Godfall immediately reminded me of the “gold rooms” I spent so much time in during my youth, with its ridiculous level of visual beauty and sparkling presentation. Godfall PS5 Review Godfall Offers Beautiful Desolation But like those Russian palaces I reviewed long ago, playing Godfall eventually feels empty, a relic of a past time that eventually dulls players’ senses with too much glitter and not enough depth. It is because Godfall, the new “looter slasher” from Counterplay Games, is a very gold game, with visual majesty splashed on every surface imaginable. You may be wondering why I’m bringing up my exchange student experiences at the beginning of a video game review. You can see a metaphor coming here, right? Palaces are great, but eventually kids want to go to the circus. Going to tour palaces eventually became a slog, and eventually we begged to skip tours in favor of other, more immediate cultural experiences. Left with only visual input, we were numbed by seeing too much splendor too quickly, and we eventually ceased to be impressed with what we eventually started referring to as “gold rooms”. With our rudimentary language skills, a lot of the history being imparted went over our heads. These are truly marvellous structures, ornate and beautiful, with gold leaf dripping from every surface.īefore long, my little group became inured to the experience. As a result, I toured many Russian royal palaces, back-to-back, and found myself wandering from one spectacular gilded ballroom after another. At that time, visitors from the United States were a relative rarity, so my gaggle of 15 American kids found ourselves shuffled from one cultural site to another as our hosts attempted to show us the best of the best in a very short period of time. Godfall PS5 Review – When I was 17 years old, I went on a student exchange to the then-Soviet Union.
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