![]() ![]() Creatures in this game can be grotesque, dangerous, or otherworldly, and it’s a mixed bag of weird stuff for the player to experience. That being said, animations for characters are fine and the visual design of certain enemies is excellent, which might be one of the best things the game has to offer. Instead, a lot of the world feels half-assed in terms of design and unnecessarily large, which makes the player move a bunch without any purpose. The other fifty percent of the game’s assets are generic medieval assets, which stupidly makes the game even more of a Dark Souls clone, unable to fulfill the atmosphere the trailer or screenshots promised us. Sadly these are copy-pasted all over the world, making the game feel a bit bland. It feels like original assets make up about fifty percent of the game. While this might be true, in reality, the game feels rather generic. To those who haven’t played the game yet, it might look like the game takes place in a cool, dystopian city full of forgotten technology and machinery, like a dark fantasy setting. We really want to like Bleak Faith: Forsaken, we really do. All we know for sure is that you start off as an anonymous character similar to other Souls-like titles. It’s one of those games that’s pretty much open to your own interpretation. Characters you meet that talk to you instead of attacking you are often gifted with a single line, which also doesn’t help you much. This is somewhat a tradition in Souls-likes, but Bleak does not only largely skip the expected cutscenes or explanation that you would get in “normal” games, but it also combines this lack of information with weirdly confusing graphics that make the game almost feel like some arthouse Dark Souls. It does not even give you some core tutorials which leaves you in the dark about important abilities. Bleak Faith: Forsaken looks nice when looking at some screenshots of the game, but it undoubtedly, unfortunately, falls more into the latter category.īleak Faith: Forsaken is an incredibly vague game regarding storytelling. ![]() We also appreciate all types of Souls-likes here, even though it seems rather hard to create a good indie Souls-like, and instead, we often see half-done games that mostly focus on recreating the atmospherewhile letting the player deal with poor game design or mechanics. You can check out the official launch trailer here or check the game out on Steam.Every gamer who likes a challenge likes a good Dark Souls adventure. It’s a medieval Soulslike, so it isn’t exactly reinventing the wheel, but it looks like it’ll appeal to fans of Souls installations (though it was launched with mixed reviews). If you haven’t heard about Bleak Faith: Forsaken before this, now is a time to check it out. This isn’t the first game to be accused of stealing another game’s assets, however, it’s one of the more recent controversies to take the internet and directly implicate a major storefront like Epic Games. This brings about some heavy questions about Epic and the way they vet and curate sellers and products on the Marketplace, so it’ll be interesting to keep an eye out and see if any changes happen as a result of this. ![]() Archangel Studios went on to state, “Certainly this has been a huge lesson for us and hopefully other indie creators out there too that assets on these storefronts seemingly cannot be purchased in good faith.” As for the AI-generated imagery accusation, the studio simply said it was an “oversight” and that those icons would be altered. Given that the assets that Archangel Studios bought from Unreal Engine Marketplace have been removed, the studio has no choice but the recreate them in-house to avoid plagiarism. “The assets in question were purchased from the Epic Marketplace in good faith and with the understanding that Epic went through the proper vetting and review process before listing them for sale.” The studio has also reached out to Epic Games about an investigation, wherein they were met with a message that essentially says that Epic isn’t in a position to “independently verify such rights” and that they make “no such guarantee to purchasers of content.” So, basically, Epic has washed its hands of blame and pushed it to a mystery third party. You can read the full statement yourself, but the basic premise is that Archangel laid the blame on Epic. Others online have accused the devs of AI-generating perk icons in the game as well. ![]() You could say the accusations were… bleak.īleak Faith: Forsaken devs, Archangel Studios, has been accused of reskinning and utilizing FromSoftware animation assets due to striking similarities between Forsaken and other FromSoftware titles such as Elden Ring. ![]()
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