11/8/2022 0 Comments Darksiders: warmastered edition![]() ![]() These well-designed dungeons, along with the satisfying combat, take up the brunt of the game’s 20 hour length, although there are a number of other nods and references to popular titles: There are life upgrades that need to be collected in sets of four, souls that are used as currency, a boss resembling a giant sandworm that is fought on horseback, and even a portal gun. After a disproportionately combat-heavy prologue, the game settles into a rhythm of overworld exploration, puzzle-solving in dungeons, and boss fights that will seem familiar to any fan of the Zelda franchise. It’s essentially a 3D Zelda game, but with combat cribbed from God of War. Storytelling isn’t the only area in which Darksiders feels familiar. It may seem like Todd MacFarlane got his hands on a bunch of rejected Games Workshop designs at times, but it works. Darksiders is an amalgamation of comic book and fantasy tropes, glued together by Battle Chasers and X-Men artist Joe Madureira’s stylish artwork, but it carries itself with barely the slightest hint of irony, which makes War’s blood-soaked tale of vengeance and redemption surprisingly endearing. The story isn’t really anything to write home about, but is salvaged by confidence in tone and an utter commitment to its bizarre universe. War must therefore set out to clear his name, travelling across the ravaged Earth in search of answers and eventually uncovering a vast conspiracy involving both angelic and demonic forces. When the apocalyptic final battle finally begins, the Horseman War joins the fray, only to find himself stripped of his powers and on trial for triggering the apocalypse early. In the midst of an eternal conflict between Heaven and Hell, a group of fiery talking heads known as the Charred Council interferes, bringing the conflict to heel with the aid of their mighty enforcers, the Four Horsemen. The story of Darksiders is a heavily stylized, fantastic take on the biblical apocalypse. Fans and newcomers alike are now able to experience War’s quest for redemption on modern hardware, but unfortunately, myriad issues (on PS4, at least) prevent this Warmaster from being truly “deathinitive.” ![]() I suppose they were just waiting to come up with a suitable pun, because Darksiders: Warmastered Edition has arrived, bringing the original’s unique blend of Zelda-style adventuring and hack-and-slash combat to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (as well as PC and the Wii U, eventually). Nordic Games, now THQ Nordic, ended up acquiring the license and eventually re-released Darksiders II in a “Deathinitive Edition”, but seemingly passed up the first game. ![]() After the closing of THQ and eventual shuttering of developer Vigil Games, the fate of the Darksiders franchise was unclear. Hunted by a vengeful group of Angels, War must take on the forces of Hell, forge uneasy alliances with the very demons he hunts, and journey across the ravaged remains of the Earth on his quest for vengeance and vindication.What would you get if you combined The Legend of Zelda, God of War, Diablo, and a smattering of 90s comic books? Odds are, you’d get something akin to Darksiders. Dishonored and facing his own death, War is given the opportunity to return to Earth to search for the truth and punish those responsible. In the slaughter that ensued, the demonic forces defeated the heavenly hosts and laid claim to the Earth.īrought before the sacred Charred Council, War is indicted for his crimes and stripped of his powers.
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