Code Vein Reviews
If you’ve never played a Soulsborne and you’ve been wanting to jump in but felt intimidated to do so, Code Vein’s NPC partner system and easy co-op play make it the perfect introduction to build up your confidence.
Code Vein has incredible promise and I hope that it sells well enough to warrant a sequel because the issues that I do have with it can easily be solved. I honestly believe that Bandai Namco has something big on their hands here. I can only hope that the future holds good things for Code Vein.
Code Vein is a brilliant evolution of the soulslike style. With fun combat, a well done AI partner system and a wealth of build options. Each area permeates that distinct desolate feeling, while still managing to remain unique. Even the story manages to keep being interesting enough to continually draw the player forward to discover more, with an elegant system to experience memories of past events to flesh out the story. Anyone who enjoys both anime style games, and soulslike games has plenty to enjoy in Code Vein.
An excellent game, despite a few technical issues and voice acting problems, the game is extremely enjoyable and excels in applying simplified souls concept. I recommend this game to beginners who want to try the souls concept or previous players who couldn't handle the difficulty but wants to try the concept in a more simplified manner.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Code Vein is an anime souls-like featuring great customization and a wonderfully bizarre world.
Code Vein is an exciting, rewarding, and tenebrous venture into the Souls-like space with a fantastic class system, explosive combat, and dark narrative – hindered only by its lack of visual prowess and odd UI design.
Code Vein is a great Souls-like experience distinguished by its unique style and interesting story.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Code Vein tries so hard to be more than a Dark Souls clone, and it succeeds when it comes to the story and character design. But gameplay wise, it fails to execute the successful Dark Souls formula and eventually lands somewhere between Soulslike games and Japanese Action RPGs, unable to fully satisfy fans of either genre.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Code Vein is worth every moment.
‘Dark Souls with anime vampires’ is a good way to describe Code Vein, but in reality there’s so much more going on beneath the surface.
Code Vein is a very unique mixture of anime art style with dark souls gameplay elements. Beautiful anime dark world, nice story-teeling, some great characters, challenging deep gameplay and combats, high replay value and also high amount of various contents (specially because of dungeons), made Code Vein a very valuable souls-like with its own characteristics. There are issues like unbalance of difficulty in some parts of the game and some repeated level designs and locations, but in the end, good aspects of the game are way more natable than these issues and you may not even feel those problems in the amazing course of the game. Code Vein is one of the best choices for every gamers that are looking for an amazing "high quality hardcore action-RPG"
Review in Persian | Read full review
They actually did it.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Obviously it's a Dark Souls clone, but does it really matter if the game is good? Code Vein's got unique art style and offers enough original things to hold your interest, without making you think too often about its roots.
Review in Russian | Read full review
CODE VEIN adds some nice mechanics to Souls formula, but falls short of efficiently use them.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
This sometimes convoluted action RPG won't be for everyone. Still, Code Vein should draw in anime fans looking for a gripping, challenging gaming experience. Souls fans should enjoy this too, assuming they're seeking combat that's a tad less stressful, with additional colorful twists to the old formula.
Luckily, many aspects of the game are well above average, such as the anime artwork and the story. If you can get past the somewhat clunky combat and boring world, Code Vein can be appealing more often than not.
Code Vein is going to be divisive. Out of the box, it's not a very good game. The balance in difficulty is a mess, with certain classes and abilities feeling hugely overpowered; the partners making even the most challenging encounter easy, until the difficulty spikes massively towards the conclusion. It's in that conclusion that Code Vein shines at its best. For the players willing to invest the time to get there, and good enough to learn how to master the considerably complex system, there is a superb experience waiting. It's just a shame it takes so long to get there.
Japan dystopia with Souls system in world of destruction works very well. Just story should be more attractive.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Code Vein brings many fun and interesting features to the souls-like subgenre, and even though it doesn't reach excellency in some aspects, it still stands out and entertains enough to stand amongst the big ones as a possible new franchise to become a reference.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
It can be termed as Anime Souls but Code Vein is far from it. This feels like more of an attempt to bring the same gameplay experience but without the polish and detail that From Software is known for in their games. As a result, Code Vein is a decent albeit flawed action RPG that doesn't bring anything exciting to the genre.