if it ain't broke, why change it.
KuF:CoD reminds me of a music artist who has a great style but decides they want to change directions just to be different and all that happens is the music ends up sucking and the fanbase leaves. When they should have just stuck to the formulae that worked for them.
This game feels claustrophobic, gone are the open plains of battle of the KuF series and replaced are these tight little linear passageways. Repition can be made interesting, I found 99 nights repetitive but still enjoyable, this game is just plain repetitive when you'll often find yourself repeating the same dungeon
The attack mechanics also feel disjointed. In previous KuF games you had your standard auto attacks and they would fill up your SP bar by killing enemies and then you could unleash a super attack. In this game you standard attacks are limited by your SP bar, and the stronger weapon you use the faster your drain your SP. All this ends up doing is breaking up the flow and rythym of the game cause you'll unleash a combo then find you can't even attack for a few seconds till your SP bar regenerates. This means often you'll be better off using weaker weapons which don't drain it as fast which just defeats the purpose of gearing up. Your gear and spell choices have really little impact on the game and I found them generally quite unimpressive.
The music is quite forgetable as well, previous KuF had a nice mix of metal and symphony. Sound effects are ok. The story also is just bizaare, a newcomer will have no ide what is going on if they didn't play the previous 2 KuF game.
The only real redeeming quality of this game is that it was always just a side project and not a true sequel to the KuF strategy series which they are working on called KuF- Dominion.
Hardcore KuF fans can wait till this hits the bargain bin. If you've never played the series I'd recommend picking up the older xbox versions if you still can and just skipping this version