The lack of a map is beyond frustrating, and design itself hinders progress. While everything about Darksiders 3 seems half-baked, level and puzzle design are truly the game’s worst aspects. Spoiler alert: it’s not easy to find your way around.
The world truly is one big dungeon the lack of an in-game map attests to this, and proves to be ridiculously frustrating as you attempt to use a single-line compass to navigate from one of the world’s seven deadly sins to the next, the core narrative of the title. The interconnected world that THQ Nordic references is samey and bland throughout this area’s an apocalyptic wreck. She admittedly has a couple one-liners that made me laugh out loud, but by and large, I wasn’t amused by her personality. Apart from a couple bitchy quips, Fury’s rather boring - and her powers too. Instead of the Hub and Spoke structure of the previous games, we approached it as if the world was one big dungeon. However, with Darksiders III we designed a more interconnected world than the previous titles. Still, the unique puzzle/action mixture is an aspect we consider a core element of the franchise, so it was a given for us to keep it in the third installment as well. “Being a badass mage, Fury doesn’t need to rely on loot because all her powers and abilities are stored inside her hilt. “We set out to take a different approach with Fury, our third Horseman of the Apocalypse and protagonist of Darksiders III,” THQ Nordic’s note to reviewers continued. Alas, that’s gone armour and RPG elements - apart from a badly designed combat system that looks to evoke play reminiscent of Dark Souls (and fails to do so, I might add) - are no more. That’s what made the sequel so good - that constant itch to progress through the lush, beautiful world and acquire things better than you had.
These features made the second game feel more like an RPG than the first.” “On the other hand, in Darksiders II, we had Death a powerful necromancer who could loot tons of weapons and armor, while also making use of a skill tree in order to strengthen his attributes. “With War we had a strong warrior relying on brute force which made for a great hack-‘n-slash experience,” THQ Nordic wrote to Stevivor alongside a review code. Despite connections to the past, Darksiders 3 is far removed from the franchise, choosing to actively distance itself from innovations that made the second, 2012 title - or even the 2010 original - so good. Six long years after the release of THQ’s Darksiders II, this sequel has been developed by Gunfire Games and published by THQ Nordic. I really, really wanted to like Darksiders 3.
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