,

but for some reason it just doesn't quite

feel like a Souls game. It looks like one

and it runs like one, but there's

something missing. I've been playing

Soulslike games for years and this has to

be one of the worst renditions of a

Soulslike game compared to games like Lies

of P, which is a much far more superior

take on the Soulslike genre. Lords of the

Fallen just kind of falls flat on many

points. So first of all, the combat is

kind of dull and boring and it's far too

easy. For example, being able to parry the

enemies was always something very

challenging and only the most skilled

players could do in soulslike games. But

in Lords of the Fallen, it's really easy

to parry enemies. The window of

opportunity to parry and do timing-based

stuff is very generous and forgiving,

which makes you feel like, wow, this game

is really easy. The enemies and the bosses

are very generic, like big giant

zombie-looking creatures or very

demonic-looking creatures. It's something

you would expect from Elden Ring, and none

of the enemies or the bosses will really

surprise you or give you like a unique new

experience that you haven't done before.

It just feels like a very bog-standard

Souls game, and there's nothing really new

being done here. As for the optimization

of the game, the game kind of runs very

poorly even though I'm running a pretty

good system. I've got an RTX 3060 with

12GB of RAM. I've got a 10th generation

Core i7 CPU, and my computer is quite

good. It was quite expensive, and this

game just runs like utter garbage. I

already had to turn the graphics down to

low and had to put DLSS onto ultra

performance, and the game looks rubbish,

and it was still not exactly super smooth,

and I don't understand why the

optimization in this game is so bad. I

should be able to play this game on at

least medium to high settings, but I just

can't. For some reason, my system really

struggles to play this game, and I don't

understand why that should be the case.

So the main gimmicky thing in this game is

you have this lantern that gives you

access to the Land of the Dead, which is

like an alternate universe where

everything is dead, and then you can use

the lantern to solve puzzles and and you

can like see into the world of the dead,

or you can enter the world of the dead to

access areas that you wouldn't be able to

access usually. And I guess it looks kind

of interesting, but really it's kind of

lame and not very original. I mean, other

games have done this thing where you kind

of have access into a parallel universe.

One game that comes to mind is Hogwarts

Legacy. You could also do that in that

game where you would use these mirrors to

gain access to another reality, and then

you could use the other reality to move

objects around and solve puzzles so you

can access the next area. Actually,

Starfield also did this exact same

mechanic in a certain questline where you

had access to an alternate reality, a

different multiverse, and then you could

flip between the 2 multiverses to get

through areas. Like in one multiverse,

the doors are locked, but then you go into

the other multiverse, everything's on fire

and damaged and doors are broken down,

and then you can access those rooms. And

then you flip back to the normal reality

to access the computers. So it's just like

that. It's kind of cool in the beginning,

I guess, but then it just— you kind of

realize, oh, this is just like a gimmick

so I could do puzzles. And also, when you

die, you start off in the Land of the Dead

again so you can respawn. That's kind of a

cool idea, I guess, but I wasn't really

sold entirely on this whole Land of the

Dead gimmick, and it just kind of gets

annoying after a while. It's also annoying

how big the game is. You'd think that'd be

a good thing considering you'd want an

open world, But the lack of a proper map

really makes things confusing. For

example, you get a key to open a door,

but the game doesn't really tell you

clearly where you need to go, and you end

up frustratingly running all over the

place trying to figure out where to go,

and the game doesn't really give you many

hints. So after these complaints, I don't

really know if I can recommend this game.

It's about £50 or £60, I'm not sure.

It's pretty expensive, but it's pretty in

line with how much games are costing these

days. But this seems like a lot of money

for what you get, and I don't really feel

like what you get is worth £60. I feel

like this should be a £20 game, maybe £25.

It could be a bit of fun if you're really

into Souls games, but this isn't going to

be the next Elden Ring. Let's not kid

ourselves here. It's not going to be like

a massive blockbuster game that everyone

gets taken surprised by. This is just

another one of the many new Souls games

coming out recently trying to jump on the

Elden Ring bandwagon. But I don't really

feel like this game is worth it. If you

really love Souls games, games, then you

might want to give this a try anyway, but

if you don't really care that much, you

could skip this game and it wouldn't

really matter too much. I don't feel like

this is going to be like the next Baldur's

Gate or game of the year that no one was

expecting. So unfortunately, I'm gonna

have to give this game a do not buy

recommendation, and I'd give it a 6.2 out

of 10. It's not really that great. I think

Lies of P did a much better job at being

unique and interesting with its own unique

flair and style. This game just looks like

it's trying too hard to be a Souls game

like Dark Souls or Elden Ring. So you

might be wondering why my voice sounds

kind of weird. It's because I got sick

again. I didn't know you could get sick 2

times in a row. So I got pretty sick about

2 weeks ago. I had— I think it was

influenza. I had a fever, temperature,

splitting headache, and Also a sore

throat and coughing. And I thought, I

thought I recovered from that because it

mostly went away a couple days ago, and I

felt fine again, started going to school

again. But then I started getting a sore

throat again and also got a bit of a

temperature again a couple days ago, and

massive cough, really bad sore throat.

It felt so painful. Now my voice is just

wrecked, so I don't know if it's the same

sickness that never fully recovered, and

these are like the final stages of

infection. I think I beat off most of the

infection, and then it's— it started to

come back again. I don't know how it

works. Or did I just fully recover and

then get sick again from another infection

that was like completely separate and new?

It's really annoying because, you know,

I've got to make videos, but my voice

sounds weird, like a robot. I sound like

a robot. I'm really getting fed up of

getting sick. It makes it so hard to do

anything, especially when you need to use

your voice. When your voice gets messed up

and it hurts to talk because you've got a

sore throat and stuff. Really, mates,

doing the YouTube thing, really pain in

the backside. I don't know what it is

about Thailand. Ever since I got here, I

feel like my body has just been under

constant attack with weird things I never

really had before. Diarrhea every day,

weird hand rashes and blisters that only

went away after I started putting on

topical corticosteroid cream. Mouth ulcers

because I got sick and I wasn't eating

much. I guess I had vitamin deficiency,

which made all these ulcers appear in my

mouth and my tongue. And gum infection

from my wisdom tooth. It's one thing after

another, isn't it? I just, I can't seem to

get healthy and stay healthy. I don't know

what's gonna be next. I didn't change my

diet. I'm just eating the same stuff I

usually ate back home in the UK or

anywhere else I go. So I don't know what's

causing my stomach to get so upset every

time I go to the toilet, and I don't know

what's causing these weird things on my

skin, like my hands and inside my mouth.

Yeah, it's just really exhausting.