Tempy wrote:

My only complaint so far is I wish I could swap Block and Aim without having to swap Light and Heavy Attack

acemuzzy wrote:

Circle not rolling is confusing.

You can change any buttons around in the PlayStation menus settings.

Things I love about the combat:

1. Freezing enemies with precision throws to the head.
2. Shattering frozen enemies.
3. Kicking frozen enemies into other enemies.
4. Tripping enemies by throwing the axe at their legs then following up by cleaving them in half.
5. Juggling enemies in the air.
6. Throwing the axe into an airborn enemy and pinning them to a tree.
7. Using an enemy as a club to beat another enemy.
8. Parrying.
9. Parrying a projectile and returning it to the sender.
10. Knocking enemies off cliffs, platforms, high places.
11. Runic attacks.
12. The generous cooldown on the runic attacks meaning you never feel bad about using them.
13. Using runic attacks that have invincibility frames to tank big hits and perform immediate follow ups.
14. Hand to hand combat.
15. The BOY and his bow.
16. Using the shield to guard break enemies.
17. Recalling the axe through enemies.
18. The genuine utility of the positional callouts from BOY.

That's a nice list Cinty.
I watched some Twitch of this on launch night and the combat looked really dull but I think it was because everyone was so early on in the game.

I am a big fan of the original trilogy and although that combat wasn't deep it was exciting visually. Got to do one or the other, depth or visuals, ideally both.

Good to hear.

Childintime wrote:

Dark Soldier wrote:

Genuinely feel like hammering Dark Souls shieldless has prepared me well, still keep forgetting to use it.

This is not the type of game where a shield is a crutch for more conservative play - it’s invaluable for parry and guardbreak as well as AoE blocking, so don’t forget to use it. This is not a No ShIEld RuN MegA-L337 type of dickwaving game. The most epic fights come from using the shield, not rejecting it.

Course im using it, I was talking about rolling timings primarily.

Also, game is dope, that is all.

Childintime wrote:

To be fair - I thought the combat looked a bit dull and janky when I first saw vids. It’s very different when you’re playing it, at least once you get out into the main hub. Once the game starts throwing more enemies at you, and you have more skills, it really ups the quality.

I thought the combat was kind of dull at first.  I'm loving it now however.  Meanwhile my initial crapness has been helped by finding a talisman very early on that has offset my crappy old-man reflexes...

trippy wrote:

Tempy wrote:

Combat is great but I am real bad at it. I had to make a short visit to a cold realm, which means I got to see a cool thing that I wasn't expecting.

You weren't expecting to see a cool thing in the cold realm?

Ice see what you did there.

Parry projectile is an unlockable skill, I think, so don’t try it until you’ve bought it. And yeah - like you mentioned, enemy combinations and weaknesses are really well thought out. Feels far more natural and emergent than something like the Arkham games.

Loving that knockback skill too, it's a beast for mobs that swarm ya.

I w only just unlocked my first health upgrade about 60 or 70% of the way through, whoops

Tempy wrote:

I w only just unlocked my first health upgrade about 60 or 70% of the way through, whoops

Sounds about right - think I only got 2 full boosts by the end, not sure how many more there are.

In other news, now doing some optional stuff and I’m getting destroyed.

Childintime wrote:

Tempy wrote:

I w only just unlocked my first health upgrade about 60 or 70% of the way through, whoops

Sounds about right - think I only got 2 full boosts by the end, not sure how many more there are.

In other news, now doing some optional stuff and I’m getting destroyed.

Have you beat a ?
Found two but they absolutely destroy me.
I should probably finish the game first though eh!

Just picked this up, don’t think I’ll get chance to play today so will be putting some time in tomorrow and will come back with thoughts then. Looking forward to it.

Childintime wrote:

digi wrote:

Childintime wrote:

Tempy wrote:

I w only just unlocked my first health upgrade about 60 or 70% of the way through, whoops

Sounds about right - think I only got 2 full boosts by the end, not sure how many more there are.

In other news, now doing some optional stuff and I’m getting destroyed.

Have you beat a

Spoiler:

valkerie

?
Found two but they absolutely destroy me.
I should probably finish the game first though eh!

That’s what I’m working through now.

Good luck, there damb hard pal.