Speaking of dust-
Dusted off the PS5 and downloaded the
Valkyrie Elysium demo off the J-PSN store (runs in English). This is a pretty janky game. Feels a bit clunky, stiff, and limited in what you can do, at least at first- as you level up your weapon, you do get more attacks, so maybe it gets a lot more varied as the full game progresses.
The game doesn't look at all like anything "PS5" and would be more at home on the Switch, visually. The framerate isn't very good (is this 30 FPS? It feels like it...with dips) and it just feels a bit jerky at times. Ground details pop-up right in front of you as you move. It reminds me of a bad musou game from the PS2 era.
The beginning tutorial is far too long and boring. It forces you to do say, a single attack with square, then square x2, then x3, then x4, then x4 plus triangle several times to proceed.
After you get through it and get to the first mission, tutorial shit you already did will pop up
AGAIN, but at least you're not forced to do any of it to proceed.
Besides the basic button-mashy musou gameplay, you can also summon souls which will help you fight and add elements to your weapon, which can deal more damage to enemies weak to those elements. You also need to summon them to do "puzzles," which are pretty much just "lock on to thing, do summon, platform is created or wall is broken." It's all very vanilla and bland, just like the enemies and the environments. Animation also isn't that great and the main character has this weird "half Naruto-run" thing going on.
Despite all the jank, I'd probably still get it to mess around with, but $60 for this is laughable. It should be $30.
