Unlike previous games in the series, Genesis opts for a top down perspective, like a traditional dungeon crawler. It’s good that their relationship is so centered, because you’ll need both of them to get anything done. Genesis offer support for both online and split-screen play, and the game ups the challenge with more enemies and more complex puzzles that require both Horsemen to solve.” “The game is fine solo, but it’s great in co-op. Their relationship is the best part of the game’s narrative, and it grounds a story that would otherwise get lost in proper nouns and Christian mythology. These characters clearly care about each other, but they also fight, as brothers do. He’s enormously enjoyable – and the heart of the game’s story – and watching him trade barbs with War is a lot of fun. He takes his mission just as seriously as War does, but he’s more prone to questioning orders, open to enriching himself if the possibility arises, and determined to have as much fun as he can.īoth characters are playable, but this is Strife’s game. He’s also a jokester, with a quip or a sarcastic comment for every situation, which annoys War. He can’t stand toe to toe with his foes the way War can, but he makes up for it with his evasiveness and ability to cause a lot of pain in a short period of time.
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He’s fast and lithe, capable of dodging enemy attacks gracefully before filling them full of lead with his twin pistols or cutting them to pieces with his short swords. He has no patience for delay, and anyone who double-crosses him or threatens The Balance will soon find themselves getting well acquainted with the pointy end of his blade. Out of battle, he’s reserved, serious, honorable, annoyed by puzzles, and incapable of understanding jokes. War, muscular, covered in armor, and wielding his enormous Chaos Eater sword, is at his best wading into the enemy, shrugging off damage, and slicing them in two. The two brothers couldn’t be more different. That said, what Airship Syndicate does here works well, and that’s largely due to the interplay between War and Strife. He’s enormously enjoyable – and the heart of the game’s story – and watching him trade barbs with War is a lot of fun.” “Both War and Strife are playable, but this is Strife’s game.
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Genesis gets a bit of a pass because, as a prequel, it actually does help us understand how we got to the original game, but it’s still a little frustrating. I understand that the plan was to introduce each of the Horsemen in their own games before bringing them together, but come on. It’s been nearly a decade since the original game, and we’re still waiting for what happens next. It would be like if Bungie had decided that the best thing they could do after Halo 2’s cliffhanger would have been to develop Reach and then ODST so we’d have all of the backstory we’d need before finally finishing the story in Halo 3. Darksiders ends on a compelling cliffhanger and a promise of more to come, but all of its sequels have either been side stories showing what Death and Fury were doing while War was off doing War things, or in the case of Genesis, a prequel.
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The core issue remains the same that every game in the series has had since the original game: it doesn’t actually advance the story.
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Before you know it, they’re rampaging around Hell, causing all kinds of ruckus.ĭarksiders’ story has always been pretty silly, and full of proper nouns, but it’s generally pretty engaging despite all that, and Genesis does a good job of spinning its yarn through dialogue, and a series of beautifully drawn cutscenes. With Death and Fury off handling other things, the duty falls to War and Strife. It seems that Lucifer, Lord of all Hells, is plotting to upset The Balance again, so the Horsemen have to figure out what he’s up to and stop him. Their work done, The Charred Council, a group of fiery talking heads responsible for maintaining The Balance between Heaven, Hell, and Earth, has called them back and given them a new mission. And most importantly, it feels like Darksiders.Īs its subtitle implies, Genesis takes place before the original game, right after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – in this case, War, Death, Fury, and Strife – have killed all of the Nephilim, who were half-angel and half-demon and the former brothers and sisters of the new Horsemen – after they tried to take Eden from humanity. Genesis is something else again, merging the best parts of Darksiders and Darksiders II with a little bit of Diablo.
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The original was a clear homage to Zelda the second was a love letter to loot-based, open world action RPGs, and the third very much wanted to be a From Software game. It never stands still, moving from genre to genre, tackling whatever the studio working on it – be it the late Vigil Games, Gunfire Games, and now Airship Syndicate – wants it to be. Darksiders has always been kind of a weird series.