April Gold: Darksiders Update

I have been playing Darksiders for the Xbox 360 via backwards compatibility about an hour a day for about a couple of weeks now and I wanted to update my thoughts on the game so far. I have also provided a link to my most current Video as of 4-24-17.

Having completed the second dungeon and acquired a few new weapons and abilities I can say the Zelda comparisons are becoming stronger all the time. There are a great deal of platforming based puzzles that simply result in getting to a higher elevations or opening a specific door. In addition to a boomerang I also now have a pistol, a power glover for breaking down Ice barriers, and the ability to slow time in specific areas to get past timing based hazards. With each new weapon I acquire I also have the ability to buy upgrades and new moves for it (ala Devil May Cry) from the creepy traveling shoppe keeper (ala Resident Evil 4)  I have received enough "heart containers" now that I have 5 health bars (unlike Zelda, Darksiders gives you a additional health bar instead of a heart).

The combat system is not as good as Devil May Cry (which I consider the gold standard at this point) as it can be rather clunky at times. It is more satisfying than most Zelda games (whose strength was never really in combat). I found that used the execute move on a enemy when the "B" shows on screen has the effect of stopping other enemy attacks on you for the duration of the animation. Like in Devil May Cry I find myself only buying and upgrading the handful of Moves I think I will use (although I have purchased some rather dubious abilities) It seems unlikely that a single play through will give you enough currency to buy and upgrade all the moves for all the weapons all the way So I am sticking with ones that are most similar to those in DMC.

Jumping is not as reliable as I would like as there were times that even though I pressed Jump my character would walk off the ledge. Jumping requires a firm pressing of the "A" button, which is quite different from DMC.

Overall my opinion of Darksiders continues to improve the more I play it. My daily videos are now reaching an hour and a half up from the half hour videos I did at the start. This fact tells me that the games starts rather poorly but gets better over time. I hope it continues to get better the more I play it

Thanking you for reading
Gangway