Lords of the Fallen Review (time2come)
Initially I had 2 game crashes, one at 40 mins and another at 80 mins. At that time I had a dilemma as to whether refund this or to keep playing, hoping that the crashes will resolved itself(it didn't of course) as it is closer to the 2 hour playtime refund period. I tried searching for help and found one that might solve the crash issue. And oh my, that was a good decision I had made given the tight timing. I disabled NVIDIA Turbulence in the options and continue playing the game, hoping that the next crash doesn't occur at the 2hr mark. It didn't crash for the next 4 hours during my play session and I was happy with it. The next crash occurs around 12 hours+ total play time. So it is a good 10 hours+ of smooth gameplay with no crashes. I had a total of about 10 crashes for the 120 hours of playtime. That's on average about 12 hours per crash which is about enough time to beat the game. So do take note if you plan on buying this game.
I played this game and completed 3 times, with each class from scratch. The main distinction among the 3 classes is just the different starting magic, equipment and stats. All of these can be carried forward to NG+ and NG++ is the final playthrough. The fighting style will depend on the weapon equipped. It also plays similar to Dark Souls 1 with some minor differences. Compared to Dark Souls 1, this game is so much easier. You can literally beat the game without increasing your VIT(or Max HP) and using attribute & magic shards, that is how easy it is.
Unlike Dark Souls 1, this game has a EXP multiplier that increases as you defeat enemies up to a cap of 2.0. The multiplier can be saved and not reset at savepoints if you choose not to refill your health or potions. So if you play very well, you can racked up hundreds of thousands of exp and finally spend them all after some time. The other interesting thing is that bosses dropped 2 different variant of an equipment. The orange variant one will only dropped if you meet some challenge requirements, which is not stated in game but can be found online. Any equipment you have found cannot be discarded and will have no duplicates, but you can keep both variant of the boss equipment if you play NG+. The exp gained can be banked into either attributes or magic.
Overall the game is rather short at around 10+hrs and I had much fun playing it. You can try this game out if you don't mind the occasional crashes and the rather slow pace of Dark Souls 1 combat. There is currently a 95% off steep discount which is good value as it includes all DLC.
8/10