Each region has a distinct aesthetic and atmosphere, though they’re discrete levels that lack sweeping vistas or a sense of interconnected space. Character movement, combat animations (especially executions and special attacks), and enemy designs look good.

Thymesia is a visually stylish and attractive game, though it’s not pushing any boundaries. It’s just not always a good fit for a genre. Now that said, I don’t want it to come across as if Thymesia has nothing going for it as the combat can be fun. If you tough it out and defeat the first boss – both phases, back-to-back, with a large moveset, and a low-health super that can wreck an otherwise good attempt – your reward is a game that fluctuates wildly in difficulty. In contrast, Thymesia’s opening hour feels designed to kick you in the teeth repeatedly while giving you no alternative but to grind only one area to improve your stats and gear. Often, there are multiple paths and encounters at any given time if you run into a seemingly insurmountable difficulty spike. There’s a steady escalation of encounter complexity and difficulty that challenges you, but also motivates you to push forward and keep testing the limits of your skill or build. However, like so many other attempts at emulating FromSoftware’s iconic title, it’s obvious designing a game to be both challenging and rewarding is no easy task.Ī good ‘Souls-like features difficult boss fights but they can always be bested through pattern recognition, improving player skill, and an evolving character build. Maybe tied to some specific action the enemy was taking or something.If I could purge my memories of the opening hour and first major boss encounter, it would be easier to recommend Thymesia (OverBorder Studio/Team17) as one of the better 3D ‘Souls-like games to emerge in some time – especially when you consider it comes from a tiny Taiwanese studio on a limited budget. If it were a low frame rate overall I could try messing with settings, but when it’s sudden fps drop for just a split second at seemingly random intervals it makes it hard to diagnose. I’d be at a comfortable 100+ FPS, then for a split second mid combat it would go down to 10fps then back to 100. Stutter not that bad I already had them both on lowest (mostly just because I didn’t like how the post processing looks), and I have a Ryzen 5900x with an RTX 2070 Super, so performance shouldn’t have been too much of an issue, and the thing was it wasn’t an overall low frame rate, it was random sudden frame rate drops. Originally posted by zoza:Lower shadows and post processing to medium or low. That’s what I mean by stutter, random shifts between high and low frame rates. Maybe tied to some specific action the enemy was taking or something.

Lower shadows and post processing to medium or low. Originally posted by DarthVitrial:Very stuttery for me, along with some very bad input delay that makes even the tutorial super difficult (Kind of hard to counter an attack when the game refuses to register that you're pressing the counter button).

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