The Dark Ages I was prepared for intense violence and high volume heavy metal, but what I didn’t count on was such an exhilarating amount of demon-killing variety. By the end of my two-hour demo I’d used a saw-toothed shield to slice through demons like it was Beelzebub’s Beyblade,

The Dark Age’s gorey and bombastic action and while it’s mostly brilliant, some features have raised my eyebrows.