Animus: Revenant

I was really excited to try this game. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to refund it. I feel bad, because the developers seem responsive and passionate. Minor Issue: The difficulty of the first boss encounter and overall design of the starting area are atrocious. I love Dark Souls, and this is clearly meant to be a Souls-like. However, there is a fine line between “very challenging” and “obnoxiously difficult just because.” The parry mechanic is useless, so you’re limited to dashing under attacks, which in turn makes the locked-targeting semi-useless. After an hour spent beating the first boss, I just didn’t want to play anymore. Maybe I’m having a bad time cause I’m using a controller… who knows. Major Issue: The game consistently crashes at an area just beyond the second save point. This happened three times before I threw my hands up, said “screw this”, and decided to uninstall the game. Unrelated Thought: The game looks alright, but an HD texture pack would be a nice option. Playing on the 13 Pro Max was super underwhelming. Clearly enough people like the series for it to have remained profitable, but count me out of the player base. I’m sorry devs :(

Bought it because it looks deliriously well crafted; but especially: “Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.” …but 10Birds Does collect our personal information. Directly from their website: “ We collect general technical data pertaining to you (such as information about the device you use to access our Services, IP address, operating system, browser type, program or system error messages and other system information).” It’s called triangulation. It’s a form of fingerprinting. It’s a way to track then sell your movements in cyberspace; and in the meatspace. (That is to say: share your activities in computers and in the real world.) You don’t respect us. Deleted unused. Bye.

Difficulty was tough but rewarding but seems like it got nerfed in the most recent patch. More importantly, the game is still crashing in the middle of the Breach Knight fight over and over (not at the same point either). Can the devs please fix this?