Forgotten PS5, PC Game Lost Soul Aside Still Being Patched and Optimised

Another entry on my list of maligned games to try and usually enjoy?

@themightyant Yeah I watched a video on the development history of the game, and it's truly heartbreaking it led to this.

I forgot about this game. Have to try the demo, but I'm not that eager to try

Heard the English dub for this game is absolutely awful 👀

From what people have said, even kingdom hearts 3 is better than this mess👀

Is it one of the worst games of the year? Probably in someone’s list 🤔

@Can-You-Believe-Sith Have you forgotten about Mindseye?!?!

@Oram77 I gave MindsEye a 7.5

The fact that one person developed most of this game by himself is an incredible feat and I have a lot of respect for that... but just because a game was made by one man doesn't mean I have to like it, especially if it is not up to par. It's still competing against other games for your time and money, regardless of who worked on it. I'm usually a bit sceptical about a 3D game if I hear it had one developer.

@Can-You-Believe-Sith playing asian game in English dub is your own fault, not developer's.

@Dalamar Doing a poor job with the dubbing is the developer's fault not the customer's.

They could have either spent more money with a better studio or not dubbed at all to avoid backlash.

I played this and really enjoyed it. It has its minor issues, and a fair amount of them, but it was nowhere even close to being as bad as some people claimed.

An awful lot of the faults people have slated this game for are present in a lot of the games we play.

Edit: Performance - I can't speak for base PS5, but the Pro version is good with only 2 issues - Autosave stutters (not unusual, but they can be distracting) and dips in a couple of later game boss battles (which it looks like this patch may have resolved).

I just want to know why the patch is so big >11Gb is not normally just bug fixes and optimisation!

@windxtravelerx
One of the problems is that the demo isn't as good as the main game in its launch state.

It has various minor issues the main game didn't have - including 1 big difficulty spike with a boss, which isn't the same in the game - the boss actually has a completely different move set!?

The game very early on received a patch which sought to answer the criticism that the combat lacked impact. It helped a lot imo. But these patches are unlikely to have been applied to the demo.

@windxtravelerx I also downloaded the demo, with the intention to try it... and promptly deleted it to make space for something else. 🤷

@Rich33 Not sure it matters, you can't polish a turdage!

@Balie3000 the original development was started by a guy, Yang Bing, when he was in college over a decade ago. Sony first started poking around and providing support just a couple years after and from then it was Yang Bing and a full-fledged studio (albeit a smaller one). And then a couple years ago Sony stepped in and provided their own staff to help push the project across the line because it still wasn't otherwise close to completion.

All that is to say while Yang Bing did a phenomenal job getting this up and running at the outset, verrrry little of what you see in the finished product was a result of his solo work.

@Dalamar No one forced them to put English dub in their game. If your going to put English dub in there than don’t do a poor job at it 👀
After all their will still be people who will buy it without any English dub whatsoever 🙃

I would simply urge people to play Stellar Blade instead of this thing.

@Oram77 LoL, I would think no one has 😂😂😂

I couldn’t deal with how spongey every single enemy was. Plus it was another game that tried to put lite rpg elements that did help or work at all

@nyr2k2 So it's even worse than I thought 🙈

@Jammer
Definitely not "Turdage" - I've played the game and it was very enjoyable. Not close to Sony 1st party's best, but certainly on par with a lot of 3rd party games.

@Fishysensei
I've played through both this game and Stellar Blade.
Stellar Blade, in terms of performance and optimisation is really top tier (with a seriously well done Pro enhancement), but otherwise was pretty overrated - not bad by any means, but overrated.
This game is severely underrated. Neither stands out as being that much better than the other in my opinion.

Inevitable it will be on ps+ relatively soon. At least if they're still patching and fixing it, it might not be a broken mess when they give it to us.

@Fishysensei I agree. Stellar blade was fantastic. Can't wait for a sequel.

@Dom_31 after doing a bit of research, people saying that the game was made by one guy aren't being completely accurate. Around when the first trailer was released (2016), it's true it was only Yang Bing himself working on the prject. 2017 and onwards however, the dev team began growing after he joined Sony's China Hero Project initiative. As of 2023, the team has around 40 members. So in the end, the game wasn't really made by one guy. And if it was then i'm sure people would've been less harsh on it, until you realize that the game was also backed by Sony, the same company that gave us Ghost of Tsushima, God of War and Horizon. So in the end, whether it was made by one person or not, the quality in which it was released in is just not acceptable in today's standards.

Still take it over Mindseye anyday. Would rather play a flawed game that's suppose to harken back the good ol' days of character action games than one that feels like a mediocre and forgettable PS3-era TPS game lmao

Lmaooooooo Forgotten is diabolical 🤣

@Rich33 i didn't know that. Maybe if i play the demo I'll keep that in mind, though, thank you for telling me this. Sometimes devs patch their demos but it's not that common, so i don't think this case will be any different, unfortunately

@windxtravelerx
No problem. The boss who is different in the game is human and fights with MANY swords. They increased the perceived impact of blows using better audio, and visual effects (a sort of tiny screen shake effect mostly).

I'm still very much looking forward for China Hero Project's new games (Loulan looks sick as hell) and I have to give credit to the devs for not inmediately giving up on the game unlike some other devs, but it's hard to call CHP "excellent" atm when Sony themselves kinda threw the main star of the program under the bus all because it didn't get high marks. I said it before but I really think they should have dropped the price to $40 instead of placing a $60-$70 price tag on it to soften the reception a bit. I still hope Sony learns their lessons for Convalleria, as that's their second project that they'll publish and so far looks promising (love me some co-op shooters) but we haven't heard much about it since 2022 I believe.

@Pat_trick the dev team was at the mercy of the publisher, Sony, they screwed them..it wasn't the devs fault at all..nor is any other issue.

@DarianStarfrog If you think that's true, you're very naive. The developers bit way more than they could chew, and a lot of the game's issues came from their lack of ability in programming. It was their first project, and a very messy one.