Only a 5?? | Asmongold TV

August 23, 2026

AI Summary

5 min read

In the IGN review that opens this episode, critic Mitchell Saltzman gives AI Limit a 5 out of 10, calling it a "soulslike without any soul" — a 30-hour slog through repetitive enemies, forgettable bosses, and a bland sci-fi setting. Asmongold, who played the game himself, disagrees with the score but agrees with much of the critique. The conversation quickly becomes a broader argument about how to evaluate soulslikes in 2025, when the genre's bar has been raised by games like Lies of P, Black Myth: Wukong, and Sekiro. The central question is not whether AI Limit is bad — it's whether a 5 is fair to a competent but unremarkable game, and what that says about how critics and audiences now judge the genre.

The core disagreement: competence vs. ambition

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1 Only a 5?? | Asmongold TV
2 (00:00) **Sponsor Pre-Roll** - Advertisements for Anthropic, PayPal, and San Pellegrino Chow
3 (01:31) **Initial Reaction to IGN's AI Limit Review** - Asmongold reads the IGN review calling AI Limit a "5/10" and immediately pushes back
4 (03:28) **The Rising Bar for Souls-Like Games** - Context for why AI Limit feels underwhelming despite being functional
5 (04:54) **Game's Setting and Structure** - Description of AI Limit's sci-fi premise and by-the-numbers level design
6 (06:14) **Combat Mechanics and Difficulty Criticism** - Asmongold defends the game's combat while questioning IGN's inconsistent scoring
7 (09:01) **The Sync Rate System** - Explanation of the game's unique resource mechanic

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