Reviewers Liked
- Diverse assortment of enemies and bosses promotes experimentation with different weapons
Reviewers Didn't Like
- There's no way to pick your NPC companions' loadouts
Ashen
80
8.1
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By GamingShogun
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Being a huge fan of the Dark Souls games, I was very interested in Ashen from the beginning, but that interest was always tainted with a small amount of worry that Ashen wouldn't live up to the Dark Souls comparison. Whether that comparison is deserved...
By gamingtrend.com
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Ashen uses the Souls-like formula to tell a very different, optimistic story about community. Whether you're playing alone, with an AI companion, or with another person, combat with the game's varied enemies and bosses is challenging and satisfying....
By New Game Network
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Ashen is a Souls-like that succeeds despite its lack of originality. The simplified progression, tracked quest objectives, and a persistent companion make it a great way to get into this challenging...
By Destructoid
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Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.How we score: The destructoid reviews...
By Gadgets360
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Announced in 2014, Ashen for Xbox One and Windows PC is an action role-playing game developed by New Zealand-based indie studio A44 Games. And like a fair few indie games this year, it's a souls-like, which is sub-genre of titles inspired by Dark Souls....
By WCCFTech
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Ashen is a very good action-adventure game sporting interesting lore, good character development, and solid gameplay features like combat and exploration. Unfortunately, the game does almost nothing to separate its gameplay loop from the one seen in the...
By windowscentral.com
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Ashen, a new Dark Souls-inspired action RPG, made a surprise arrival. Going in, expectations were high — but did Ashen meet them? Was Ashen the holiday gift we were all hoping for or was it a lump of coal in our stockings?After slashing, dodging,...
By GameInformer
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Ashen is at its best when you and a stranger are standing victorious over the corpse of a giant creature. You want to say “thank you,” or exchange a high five, but the only thing you can do is spin around in a circle or jump frantically to simulate a sense of glee. Even with so much of the experience feeling similar to something else you’ve played, Ashen delivers a great sense of wonder in its world, and ends up being a fun journey to undertake.
By in.ign.com
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Ashen takes liberally from Dark Souls when it comes to combat and progression, but it's a very good take on the formula that delivers satisfying, strategic combat and progression that rewards careful play. Thanks to a gorgeous, varied open world and...
By Games Radar
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Ashen contributes more hits than misses to the Souls formula, though the overall experience may feel too familiar to fans of FromSoftware's trendsetting...
By GameSpot
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Telling a story of the cyclical nature of light and dark and possessing both stamina-focused combat and larger-than-life bosses, Ashen is easy to compare to From Software's Dark Souls. However, Ashen establishes its own identity by delivering an...
By Good Gear Guide
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It's hard to overstate the impact and influence that Atlas' Demon Souls and Dark Souls have had on the wider gaming space in recent years.Seemingly-overnight, Hidetaka Miyazaki's take on the action RPG has gone from cult classic to meteoric mainstream...
By eurogamer.net
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Ashen is about exploring and cleansing a newly radiant world, but it's often at its best in the dark. A few hours into this derivative but engrossing third-person RPG, there's a quest that takes you deep below ground in search of a corrupted giantess...
By tribecareview.es
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Es inevitable, como habéis visto, pensar en referencias de “Dark Souls” mientras hablamos de “Ashen”, ya que el juego es un continuo homenaje a éste. Tanto, que si Miyazaki no hubiese lanzado el juego original en 2011, os puiedo asegurar que “Ashen” no...
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