Razerfree

Blood Bowl 3 is one of those games where you can't press refund fast enough if you've got the option to do so. Way worse than Blood Bowl 2 in almost every way possible. The things that are better (ruleset and graphics) are completely overshadowed by the bad things.

I have played Pokémon games since Red/Blue so you can believe me when I tell you this is an embarrassment **** both Nintendo and Game Freak have allowed to be released. I'm not going to elaborate on the bugs or the (bad) performance since pretty much everyone out there already mentions this and I'd just be kicking a dead horse. Fact: Even if the game didn't have bugs and the performance was constantly 30 fps, this game is FAR from a fun experience and Game Freak clearly fails time and time again to include things the community liked from past games and exclude the ones that weren't popular. Instead they do things nobody was really asking for, like a huge map that is mostly boring and barren or making raids even less fun than they already were in Sword/Shield. The story in this game is barely something you will remember in years to come and feels more like an afterthought than actually important to the player. Most uninteresting league champion I've seen, even worse than Diantha from X/Y or Wallace from Emerald. Your rival is SUPER annoying and seems to have absolutely no reason to exist but to want to fight you 24/7. Game Freak even went out of their way to design entire conversations in such a way where at the end you're given a choice (yes/no) which is only an illusion since they will force that "yes" upon you or you will remain stuck forever. Trading Pokémon online still remains just as basic as usual, you'll have to give in a code and hope the person on the other side is playing the other version. Don't know why they cant just make it like the Online TCG where you can book trades, or filter them. This is just as tedious as 20 years ago where you had to connect both consoles with a cable. Game Freak also did a terrible job of explaining most of the new mechanics of the game to the point where you have no choice but to look online for answers. This feels like the old days when people had to read a magazine to know where to go to or which NPC did what. But everyone knows that's crap game design nowadays. They have somehow managed to make a game that is graphically worse than Sword/Shield, Let's Go or Arceus. By worse I mean that they put priority in making it 100% open world even if it means the decision is detrimental to both looks and performance of the game. I'd rather have a game that is 2D, 2.5D or even linear 3D but is well built and inviting instead of a Zelda/Elden Ring copycat because the copy is seldom better than the original and most of the time creativity will suffer. These people out here giving this game scores of 10 are either fake bots employed by Nintendo themselves to try to save the average score, or they have no clue and just autobuy anything with Pokémon in the name and are incapable of critical thought and actually looking at the game from an unbiased perspective. There is NO excuse for both Nintendo and Game Freak to make a game this bad and lackluster in 2022 with all the experience and community feedback they have accumulated over 25 years. PS: If you're sceptical because this is my first and only review on Metacritic, just know that Pokémon Violet has infuriated me to the point of actually taking the time to write this.