Thanks to its central focus being its satisfying combat and high-spectacle boss encounters, The First Berserker: Khazan is a Soulslike that seems to really be resonating with fans of the genre and the FromSoftware classics that inspired them. Of course, part of The First Berserker: Khazan's appeal is that it deftly straddles the line between homage and innovation, bringing just enough new to the Soulslike conversation while simultaneously honoring the design template established by FromSoftware's Demon's Souls back in 2009. Unsurprising, then, that the game goes so far as to honor one of the most polarizing aspects of FromSoftware's catalog: the poison swamp.