Code Vein

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  1. OniGioRi
    Sep 7, 2023
    7
    Beautiful, unique and entertaining but really difficult. Code Vein requires a lot of patience. If you like souls-like games and anime style there is a huge chance you will enjoy this game.
  2. apokalipto
    Aug 28, 2023
    9
    Very good game. I enjoyed playing this game a lot. I strongly recommend this.
  3. Omletter
    Aug 12, 2023
    8
    As an anime fan, I'm always on the lookout for games that scratch that itch for a good story, challenging combat, and stunning visuals. Code Vein definitely delivers on all of those fronts, and more.
  4. finalfan
    Aug 11, 2023
    10
    Code Vein is an action role-playing game that combines the best of Dark Souls with anime aesthetics. It features a unique post-apocalyptic sci-fi-meets-horror setting, a flexible class system, and an AI partner that distinguishes it from its peers mechanically. The story is engaging, the combat is challenging, and the boss fights are epic. If you're a fan of Dark Souls or anime, thenCode Vein is an action role-playing game that combines the best of Dark Souls with anime aesthetics. It features a unique post-apocalyptic sci-fi-meets-horror setting, a flexible class system, and an AI partner that distinguishes it from its peers mechanically. The story is engaging, the combat is challenging, and the boss fights are epic. If you're a fan of Dark Souls or anime, then you'll definitely want to check out Code Vein.… Expand
  5. ManHoof
    Aug 4, 2023
    4
    Primitive level design, same mobs with same move set (reskin only). Storyline like child cartoon. Some like Lady Bug :)
    Best parts of the game, is character creation and coop mode.
  6. K0SMA
    Jul 5, 2023
    7
    Неплохая игра в жанре Souls like (я бы даже назвал бы Souls lite). Для новичков в данном жанре рекомендую, однако тем, кто играл в подобные игры, может и не понравится
  7. Joeuw
    Jun 24, 2023
    10
    Definitely an underrate gem, the game has many classes that you can mix and mash. The ost in the game is the best of all soulborne games
  8. KinimodYunmi
    Jun 21, 2023
    8
    Ein sehr gutes Spiel, allerdings ist es sehr schade, dass man vieles nicht im KOOP machen kann und dafür dauernd die Gruppe auflösen muss und nach Abschluss einer Map auch nicht mehr auf dieser zusammenspielen kann. Trotz alle dem gibt es eine große Vielfalt an Klassen und Waffen, eine schöne Story und tolle Charaktere.
  9. Polandplayer
    Jun 12, 2023
    8
    Pomimo banalnego skopiowania mechanik soulsowych, to nadal dobra gra z ciekawą stylistyką graficzną i niezłą grywalnością.
  10. Laranja3321
    May 11, 2023
    7
    O Jogo é bom, tem uma história decente e tem uma gameplay divertida e uma trilha sonora fabulosa, mas, a historia do jogo é confusa e seu roteiro não ajuda muito se apoiando em uma mecânica de flashbacks que a primeira vista se demonstra linda e criativa, porém, com a repetição dessa mecânica para todos os personagens ela se torna maçante e chata. No mais o jogo poderia ter sido melhorO Jogo é bom, tem uma história decente e tem uma gameplay divertida e uma trilha sonora fabulosa, mas, a historia do jogo é confusa e seu roteiro não ajuda muito se apoiando em uma mecânica de flashbacks que a primeira vista se demonstra linda e criativa, porém, com a repetição dessa mecânica para todos os personagens ela se torna maçante e chata. No mais o jogo poderia ter sido melhor caso tivesse um cuidado maior com sua narrativa e design de mapas, que são em sua maioria sem personalidade, no fim é um potencial desperdiçado… Expand
  11. muzmuz
    Apr 30, 2023
    7
    As a non-enjoyer of souls-like games like myself, I'd say Code Vein is a pretty welcome entry into that world. There's a lot of elements in this game that casuals would be pretty happy about.

    Hard in some parts but manageable overall (can even turn a little casual with a partner AI or not), great deal of customization and character building, different combat play styles, lots of enemy    As a non-enjoyer of souls-like games like myself, I'd say Code Vein is a pretty welcome entry into that world. There's a lot of elements in this game that casuals would be pretty happy about.

    Hard in some parts but manageable overall (can even turn a little casual with a partner AI or not), great deal of customization and character building, different combat play styles, lots of enemy types.

    The level design unfortunately can be poorly made especially with the infamous cathedral map. The presentation of the story through slow, sluggish memory sequences, how you have to collect memory fragments to unlock them and how these are tied to the four different endings is definitely something that felt extremely tedious and badly designed to me.

    Overall a fun souls-game, just don't expect a great narrative experience. Fortunately I came here for the gameplay and not so much for the story.    … Expand
  12. Gochujang
    Feb 10, 2023
    6
    Code Vein is an Souls-like action game that has anime styling. Code Vein feels like a unfinished book. It doesn't have a good fighting system, bossees, weapons etc. Story is not that good too. I don't want to give spoilers but overall i don't really recommend playing code vein but you can always give it a try.
  13. Glaceon_Hit
    Jan 26, 2023
    9
    I like this game. I played 4 games with ice mage, mage, assassin and tank. I enjoyed so much the adventures, the optional missions, the dungeons, the enemies.
    The story is so well explain the characters are very cool, all were important. The story is also explained in memories. That is so beautiful, I enjoyed them. And it is a good and original story.
    Being mage using Yakumo like a tank    I like this game. I played 4 games with ice mage, mage, assassin and tank. I enjoyed so much the adventures, the optional missions, the dungeons, the enemies.
    The story is so well explain the characters are very cool, all were important. The story is also explained in memories. That is so beautiful, I enjoyed them. And it is a good and original story.
    Being mage using Yakumo like a tank or being tank using Mia like Shooter. I understanded from the start how the blood codes work, the attack moves, the special attacks, the magic, almost everything. You can create your character with a lot lot of options. And watching it in the cinematics with great graphics.
    The zones are marvelous, I like each one, even the church.
    I really recommend it, coming from a souls player anyone can enjoy it.

    Now some things I hate:
    -Jack companion trolled me.
    -Bosses have great design, story, abiities. But they are unbalanced. I beat all of them in less than 3 trys.
    -Finals Bosses were too strong, first one is fun to fight until he is fourth stage in his last hit points where he start to attack more faster, more times and ONE SHOTS YOU. And the second one is a long fight that will take all your regenerations in that time. He is immune to magic damage (the only enemy in the game, why?), so fight in melee under him is painfull because he starts to do a big magic ball or spam jumping that both are undodgable and indefensible.
    -Church is a pain in the low level you enter. Too big and too many enemies. Also it is easy to lost, but that is the joke.
    -Dodging well and still receiving the damage is disgusting. This happens a lot with Mido. Also the enemies always target you in the start so you dodge and dodge and let your partner to fight almost all the time.    … Expand
  14. samstrummer90
    Nov 4, 2022
    6
    Code Vein es el hijo Bastardo de Dark Souls y Bloodborne pero con un toque manga e infinitas cinemáticas y zonas donde sólo debemos caminar y observar los recuerdos de ciertos personajes.

    El juego intenta innovar con algunas mecánicas como que las "builds" están prediseñadas mediante la elección de los "núcleos" y eso nos permite cambiar de build incluso en mitad del combate. Cada build    Code Vein es el hijo Bastardo de Dark Souls y Bloodborne pero con un toque manga e infinitas cinemáticas y zonas donde sólo debemos caminar y observar los recuerdos de ciertos personajes.

    El juego intenta innovar con algunas mecánicas como que las "builds" están prediseñadas mediante la elección de los "núcleos" y eso nos permite cambiar de build incluso en mitad del combate. Cada build tiene sus habilidades únicas activas y pasivas y nos ofrecen un mejor o peor "escalado" para las armas y armaduras. También disponemos de un compañero (el cual podemos elegir de entre unos varios) que nos acompaña siempre en la aventura pero cuya IA es muy poco constante y a veces hará todo el trabajo mientras que otras veces será un completo inútil.

    El sistema de mapas, checkpoints, loot y mejora de equipo es una copia del sistema empleado por fromsoftware en sus juegos pero aquí queda un poco más escueto y triste.

    El juego es bastante "injusto" con el jugador en ocasiones y la dificultad del mismo no es nada constante. En general el juego es "sencillo" pero hay momentos donde al morir te sientes completamente estafado.

    Podría haber sido mejor juego pero se queda en un premio de consolación de unas 20-25 horas de juego más NG+ (si es que te quedan ganas de re-jugarlo) para aquellos jugadores de PC que no tienen acceso a una plataforma donde jugar a bloodborne.

    Los gráficos, banda sonora y apartado técnico son bastaste decentes.    … Expand
  15. doodlerman
    Nov 1, 2022
    6
    It took longer for this to click than most Soulslikes. Your character's movement speed drops exponentially when blocking, which was initially annoying but I eventually came to accept it as an additional layer to the challenge. I still don't like it, but it's whatever. The thing I hate is the fact dodge rolls have a start-up animation during which you're completely vulnerable. I've readIt took longer for this to click than most Soulslikes. Your character's movement speed drops exponentially when blocking, which was initially annoying but I eventually came to accept it as an additional layer to the challenge. I still don't like it, but it's whatever. The thing I hate is the fact dodge rolls have a start-up animation during which you're completely vulnerable. I've read that it's about 4 frames long, but that's enough to be a cumbersome issue. Rather than dodge in tandem with when the enemy's attack will land, you have to anticipate the attack's start-up and time your dodges accordingly. Even when you get used to it, it's still annoying to deal with. There's also an annoyingly long animation for backstabbing, which is unskippable, but you can turn it off in the options menu— so no biggie. Level layouts aren't too complicated, but the sameyness of the copy-pasted environmental assets can make navigation confusing. Throughout the game, you're required to find things hidden in these levels in order to progress, but they're not very exciting areas to explore. Furthermore, you get an exploration percentage for each area, which you would assume tells you how much of a map you've explored, but really just indicates how much of the map you've charted via these flowery checkpoints and markers. So you can have a map that's 100% charted, but still not have found everything necessary to progress. I couldn't care less about the story. I tried— I really did— to sit down and watch the cutscenes, but they're so damn overwrought with convoluted anime-isms and simple concepts presented as profundities that I just couldn't. I skipped them and honestly didn't feel like I missed out. What's worse are the "memories," which are essentially walking simulators where you get to witness dioramas of various characters' pasts. Fortunately, these are skippable, too. Even if they had riveting stories, being forced to move at 10% of your regular movement speed never feels good. But, let's talk about the good: The game's character customization is top-notch. The sheer variety of options and styles is really cool, plus you can change your character's look whenever you want. You can even change your character's height. I don't know if that affects gameplay in any way, but the option to do it is really neat. There are lots of different combat styles, abilities, and special attacks to choose from. It's initially overwhelming, but once you play around and find which style works best for you, it's a lot of fun. You can choose from a variety of NPC companions to join you— I typically went with Mia since she has a powerful gun that can one-shot some monsters— and they make the more challenging bosses easier to deal with.… Expand
  16. Meeeeeeh
    Oct 14, 2022
    0
    Starts on the wrong goddamn monitor. This is 2022. USE THE PRIMARY OS MONITOR dumbass. Worthless port. Save your money for a dev company that actually cares about the experience they're peddling.
  17. noqx2bu
    Jun 30, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A good anime soul-like game, with companions make the game easier to play compare to dark souls. The lore is pretty deep and has link with God Eater.… Expand
  18. AJCk19
    Jun 27, 2022
    7
    Souls-like anime game. If you enjoy soul games, then this is 11 stars. But if you don't, then you can't see why you wouldn't just play another action rpg on hard mode, and get the exact same benefit.

    Lastly, the character customization and story, I really enjoyed. It is also one of the few games to give you a demo on the steam market.
  19. Somy
    Jun 11, 2022
    8
    This game was honestly more fun and interesting than I first imagined as a soulslike. There are rough patches here and there in terms of level design and enemy variety, and I thought the game dragged on a little too much at certain points. However, while it does play relatively safe, there is a solid game here, with good combat with a lot of variety and a cliche, but neverthelessThis game was honestly more fun and interesting than I first imagined as a soulslike. There are rough patches here and there in terms of level design and enemy variety, and I thought the game dragged on a little too much at certain points. However, while it does play relatively safe, there is a solid game here, with good combat with a lot of variety and a cliche, but nevertheless compelling story. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece like Dark Souls itself, but I came out with more than I bargained for.… Expand
  20. S3XU4LH34L1NG
    Apr 22, 2022
    7
    I'm conflicted about this one despite being a big fan of anime and a big fan of DS games. The plot is beyond cringe and ignorable. The mechanics are nice and tight with some nice spins. The difficulty overall is way lower then ds. I'd say its a good game worth playing but dont expect the next ds contender.
  21. TCM_Crash
    Mar 2, 2022
    7
    ---{ Graphics }---
    ☐ You forget what reality is
    ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to    ---{ Graphics }---
    ☐ You forget what reality is
    ☐ Beautiful
    ☑ Good
    ☐ Decent
    ☐ Bad
    ☐ Don‘t look too long at it
    ☐ MS-DOS

    ---{ Gameplay }---
    ☐ Very good
    ☑ Good
    ☐ It's just gameplay
    ☐ Mehh
    ☐ Watch paint dry instead
    ☐ Just don't

    ---{ Audio }---
    ☐ Eargasm
    ☐ Very good
    ☑ Good
    ☐ Not too bad
    ☐ Bad
    ☐ I'm now deaf

    ---{ Difficulty }---
    ☐ Just press 'W'
    ☐ Easy
    ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
    ☐ Significant brain usage
    ☑ Difficult
    ☐ Dark Souls

    ---{ Story }---
    ☐ No Story
    ☐ Some lore
    ☑ Average
    ☐ Good
    ☐ Lovely
    ☐ It'll replace your life

    ---{ Game Time }---
    ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
    ☐ Short
    ☑ Average
    ☐ Long
    ☐ To infinity and beyond

    ---{ Price }---
    ☐ It's free!
    ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money    … Expand
  22. VG_Alex
    Feb 26, 2022
    8
    "CODE VEIN" is a 'soul like' game with unique style. It has its own exclusive world outlook and game design, but it also has some defects. As a light 'soul like' game, its quality is worth experiencing.

    Review of "CODE VEIN"

    Graphic/Art: 8.5

    Music/Sounds: 8

    Narrative/Performance:8

    Gameplay:8

    Score:8.3 (+0.1)
  23. ProfAmateur
    Feb 16, 2022
    8
    German right here, english below:
    Code Vein ist ein guter Einstieg in das Soulslike-Genre.
    Abwechslungsreich ist, dass man die Skills ohne grosse Umstände wechseln kann. D.h. in einem Run geht ihr als Tank und beim nächsten als Fernkämpfer. Die "Skill-Punkte" sind jedoch beschränkt, also muss man schon ein wenig schauen was man genau spielen will. + Geile Skins, egal ob coole Gegner,    German right here, english below:
    Code Vein ist ein guter Einstieg in das Soulslike-Genre.
    Abwechslungsreich ist, dass man die Skills ohne grosse Umstände wechseln kann. D.h. in einem Run geht ihr als Tank und beim nächsten als Fernkämpfer. Die "Skill-Punkte" sind jedoch beschränkt, also muss man schon ein wenig schauen was man genau spielen will.
    + Geile Skins, egal ob coole Gegner, coole Waffen oder Rüstungen. Andere Spiele verlangen hierfür Mikrotransaktionen.
    + Gute Geschichte
    + Guter Sound
    + Das Spiel läuft technisch einwandfrei. Ausnahme: bei 144hz sind einige Sachen buggy wie Aufzüge oder der Entzugsangriff.
    + Die Bossfights sind hart, aber mit Game-Erfahrung durchaus fair.
    - Manchmal sind die Spawn-Points beim Tod zu weit vom Boss-Fight entfernt, man muss sich dann durch das halbe Level kämpfen (oder mit Glück durchrushen)
    - Ein Level war sehr mühsam (Kathedrale, grosses Labyrinth), dort habe ich kurzfristig den Spass verloren.

    ENGLISH
    Code Vein is a good entry into the Soulslike genre.
    It is varied that you can change skills without much trouble. That is, in one run you go as a tank and in the next as a archer. However, the "skill points" are limited, so you have to look a bit what exactly you want to play.
    + Cool skins, whether cool enemies, cool weapons or armor. Other games require microtransactions for this.
    + Good story
    + Good sound
    + The game runs technically flawless. Exception: at 144hz some things are buggy like elevators or the withdrawal attack.
    + The boss fights are hard, but with game experience quite fair.
    - Sometimes the spawn points after a death are too far away from the boss fight, then you have to fight your way through half the level (or rush through if you're lucky).
    - One level was very tedious (cathedral, big labyrinth), there I lost the fun for a short time.    … Expand
  24. VigilanteOito
    Jan 5, 2022
    7
    mais um copia do dark souls, por´me tratando-se de Bandai, esse jogo não é tão generico.
    JOguei pelo gamepass pc
  25. furyohfury
    Oct 7, 2021
    7
    -1 for every goddamn "i want to keep him/her safe"
    -1 for boring art of levels
    -1 for making final boss worse and dumber than any other boss in the game
    Otherwise pretty ok game. Not really good, but not that bad, something in between. If you miss this you won't really lose much but if you're a dark souls fan you'll probably enjoy it a bit
  26. bxrxsxtx
    Sep 26, 2021
    9
    I do really like this game, from art and graphics to levels to gameplay. It follows the formula of some other games without being really like those games, so purists beware. The gameplay is hack and slash, often spamming light attack too much, but there are a wide variety of mechanics and ways to succeed. It's not too easy or too hard, actually someone reminded me here that your NPCI do really like this game, from art and graphics to levels to gameplay. It follows the formula of some other games without being really like those games, so purists beware. The gameplay is hack and slash, often spamming light attack too much, but there are a wide variety of mechanics and ways to succeed. It's not too easy or too hard, actually someone reminded me here that your NPC partner makes the early levels pretty easy, but you can usually dismiss them if you wish, or choose a different one.
    Builds and items were interesting to me but I spent more time just trying to earn as many of the "codes" as possible and their skills. Builds, stats, and leveling could be a lot better, plenty of things are too strong or just awkward. They just threw a lot of **** in there in a more is better kind of way. That's how the game is, a lot of things are just there, for better or worse. More weapons and such would be really nice, and I often felt stuck with one because it was too good.

    The reason this isn't a 10 is the messy item and build system, and that I don't feel it has a lot of replayability, even with the endgame missions, beating the game feels like that's it. Here's hoping for a sequel. Ciao gamers.    … Expand
  27. Garou89
    Sep 8, 2021
    0
    worst souls like ive played

    Leveldesign 2/10 Characters 2/10 Music 8/10 Setting 8/10 Gameplaymechanics 3/10 Story 4/10 Bosses 3/10 Im very surprised that this game is so well recieved. I played almost every souls/like game out there and never encountered one where i wanted to write a review about as this one. The core design of a souls game is here but it doesnt even feel    worst souls like ive played

    Leveldesign 2/10
    Characters 2/10
    Music 8/10
    Setting 8/10
    Gameplaymechanics 3/10
    Story 4/10
    Bosses 3/10

    Im very surprised that this game is so well recieved.
    I played almost every souls/like game out there and never encountered one where i wanted to write a review about as this one.

    The core design of a souls game is here but it doesnt even feel half as good as dark souls 1 and that is from 2011.

    The Leveldesign is the so horrible compared to any soulslike game i even enjoyed the cluster♥♥♥♥ of a labyrinth in the surge 2.

    The enemie hp is so low that you dont need to learn any movements to counter just block and 1 hit them.

    The partner makes parrying a risky move when youre about to parry and he/she decides to stagger the enemie.

    The weapons and armors are super bland in this game. You like to play with a 2 Handed sword here get this ZWEIHANDER and let it carry you trough the game.

    Leveling up feels fine if you compare it to how fast you can level up in the game and the bloodcode system couldve been something awesome if it werent for the bland skills.

    Here you have some buffs and some attacks who almost all are the same but do different dmg. Except for a very few cases where skills are doing something creative.

    Items are ok mostly trivial stuff but you dont need any of them.

    Puzzlemechanics and traps are super basic. The leveldesing is basically a corridor with a few branches that you can explore to open a new corridor with some branches until you hit the final room.

    Almost every Character is written in the same way and the emotional scenes left me cold since every pair is just: "i know ive sacrified myself so you can live in peace/ Oh damn youve done that for me now i have to see it trough for you! Nakama POWA"

    The memories are tedious walking slogs only because the writing of the characters are super bad, combine that with a mute protagonist with a personality of a dog and you wanna start skipping cutscenes.

    oh and only buy the season pass for 1-5 bucks its super bad.

    The depths are all the same port into reused assets go into 2-3 corridors 1 hit any normal mobs that are labeled as bosses get the keys port back and kill the next reused boss like you already did and repeat that ♥♥♥♥ many times.

    3.5/10 as a 60$ souls like

    6/10 as a 20$ action jrpg    … Expand
  28. Kraiss
    Sep 5, 2021
    6
    Overall it's an okay game, some great things, and some really annoying others. It's an attempt to copy-paste Darksouls but with a fast-paced combat system and an anime style.

    Pros: music, artistic direction, a lot of content (especially if you want to get all skills masteries). Decent gameplay and character customization/development. Cinematics and memories are nicely done But they    Overall it's an okay game, some great things, and some really annoying others. It's an attempt to copy-paste Darksouls but with a fast-paced combat system and an anime style.

    Pros: music, artistic direction, a lot of content (especially if you want to get all skills masteries). Decent gameplay and character customization/development. Cinematics and memories are nicely done

    But they are hard to appreciate for me because of the annoying things in the game
    CONs:
    No real challenge except for some bosses and mini-bosses. You just crush enemies one after another, it's mostly just pushovers...
    Big maze-type levels with the same enemies over and over again... after 10h I started watching movies while playing because of boredom...
    Nice cinematics but OMG they are tons of them and they are loooong af (typical of JRPG games) and it would be nice if there wasn't that empty... Basically useless just skip them or watch a third of it you'll get all you need to know
    Hitboxes are clunky sometimes, there are foes that just jump around and you'll have a hard time hitting them. The game is fairly easy so you won't be in trouble but it adds up with the other boring and annoying things

    IMHO, the game is not worth playing (or at least not to the end). It's sad because there are really great stuff in this game but with so much boring and annoying things that I didn't really enjoy the game.    … Expand
  29. Zeltiko2018
    Sep 4, 2021
    9
    A good Game wich similar mechanics like nioh. If you want to play a Game like Sekiro or Nioh 2 here you have the ideal Game. Very adictive.
  30. TwoBe
    Aug 19, 2021
    8
    I loved playing this game, the character creation was great, I enjoyed looking up at the skirts of the girls and it was really fun/challenging trying to clear out the maps, except for the labyrinths I hated those things. The game mechanics could use some improvements as well as for the audio but in short it was a really fun game.

    Story: 7/10 ========== The story wasn't bad, I wish I    I loved playing this game, the character creation was great, I enjoyed looking up at the skirts of the girls and it was really fun/challenging trying to clear out the maps, except for the labyrinths I hated those things. The game mechanics could use some improvements as well as for the audio but in short it was a really fun game.

    Story: 7/10
    ==========
    The story wasn't bad, I wish I could say something else but sometimes I felt lost in the story and it wasn't very clear what was that the player needed to do to keep progressing in the game. The side stories "vestiges", which are stories to know more about the characters were quite interesting, unfortunately they are split in different parts and you need to find them while you're progressing in the game.

    Art: 9/10
    ========
    The character creation in Code Vein is great. The female character that I made was just hot and gorgeous, I wish I could share a picture here so you could die of envy. Looking up at the skirt of the girls was marvellous, specially Mia she's the top waifu and IO is on second spot. The "lost" which are the monsters in the game were freaking scary, they looked so morbid and nasty that you knew that you had to put those creeps out of their misery.

    Sound: 7/10
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    The music is really good, but whoever they hired as the audio engineer screw it up, they didn't do a good job in putting together all the music for the game, there are really some cool songs that they would be perfect to play in the background, but instead we just have the sound of the wind going through the building, that sucks, having so much potential and they just wasted it, also when you're playing the songs in the jukebox the music goes silence once the character just turns around, that feels so uncomfortable and is not just the music but also the conversations that you have with the NPCs the audio cuts off so abruptly that is way too annoying. There were more screw ups in the audio of the game but I won't waste more time on it.

    Game Mechanics: 7/10
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    The game mechanics felt awkward and they were not intuitive enough, it's not like they were really complicated but I wish they felt more fluid or easier to grasp, sometimes it felt like I was cutting through paper while fighting the "lost" and figuring out how to use all the gear was not easy to figure out. Is not clear for the player what needs to do, I had already spent 40hrs in the game and still I didn't know how the blood codes interacted with the weapons and gifts. Nevertheless, there are some really cool moves in the blood codes and once you master them you can use them anywhere.

    Enjoyment: 9/10
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    I honestly wanted to keep playing, even after finishing the game I wanted more. Fortunately you can play the game again making different decisions so you can get any of its three endings, in addition you can play the DLC with the new maps of the depths, just be really prepare because those things are tougher than the main story.    … Expand
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#34 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019
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#91 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Quarter to Three
    Jan 4, 2021
    80
    What if there were a Dark Souls for people who want something to do instead of play the same boss fight over and over until I get lucky and don't die? Well, this is! And this is it!
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  2. Worth Playing
    Apr 3, 2020
    70
    Code Vein should be applauded for doing something different with the Dark Souls formula. It's great to be able to switch out your classes at will and combine them, and the almost-constant presence of co-op is a real selling point for those who may not want to jump into the deep end of this emerging subset of the genre. The rest of the game, from the story to the level design, feels bland, and the combat falls apart when you suddenly have no AI companion by your side. If you don't mind a heavy dose of anime in your action game, Code Vein may be worth checking out.
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  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    60
    Code Vein is a successful nod to soulsborne games. It does not reach the highest peaks, but it deserves attention for unconventional setting, huge potential and interesting possibilities when it comes to character development and equipment. It is not perfect, but it is definitely more than just good. [Issue#299]
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