AntiMXT

Interesting concept, puzzle action game that doesn't hold your hand. Great, I'm in. Love the puzzles and the lack of way points and map markers. But I don't care about returning litte Maisy Blue's pocket protector when the combat is monotonous garbage, the boss fights aren't difficult, they're boring. Chase a glowing green gem about for 15mins and hack at the same inanimate objects. When you die out of boredeon or the camera is for **** and the physics are stupid, (Why do walls exists only for the player character?) you have zero interest in the mundane repetition. There's also a superfluous colour coded gem upgrade system. That is about all I know, or care about what it does. Additionally I could give two f*cks what that fat neck pr*ck has to say after hearing the same tripe prerecorded death screen again and again and again. Cut the combat, charge half the price.

Was this game made by blind children that have only heard rugby being played on the radio? Can someone please forgo the outrageous licensing fees and use the budget to hire people that know how to make a solid rugby game?! I think it's fair to say we'd enjoy Arnold Savloy and the Semi blacks take on the White Roses with Mario Itegi if the gameplay didn't make you want to gag.

What an absolute waste of time. Running from mindless mini game to mini game padding out the run time with consistent repetitive filler, each more egregious than the last with the over-arching pretense of "retelling" an unimportant story that was already told 20 years ago. Combat is woefully boring, either overcomplicated or oversimplified either works to stumble through each repetitive encounter, until it's not. Plenty of polish, graphics are great, there's just no substance.

The amount of faff just to start the game. Create a useless Activision account, restart the game, select multiplayer, go home, restart the game, end up in a different menu for Call of Duty online, be asked to buy a different game, close the game, open the game, select the campaign, restart the game. Go to shoot someone, instead a drive a car or sneak through a mansion. In their years of copy and paste trying to get more players to pay for loot boxes they've diluted whatmade these games fun. Glad I downloaded 125gb for this mess.

Let me start by staying this is a fun Mortal Kombat game. But, and, oh boy, is it a big but, you want me to grind through meaningless paths of stupid battles with multiple opponents and the most annoying squirrel with a chainsaw for what now, consumable buffs? ****. What severely undermines ANY positive this game had, is the egregious, predatory, plentiful microtransactions scattered throughout the meagre offering they give you that isn't tainted by them. Oh good, after grinding for hours you receive, a slight colour palette swap for the useless kostume (sic) that you don't like anyway. Here's to the next 3 hours. OR, just pay real money for the same useless junk. WB have zero clue what gamers want and it shows.

Yes. In a world where time for video games is at a premium this really scratched my itch. No meaningless fetch quests, or multitude of collect-a-thons, just an adventure, with a solid story, and fun gamplay that rewards exploration. Also, I'm Indiana Jones. The maps remind me of Hitman but less daunting, everything circles back around once you've unlocked it, like a 3d metrodvania, but without the power-up unlocks. Sure, the combat is simple, but it's the choice to scale up that keeps the immersion fresh, starting with stealth but, if you're caught, opting for melee, then a gun if it gets dire really makes you feel a part of the story as opposed to a game over screen if you stub your toe. Sitting here, at work, writing a review for a game I can't wait to get back to is a rare thing. This one is for me.

So much of this game was needlessly repeated. Whether it's unclear what you're supposed to do, an input error, or you barely touch the side of a spike, you die and have to repeat the same mundane section ad nauseum. Long boss sections are the worst as you can't save, you need to be perfect, and you have no clue what's next. Repeating the same tired **** until you learn some meaningless path that ultimately makes me care very little about the story. At least allow me to skip the cut scenes when you pull this crap. Stop **** the fun out of games to pad the run time with "difficulty"

What a pain in the... Brutal camera, no weight to the weapons, pointless grey boxes with mundane noises. I loved the Souls games, this is just robot ****. Either clip through your enemy or slide on past. Don't expect that giant sword to land though. Better pepper them with useless guns and the roll of the dice that are your rockets.

Fairly certain there's a fun game in here somewhere. Parkour feels a bit janky, combat is so so, just feels over complicated and doesn't quite stick the landing. I mean, so much bloat with collectibles, and what's with having to click, but sometimes hold, but, sometimes tap square to pick up all this junk. Wouldn't need so much junk if the weapons lasted longer than 15 minutes. Remind me, how many zombie trophies does it take to sharpen a sword again? What's really fun is losing a whole nights worth of XP because some random yahoo can one-shot you through a wall or the paraglider machine fails mid flight. Really fun mechanic. Also, you gave to love that the sou d of the game will just crash, leaving only Crane 2's grunts and groans. Finally, I'm sure they thought adding the timer would add tension but it just removes fun AND strategy as you're running back and forth to **** UV lights needlessly. Always fun when the room full of zombies you've painstakingly cleared out respawns... The first game was far better.

This isn't realistic, so my question would be, isn't it supposed to be fun?! Boring combat, repetitive zombies, far too many weapons that all feel vaguely similar. Another question, why is there a kill animation AND a door animation you can still get hit doing? What's with all the craftables, is this really necessary? And finally, the unwieldly drop kick... what a pointless exercise in frustration, better make it damamge more than an electrified sword...

Sure. What I'd like is a childish, repetitive, golf game with speciality bonuses you can only learn through trial and error repeating the same boring holes again and again. BUT instead of teaching you these mechanics, we're treated to the most mundane story with so much pointless diaglouge. Also, why do I sometimes have to physically drive the golf cart and other times I don't. Just take me to the next randomly generated copy/paste hole. Could be fun, but isn't.

I am addicted to this game. Such a simple concept, not the first deck builder, terrible graphics but I find myself replaying it again and again and again, looking for that perfect combination of cumulative jokers that will work in synch. This game is the first, in an extensive Steam library, that makes me want to buy a Steam Deck. Brilliant

There are "rewarding hard" games and "annoying hard" games. This falls firmly in the latter. I remember the original, from a different era, when games had to be creative with their design to keep people plunking in coins. Technically constrained and graphically limited. I'd still rather play that than this. They could have modernised the concept while staying true to the original, instead, they've polished a turd. Play Salt & Sanctuary/Sacrifice if you're looking to scratch that particular itch.

Don't bother playing this is 2024. Swaps the charm of the original for frustratingly painful "co-op" gameplay. Tanky controls, annoying inventory management (not the overal concept, the finicky swapping items between characters and lack of a magic box make selecting your limited inventory just painful, not to mention picking the crap back up again) Shows ALL of its age.

Why is it so hard to collect arrows from a corpse, why can you craft ANYTHING that you can't carry, and why, the hell, bother to give a second chance when it's possible to die immediately after cutting yourself down?! You're just elongating the annoyance of dying and having to reload. Not to mention a useless 3min, UNSKIPPABLE, cut scene before a boss. It's fun, just not perfect. Hopefully, it does well enough to see the sequel fix the annoyances of this game (but add more, just like this one) Also, one last note, the **** blueprints, maybe make them somewhat useful so you're incentivised to make them rather than totally useless junk, except one real **** important one...

So tedious. So much busy work chatting to characters that isn't in the slightest bit enjoyable. Do I care that Wolverine and Blade are mates, why do I have to suffer through unforgettable character number three's missing bagel problems? The worst offender, why, the hell, do I have to run to the portal manually for main story missions thus adding a second, totally needless, loading screen? Somewhere here is a decent turn-based game hidden amongst a steaming pile of padding.

Interesting concept, good detective gameplay (if a little "brute-force-able") good atmosphere, weird engaging, if predicable, story but the combat is just awful. **** atrocious. Auto switching to unselected useless items, terrible UI, the camera is abysmal, and the mechanics fail 80% of the time. It's not a type of hard that aids the horror story, it's a frustratingly bad experience, where enemies will ignore a shotgun blast to the face yet you will fall to the floor with the slightest breeze and never get up again. One particular lake-side fight saves you AFTER the fight has begun, and you don't have time to change out your inventory to try again with something a little more helpful. So, if you've no free spaces you can't even run by a crate and collect new items because your **** inventory is already full of health packs you don't have time to use and flares the NPCs already provide. **** this combat. It's immersion breaking and ruins entire sections of the game as you have to listen to the same terrible dialogue again and again. Finally, fix the glitches that keep me from exiting out of clues. So annoying that randomly the only option, after looking at another pointless clue, is to reload the game, especially when the last save was prior to an equally as annoying combat section as mentioned above. Better than the first game, different, but not perfect.

Another army rolling ankle biting simulation of castles, churches, swamps and sewers. Another case of controller wrecking frustration as inputs seem to be optional. Did you press strike once, or twice, did I roll left or right? Neither is apparently the answer to both as you have a halberd forcibly inserted inside your throat. Don't worry though, you won't **** see any of this as the camera decided to lock onto the **** ground or the roof during this whole ordeal. Maybe next time I'll lock onto the enemy instead of spinning either 90 or 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Great to know I'll be wasting time running back here, likely clipping of a small rock, that I've never noticed before, that will prevent me from collecting my souls. Otherwise great games, just **** annoying to play.

Before I start, I enjoyed it, but, there's one reason it's not a higher score. All these years I thoughy Souls-like games were hard because of AI, level design and thoughtful planning. If I'd known it was just **** input responses I'd have tried these years ago. **** is designed to punish you for dying wouldn't you want the controls to be as responsive as possible? Press Circle to roll, it may work, or maybe it won't, press it again though and you'll undoubtedly roll off a **** cliff. Want to lock onto that enemy that is clear as day from a ranged position, not a hope, but get close and you'll click on and off 5 times before firing your spell over his stupid head as he plants his sword in your kidney. Want to block, that's sometimes R1, but not all the time, what about heal, press Square, but, it won't actually begin the drink flask animation until you've pressed Square again repeatedly and, of course, only after the enemy has begun it's ridiculous wind up attack to knock your chin out of the park in one shot. It's seriously telling that I can't remember one boss fight without edges to fall from, not because their wasn't any, it's because they were unmemorable and over quickly. Not hard. Just frustrating. RIP controller number 2.

Small wonder why this game garners so much frustration, the fan base remains niche and controllers are so expensive. It's an unfathomable difficult game and that's the point, BUT, when cheesy knights throw a halberd through a solid wall to kill you with a blow that would otherwise glance off your shield while you're on the way back to collecting your lost 20k souls it's when you question "is this game difficult because of the gameplay or the glitches?" Replace Knight with whatever monstrosity, replace halberd with whatever bent piece of metal that serves as a weapon and replace solid wall with a cliff or trap etc. Repeat a thousand times with long boring walks in between each death and you come close to how annoying this is. Later games have polished the formula but this slow moving slog can stay firmly in the past as remembrance for controllers lost.

So much busy work. So. Much. Time. Wasting. How many times do I need to see the same temple cut scene? I don't care about the poor dialogue from unmemorable NPCs. To make it worse, for a hand-held console game, the button mapping is a nightmare. It tries to do so much and we're given so little, an octopus would have a hard time trying to juggle all the different controls you need to remember and execute simultaneously. Why is "send a giant annoying opaque rock monster flying, exploding everything in its path" the same freaking button as "pick up this exploding plant" This only get more annoying with the ever expanding crowd of opaque **** crowding Link doing nothing but block his view and slightly improve the meaningless busy-work that needs to be done. All in all it's a collection of colourful fetch quests in large open spaces by Nintendo. Play it on a plane.

Got to love a game that punishes exploration... Here's two branching paths, it's unclear which is the way to go, and which is one is elongated leading to those resources we've made sparse. Once you figure it out you realise you don't have enough inventory to pick them up BUT, we'll lock off the path back here once you find a fabricator to unload the meaningless sellable **** you picked up earlier. Aren't you glad you took this boring detour? Overall, the game starts slow and sluggish then quickly gets more and more monotonous.

I mean, it was never going to be EA level quality, but it is nice to see a Rugby game getting a few more recent updates. It's fine, not as fun as Lomu was, unpolished gameplay with a few, not all, licenced players that you can't really fault given the assumed low budget. Can't fault the energy though, just the dynamism of it all... But, it's the choices the devopers made that make this a poor game. Subbing players is a pain, scrolling through everyone rather than jumping to the appropriate available player in that position and what the actual hell is up with the "booster pack" system?! These astoundingly poor, undervalued, loot-boxes are such a poor way to slowly reveal players for your created team that, unsuccessfully, tries to keep you engaged with the poor gameplay, but so are so expensive it instead results in the exact opposite of its intended goal.

Story is great, a great mix of something new and something old. Felt like I'd seen this story before, and knowing I hadn't made it both interesting and nostalgic at the same time. It's not a perfect game though, so much collect-athon crates full of "tech" (junk) that make the suits/upgrades feel like a chore rather than earned. Some of the side missions are just tedious, the Superman 64 levels with the robot birds... WAY too long. Felt like it was padding for time to say it's longer and bigger than it needs to be. Fun, just not ALL the time.

I don't remember there being so many troopers, droids, raiders, bounty hunters, and **** frogs with Jedi DESTROYING weaponry, how many fully inhabited planets in the Star Wars universe have entire unexplored sections filled with boxes of useless junk/memories you need to find, and how many Jedi are still around?! At least they added fast travel and removed most of the slippery slides, but they replaced them with generic palette swap mounts and those terrible glider birds that sometimes go where you need them to, and sometimes just fall achingly short regardless of how many times you pitch up. These are even more frustrating when added to unskippable traversal sections that you sometimes require a double jump to, sometimes double jump leads you to your death, really consistent... Those terrible 'Jedi Rift' traversal mini-game levels - skip. Also, here's an idea, when fighting a Boss that has multiple pointless and boring cut-scenes throughout, maybe keep auto-lock on? Especially when the Boss has some **** insta-death move and you're stuck holding the skip button from the useless video you've already seen ten times. My score on this game was originally a 6/10 but it lost points for every hundred times I had to mash Square in a quick time event with that same dumb, overused, boss. All in all, another meh Souls clone, with a terrible camera, set in the Star Wars universe, and just like Cals MANY Lightsabers and "stances", it tries to be a jack-of-all-trades but remains a master of none.

Yes, I'm one of those, the ones that played Elden Ring and finally discovered Souls-likes. The lack of floating objective markers, the sense of accomplishment, the confusion as to what to actually do next, the freedom to figure it out yourself, the dark foreboding tone, I can't believe I slept on this game for so long.

How to feel underpowered as a Jedi: The Game. Or a Star Wars game trying, and failing, to be Dark Souls despite the fact you'll die more to the abysmal physics of the numerous slippery slides the game unnecessarily throws at you. Despite all this, there is two words glaringly missing from this sojourn, Fast & Travel.

I'm not normally a fan of these kind of games but with the buzz surrounding it and a long weekend at home I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm so happy I did, so much to do, so much agency, sprawling unique narratives and reactionary dialogue trees that respond to my playthrough. A huge map that is packed with adventure and intrigue. Also, a game that functions at launch on PC, who would of thought that was something that needed to be said... Not a hint of a microtransaction in sight. I love this!

One question - How long does "combat" last for? All I'm trying to do is fast travel around your latest, Cuban flavoured, box-ticking exercise but I'm playing the **** waiting game while 1 stupid soldier chases a Croc I once walked near around a lake three states over for 45 minutes...

Cyberpunk Dark Souls this is not. Clunky. Finicky body part targeting and a camera that loves tight corridors & the back of the characters head... and yet somehow they both share the same controller mapping... The ideas are fine, if poorly executed, but the boring aesthetic, story, and minimal & timed resources offered makes for very tedious repetition. Even running past the monotonous enemies proves impossible as the tight hallways and the lack of an accurate dodge function lead to needless one-hit frustration or the animations leaving you sailing off a cliff. (I do love that a hulking Brute with a ten-tonne hammer can make a u-turn mid air but I still can't dodge the same attacks of the same legs of the same robot bosses despite the direction I chose because the camera has a mind of it's own) Hopefully the sequel improved upon these issues because I'm giving up on this one, around about the time they introduced the 'trial of tedium' where you fight the same alternating bosses from earlier in the game like 5 times. Ugh.

Nostalgia pop with convoluted controls that just add more menu time/incorrect action entries, inconsistent mechanics, and a brutally slow going metroidvania map, that makes you never want to revisit areas as, the first time around, it throws you miles back after each death because the aforementioned terrible controls missed a crucial button prompt you needed to proceed the action perfect "puzzles". This makes the old school music just annoying as you hear the same loop a million times over. Graphics are the one saving grace. Frustratingly disappointing. Why are there so many unfun platformers nowadays?

A simple platformer with brilliant background scenery reminiscent of early Oddworld games but turned up to 2020's. Combat is grand, upgrades are a little spaced out which led to muscle memory performing the same move over and over again. The double jump and dash don't register once in every four attempts which is annoying in battle but infuriating in the mines, coupled with unskippable cut scenes, it sits at average.

Not as good as the RE2make. Also, why the **** is is so easy, when jumping through hoops to restart after you die, to accidentally agree to switch to 'assisted' mode?! What a waste of the 4 hours of game this was... Why, the **** would I want to change to assisted mode after one death?

Way too much repetitive dialogue and ABYSMAL combat mechanics. (I've never felt so underpowered as an IMMORTAL vampire) A game where fast travel doesn't exist and the idea of running through those stupid streets, up dead-end alleys, where stubbing your toe leads to death (thus respawning miles away) just to TRY "upgrade". **** it, I'm out. They've taken an ok idea and kept it mid at best.

It's another Crash game although this time it sacrifices fun for artificial elongation through repetition. No longer is it about making it through difficult passages by the skin of your teeth and feeling a sense of accomplishment instead it's memorizing long sections that are taught to you through death and frustration. If level completion is based on perfection you'd want to make sure your controls and hit-box mechanics are spot-on, sadly they are not.

My first souls-like. Yes, it's blisteringly hard, but I trudged through that first wall and now enjoy it much more. Laughing at the insane ways I die endlessly. Sure there's rage quitting and yelling at the TV, but it's not long before I'm **** back in. I've never noticed how open worlds can just be full of fetch quests and marker to marker traversal until this game actually made me take in the surroundings and interact with the world by remembering the locations I'm too underpowered for. Do I need to repeat the same hallway 1,000 times because some knight can swing an overpowered sword 896 degrees regardless of which way I roll across the floor? Probably not. What about "fighting" a random three bookworms every time Rennala spams some magic ****. Or watching animations of the guy that killed me for way too long after I died? Seems excessive. Still fun, for the most part.

If you're going to waste the player's time with vast open spaces with nothing to see and repeating cutscenes with nothing to hear you'd want to make sure it's not a glitch that is keeping you from progressing. The camera is broken and holding the lock-on trigger is ridiculous. How does a game this bloated with junk feel so empty? Puzzles are the only positive but they're too few and far between.

Looks brilliant, decent premise, but imprecise, inconsistent, controls and fidgety wall angles make it too repetitive and frustrating to get into. it would have been more fun if the protagonist's magical magnetized wall socks didn't sporadically decide not to work, or propel you at an odd angle a good percentage of the time. Seems like it'ld be better placed as a training level for a new skill in a bigger game.

A brilliant return to form for the Alien franchise. A little slow to start for me as I learned how the Alien worked but once I got the hang of it I was sailing until it learned how I worked. Stopped the repetitiveness in its tracks as I had to change up how I played. Outside sections were sluggish but picturesque. Upon completion this game had me googling "games like Alien: Isolation" I would definitely play a sequel

I picked this game up years ago but was turned off early as I thought it was going to be more "realistic" Came back to it recently and found a gem. Always been a massive fan of Resident Evil games and for some reason looked at this as a departure. So happy and nostalgic once the inventory management and puzzles kicked in. This reinvigorated my love for the franchise and I immediately replayed the first 4 games.

I love all the Oddworld games but this could have been executed a whole lot better. In an era where even console developers are conscious of our time this game seems to completely disregard it. Polar extremes with hand holding boss-fight guides followed swiftly by insta-failure of 100% completion triggered by something seemingly obvious. Seems like they tried to pad the run time by making you repeat sections and unskippable videos hundreds of times until you've memorised the pattern and then the game then decides to respond differently to your actions /inputs when you finally get a good run. The checkpoint system is terrible, controls are imprecise, crafting is needless, and the bugs/crashes are plentiful. All in all not a stellar release. I would have been pissed if I'd paid for this. UPDATE: Finally finished this and was greet with NO ENDING, not good, bad or otherwise, just cut to credits. This game has actually undone my love for the series...

It's a colourful Marvel-themed match 3. Collect Hero's for $. This is the only Pro. Cons; - Obvious & blatant loot-box microtransactions. The twist is they give you SO many free characters but the ONLY way to add them to your roster is to spend real money, at an ever-increasing price, despicable Designed for you to keep spending money on literally nothing. - Second are the 'battles.' Unblockable attacks from foes through countdown tiles. Unblockable because it's random colour allocation and its impossible to match those tiles. Makes this match 3 even more frustrating because you lose a 5min battle due to unchangeable events you can see coming multiple moves ahead. - The 'purple' currency is useless. Hundreds of thousands accumulated in minutes and you can't trade it for anything. - The subsequent 5 currencies are there to stimulate substance but don't offer anything but confusion and more useless crap to spend real money on. - Random inexplicable scenarios happen when no matter what colours you match you inflict 1 point of damage. Irrevocably ruining the match because your opponent is still wreaking havoc. This "game" is indicative of the abhorrent direction that mobile games are headed in and the more people that support this 'gambling for kids' the worse it'll get. Avoid like the plague