The feeling of exhilaration that you get when you finally kill the thing that’s been murdering you and progress is almost euphoric. Interestingly, and very much to this game’s credit that feeling only lasted for a short period of time. This is where the fun ended and all the memories of not being good and having no wish to get my head kicked in until I gave up rushed back. This big ugly bane of my life nearly put me off playing. Then I walked into battle with the first creature that was bigger than everything else and got my teeth knocked out. I actually thought this was going to be the first game of this type that changed my mind on the genre. I died a couple of times but I was expecting a hard-as-nails souls-like and because I didn’t get absolutely snotted by everything with a sword I thought I was doing rather well.
I managed to play through the first lump of Watcher Chronicles without too much of a painful experience. Is this a parody? Is it a play on a theme? No, it’s fucking not and I hate it all the more for tricking me. The first boss can and absolutely will smash you but you get the feeling you’re being punked when it gets swapped out for something more manageable after your first death. You don’t get the feeling everything is trying to eat you from the off. The graphics are cartoony and inviting, the control system is simple and easy to pick up and it all feels like a really fun action-platformer. What makes this one really bad is that it’s sneaky about it. Watcher Chronicles is, as I’ve just mentioned, a souls-like, and in true souls-like fashion, it’s hard as hell. So with this being said, why the crap did I agree to sit down and endure the torture that is Watcher Chronicles? We shall find out very shortly. As a rule of thumb, I have no intention of getting good, just as I have no intention of slamming my head on a wall until it stops hurting. No, I know they aren’t scary but they are very very hard and I’m very impatient and get annoyed with myself quite easily when I suck. Taking this mentality to the game we’re looking at today the same theory applies to souls-likes. I don’t have an issue with their existence and there are some very good ones out there but I’m a gigantic coward and will turn it off after the first jump scare. This is the reason why you won’t find me reviewing horror titles for you.
If I’m sitting here preparing to tell you lot all about a title common sense dictates that I need to have played the game to a point where I actually know what I’m talking about. It’s not personal bias, in fact, I don’t hate anything, it’s more a case of knowing what I’m like. There are a few genres I avoid like the plague.
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