Mistfall Hunter First Impressions — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:01] or not? I think it might be about that time. I heard from a lot of you guys that the game sucks, but I heard from Sodapoppin that the game is very good. So, we'll see what happens. Here we go, boys. We're locked in. The game looks

[00:14] pretty good. Like visually. Like I haven't played. when you're making a game, it's all about gameplay. I feel like graphics to rate the graphics, like that looks pretty nice. We have a sorcerer. Okay,

[00:28] she has no pants on. Um black arrow. Shadow strike. So, we have like a rogue, a hunter, a mage, a warrior, a priest it looks like. And then a a withered knight. Oh, wow.

[00:44] A death knight or something? This looks kind of cool. Why is everyone hating on curious. Like cuz I asked you guys, should I play? Everyone's like, no, no, no, crap, crap, crap. I like I haven't logged in yet, but it looks kind of cool

[00:56] [clears throat] Yeah, that's kind of what we're trying to do here, but none of the presets look like her cuz Shannon's not basic. There we go. Say this a lot of the time. She has bangs right now, though. None of these are

[01:08] do this one. All right, that's that's going to be that's that's enough for that. Okay, uh character name. I don't think anyone probably took Zariou, so think anyone probably took Zariou, so I'll just do that.

[01:23] before we send our lawyers in and copy strike whoever took my name. Come on. four, three, three, two, one.

[01:40] Matchmaking started. Wait, is this a What do you mean match? Wait, is this like other people? How much is the game? I think it's like 20 bucks. We're going to learn how to own him up on the sword. I just need a couple games

[01:55] belt first. It's bots for your first few games. don't like I'm not ready to fight people yet. I need to like at least hit a target dummy or something. Like get Pika or Soda on here.

[02:34] Okay, so that's like my Frost Nova. Yeah, the key binds are a little weird. There's no way I'm missing those, right? Unless I am.

[02:57] Do I this is like a nice like helm here? 10 defense. Okay, same as my normal one. There's like stuff over there, stuff over here.

[03:11] Why why can I not hit these guys? Dead follower. falls silent. Okay.

[03:25] don't understand why I'm missing these like first ones.

[03:37] quick, but like I can just press shift, which is pretty chill. did it in New World. We might have to check it out in this game, who knows? Is this not sponsored? Guys, if I'm ever sponsored, I need #ad in the title so

[03:52] you never have to guess. If the ad is there, I'm sponsored. If the ad is not there, it's not sponsored. This is not sponsored. sponsored. This is not sponsored. Cool.

[04:21] these actions cannot be done. Okay. So, we just like dodge. up real quick. And I want to try this thing.

[04:37] And this should probably like a root into that. I don't know if I'm liking how combat feels yet, but I'm only in the tutorial.

[04:50] It feels very basic. Ow. I thought I was out of range on This guy's pretty long. I was out of uh three of them, so I can't dodge. So, now I can't dodge at all.

[05:05] Right click natos him. Left click novas him. That nova doesn't seem to do much. I'll take a little sip of my potion, and we die. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Let's feel

[05:17] this out then. Return to the living world. Return to the living world. So, if this is an extractor, do I just

[05:36] over? You have one revive. Oh, no way. Oh, that's interesting. So, if you die to PvE, you can actually just rez. Oh, PvE, you can actually just rez. Oh, that's really interesting.

[05:50] I kind of like that. Well, I don't Okay, so I can't attack this guy now. so I can't attack this guy now. Now I can.

[06:04] Okay, so I have no more dodges for a sec. like pretty much at all here.

[06:18] through him? Oh, it's a range thing. I'm out of range. Okay, so my fireball range is really short, I guess. New World Arc 2.0. Yeah, I don't know I don't know if I'm liking the combat as much as New World right now, but I

[06:32] it a chance. Golden ship thing. We have some new pants, new bracers. You are ranged, just animate it shorter. That's what I'm saying. Like if it did if the fireball doesn't hit the tree,

[06:46] then it shouldn't hit the tree. So like you're telling me this won't hit here cuz it's max range. Okay, first impressions pretty bad on that. How does that just not hit?

[07:04] agree that's not good? That's That's weird.

[07:24] That's not good. That's not good. Like it should the the fireball should have some drop off or some indicator actually not hitting them. >> Standing around and ring the time.

[07:44] out of range. That's fascinating. [snorts]

[08:03] So the basic fireball attacks, I think are spammable, but if I charge them, I think they cost energy. Why does the combat look like uh Dark and Darker? like Dark and Darker as much. The combat feels like

[08:22] like New World and and like like Elden Ring. The fireball range is really weird. I I really think they should work on that. That's like not good. The fireball range like just doesn't

[08:35] feel like it's supposed to be like that. Yo, ballsack 101, thanks for the prime, Appreciate the big support. Stardust org I guess that's not really my point though. My point is like it should be

[08:48] animated to show the actual range versus just like guessing random range. Does that make sense? I don't have an issue with the balance of oh, this class is short range. I have an issue that it's not clearly displayed what the range is.

[09:01] heal, you get three of them and you execute someone and it gives you one execute someone and it gives you one back. Okay, cool.

[09:15] was very Soulsy. This feels like it's a straight-up Souls boss. Oh, this is kind of this is kind of cool.

[09:32] it's not intuitive what range is. Like to me it's like that should feel like in to me it's like that should feel like in range, but it's totally not.

[09:44] him. Yo, you're trapped. Oh, nope, nope, nope. Okay, R again. Okay, R again. Thought you were trapped.

[09:59] this guy. I don't I like am I supposed to be able to take this guy on?

[10:15] I wonder like if he's in the tutorial, am I supposed to like learn that I Is that You know what I mean? Yeah, let's go this way. So, why am I constantly facing through Like I'm a little confused on what these

[10:31] are. So, they're like different instances and different doors within the same map. Why? What's the utility of this? You're supposed to be dead already? It's just a It's just a door. I see. So,

[10:46] instead of like a normal door, it's just like a cool-looking door. Okay, got it. Oh, that's Okay, that's interesting. When you think about it as a door, kind of keep going through here.

[11:00] C and then right click. I don't know what this makes me go quicker, but I'll try. Oh, makes my footsteps a lot quieter though. >> Follow the butterflies all the way. Even

[11:14] that. >> 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19. I have to wait.

[11:38] >> Three. I don't know if anybody's going to die. Okay. I think the game is really creative,

[11:53] right? Like it has a cool way to extract like the dual the doors are creative. I think the combat feels pretty crappy from what I can tell. but that's not really a fair assessment because I need to play a bit more.

[12:08] Apparently there's more spells and more combos and this and that. Um it seems creative. The game visually looks really nice. The movement feels Yeah, I'm curious to like see how it actually feels. You know what I mean?

[12:23] The game is very biased to melee combat. Melee feels better. You're not the first person who who said that. Do you guys that play this game agree? Is melee just like more fun? Cuz I could try a different class, too.

[12:35] I could try a different class, too. Let's let's play again.

[12:48] think. Extractor. Just like Legacy or Dark and Darker. So we have skills, we have talents, we have camp, task, mall. have camp, task, mall. Oh. Oh, wow. Um okay.

[13:01] spells when chanting stardust spells. The first attack received will not Guess I got that. Oh, I can re-talent this. Increase movement speed after casting an elemental magic. Skills. Elemental

[13:14] magic. Form a form blade and hand to attack forward dealing magic damage to short-term burn over time. Oh, wow. Mhm, I see. You drag it up. You can only have two. Oh, interesting. Okay, so let's mess around with this for a little bit.

[13:29] So So we have elemental magic and then we have general. stuff and the third one's unlocked at level five. What's this? Forbidden gate. Hold the channel and summon a forbidden

[13:42] that attempt to pass through it while it lasts. Forbidden gate diverts interesting. Movement speed and silencing footsteps, think I'm going to stick with those two. I have got to say this.

[13:56] When I played Dark and Darker, when I played Legacy Steel and Sorcery, when I've played any extraction title, I've always wondered why more extraction games don't do this. Right? Instead of just this loading

[14:10] screen into just this AFK thing, you have a little home base camp with all of these like a little auction house, vendors, skill ups to make it feel like you're in a world and then it's like, okay, let's go extract. I'm going to go

[14:24] on a boat to extract. First impressions here, I think this is so much better, at least coming from an MMO player, than any

[14:40] other like just you're sitting in a loading screen like sitting in a title screen clicking play. Like look, it says go explore. Like I actually really like the concept here. Now the gameplay, I don't know if

[14:52] but the concept of like there's there's an actual town and cooler. And I would assume if you're in a party, you could like have all your the same town. Yeah, the combat like I don't know like I'm I'm not like super

[15:07] like it takes a little bit to get into the combat of a new game. You know what I mean? Like the combat feels weird until it doesn't. Right now the combat's not feeling great, but maybe it'll feel better as I play a

[15:21] maybe it'll feel better as I play a little more.

[15:41] Is this a potion? Oh, no, this is a throwable. Is this a potion? Oh, that's another throwable. kind of good to know. Let's chuck that over there for a minute.

[15:59] Okay, I have like no healing then. So, like might just cooked.

[16:29] People saying press R. R. Nice, guys. You got me killed. I pressed R right when you said it. Everyone just like guys, you I pressed R and then I died instantly. Oh my gosh. You trolls. Right when I

[16:42] press it. So, R gets you killed. Okay, got it. Reclaim corpse. Okay, won't be got it. Reclaim corpse. Okay, won't be pressing R again. That's for sure.

[16:57] like kind of hard, huh?

[17:18] See if I Oh, what was that? Blue boots. Once again, like I don't know if I like that you can get blues from like an intro. Not that it matters, but it feels like a little weird. What's the rating of the game so far? I Dude, I

[17:34] first. There's a lot that I like and a lot that I don't like. I think they made a lot of really good decisions with like the systems, but I feel like

[17:48] the combat I'm not like loving the combat yet. I haven't actually played like a real game yet either, right? So. And I guess this is an extraction point.

[18:03] >> Follow the butterflies all the way. Even you should be able to manage that. you're you're not even like close to running out. I still try and all the way

[18:16] back this way, I would assume, and then go to that. Stardust, you're going to enjoy more. Okay. We'll give it a little bit of time then.

[18:46] the one melee ability that I have, the flame sword, which makes me think I would maybe like a melee dude better. The flame sword damage compared to anything else is absurd. Yeah, exactly. It's crazy high.

[18:59] you for a period of time. While active, each time you attack by an enemy, one follow duration ends, any remaining ice bolts will automatically fire forward. Cool. Okay. It's like an Ori W or something. So I want that over a deep

[19:13] freeze, fire bolt, or flame blade though. Unless I can put it on instead of this, elemental affinity. When when elemental elemental mark. When elemental mark reaches two stacks, then it takes all

[19:25] change that. Huh, kind of want to try this. Oh, now I have stealth Whoa, whoa, whoa. Guys, maybe I need to give it a long longer though. I have stealth now. And then a meteor impact.

[19:41] And then a meteor impact. And then meteors knock people up. need to just play sorc a little longer. Stardust does better in trios, but Ellie Stardust does better in trios, but Ellie does better in solos. Interesting, okay.

[20:24] instantly channel like a just a normal basic left click? Yes, okay. Let me just try that. So, like this is like a normal left click. the instant cast thing is on cool down. Okay, instant cast thing.

[20:41] it did work the second time. Am I Am I a noob here or is this just very janky? It's like sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So, this is normal left click. Normal left click. Now I'm holding down

[20:56] again. It did work. Okay. Oh, whoa. Cool. Oh, crap.

[21:12] There's definitely someone like above me or something. Oh, there's a person right here, bro. WHAT THE HECK? >> [laughter] >> I wonder if he was just watching me the

[21:27] whole time. Oh my gosh. [laughter] I was like, there's a guy guy right next to me, bro. Okay. Sounds kind of

[21:42] As Aemond Targaryen, dude. House of the Dragon last night. No spoilers, but I'm just saying Oh my gosh. It's It's It's It's getting insane, man. Um what do I want to do? I think I want

[21:55] to go back to elemental. Yeah, there's a player down here. Is there a player above me? I don't know. This isn't a player.

[22:13] I'm pretty sure I did, right? Um He seems to be gone right now. Oh, there he is. Hello, sir.

[22:43] Oh yeah, so like that's too far to even land my attack as uh

[22:58] electricity. Like I said, guys, this one one just one shots people. I don't know.

[23:13] Oh, there was there was there more healing potions? Yeah, I see one. There We got an IRL healing potion from Shannon, too. Now, I'm pretty sure that guy was full HP when I saw him.

[23:32] What the heck? This guy is like invincible.

[23:52] Oh, this guy has a bunch of cool abilities. Yo, can I learn your magic? Like what? This guy

[24:09] or anything, but let's put this on, I guess.

[24:25] I hear someone right next to me. To my right.

[24:37] fireball. I can just vamp myself up like this. Drink a pot. Get movement speed. Get movement speed. Go invis.

[25:27] what? I'm just perma-staggered.

[26:01] Guess we should like movement speed increase.

[26:33] their stagger with a shift. And then you just get away from it. the stagger?" I was just spamming my attack.

[26:48] Never press your R heal. Oh, yeah, I first time fighting someone like an actual player, basically.

[27:12] Poor [laughter] guy. Probably his first lobby, too. This game sucks.

[27:27] >> [laughter] >> I actually have no idea. keep going back in my mind like back and or not. It's actually awful.

[27:41] It's actually awful. >> [laughter] Man, I swear every couple minutes I go between this game is great and this game is trash. Like I I'm just like back and

[27:53] forth. I think the PvE feels a little lackluster in the sense like lackluster in the sense like the mobs are kind of just like

[28:06] damage they you kind of just hit them and they die. they do a lot of damage. The bosses seem kind of hard, I guess. In Dark and Darker, for example, all of the monsters are like pretty scary until

[28:21] the monsters are like pretty scary until you learn how to fight them.

[28:35] I think there's someone like near me. That was definitely someone like right there.

[29:21] Okay. This thing kind of owns me. That's a bot, is it? How can you guys tell?

[30:04] So, maybe this is what people are saying with like you need um the short-range attacks.

[30:40] Yeah, okay. So, maybe electricity like at range is nice, but against actual players that are closing gaps, like you can't actually play at range, right? Maybe that's the issue. So, you'd rather just have something

[30:52] quick you can spam at close range. So, I do think I like Frost Nova over the flame sword just because the Frost Nova will help me get more distance. Maybe. >> Follow them.

[31:23] >> Oh my gosh. So, it feels like the PvE is really interesting like the hard mobs are like pretty hard. easy. That sounded troll when I said it out

[31:38] loud, but I think you guys know what I mean.

[32:02] reviews. The reviews I think are pretty awful on this game. >> As far as I know. I I mean, I Before I played I I I was Pretty much everyone said it was bad. And I asked Soda, and he said that it

[32:16] play it. Extraction is a stupid genre. Really? I I I've quite enjoyed extractions. Like I've played kind of like I played Dungeon Born, Legacy, Dark and Darker, this game. Like all of the fantasy extractors I've been really

[32:29] fascinating. I really enjoy the genre. flopping for one reason or another. for one reason or another. But like it's still really interesting.

[33:01] This is my first like kind of more tactical experience in the game.

[33:49] Okay, this is an invisible wall I guess. That's kind of crappy.

[35:07] OH, REALLY?

[35:28] OH, I CAN'T BELIEVE I LET THE GIANT HIT ME. I like dodge his attack and THEN IT CRAP. SO, MAN, I felt like we were really far ahead in the early game. We forced all three of

[35:41] his pods, and I was still full HP. And then he ran away and reset, and then killed me. Hmm. Trying to think what we were supposed to do there. As a

[35:54] formal review of the game, after playing for almost 7 hours, I have to say this. I think the first thing I could say is that I only planned to play for like an hour or two,

[36:08] and then go play something else. I was just wanting to log in and test the game. So, I think that speaks volumes to I planned to play for an hour or two, and I ended up playing seven.

[36:22] I can't say I love the game in the sense that I think the the biggest weakness to me feels like the combat. The combat just feels too janky to feel like I love this. I wish it was more just like New World combat, which apparently a lot of

[36:36] the other classes are, but sorc isn't, and I only played sorc. So, I have to getting into the pros, I think this should be the baseline for any extraction game moving forward. I've

[36:50] been saying this for years and years and years that a city is so darn cool to house all the NPCs to queue from. You can jump around, you can play, and it can jump around, you can play, and it feels so welcoming as an MMO player to

[37:04] have all of the NPCs in a town, and then you queue up on the boat. I love this. I can't stand just sitting on a lobby like every other extraction game I've played. I love this. I've been saying this like on repeat every time I play Dungeon

[37:20] Born, Dark and Darker, Legacy, Tarkov, any extractor, I'm like, "Give me a town to run in while I'm queuing so I can jump around." It's so amazing. things about the game like the way you extract.

[37:33] think overall I'm still a little confused. My least favorite thing is the combat, and that's a big deal. I wish sorc had another round or two of testing passes to just be like, "Let's not make this so janky."

[37:48] So, anyway, that's my formal review. Should you buy it? If you like extraction games, especially fantasy extractors like Dark and Darker, Legacy, or Dungeon Born, I would say absolutely worth the 20 bucks or 22 or

[38:03] that's your genre, yeah, I mean, you should you probably already bought it. If you're not really into extraction games, probably skip. I mean, it's an extractor after all. And if you're looking for a

[38:17] very refined and polished com- like combat, I would also say to but if you're more like open for a journey on a brand new extraction title has some potential and has some cool features I would say yeah. So that's my

[38:33] formal review. It's free on game pass. Oh cool, nice. I highly suggest you try for you. Fair enough, yeah. I I I play like sorcs >> [music] >> That's why I like you know would like to

[38:48] very janky. So you like it? I like it. But I think it could be so much better than this. I almost think it'll be better in like a year from now after

[39:01] they do some stuff. But I like the game overall. Yeah. I actually I actually right. It's all right. I would maybe play again. I don't know. He doesn't dislike it. Yeah. Will I keep playing it? We'll see how I feel in the morning.

[39:15] I might be back on the rift tomorrow. I would I would say New World combat was combat was better than this. Their rolls were smoother. Their weapon swapping was smoother. It felt like if this had just New World combat I would be like there

[39:31] worse to be to be frank. I think this is got I think this combat think this combat is straight up worse than New World combat. Yes. It's like it's like New World combat but jankier and worse in most ways.

[39:44] and worse in most ways. Unfortunately, I hate to say it.