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Lots of people give it a zero. I think 2 is more fair to this game. For $60 you get a 4-hour-long mediocre campaign, and kids' favourite: loot crates gambling. People love gambling, it's human nature.

Monument Valley 2 is a shameless cashing grabbing project. The first Monument Valley game was already overpraised. It looks too similar to Journey from ThatGameCompany. And the puzzles are easy and predictable in later chapters. However, on mobile platform, Monument Valley was fresh and interesting to its target audience back in 2014. It got overrated pretty easily. Unfortunately, things have changed a lot during the past 3 years. After the original Monument Valley game succeeded, many other puzzle games have come out to mobile platform. Some of them are bad, some are excellent. Hitman Go, for instance, has a better puzzle solving experience. But the design of Monument Valley has been roughly the same. I get bored even before half way through the game. There are some minor changes: the devs add a new character into the new entry, and try to make some emotional impact. But the game never earns it. The story, not sure if can be legitimately called a story, is told by a handful of short oracle-ish sentences . They tried to make it mysterious but ended up being a non-story. The second entry also keeps some bad aspects from the last game. Right after the player launches the game, a prompt says "this game is best played with sound". But just like the first game, the soundtracks are merely some ambient sounds. If I were the dev team and I had no budget for some real music, I would never talk about the sound. The last but not least, the puzzles are too simple, yet again. My overall experience with this game is hallow and unsatisfied. For people who love puzzles, this one is rather dull. For people who eager to new concepts and ideas from a game, this one has zero value of existence. This game is not completely valueless to everyone though. I think it is OK for people who have not played the first game and those who have not play any other games in this genre at all. For myself, I would rather erase my memory of this one. For what it is, Monument Valley 2 is just another generic game.

I never like the combat in Mass Effect franchise because using gun in such futuristic setting should only occur in sarcasm movies like Starship troopers. If the game is good in general, a good combat system is a bonus. But the combat cannot change everything. What made me play through the original trilogy is the interesting sci-fi setting, about why no advanced lifeforms can last long enough to occupy the entire universe. I was skeptical about this game because the ending of ME3 ruined the entire trilogy. I was so disheartened that I never play ME since I finished ME3. However, Andromeda's story is even worse right in the very beginning. The game was rushed so I tempered my expectation. I actually don't mind the graphical glitches because these issues can be patched eventually. But the story is so bad that I feel torn apart, even in the first hour. I was just speechless, after the first hour of play through, after three years waiting. I don't think I will ever want to play a mass effect game again. This is kind of the game that should never been released. Andromeda offers nothing innovative. A mediocre game has no value of existing.

For me this game is a 10/10 because I have never seen anything like this before. Either the game is a master piece per se or because I am not an experienced gamer. Overall, this game is as impressive as MGSV and TLOU. The game play is intense. The story, taught by multiple play throughs, is mind-blowing. The Art design is a bit plain but suitable for the apocalypse setting. The sound track is one of the most beautiful one I have ever heard in a video game. It even echoes in my head days after I have finished the game.