A FANGtastic Soulslike - Let's Talk About It: Code Vein 

You forgot to mention how god-like the music is by Go Shiina. Man deserves to be worshipped every time he shows up to grace us.

Code vein is to dark souls what god eater is to monster hunter, and I fucking dig it

Honestly, Code Vein had one of the most mysterious, captivating, and original storylines and worlds I've seen out of any game, let alone other Souls-likes, which is absolutely not what I expected when I went into it. I also absolutely loved the class system for how modular it was and how strategic and fun many of the passive and active abilities were. And the memory sequences had me downright emotional at times. While it wasn't a perfect game by far, Code Vein somehow ended up being one of the Souls-like games that felt the most memorable to me, right behind the first Dark Souls. I doubt it'll ever get a sequel... but I thought the same for Dragon's Dogma, so who knows. Hopefully if it does come out, it'll be as magical as the first.

out of the small handful of soulslike I've played, Code Vein is still by far my favorite.

13:08 LLOYD BANNINGS MENTIONED, WHAT THE FUCK IS A BARRIER??? 🗣🗣🗣🗣

Babe wake up, a new WeaponsCl video is out!

It's sad that Team Shift has been so silent these past 5 years. God Eater & Code Vein definitely have the potential to for improvement in sequels, but only if the studio is willing to commit. Bandai's reliance on FromSoft, Tales, mediocre anime fighting games & Tekken (completely overshadowing Soul Calibur) really hinders the potential of these smaller titles. It has me concerned about Team Shift's future given all the layoffs going on in the industry.

Code Vein was the first ever souls like game I ever cleared. It's one of the games that I loved despite still being stuck on an Ornestien and Smough in DS1. And failing that it still has a good camera mode and great character customization..

I still remembered how disappointed I was when it turned out scarlet nexus wasn't a code vein sequel like some people said it'd be 😢

First off, hats off to you for being one of the few youtubers who still occasionally talks about God Eater. Second, my theory is it takes place at latest before or early God Eater 2 and starts maybe like 10+ years after after the mass Aragami outbreak solely because we know the universe is connected but there was never any mention of anything similar to the Red Rain epidemic presented at the start of GE2 and if GER and the anime are anything to go off the Dyaus Pita may be a more rare Aragami so its few in numbers so it isnt impossible to rule out thats the same one that ate Alisa's parents leading it to happen during GER as well. Some people speculate it takes place during or after GE3 and personally I think thats way to late a time period and im more then positive the Ash would he corrosive to the red mist if not outright consume it.

I played this game for the insane character creation. Game was alright. This was before I knew the concept of a soulslike. This review might make me give this a try again

Minor nitpick about the Nicola "death" with jack present Jack "kills" the clone, he doesn't frenzy and turn to ash. Otherwise, very good video :) Edit after seeing the DLC bit: Yea, it's awful. I did get everything in the DLC dungeons, and it has some story regarding Jack and a previous successor, which I enjoyed a lot. It shows him and this person exploring and sealing the Horrors, that he still thinks of you (the person he murdered after you killed the queen) and is lamenting over it before it finally culminates in him killing the successor when they begin to show signs of Frenzy. A brief rundown of the DLC: The three bosses resemble Aragami. The one in the fiery oblivion or whatever is Hannibal but so much cooler. Phase one is just the typical Hannibal movements plus some, phase two involves it being like hannibal but if you broke its scale. The one in the Celestial Ice Prison, I have no idea. It has gauntlets so maybe it's supposed to resemble a Marduck? I'm not too sure, and would rather someone else look over that. Probably the easiest boss, if you can manage the two crystals that float alongside it. The one in the Eternal Abyss is supposed to resemble a Vajra/Dias Pita and is an annoying twat with phases. Yeah, that's right, phases, plural. You can kinda tell what it's gonna do when the colours on it change a little bit. It sucks. Each DLC boss requires you to follow some challenges to unlock their Cores and Vestiges to unlock their skills, which are very strong. There are a couple new blood codes unlocked by the DLC as well, besides the aforementioned ones. One or two require you to do a challenge in the boss arenas to unlock them, which you can view by looking at the sword near the boss arena. Some advice for DLC: Try, try, try. You'll have to find what works for you, and it will suck and be annoying as hell. I tried to isolate a lot of enemies where I could and if I could with some success. Mostly used a strength build to flex my way through the fights since it was what i was cozy with, but I made sure to use whatever else I could to let me keep buffing my damage with stuff like overdrive and adrenaline. Horror bosses: Hellfire Knight is weak to Thunder attacks and weapons (Kinda odd but I guess it's like fire/grass/water) Frozen Empress is weak to Fire attacks and weapons (least this makes sense) Lord of Thunder is weak to Ice attacks and weapons (no comment)

YES WE GET TO BE VAMPIRES!!!!

This is probably one of the most surprisingly good games I have ever played and one of my favourite soulslikes. The soundtrack, the art design, the skills system are all so good. The only minor dusappointment is how they massacred my boy zweihander. But I had so much fun bonking the living soul out of everything with the great mace instead.

For the time period this game takes place, I've read somewhere about the moon being green (or not green I don't remember), visible in hot springs at base. The Cathedral of Blood level and the Cathedral of Blood (dark) level are 2 different places from what i understood; i mean the cathedral where you fight Doge isn't that big. The Cathedral labirinth is my favorite level. I agree on the loadouts thing. I have a Character for almost each blood code

God bless BamCo, they try, but somehow it never works out for them.

i want a second version of this so bad. like please, make a code vein 2. this game was good, rather good to be honest.

There's a game Called AI Limit set to release this year "for now" that has a very similar look to Code Vein. We might not get Code Vein 2 any time soon but hopefully it will scratch that itch.

I love your creations at the end ❤

The only God Eater from mailine that Shift didn't work on was God Eater 3

All veils are useful for something and parry is pretty good in this game if you can pull it off reliably

I've played almost as many Souls-like games as Iron Pineapple, and Code Vein is by far my favorite. Not only is it the easiest, not only do you get an A.I. companion who's actually pretty useful, but you can play this game in co-op and it's so much fun. Thanks for taking the time to do a great review of it. It goes on sale often and I recommend it to everyone. Thanks for your review. You sounded a bit congested for most of the video, so I hope you feel better or allergy season ended. What are you looking at next? Not a whole lot of games like this and God Eater these days. Any other suggestions? I always need a recommendation of something good to play.

Brother man that Rean Schwarzer model look Metal, the character creator really something elses now it makes me depressed I didnt make anything cool back in 2020. BTW 2019 was 5 years ago, Man do I feel old now. I also remember hating the twin boss combo of Fatt dude + Ice gal, my strategy the first time was to just run around the map and try to stay alive until Yakumo kills one of the bosses. On the side note I beat the game 2 times coz game fuked me over with the Vestige collection the first time, the first playthrough Yakumo absolutly carreid me through the game and on the secand one I was mainly using Eo coz boobs Also I was disappointed at how few boobs joke were made regarding Eo massive milkers and other characters

For those coming in from this review and might be worried about the Ornstein and Smough fight of this game, the game does actually give you a huge benefit in that the two will never focus on the same person at the same time. For example if you're fighting Blade Bearer and she suddenly turns towards your ally, you are meant to switch over to fighting Cannoneer because he will be focusing you with his attacks now, and your NPC ally will also tag attention between the two so your're basically both fighting mostly 1v1s but against rotating bosses.

I actually really liked the Cathedral! I thought the aesthetics were pretty neat, and the enemies were pretty fun to fight - though some of that might be Dark Souls Anor Londo nostalgia, haha.

24:16 Mido is a successor as well and and his 3 bodyguards since they carried relics are successors as well. There is also one that was killed by Jack in the Dried-Up Trenches. One more you get to know about through some vestiges you get in the DLC's. In regards to the God Eater connection, it was obviously never confirmed and a developer said the connections were meant more as easter eggs. So until a new God Eater or Code Vein is released it's best to assume Code Vein takes place in a parallel universe. That said the DLC bosses are Aragami as well, so they are an additional connection.

I love this game I still play it

Not going to lie this game was a bit difficult for me, I had to get use to the fact that you could accidentally fall in a hole if you dodge the wrong way and sometimes movement felt a bit slow and I wished I could get more healing items. (I'm not a top tier gamer so I need all the help I can get) Also the emotes got in the way, I have no idea if there was a way to get rid of it completely, but I had to put it on a button I wouldn't accidentally push during combat. Other then that I liked the story and vibe, it was also interesting that they kind of gave the protagonist a backstory. Kind of like how they sort of give you something with the protagonist in GE3 with them being childhood friends with Hugo and being saved by Soma. I don't know what'll come first, a sequel or a crossover. Either way I hope they keep utilizing the highly detailed character customization, it was a lot of fun to use.

I'm pretty sure this game takes place during the events of god eater 1 because the Moon is White and so that mean our little friend didn't eat it. And it wound be a different color i forgot what color it turns and bright too. Also I think they should have stayed inside because there's nowhere in the world that beating some of the monstrosities that are in God Eater imagine if Ouroboros or Hannibal just pops up like they're dead. And especially God Eater 2 and 3 good God they're not surviving. But i do hope we can still meet these characters later on but I don't see them surviving especially with their weapons and how those monsters from God Eater can evolve and how fast they all are.

I'd also argue that "The Virgin Born" implies that it's the child of the Queen. Maybe a parallel to Jesus and Mary, especially considering the game's religious themes. Except in this case, I guess the Queen would be God and Silva would be Mary lol.

30:02 dont forget about Oden sandwiches from God eater 2 😂 when i first played the game i saw all these references and thought they were just call backs...then i got to this part

God eater and this one scratch both my anime and souls/ MH itches, which is no small feat. Now if this team can just go ahead and make Anime Gears of War Id be almost set! A Hack and Slash like God of War (classic) or DMC would be near but i feel like there are already games like that

I only know God Eater because of the big crossover games on the 3DS. They should make another one with Code Vein characters. Alisa and Soma interacting with them would be so cool. But yeah, souls games. I am never touching those. I am very vanilla when it comes to the type of RPGs I enjoy. Souls games just do not fit my taste. But the character creator seem pretty cool. I'm glad you enjoyed the game. Also poor Io.

Code vein. Ngl i had a really fun time with it. Also doing multiple runs. One of my mains being a recreation of ramlethal valentine, a bayonet run with bronya zaychik(normal and apho one) and dana iclucia from ys 8. The only setback is the clothes but besides thst the customization is really good.

YEEEEAH

I think rolling and parrying increases the parrying window. Doing that you parry faster.

I need to go back and playthrough this again, I’m not sure what ending I got I’m at 27:45 in the video but I know I fought this big white demon thing

That two fucking boss took me atleast 15 tries back then. Fucking ridiculous, the key is build up tank and using shortsword for extra speed attacks.

IO MY PRECIOUS, WHY SHE GONE...😢

I think I'm gonna go do a newgame+ of this game now

Not only is the character creator great, but you can also save presets and just load the looks for later; you can even bypass the unavailable options after you made your character by... starting a new game, enter the initial character creator, save to preset, gtfo, load your original save, go to the mirror to change your look, and then load the preset you made. Spent untold amount of hours just fooling around in the character creator, and on PC this goes even further with mods (I just mod in GE3 outfits in because the aesthetic match the game, along with a bunch of hairstyles). Anyway the game really encourage creative character builds, it's really easy to become OP once you find the perfect combination of skills and bloodcode which makes the experience more satisfying after all the grinding and brain exercise. I play throughout the game almost always in Co-op with a friend and it's really fun to gank on a poor enemy once in awhile. The only real criticism I have is how the animation isn't as well telegraphed as Souls, hell it's not even as good as God Eater monsters; bosses do these cheap attacks that would've been frustrating if not for the fact that your teammate can just insta revive. All in all it's pretty okay, but I must say this is the only game I know to have magic guns and that's pretty unique and novel. With the help of some mods, I've made (grown up) Tanya from Youjo Senki since that's one of the few stories I know with magic guns, quite proud with the result imgur.com/a/WUHMGpO Also I'm relieved to not be the only one playing GE hub music on the jukebox.

Code Vein: God Eater 2.5 Yes I say 2.5 because of the Vajira design that only showed up after Raging Burst was a thing and was solidified in God Eater 3.

I feel like I have a weird perspective of "Code Vein". Mainly in that, I don't like "Soulslikes" even remotely. I even thought about passing on this game after finding out it was one. But at the same time, I am a "God Eater" fan so that alone was enough to get me to just deal with it. So from a "God Eater" fan's perspective, "Code Vein" has so much "God Eater" DNA in it. Makes sense, same developer. "Code Vein" definitely is to "God Eater" what "Soulslikes" are to "Monster Hunter". Similar, if not the exact same, mechanics but just more RPG-fied. Now just add the same composer (Go Shiina), similar concepts, character designs, multiple direct and in-direct references, etc...and it's a no brainer. That said, the future is certainly uncertain, for both series unfortunately. Shift got absorbed by Bandai Namco, to the point where their company name isn't even credited anymore. Heck, even "God Eater 3" was primarily outsourced to Marvelous, only certain key staff from Shift assisting in the development. As much as I'd like either a "God Eater 4" or "Code Vein 2", who knows? At this point, I just want to complain about how poorly Bandai advertised "Code Vein" in just about every conceivable way. Like, those 40 second boss and area trailers that spoil something like 80% of the entire game and even some of its plot twists were not necessary. Even Bandai's now atrocious DLC practices were starting to show around this time. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Bandai's decision to make "Code Vein" as "Soulslike" as possible since FromSoftware were seemingly finished with "Dark Souls" around that time, so they needed a replacement of sorts.

Loved this game but the double boss fight at the end was such a rng luck bs fight lol

40:44 Well...That's a surprise

I didn’t even know what most things were

Always wanted to try a "Soulslike" game - but it would probably be best to at least try Dark Souls itself before anything else. Just something I haven't gotten around to yet. Maybe soon.

We need another code vein, yeah the dlc was ass but there is alot of potential for growth. Like i think they should retcon the god eater connection and just make it its own franchise so a sequel does make sense.

I think this video has confirmed to me that me doing the whole furry vtuber schtick is a good filter for people but that filter keeps me from being seen by folks, considering how long I talked about Code Vein in my vid. But I'm glad to see others appreciating this silly heartwarming anime soulslike.

I wouldn't necessarily call Code Vein the easiest souls game. I'd say that Strangers of Paradise: Final Fantasy is the easiest souls-game. Also a ton of fun, too, for much of the same reasons.

I also think dlc was bad because bamco doesnt understand why souls games are fun. They're the kind of challenge that feels "mostly" fair where as dlc is like "whats that? You paid attention and tried baiting out enemies to prevent an ambush? Well fuck you have 30 lost on your ass at once sucker!"

You are playing with a companion, of course it will be easy.

Wait parries aren't useful? I parried the hell out of this game.

I hope you do not cover the dlc since it's just worthless shit.

Code Vein likely takes place before GE1 considering the moon's still in one piece. I'm hesitant to say during GE2 because the Red Rain happens a lot around that time and we would've seen it by now. Definitely not during GE3 because the Ashlands forced everyone to hide underground. Also, I like to think that it's the same Dyaus Pita who turned Alisa's parents into a family combo meal considering it was still a newly-discovered species during the first game.

I love the jokes😂 also this is my favorite game 😍 it's nice to see it thrive, even though a lot of people gave it crap. Yeah it's not perfect but it's fun and i love it 😊 Also, IO is the best companion 😍🥹😭🥲🤍