Many of the environments are overly reminiscent of the original Darksiders, which also featured ruined city streets, subways, and skyscrapers, as well as a demonic construction site. There’s only one way in which to approach combat in Darksiders III, and it’s insufferably boring.ĭarksiders III fares little better outside of combat. There’s no stamina meter, which means Fury can spam her attacks, nor are there options for using long-range magical attacks. Whether it’s a result of major developmental shifts after publisher THQ’s 2012 bankruptcy or a sign of creative fatigue, Darksiders III is a muted, soulless sequel that lazily cribs from the worst elements of Dark Souls, like the mechanic for leveling up and the lack of a map. The game’s shallow, obstinate approach to battle is frustrating, because the first two Darksiders titles were inventive spins on the puzzle-dungeons of The Legend of Zelda series. The single outlier, in which players must trick a foe into harming itself, is the exception that proves this rule. For example, Greed, hunchbacked by a monstrously large sack of loot, and Gluttony, sitting within a flower of teeth and blood, are visually distinct, but the encounters with each, as with almost every fight in the game, boil down to dodging an easily telegraphed move and then pressing the attack button. This is, sadly, mostly true of Darksiders III itself, which has a surfeit of dumb, mechanical combat, with a slapdash of exploration on the side.įury supposedly matures as she confronts the Seven Deadly Sins, but you wouldn’t know it from the game, which has players dispatching foes in the same ways from beginning to end. In fact, as the various angels, demons, and humans on post-apocalypse Earth continue to tell her, she’s the stupidest of the Four Horsemen-alongside War, Death, and Strife-prone to violence and not much else. Though she wields a whip, Darksiders III’s protagonist, Fury, is anything but whip-smart.
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