The premise of replaceable heroes and deadly fights is promising and is working in the first two thirds of the game. That is why everybody who plays it uses the wiki. It doesn't get any easier as you progress, in fact it gets much harder and requires you to know the strengths and weaknesses for each boss and particular area inside and out. I could go on but I think people get the gist from these low score reviews.

It has become so repetitive that even the voice of the amazing narrator is beginning to grate on me, because I've heard everything he says 100 times. However from my perspective that is only marginally better than a party member dying, because the surviving heroes will need disease cures, stress heals, and quirk adjustment, requiring them to sit on the sidelines for up to three missions. The best you can do is swallow your pride and retreat, and abandon the mission if necessary, at the slightest hint of danger. Everything could be going very well and then you get ambushed once and suddenly you're in a life or death situation because the enemy shuffled your party and crit you once. The thing about this game is that no matter how well you prepare, you will lose heroes, due to the randomness inherent in the gameplay. That is taking into account modest losses during the level-up process. This is proving to be a huge task, and by my estimates I will need to play the game for another 20 hours before I reach that point. Now that I got to the 'Darkest Dungeon' final levels, I have nothing left to do in the game except to level up another 12+ heroes to level 5 so I can actually run them. It was very fun when I was progressing and killing bosses. This is proving to be a huge task, and by my estimates I will need to play the game for another 20 hours This is a good game that I want to like more than I do.

This is a good game that I want to like more than I do.

Darkest dungeon narrator overconfidence