Get ready to radiate the sixteen beacons or something like that
That certainly looks better than the middling first game, right? The Soulslike nuts and bolts are still screwed on tight with dodge rolls, overwhelming bosses, build variety, and a heavy emphasis on reading animations. Everything just seems slightly punchier, snappier, and prettier, though we won’t know for sure until we’ve played it. I’m not sure whether to be excited or terrified about that final giant boss, though. Can’t trust creatures with hidden limbs in their mouths.
The thing that calls out to me especially is the interconnected dual-world feature on display. New Lords Of The Fallen takes place across two mirrored realms: the normal-ish Axiom and the significantly gloomier realm, Umbral. Once you die in Axiom, you’re sent to the darker variant for a second chance, although you’ll sometimes need to enter the fantasy Upside Down voluntarily to explore its dark corners. The walkthrough above doesn’t detail exactly how this works - or exactly how different the two realms are - but previous trailers have shown some of the skeleton-ridden environments we can expect.
New Lords Of The Fallen comes out on October 13th viaSteamand theEpic Games Store.
