I skipped Demon's Souls and played both Dark Souls and DSII. Both for about 300 hours. I dare say I'm a huge fan of the type of game.

Naturally, I checked out Lords of the Fallen for that very reason. I was one of the people who said, when this was announced: 'If this is a slightly less good version of Dark Souls then that would be fine with me'. I really like the style of game and wanted to play more of it.

Now that I've been playing it though, I never feel drawn back into it. Whenever a gaming session ends I never think about it again. Instead I keep thinking about Dark Souls. Whenever I'm playing it, I keep thinking about Dark Souls.

The problem with this game for me, is that it seems to be a less good Dark Souls on all fronts. I thought I wanted that, but apparently I do not. This game tries so hard to be Dark Souls that it doesn't really have its own identity. It's not its own thing. So I keep wanting to play the better version of this game and I can.

I found myself drawn back into Dark Souls and actually starting a new character and I haven't played Lords of the Fallen since. It is weird because I can recognize this game is pretty good, but I just don't feel like playing it. At all.

Anyone else in the same boat?

While I feel like Lords of the Fallen isn't as good as the Souls games, I don't have that feeling that makes me want to go back to Dark Souls (or in this case Dark Souls II since I haven't finished that). There's a couple of neat ideas in the game that I wish From would implement in their future Souls games, like the ability to sprint and shield bash to knock an enemy off their feet/stun lock them (even though the controls don't quite work perfectly). Sure they already have a kick, but I could never pull it off effectively so it's wasted on me.