How does this game compare to Elden Ring?

[Atomsk]

I beat Elden Ring and I want more...

[WhiteLezard]

They're nothing alike. If you want to play something similar go with Dark Souls 3.

[cl656]

It's no where near as difficult as Elden Ring.

[AsuraBG]

No. The majority of Souls players don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about non-FromSoftware games that use the formula.

[yds]

It doesn't. But it's a good game and I highly recommend.

Originally posted by cool-dude:

It's no where near as difficult as Elden Ring.

If you play on easy mode (with AI partner), sure. Otherwise, the difficulty is about the same. All depends on your build, and you can melt the bosses on NG if you want, but they can melt you as well.

[tizeY]

try nioh

[AsuraBG]

Originally posted by yds:

It doesn't. But it's a good game and I highly recommend.

If you play on easy mode (with AI partner), sure. Otherwise, the difficulty is about the same. All depends on your build, and you can melt the bosses on NG if you want, but they can melt you as well.

Is it a good game? That's debatable, IMO. General consensus is that it's a solid 7/10 which is already above average but not great compare to ER who gets 8-9/10.

Also, about the A.I. Companion, builds and such, these arguments can be said for ER too.
The Mimics that the player gets to summon before a battle (they apparently had to nerf that, I saw someone being AFK to the toilet while their mimic would ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ solo-curbstomp a boss.... The Code Vein companions are OP but they are not that OP), OP builds, overpowered/broken skills.... Just to name a few (I'm not that deep into ER as I don't own the game.... yet). Heck, in ER it's even worse over there because of the PvP and invasion aspect.

Literally in games like this, the difficulty largely banks on the players themselves. This is why the "gaming medias" are constantly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and whining about "easy mode" (because they don't know how to play the game which isn't suprising) and why the SoulsBourne fansbase/playerbase has an ego problem (because they purposely went in their way to make the game harder for themselves).

[doublejesus]

Considering From didn't have the foresight to have any of their other titles reduced in price this is a decent pickup to scratch the itch for the price, so far. There's some weirdness with the way you "perm" your "class" abilities(similar to spells, incantations and ashes of war) you can dynamically change your class which effects your stats and you can memorize or perm abilities to use in different classes reminiscent to the job system in FFT/2. Some of these are gated behind items you have to find, but if you over level the current area you're in the enemies do not provide as much experience towards making abilities permanent.

Other than that its nice having a dedicated dodge key and run key, muscle memory is gonna ♥♥♥♥ you bad though if you played a couple hundred hours of ER. Story is set up as more of a standard rpg story, giving you some of the story elements as part of the natural progression of the game. If you missed having that in ER this will be a + but story is pretty generic so far and also probably tainted by the anime look of the game making some of the serious moments feel more comical than probably intended.

EDIT: Oh yeah forgot this game has much better tits and ass mechanics which is always a plus. The game loves backstabs though so if it looks like there could be an ambush there is and there's one in that spot that doesn't look like one.

[Elley]

I recently beat Elden Ring and came back to this, its baby mode even if you go without companions.

[Supa]

THIS GAME HAS DEMO IN THE STORE PAGE. So you could just try it out like I did.

I felt like it had nice character creator but that's about it. Everything else in the game just feels weak and unpolished. And if you absolutely had to make Dark Souls comparison it's like Dark Souls 2 but flashier. By this I mean that it has that unsatisfying weightless feeling to it. :/

[2D神]

If you're expecting Elden ring, this is not it chief.

[toughnails]

It's a middling souls-like with anime waifus. It doesn't compare to an open world AAA production lmao. Still worth grabbing at this price, but try the demo first.

[Fortimbras]

It shares a lot of the lows of Elden Ring and little of the highs.

Code Vein is good as a story driven game with souls like combat, but thats about it.

[Radardawn]

well. I just instal it 3 dys ago, and been deep on venture since then. At least this game doesnt have tech issue such as fps stuttering, which elden ring has. BUY it man, u deserve it :)

[xnamxoutlawx]

Originally posted by WhiteLezard:

They're nothing alike. If you want to play something similar go with Dark Souls 3.

They are "nothing alike"? So literally nothing at all alike? Ok why you lying for?

[toughnails]

Originally posted by xnamxoutlawx:

Originally posted by WhiteLezard:

They're nothing alike. If you want to play something similar go with Dark Souls 3.

They are "nothing alike"? So literally nothing at all alike? Ok why you lying for?

He's right though. Code Vein has more in common with God Eater than Dark Souls or Elden Ring. It's an anime game with sexy girls and simple combat, nothing at all like From Software's works.