EVOLUTION8

The good: Good story Good characters Interesting abilities Awesome game for a small budget and old engine Documents in the game. I usually don't read them but in this game they deserve attention. The middle: Combat - I enjoyed it and maybe in the future, a parry will make people love it more (for me it was simple, good, and fun). The bad: - The map and mission checkpoint was really annoying. The game had problems so making me open the map all the time was a bad idea. - Closed dors. You never see them on the map and you don't see what direction can be opened from - too many characters and the main reason they got a short story and we expected to know more about them and never did - autosave. Maybe I press the wrong button or skip something... what then? Do I need to replay the game to resolve my mistake? You should at least have a save point after finishing a chapter. I don't want to replay everything again because I didn't understand a question at first or wasn't paying attention that second. - big loading screen and loading issues (PS4 PRO) Overall the game is very good if you take into consideration the low budget. The ideas and main game are very good and if they had more money and a better engine then 100% of the game would get more love. I hope their next game will be better and they will use a better engine. Just keep it simple and fun. Don't make 100 documents, I like how it is now with less reading materials but more attention paid to them. I gave it 8 because I think they had a great idea when doing the game. I think a great idea deserves to be encouraged and rewarded. Can't give it 10 because of all of the bad things and 9 is also not on the list for me because of the auto save and the fact that you can't enjoy the game if you replay it.

Good job giving life to some old characters and I love how the world looks. Problems: Story is all over the place. Future changing, parallel universes, destiny. I don't like how everything is changing. People who supposed to die are not dead. Boring side missions instead of knowing some other characters better. Combat can sometimes be very annoying. It's like you can dodge and do normal stuff but you also have some kind of turn base. I would've prefer turn base with awesome animations and strategic play but I kind of enjoyed the gameplay. I hated the mini games. I was okay with cutting the fillers and focus more on the main missions. This part had too many blanks, to many bad changes to the story. Nobody liked the stupid ghosts or whatever they're called (that's how much I care about them). I feel like the next parts will disappoint me and Square Enix will not have the balls to make the same story, with the important death and complex story for Cloud. I see the hard work but can't give it more than 8. Used time and money to implement this new battle system when a turn base was okay, make useless side missions, trying to change a good story into something we already is boring and we see everywhere: more parallel universes that can change your destiny and future... We have no idea how much we will wait and if it deserves the wait. I'm okay focusing more on what important instead of making too many things that will only make you more bored and care less for the good parts. I love to see a remake of the game but I'm also disappointing. I had fun with the game so it deserves an 8 but if the story is not better in Part 2 I don't think I will play it or I will play it after 1 year and maybe give it a 6 (if it's as bad as I expect it to be). It's like Square Enix forget what made Final Fantasy 7 famous. They attack the good parts and try to change it.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The game has a lot of stuff mission (or not implemented yet). You stay every 10 minutes to sell the stuff you don't need (or dismantle). You get almost nothing for over 50 items sold or dismantled. You can't order items by price, you can't add to favorite the items you like, you can't sell or dismantle multiple items at once. For a game that you play a lot you waste way to much in menu getting rid of useless stuff because you can't carry more or you have no eddies. You have a lot of options but the mission (at least at start) still end the same way (even the dialog is the same most of the times, even if you picked something else. The clothes may have legendary stats but they are ugly or at least doesn't work with the rest of the stuff + it doesn't matter if you're a girl or man, the clothes you get are the same. Even so I had and still have a lot of fun with this game, something that I don't get from games that are fully polished. I enjoy Night City. An open world game that it's not made to be long and empty, it feels like it's a real city. Everything looks so cool, cars, city, people, weapons, ads. Music is good. I didn't finish the game. I will change this review after future updates and after finishing everything but for now the came can't be more than 6.5. You need to restart the game sometimes, because of some bugs (I have a 2060 super). The game works at 60 FPS easy but with ray tracing on it's 30 so ray tracing is useless even if you may see 10% better lighting in a few places. People are overselling this Ray Tracing stuff. I prefer 60 stable FPS at least instead of some better lighting in a very few areas that you barely notice. Some stories with some characters seem generic. It's sad that in 8 years they couldn't take the wither formula and improve it with the side missions. It's not bad, it's easy over what 99% does for side missions, but didn't feel like they were important (even if some are and they matter, it wasn't like the Wither where I cared a lot more for the side missions. My advice? Wait for an update that can fix the important bugs and where they start implementing more into the game. If you can wait 6 months or 1 year it's possible to have the best game ever with a lot of cool stuff and even at a very low price. Now? If you have nothing better to play (like Yakuza - like a dragon) I think the game deserves to be played. I have fun with it, a lot of stuff looks great, the story and even side missions are interesting and fun. Just remember that the game has more updates until it's close to finished. I find it fun even now because so me bugs can make things very funny but if you want to enjoy the story it will be very hard when lip sinking doesn't work sometimes, the audio is broken other times, characters go crazy, things explode. 100% you can't take the story serious with so many bugs happening from time to time. Don't get me wrong, it was even over 5 hours sometimes when I never found an important bugs, just some small and barely noticeable loading issues for textures. I don't regret buying this game, it deserves the money, but they need to fix it and implement a lot of stuff that the game lacks. I also love the fact that they don't censorship a lot of stuff but you have the option to do it and I love that. Who wants a censored game, they can have that, but if you want nudity and don't care? You also can do that. Nobody should force us accept censorship, this should only be picked by the player. I never pay for censorship and I tank Cyberpunk 2077 for making a great job. The developers did a great job but too bad the people in command didn't let them finish the game. I'm sure they are disappointed and they wanted everybody to enjoy the game they made, after they finished it. I'm sorry that I have to give it this review, but it is what it is, for now. Later I'm sure I will give this a max score and a 7 is not bad for now, I just hope the developers can finish the game as they wanted from the start. A game like as big as complex like this will always have a lot of bugs, I just hope the ones that are all over the place and annoying/game breaking will be fixed. Now I'm going back to enjoy the game. See ya. Gig closed