It can be difficult to make a mark as a soulslike these days, with almost every studio that makes one defaulting to wrapping a slightly tweaked Dark Souls/Sekiro combat system around a unique setting to try and make theirs stand out from the pack. Thankfully, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn manages to forge its own identity thanks to developer A44’s willingness to push aside the brutal difficulty of the genre and draw elements from other influential titles.
Still, if you’re a fan of FromSoftware’s work, you’ll feel right at home in Flintlock. Defeating enemies gives you a resource called Reputation, which you can use to buy skills and items. You’ll lose all of your Reputation should you fall in battle, but you can retrieve it again if you can get back to the spot in which you died. So far, so soulslike.
