Godfall is a hack and slash so it relies on chaining together massive attacks using a range of different weapons you loot throughout the game. Thankfully, you don’t need to care about Godfall’s story in any way in order to enjoy the only thing that makes the game somewhat fun – the combat. Sure, they are all pretty stylish with each boss looking like something straight out of Final Fantasy but the dialogue and voice acting is just bland. It also does not help that the handful of characters I met along the way never made any sort of an impact on the story to the point where I cared about them. I simply followed the objective and performed the tasks that popped up on the side of my screen. After three missions, I completely phased out and could not care less about my goal and why I was doing it. Some looter games have never had the best narrative in gaming but Godfall is simply atrocious. I ran around bashing enemies into the air, threw my shield to break a seal and repeated the same thing in other areas. Your goal is to fight through each realm and take down the bad guy in charge by doing mindless missions that have no real context. This feud seems to have been going on for a while now and Orin gets banished to the lowest realm and his brother hires some cool-looking henchmen to protect each realm. At the start of the game, I was welcomed to a cinematic that revealed an ongoing feud between Orin and his brother. Godfall follows the story of Orin who is a Valorian knight in a fantasy world called Aperion. However, everything else in Godfall is a complete trainwreck. The only thing Counterplay Games got right here is the combat which feels great, if not clumsy at times. To make a looter game great you need to nail down the loot, and it needs to keep drawing you into the gameplay even after hundreds of hours of doing the same thing. The looter genre is tough to master and that is why we only have a selection of these on the market. It was an ambitious task of which other large developers would most likely run away from. What Counterplay Games tried to create with Godfall was to merge a looter RPG with a hack and slash game. Godfall is not a game that warrants the insane price tag it is asking and I don’t think it will ever be. Even the soundtrack is boring as the same one song repeats itself over and over again throughout the game. Its gameplay never tries anything new, the environments, while gorgeous running on the PS5, hold no secrets to uncover and its plot goes nowhere. This time its because Godfall is just dull and uninspired. Usually, when a developer is too scared to showcase gameplay, there’s a reason why. Every new gameplay video was 30 seconds of flash and not once did they take the time to do a deep dive into the game’s mechanics. Counterplay Games withheld so much information regarding the gameplay and how this so-called “first of its kind looter-slasher” worked. However, the warning signs were there right from the start. I so hoped that Godfall was going to be good.
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