Playthrough 001: Darksiders

Game the first: Darksiders

Released for PC September 23, 2010

Originally bought during the 2012 Winter Steam Sale as part of a Darksiders Franchise Pack that includes the sequel.

Zero Punctuation Review: https://youtu.be/EWTSeTxKLJo

So for my first game the system has chosen Darksiders, a third-person action game from 2010. My understanding of the game is entirely based on the Zero Punctuation review that was published a couple of weeks after the game was released. It originally came out for PS3 and Xbox 360--neither of which I owned--so I didn’t pay it any attention, even when it came out for PC later that year. It wasn’t until the Steam Holiday Sale of 2012 that I had a decent amount of dosh to blow on games that looked like a good deal. I purchased Darksiders as part of the Darksiders Franchise Pack, which also included the sequel and most of the DLC though for some reason at the time did not include the Darksiders 2 soundtrack.

Anyway, I expect this game will be all right. It currently has an average user rating of 89% on Steam, meaning 89% of all user reviews for the game recommend it, and that’s out of over 6,000 reviews. While the “Start off all-powerful then some plot contrivance causes you to lose all your powers and you have to earn them back one at a time” is rather tropish, I’ve enjoyed enough Metroid games that I doubt it will bother me much.

Next time I’ll tell you about my experiences in the first 3 hours of game, see you then!