Recent reviews by Edith

its the best one

while the game is of high quality its hard to actualy learn, all the upgrades dont tell you anything about the upgrade, its just flavour text, in some cases it gives you a general idea of what the upgrade does, but very often the upgrade description doesnt say anything useful or hides critical info [for example desperado's top path having a wind down if he attacks for long enough even if theres not alot of bloons on screen]
alot of optional game modes also struggle with teaching the player how to play, golden bloon just zoops around the level and skips all of your defences and you wont be told why, boss bloons are impossible enless you decide to dedicate your entire game to farming money, paragon degrees have entire mathematical equasions you need to follow just to make sure they dont suck.

usualy i dont mind games obscuring info from players for the sake of mystory or discovery however hiding the games mechanics in a casual game about poping bloons feels awful

additionaly alot of the bonus game modes dont have any good awards, the only reward for poping gold bloons [a really challanging and unfun sidemode] is 2 monkey money, winning with monkey teams awards you with ~8 monkey money

teh devs should, in my opinion, add better upgrade descriptions and introduce an explenation manu for some of the side content to not make it frustratingly confusing [and rework golden bloons not to be awful]

this game is great n all but yall gotta actualy fix the game coz omg every time i reccomand it i need to add in a ton of side notes about how broken it is

why is this game so emotional

really frustrating and too rng dependent

hot

why is this game so good

horrable controlls borderline unplayable

fish

DS2 - the best one
ER - alright but has flaws
DS1 - dated, better as a proof of consept
DS3 - actualy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

gameplay: gone is the metroidvania like exploration and the need to explore to progress, the game is just leniar, there is one path you may go down, every playthrough is the same, its just a question of how you murder the enemies, powerstances are gone meaning theres no reason to dual wield weapons.

audio: the game has horrable audio balancing, if you keep the audio so you can hear the enemies and the envoirment well, then every dragon and random goop enemy will blow your eardrums out, so you either play with the game audio in a way where these enemies deafen you or you lower the game's volium down untill you basicaly dont have audio on

visuals - EVERYTHING IS JUST GRAY, also its hard to see importent things in the envoirment because of that coz it all melts in to gray sluge in the brain, god help you if you try to find a resqued npc in firelink, they will melt in to the envoirment and you will not find them

other notes - pretend ds2 didnt happen, not only are things from ds1 back, the lore established by 2 is completely ignored, the 'the time line is convoluted' is a terrable excuse to reuse old charicters and imagery, the lore of ds2 establishes that the cicle of fire and ash has been happening for so long that entire civilesations can rise and fall and get forgotten so thourghly that no one knows they existed, yet despite that, in ds3 which takes place so far in the future, inexplicably has black knights and anorlondo back. the lore is a mess held together by excuses. also the imput buffering/detection is worse then before, you will kick and roll despite not wanting to, why even bring the kick back, that feature ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucked.

i really tried to understand why people like this game but this game is just awful.

also the steam game cover for this game is just laughaly bad, generic souls knight in THE PISS DIMENTION, like, did they not have anything better to use?, the cover art for ds2 is somehow a better cover for 3 because its gray af, it is reflective of what the game is like, a bad cover for a bad game

update: played the game again and ngl i stand by what i said im just less angry
i would like to point out the following: irrathil dungion is the worst thing ever, and aldrich is the worst boss ever design in the entire souls series