Wasn't going to do this since when I first started it I wasn't enjoying Code Vein initially as I don't like overly punishing games (especially when it's a story based one like Code Vein) but since I've started playing it again I've found myself enjoying it a lot more so I thought I'd do one of my """""""""""""reviews""""""""""""" for it. Also in the spoiler below is a screenshot of my character in the game (yes her outfit is modded.)

So first things first this game is made for a controller, I've been playing it with mouse and keyboard and while it works well enough if you want a hack 'n' slash the gifts (abilities in this game) are mapped to the f keys (f1 through 8 specifically) and in order to get them you have to hold down the right shift button so that means you need to take your hand off either the mouse or the WASD keys (the movement keys, as is standard) which is obviously NOT a good idea in a soulsbourne-esque game (even with my limited experience with them) it also leaves you with a few useless keys around the left hand area of the keyboard since parrying is mapped to the left alt key (the left shift is used for sprinting or used in conjuntion with your scroll wheel to swap weapons) and what makes this even more annoying is the fact you CAN'T remap this particular key, almost every other keybind can be remapped except for this one.

As for the story, the story is actually really fucking good and has branching endings, I fucked up on one of the chapters so I don't think I'm getting the best ending, and in order to get the best ending you have to explore every inch of every map and if you ask me the entire plot could fit really well as an anime series (maybe a 12 episode season) it does switch about 5 maps in from being about finding the source of things called blood beads which 90% of the people living in this world need to survive (being a bit generous with that number probably) as they are all revenents, not quite vampires and not quite zombies as they need blood to survive and came back from the dead but don't suffer the weaknesses of either (can go out in daylight unlike vampires and are intelligent unlike zombies) but before the start of the story these beads have been harder and harder to come by as they can only be found at places called blood springs which have been drying up so you and your merry band of misfits set out to find the source of all blood beads but around map 5 you find the source and the story switches to finding and protecting things called successors. I won't go into anymore on the story but I am really enjoying it but that might be my inner weeb speaking.

Now finally the gameplay a game "journalist" moaned about dying in three hits and the bosses constantly spamming massive attacks but, invoking the broken clock rule here, they're right and this is a massive reason why I don't generally play soulsbourne games especially since there are no ranged weapons in this game so your only way of hitting at range are using your gifts (refer to aforementioned control issues as to why that's harder than it needs to be if you play with keyboard and mouse) which use ichor (think MP with a fancy name) which is obviously limited. As for getting out the way good luck with that as your basic fucking attacks are linked to stamina (which I don't remember it being in Bloodbourne at least) which is also used to evade which no matter any attempt to make a game more difficult is a stupid fucking way to design ANY combat system I can accept stamina being consumed with heavy attacks but not your basic attack and is a major reason why I quit the game ages ago.

So as you may have realised I effectively ragequit this game so why am I back to it? I'll admit here I am using cheat engine to get rid of some frustrations yes I know cheating bad but I'm the first person to hold up my hands up and say I'm actually pretty shit at video games for the most part I'm usually along for the story and the music (music in this game is actually pretty good) and ordinarily if I found myself getting even more annoyed at my shittiness at a game I tend to drop it, I did this with bloodbourne, but in this case I really wanted to know what happened with the story. So why the """""""""""""review""""""""""""" if I did this? I'm not going to lie I mostly wanted to moan about the control setup on mosue and keyboard (something you can moan about regardless of how you're playing it) and talk a bit about how I felt the story could be used for an anime series. As I said I ordinarily wouldn't do this for a game like Dark Souls which, from what I know of it, doesn't have a concrete story to it and is just boss battle after boss battle.