Check Out | Bleak Faith: Forsaken 

6 patches later it controls pretty well with a controller. Level design is amazing, soundtrack is banging too

Would love to see you cover Remnant: From the Ashes with the sequel coming out soon! Definitely an underrated gem that could use more coverage!

I feel like this game is worth holding off on for 6 months or so.. That way people can have a better first impression with the game. It’ll be better for the game in the long run to minimize the overwhelming amount of negative reviews

Seeing reports that this game might have used combat motion from Elden Ring in a roundabout way. Seems it was extracted by someone and is being sold on the Epic market, then most likely purchased and used here unaware fully by the devs. Motion matches up in this game and Elden Ring with some side by side video being shown in the stories. Be interesting to see how this plays out and how/if it affects this game's reception.

I think Bleak Faith's mixed reception is somewhat related to quite high expectations (thanks to the rather impressive trailers) being hit with the janky reality. I mean this as a compliment to the previews, game's artstyle and ambition. Fingers crossed the devs will solve the issues and polish the game to be a great soulslike.

The game is unfinished and unpolished, it need at least a year of development and patches, but the bones of a great game are all there, I hope the devs achive all the necessary improvments for this game, which is a lot

Fair warning to people here: there are no i-frames on dodges. It's going to feel very strange to Souls-like vets.

As far as my excitements were, for me, it's already great enough if it surpass aspects from Mortal Shells.

Keep em coming.

Stoked to see you covering this game. I've been playing it for the kast two days and loving it despite the jank. They've had a less than ideal launch, but I believe this game has tremendous potential.

The main thing that gets to me about the combat is the lack of IFrames. I know this is by design, but it really makes combat a pain.

I was actually really hyped for this game - the visuals and theming looked really promising - but then the reviews came in and I'm so damn over games releasing in a broken state that I just kicked this from my list outright after reading over a couple. I'm still stuttering my way through Wo Long, I don't need more of that. Maybe it'll be ready for release in a couple months...

This game should have been an Early Access release at best. It has a lot of potential (love the world) but it's terribly buggy, among many other issues you shared. The jump feels like you're on the moon, the hitboxes are all over the place (no s wtf) and controllers are practically unsupported. I know you like the latter Mortismal (you're the M&K Souls freak lol) but having M&K as the preferred method by devs in this type of game was a bizarre decision. I don't mind some jank, like Hellpoint had, but it's too messy atm. Trying to make this a platformer with that awful jump, and inconsistent climbing locations, this team could have used a closed beta, if only for an outside perspective. If they made this an EA release, it wouldn't be getting so much flack. An unfinished product is terrible, regardless of your team size.

I'd love to see this game getting stitched up a bit by the time we get around to the console releases, but I don't really hold out much hope for stable console ports when the PC version feels this undercooked. It needed at least another year in the oven to be launch-ready, and it already had multiple delays as it is. What a shame.

The artstyle is incredible. I hope the game gets better with future updates.

I remember this game being announced like wayyy back. One of their teaser trailers of gameplay was even a bit choppy in FPS.

Didn't hear your intro soundbyte this vid, so I thought for sure my computer was muted. Keep up the great content!

i literally just found this on steam a few moments ago and it looks very kool already

Thank you for your honest impression on this game, im having a good time playing it!

Just love that world design. Glad the combat is passable

Thanks for the video. The ladder problem gives me MGS3 vibes. How can you make a ladder a boss? Kojima found a way. Onward to 200k. All glory to the algorithm.

Because of this video I bought the game, but waited until a few days ago to play it. The devs have continued to update the game all year, and it's actually in a pretty good state now! I really enjoyed my time with it, and I'd love to see a new video of you giving it another try!

I bought it at launch and it's indeed really janky, maybe they should have released it in early access, but I'm loving it nonetheless. The world, the music and the artstyle are absolutely amazing and the combat is quite different from dark souls because of the lack of i-frames. I prefer to support an unpolished yet good game made by 3 people instead of an unfinished 80 euros AAA game that will stutter on my pc because everybody forgot how to fucking optimize games these days

It seems that the story of Bleak Faith Forsaken is.. uh.. Bleak? Huh?

It looks a lot like if Hellpoint and Mortal Shell had a baby, you get Bleak Faith

the world design and exploration are top notch, but everything else feels legit broken most of the time. This should have been an early access title with plans to do another year of dev to fix the core feel of the game and bugs. I dont know how many patches we will see with this as it is, its a shame

Anyone knows how to equip shield or use the lower sword? Don't know if it's bugged or super hard to find.

That stairs thing cant be right. Star Wars taught me the one with the high ground always wins.

How would you compare this to Clash:artifacts of chaos,both soulslike how is the gameplay

According to my boom-bust-cycle-calender, we only need to suffer through 2 more years of souls-like games until we can get different genres again.

Hey Mort, would you ever consider giving Nioh 2 a try? I'm not sure how much of an endeavor that would be since I myself just started it a few days ago but.. it's a lot of fun. I would love to hear your thoughts.

So many reviews so far are all hating on this game you on other hand are always fair pros/cons ty for first impressions the game world looks insane.

I was going to write how it should be retitled to Bleak Faith: Jank but you beat me to it around the 30-second mark.

This reminds me of hellpoint which is another souls like thats worth giving a try, one with split screen coop.

For those who have read the manga "BLAME!" This game looks like an adaptation of that. If only it had less Jank. Because I feel like that inspiration is there.

Once it's out on PS5 (if ever) I will definitely give this a shot.

I was looking at this the other day and the art style is really intriguing, but I would've preferred to see a team of this size utilize the art style for a different genre of game. If you can't nail the hit box port aspect of the soulslike, you aren't worth playing, and I imagine that's a huge ask of such a small team. 10/10 on style though.

Good show sir

I want this so bad on ps5... mortal shell was way too short (very good tho)

Super jank, but I love it. I think it suffers from being called a soulslike. It is a soulslike in principle, but it feels much more like Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Super Metroid and Dark Souls 1.

oooh man, i was so hyped for this game but when i heard it was made by only three people i knew it wasnt gonna be good. well, waiting for the next one i guess

Inspired by the Japanese manga 'Blame!' It definitely needs polishing.

Really cool looking game. Maybe a little too janky for me, though. Couldn't help but notice while you fought "Konrad the Traitor" the numerous times his weapon seemed to pass right through you. Weird hitboxes are a big sticking point for me, unfortunately. I'll wishlist it and check it again in a few months.

Full review coming?

Def my type of game but like with all of them, indie or ZZZ, Ill check it out in a yr or 2.

This game came out at bad time too. With people still playing Wolong and RE4 coming out later this month.

Good to see how well you covered this game so far, there is so much unwarranted hate sorrounding it... Im glad to see the content creators I like to follow have had a more sensible aproach to this one. Great content, as usual.

For a game that is developed by only three people it's great

My main problems with most Soulslikes: (1) FromSoft: Story is mysterious, ambiguous; Soulslike: We don't really need a story, just some weird references. (2) FromSoft: Animations, movement and hitboxes are key: Soulslike: It needs to look like Dark Souls and/or have similar UI layout plus bonfire equivalents. (3) FromSoft: Interconnected world to limit backtracking and frustration; Soulslike: We need ladders, lots of ladders - and elevators. That's not to say this particular game is bad, just that there are so many games that imitate the style but can't capture the magic.

I tried a soulslike once. Fool me once...canna fool me again! ;)

Combat is to floaty for me

Interesting though the aesthetic seems a little weird. Clearly you have robots in a modern/futuristic cityscape, but some scenes look more like the dark ages. Which says nothing of the fact that you have robots running around in medieval arms and armor! Weird.

I love/hate how I immediately knew most of what there is to know about this game just by looking at the thumbnail.

I was really excited for this game because visually it's pretty great with Blame! references and all but oh boy is it awful to play... Gameplay is really too jank to be enjoyable for me and the lack of any i-frames makes it even worse. I was expecting some Hellpoint level of jank but it's way too much here.

I dislike that the perks are permanent. Why not empower the player and make them freely changeable based on the need of the situation?

the controls are so horrible in this game that I refunded, it literally feels unplayable, just trying to walk forward had my character going in zigzags, so good luck platforming.

Forsaken you say lol

Honestly I am tired of Souls-like games. It's like superhero movie genre for gaming. Most of them have almost non-existent basic stories all in the sake of the action. No big adventure or discovery, no memorable characters(except a handful of bosses) or quests.

I don't know how you'll be able to 100% this game lol

hello, free comment.

Models and animations seem good, better than an actual Souls game, but they are trying too hard to look and feel like a Souls game. Although I am definitely interested to see where the studio goes from here.

The stories are so bad. They don't need to go exactly with the souls story. You can have the combat and create an actual good interesting story.

Hi Mortym! I really wanted this game to be good. But, sadly, it seems the movement and combat is janky as all heck. I watched Asmongold and CohhCarnage play some, and wow, it's not good. Hopefully, the devs will fix it up in some patches. Love the setting and the art direction though. Still keeping it on my wish list.

Game is jank as fuark but it’s still fun

Gonna wait, saw way too many bad reviews so far.

It looks VERY janky but coming from three dudes, that's nice. I hope they update the game

i just stick with FromSoft games

Hmm idk. Game seems bleak

I really wished developers stopped looking at Dark Souls and say to themselves "heeeey that's great combat, we should copy that!". I feel like the combat is so damn limiting and only allows for bullshit to shape it up to be difficult, like 50 attack chains that have a gap once in a blue moon. If they don't combine it with clever avoidance like dodge attacks, jumping, parrying, it's just a wait for your turn simulator.

It's unplayable with Controller.

the game is in a horrible state, giant mobs get stuck 80% of the time and they are bugged as hell , some of them insta kill you when you mount them , other ads are missing telegraphs on their attacks , missing sound effects etc , from what ive heard the review copies are much better than the sales ones , if you wanna play it i would recomment waiting for some serious patches