Due to this, most players consider the Boreal Brute fight to be harder than most other boss fights in the game. Thankfully, this fight is made a whole lot easier in the most obvious way possible. It ...

If you’ve been searching for a new Souls-like action RPG to dive into, Code Vein might very well be the answer. It draws a lot of inspiration from the Souls series, including a stamina-based combat ...

John has been writing about videogames for almost a decade, and playing them for almost three. His greatest passion is for Grand Strategy and immersive RPGs, but he's dabbled in pretty much every ...

Code Vein doubles down on letting you create your very own playstyle, with tons of different options like Blood Veils, weapons, and of course, Blood Codes. Blood Codes function as your class, and you ...

Putting together a few different Code Vein builds can seem daunting at first. Don't be surprised if the excessive number of oddly-named components in this anime-fied Dark Souls-like RPG game go over ...

If you’ve seen a trailer or any preview footage for Code Vein, the elevator pitch is clear: It’s an “anime Soulslike” – an action-RPG that promises the steep challenge and cautious combat that we’ve ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Code Vein establishes its own identity from the outset. It may latch onto a Dark Souls formula that has come to define a generation of action-RPGs, ...

Code Vein mixes anime and Dark Souls - and in doing so, an uneven hybrid that emphasizes much of the best and worst of both is born. When people say Code Vein is 'anime Dark Souls', the developers ...