Absolutely fantastic. Took my 60 hours to beat and 80 to platinum. My biggest surprise is how much it opens up after finishing the first set of chapters. The job customization and system rocks and lets you be really creative with builds and there is a lot of exploration which surprised me. The final boss battle is super cool and the side content is fun. Love the world and the lore as well. Olberic, Ophellia, Cyrus, and Primrose were the stand put characters for me! I only have a few complaints that dropped it from a 10 to a 8. No exp share made for some pretty grindy sections for leveling, Alphyn and Tressa’s stories were pretty underwhelming though it was cool to role play a apothecary and merchant. Also the final boss battle having no save point was really frustrating even though the boss itself was great. Other than that amazing game!
This game rocks. Played it in 2024 on my Series X with the disc through backwards compatibility and it played buttery smooth with quick load times. Much better than the first. The story is great, gun play still super fun, better level design, and a very effective atmosphere still. It also knew not to take itself too seriously which I appreciated. There is now a lot of mission variety and different npcs help you fight which I found refreshing and it made for some sick set pieces for the original Xbox.
It is a great game. Positives
- companion Character arcs
- world and world building - combat
- mo-cap and voice acting
- story in acts 1-2
- choice and consequence (most I have ever seen in a game)
- player freedom for approaching combat and problems. Negatives
- the story falls apart and drags on in Act 3.
- act 3 is extremely buggy snd unpolished. The graphics even look significantly worse than the rest of the game.
- overly sexual and even gross at times.
- does little to innovate in the genre (it is a perfection of the dos2 formula) in the same ways that games such as Elden Ring, the witcher 3, and Skyrim did in their days. Great game and worth buying
Perfect This is a top five of all time game for me. This is the first game thst truly looks next gen.
This game does things with storytelling that actually blew my mind.
The writing is perfect.
The combat feels great.
Survival horror elements rock.
The game knows how to be so weird snd funny while still dark! Perfect game!
I love Fromsoft and came to know them through Dark Souls, Demon Souls, Sekiro, Elden Ring, and Bloodborne. Never played an Armored Core game until Fires of Rubicon. And let me just say WOW! I am blown away by this game.
Let me give you a short list of likes and dislikes!Positives
- Gameplay: I have played most the big games of 2023 and I think on a gameplay level nothing comes close to this. From the movement to the shooting and also the speed and verticality. No game feels this good to play.
- Graphics: FromSoft isn't known for fidelity they are known for art style and this game is beautiful. When cutscenes started I immediately moved my finger to the screen shot button. Some shots in this game are just straight up paintings. Art direction and style > fidelity every day of the week.
- Scale and Scope: this game nails scale and scope in the same way Gareth Edwards nailed scale with his Godzilla movie and Rogue One. Bosses feel huge, locations gigantic in a way that is hard to describe. How they nail huge bosses and keep the gameplay fast is beyond me but it looks great and feels big.
- Story: this is easily a 20 hour game with multiple endings to encourage replay. The story is good the world and world building rock. Cutscenes are dope. Still has the FromSoft ambiguous flare too.- customization: the builds you can make in this game are so varied. You can make so many types of acs that move and fight very differently! Super deep and fun. Flaws
- UI in the garage can be a but much and vague.
- some level design that is so punishing that it reminds me of swamps in souls games. Stuff to know
- Not dark souls with mechs. If you play it like that you will be mad.- linear mission based story, not open world.
- nice 20 hour game with a lot of replay-ability Tips
- if you get stuck on a boss change your build.
- plasma guns lower shields faster.
- explosives and kinetic weapons do heavy damage to the enemy especially when they are staggered.
- Know when a boss should be fought close and fast or long range and patient.
- Use the tank core if you struggle to evade or block.
- replay missions to make money.
- upgrade your os abilities that increase your damage resistance, healing, and damage output first!
Yeah this game blew me away. It stands shoulder to shoulder with the greats of the genre. The movement/momentum of the combat is just perfect. The weapons are all fun and unique. The multiplayer is solid, the campaign is the perfect length with a great story. There is a ton of extra content including challenges, bonus levels, and multiplayer map making. This game is still worth your money in 2023.
A few other positives
- voice acting in the campaign - graphics and art style
- level design- enemy design
- BOSS FIGHTS ROCK
- the music is just perfect. It is perfect.
- game is creepy.
- lots of locations, each level feels and looks different. This game is a must play still!
It is good. The art is beautiful. The story is predictable and underwhelming. The platforming goes from boring to brilliant over and over. It will be slow them do something new and creative. But it doesn’t consistently wow me. If you compare it to other physics based 2D platformers it is just good. Nowhere near the giants. Pick it up on a sale or play it on gamepass. If you like art give it a go.
First of all. I am not a 2D guy and I have never played a metroid vania game until now. (Played for the first time in 2023, on series X) This game blew me away. I could hardly put the controller down. Here were my big positives!
- Best platforming ever. - By the end of the game the way all your abilities, attacks, and movements options blend together second by second is masterful. - Thrilling set pieces.
- Amazing puzzles.
- A perfect original score
- beautiful graphics and art style.
- A touching story told without words.
- Fun enemy design.
- Good progression system.
- fun exploration
- perfect level design- many collectibles!
- fun leaderboards etc.
- Great achievements! This game is a most play, it is perfect!
Broken game.There are so many bugs in this game. Not to mention it does very little to innovate from the formula of the last two games. If you are looking for something new, fresh, creative, and that works, skip this game. Huge bummer to me because Spider Man 2018 is one of my all time favorite games.
Loved this game as a kid. Played it for hundreds of hours just swinging around New York fighting crime. Fun combat, with lots of combos, great villain roster (the mysterio sequence rocks).
Played this a little as a kid, but never beat it. But since Xbox bought rare and revived the IP by putting it on NSO and Game Pass I had to give it another go. And let me just say, wow! This game holds up so well! Let me give you the positives:
- Combat is fun and satisfying
- Level design rocks and has great puzzles and multiple objectives (especially on higher difficulties)
- Great weapon variety
- A fun over the top Bond story.
- Addictive split screen multiplayer
- Fun unlockables and secrets I totally get why this is such a legendary shooter. This is a goated game and Xbox Series X is the best place to play it!
First time playing a Quake game, and I loved every second of it. The world and world building is top notch. The guns are all fun and unique, the combat/movement is fast and frenetic. The enemy design is varied (finding new enemies even in the last levels) and cool. Multiplayer is fun and chaotic. Good sci-fi story as well. The puzzles and level design also rock. This remaster has so much content! The full base game, the Nintendo 64 version, and 4 DLC story packs all in one running perfect and smooth on series X. Another amazing game for Xbox in 2023!
What happened? I waited for the 60fps patch to hop in, and was surprised to find a flawed but incredibly fun game with great atmosphere and environmental story telling. I cannot fathom how people scored this below a 6. Clearly ya’ll are spoiled and have never played an actually bad game!
Note: I played from early access day one via the Premium Edition on Xbox Series X. This game is a masterpiece. I have been with Bethesda since Skyrim, gone back and played their oldies, and I have to say this is their best game ever. Let me give you the positives. - Best Bethesda main story. The story had me, I cried at one point even. It is full of mystery, intrigue, great characters, and many fun twists and turns. It wears classic sci-fi inspiration on its sleeve which I love. It has elements of Bladerunner, Alien, 2001 A Space Odyssey and more. The ending is incredible and honestly heady. - Amazing combat. ID (Doom Eternal) and Machine games (Wolfenstein helped with the combat and you can tell it is polished and feels good. The reload animations are awesome, the weapons feel weighty and unique. Hundreds of customization options are available. You can customize and mod each part of a weapon. Also the way that enemies react to being shot is very realistic. They stumble, blood sprays, and the way they fall and slump over after dying shows off the game's impressive physics system. - Amazing faction quests. There are a lot of factions in this game. There are the big main factions like the Vanguard and the Crimson Fleet but you can also find smaller one's with shorter quest lines. For instance I joined a gang! The main faction quest lines are long, well written, and packed with good content. - Deep side quests with lot's of choice and consequence and great writing. Every side quest I have done has been a blast. - RPG mechanics: Bethesda returns to form here, this is the deepest their RPG systems have been since Oblivion. My character perks and background traits have come up in nearly every mission side and main. I have yet to stumble into even a side quest that didn't give me a dialogue option that let's me flex my background. - The persuasion and lockpicking mini games are amazing. Most quests have multiple persuasion checks for those who like to talk their way through a mission. - Performance is great. Stable 30FPS. Obviously I wish it were 60 but after seeing just how ambitious this game is and all the systems it has, it makes sense why that decision was made. - Writing: this is the best written BGS game ever. Clever, funny, emotional, and at times philosophical. - Characters: Great characters especially the constellation members. All memorable, they have fun personal questlines that flesh them out really well. - Locations: Talking specifically about the cities, I beat the game after 35 hours and I am still discovering new entire cities on different planets that I did not know existed. My favorite city is Neon. Each feels lived in and unique. They are massive and packed with content! - Ships: The ship combat is hard but very fun and very rewarding. Nothing beats disabling a ship's engine, boarding it, killing the grew in zero gravity then stealing the ship and selling it. The ship building is DEEP. I have spent hours just in that menu building new ships, making room for more crew that I can hire, and upping my weapon systems. The space combat is also very deep as you have to in real time divert power to various systems such as shields, engine, or weapons to maintain smart movement, defense, or offense. Really well done. - NG+ is brilliant. That is all I will say. - Procedural content. Completely optional but a ton of fun. I have yet to see the same thing twice. Each planet has so much to offer and the procedural dungeons so far have all been cool and unique. There is so much handcrafted content however, you will be 70+ hours in before you even would need to think about touching the procedural world's if they are not your thing. - Base building: Far better than fallout 4, I actually love it in this game (did not in fallout). It is easier and helps you with resources and storage, also gives you a place to put companions you find and recruit. - Impressive systems: Here is an example, each planet and each system in real time moves like real planets. If you sit on a moon for 5 hours and watch the sky you will be able to watch in real time your moon rotate around a planet and that planet rotate around the it's sun. This means that each of the 1,000 planets have their own day night cycle and own planetary time. You can see that planet's unique time/day night cycle when you go to wait or sleep on a planet. As it is contrasted against a Universal or standard time that is galaxy wide. I remember when I was blown away by Forza having a seasonal cycle, but this game literally has full unique day night cycles for each individual planet and moon. Another system that blew me away are the physics and object permanence. I have collected so many stuffed animals and laid them all over my ship. They just stay. I saw someone stored 2,000 potatoes on their ship as well.
I love Quantum Break and Alan Wake. Obviously Max Payne is beloved as well. But wow Control takes the cake. This game is brilliant and addictive. Positives
- Story: insane story! If you told me Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this I would believe you. It feels like a Nolan movie from concept to execution. Great twists and turns, great characters, and an amazing ending.
- Art direction. The art direction and style of this game is magnificent. Visuals you have never seen in any other visual art medium. The scope and scale is insane.
- setting: a government office building that contains pockets and bridges to other dimensions. The office building is full of secrets, puzzles an; it is creepy as heck.
- Atmosphere and tone: this game is a psychological thriller. The atmosphere fits that. I would not call the game scary, it is unsettling constantly. Scary moments yes but always creepy.
- Combat: just play it and get all the abilities. There is no other game that plays this cool!
- Movement: movement is great especially with dash and levitate.
- Level design: souls like interconnectivity. Need I say more.
- Great music. Negatives
- Some wooden line delivery from side characters.
- Punishing check points.
The performance is still bad but I encountered nothing game breaking in my play through! This game outside of the performance is a masterpiece. I love Star Wars, I read the books, keep up with the lore, and play the games and this may very well be the best piece of Star Wars Content since Empire Strikes Back. Here are the positives
- Respawn gets the lore. We see things in this game that I never thought I would see outside of books with deep cut lore. I was thrilled by the stuff they pulled and put in this game.
- It is canon! This is just as much canon as the movies which is great to know!
- Cal is one of my favorite jedi in all of Star Wars, he gets so much character development in this game. Love him!
- The whole cast is here and great, love the mew additions!
- The story. The story is unmatched. It starts slow but it builds into a jaw dropping finally that had me yelling at my TV. This game is shocking. The writing is perfect. What a story!
- Gameplay! The gameplay is perfect. You start with the powers you had at the end of Fallen Order. You are a Jedi Knight now and that comes with being stronger. The combat is even better, the lightsaber stances are all fun and unique. The boss battles are incredibly fun and fast pace! The platforming is very fun and challenging also!
- Customization! Lots you can do in this game with making Cala and your lightsaber look the way you want.
- Maps and world design/level design. Multiple planets, all very big and unique. The level design with the short cuts reminds me of the first dark souls game, very intelligently designed!
- Side content! There is a lot from side quests to animal collecting to holo battles.
This game has features that I think are the best in the franchise but its story and characters ultimately crumble in the end making it a pretty well polished game with some brilliant aspects. First off I played this for the first time in 2023 on Xbox Series X. Here are the positives:
- Best stealth in any AC game.
- Graphics look great even in 2023.
- The map! Industrial London in the fall is beautiful. The lighting is stellar and the city feels alive. Steam boats constantly move down the thames that you can run across, cranes move barrels and cargo, dozens of buggies and people darting everywhere constantly. It feels very lived in and well realized. Maybe the best world design of any AC game. Super immersive.
- The capstone assassination mission design. The sequence ending assassination missions are all stellar (except the last which I am mixed on). They have multiple objectives many different routes and ways to unlock special cinematic assassinations through exploration. Easily the best set piece/level design in the series.
- Jacob and Evie’s relationship is fun.
- Descent humor.
- A good amount of side content, not too much not too little.
- Carriage driving and carriage chase sequences are sick!
- I like the villain. Negatives:
- Poor range of weapons and upgrades.
- Lame perk tree.
- the ending mission is way too linear and offers no freedom. The final boss has good mechanics and is very cinematic but aesthetically feels the same as unity’s final boss.
- Repetitive side content.
- Story progression locked behind side content.
-Jacob and Evie while entertaining leads are deep as a puddle. There is something’s interesting their with their parents but it never goes further than “you sound like father!” Or “Father would have done it that way.” The relationship dynamic and history is NEVER unpacked. They are entertaining leads but not interesting leads.
- Story feels disjointed.
- Modern narrative is completely pointless and boring (worse than usual).
- the gang mechanics are rarely useful and often the mission sub objectives deter you from wanting to use gang members.
- A crappy romance. The game is good, and has some content that is the best the series has had, but the story and shallow characters bring it down for me.
This is the best diablo. Not only that but it may be the best top down ARPG ever! Let me give you the rundown of positives and negatives. Positives
- You don’t play diablo for the story, but this diablo has an awesome story that I did not expect to be this good. The cutscenes go HARD. I was very impressed with the story this time around.
- The voice acting. It is superb especially Lilith and Lorath.
- Map: the map is massive and diverse. Many different Biomes. The over world events are all diverse and different, never repetitive. The strongholds are a blast and each have their own mechanics and stories. So much to find and do.
- Runs at a smooth 60fps on series X, and the graphics look stellar. Very next gen feeling game despite being top down.
- Gameplay: this is why you are here and let me tell you it is the best it has ever been in a ARPG. Addictive, fun, satisfying, and challenging!
- Character progression and builds: its amazing. I am addicted. It is such a deep rpg. Each class is so different I will never hit the bottom. So mucch depth. Build lovers this is your safe space.
- quality of life stuff: you can respec whenever with little to no penalty, you can teleport in and out of any place including dungeons to sell loot etc with ease, short load times, and without losing progress. - co-op is a blast. I played about half the campaign with a friend and it is seamless and a blast! Negatives
The quest markers mess up sometimes. Thats pretty much it. I know many had connection issues but I have never had a single connectivity issue. I get into the game immediately, and have never disconnected or even had much lag. I think its a wifi issue not a diablo issue people are having. Also the micro transactions are nothing. All cosmetic based, I haven’t even had to look at them. Not bad at all. So far this is my game of the year for 2023! Get it now!
Massively Underrated RTS Yeah this game is actually great to my surprise. I do not care about the Minecraft lore or universe at all, but this game has a addicting gameplay loop. The mechanics are solid, the visuals and art style are beautiful. The campaign has fun missions with varied design. You actually have to strategize, and the multiplayer is SO GOOD. 8 player warfare plays like helms deep looks with a Minecraft skin! Get 7 friends and get into the multiplayer it is a blast and total chaos! It is so underrated honestly. The story, did not appeal to me but it was not bad at all, kids will like it a lot I think! Great game, great game-pass title! Good job Xbox!
One of the best modern shooters, up there with Halo, Doom, and Titanfall! This is one of the best shooters period. Here are the major positives.
- Amazing action and gunplay.
- A really good story that will go after your heart. I did not expect choice and consequence and I did not expect romance in this game!
- The story is also bold and does stuff most shooters won’t do.
- Great characters all around.
- Great level design and set pieces.
- The world building and lore is very interesting and unique. I love alternate history stuff!
- Solid creepy and hate able villains. This is an amazing shooter. One you have to play if you love the genre. It is also on Gamepass!
Played this game for the first time in 2023 via the remaster on Series X. Overall I enjoyed my time with Alan Wake. It was a short and interesting story with some really cool concepts both story wise and gameplay wise. There are a few issues I have but nothing that majorly kills the experience. Positives:
- Cool mysterious story that keeps you guessing. - Great small town setting in the pacific north west
- wears its Twin Peaks and Stephen King inspirations on its sleeve. If you like either of those you will love this game. - The right amount of scary/creepy. - A good personal story with a good amount of ambiguity. - A very fun cast of characters. Alan is great of course. - Solid puzzles. - episodes 5-6 are killer! Negatives:
- the idea of the combat is brilliant and cool at times but it feels unbalanced which makes it come across as clunky and slow. - episode 3 is a slog
- too many forest sequences. - weird tonal shift in episode 4. - the episodic structure while cool and nostalgic for fans of shows like Twin Peaks makes the story a but disjointed. Overall the game is great, just a few problems you might be able to attribute to it being older. Can't believe this was a 360 exclusive back in the day! Still looks great!
A really great Xbox exclusive, try it out! Here are my positives:
- Amazing art direction
- solid and touching story
- Amazing music
- clever puzzles snd stealth gameplay
- no bugs and good performance - easy 1000 gamerscore
- a nice 3-5 hour game.
- adorable and memorable characters. Negatives
Slow movement and a few slow sequences, but that is really it I loved this game. Also on gamepass! Buy it now, I promise you will enjoy your time with it!
This is a game that was maligned not because it is bad but because it does not live up to a high end AAA game in the realm of graphics and performance. If the definitive version of this game dropped as a Switch exclusive it would have gotten 9s and 10s from reviewers. It has all the elements of a highly reviewed Nintendo game: a great platformer, imaginative world, fun cast, and a lackluster story. Yes I said that, Breath of the Wild is one of the highest rated games of all time and it has a mostly empty world and a story told through a photo challenge. Nintendo games are beloved for their gameplay and fun factor not graphically fidelity and story. Recore is a game made by the makers of metroid prime and it has both solid gameplay and the fun factor, it just dropped on the wrong console. No one expected a Nintendo game to drop as an Xbox exclusive and yet here we are. Honestly I love that this game exists it is so different for the Xbox ecosystem, I wish we had gotten a proper sequel, because the world really interested me. My positives:
- fun story
- excellent world and world building
- hard and rewarding platforming
- super fun combat system that is deceptively deep and occasionally punishing - great art style
- tons of cool party customization My negatives
- a few unfair dungeons
- only being able to take two robots out at a time limits exploration in an attempt to create artificial replay ability. This mechanic sets the game back for me pretty far (from a 9 to a 8)
- item drop rng feels grindy. Overall an amazing game that would have reviewed better on a Nintendo console not claiming media bias, just the consoles create different expectations, this would have become a classic on the switch or wii. Give it a try on gamepass!
Really did not like this game. Here is why
- weird and uninteresting story (dlc download to even get it)
- hard to learn even with practice - crazy difficulty spikes in the story
- over sexualized characters everywhere.
- constant adds and store pop ups. The fighting was fun though. Skip this game or get it on a mega sale.
This game actually blew my mind. If you thought the twists in the first two games were mind bending, this game will leave you with your mouth open. In fact the final scenes had me with my mouth on the floor. Let me give some positives.
- Gunplay is solid. All the guns are fun and feel good to shoot.
- Great movement. Fun movement mechanics with the sky hook. Game feels fast and you can get some crazy and epic kills.
- Elizabeth and Booker are two amazing characters and their chemistry is so good!
- the world is also amazing. Somehow I like the world building for Columbia more than Rapture! I did not expect that!
- THE STORY OH MY WORD
- Excellent twists and turns with great misdirects!
- The game’s pacing and length were also perfect.
- Varied objectives and quest design! I have no negatives for this game. A true masterpiece!
This game is really good. A far cry better than the first game. In-fact I want to give it a 9 or a 10 but a few things keep me from that. But let's start with positives. - Ezio is an amazing character and this game gives him such a good backstory. - the historical story line is really fun and interesting
- Venice as a setting and open world is to die for. - the movement is far better here than in the first game. - the remaster has really good graphics. - the combat is greatly improved. - really great mission design and set pieces in this game. Here are the negatives that kept me from scoring it higher. - the movement though better still can be janky and have mission ruining consequences. Really frustrating in key moments. - the enemy AI will go from really dumb to game breakingly hard. - the modern narrative just is not interesting to me. - the remastered version adds in sequence 12-13 which were originally cut content, but were added in as DLC later, and are included as part of the base game in the collected remastered version of the game. These two sequences break the pacing of the narrative, are a slog, are confusing, and feel irrelevant. The missions in it are long and frustrating (a nine person assassination mission across an entire map, I kid you not). These additional sequences put the game's momentum to a halt. Ubisoft, next time just leave cut content cut.
I went into this with high expectations. My first PlayStation was a PS5 and this was my first ratchet and clank. I played this game in 2023 and honestly I thought it was just alright. The story is lackluster, the movement is clunky, the exploration pretty linear, and the boss fights pretty rinse and repeat. I also found the save points to be pretty bad. I found myself spawning 5-8 minutes back on the regular. The guns are cool and funny, but that is the extent of how interesting the combat is. Movement feels bad which surprises me for an insomniac game. Maybe it was just me but it also seemed like the animations in the cutscenes dropped in quality massively by the end of the game. On the positive though: cool guns, pretty graphics over all, the worlds are cool, art style is awesome, and the game is really well polished. Buy it on a sale.
Does not hold up in the slightest. I played this for the first time in 2023 and it was one of the most clunky, frustrating, and directionless experiences I have had in gaming. So many bugs and a huge lack of polish. I cannot believe this launched one of gaming’s biggest franchises.
Over rated. Just finished this up with near completed gamer scrore. The puzzles and platforming in this game are indeed brilliant. The atmosphere is absolutely engaging and the story is haunting, but the gameplay, button input, and controls in general are pretty rough. I think it is worth playing but I would say Inside and Somerville are better by a landslide. You will get frustrated playing this game. And the hardest achievement is really annoying and honestly not worth trying for. Don’t get me wrong I see the. Brilliance of this game, it just is a little rough around the edges. It’s not a masterpiece but it was the step needed to make the masterpiece called Inside!
Amazing music, combat, and story. Love the colorful cast of characters. The game feels like it has the set style of jet set future radio and the combat of kingdom hearts but with rhythm game elements. This game is a gem!
This game consumed my life as a kid with a Xbox. I can still remember playing with my big green Duke. This game had great cars, beautiful graphics for the time, and a really fun campaign progression as well as fun split screen multiplayer. Such a classic Xbox game!
Masterpiece and Art Ignore PlayStation fan review bombers or those who can’t control expectations based on obsidians past RPGs. A Review **** set in the Protestant reformation from a reformed pastor! I did not know what to expect with this game but it blew me away. First, check out Obsidians YouTube to see how much they put into the set and fonts in the game. They consulted actual historians and other PhDs. The game is art, like actual art! Also this game was the first game I’ve ever played with a bibliography in the credits, amazing. This game is rich in so many ways from the art direction to the history, characters, and story. The plot is thick and very intelligent and it all comes together in a beautiful way. The rpg elements are so fun, especially for a pastor who has had theological education. I knew a lot of the terms and even some of the Greek, Hebrew, and theological words and lingo. But don’t let that keep you from it, it was just an added bonus for me, but you do not have to play in a way that makes you learn that, you can be a hedonist pagan if you want. Here are my positives
- Art style and font work.
- history
- commentary on religion and social classes
- amazing story and murder mystery plot.
- the two protagonists are goated for me. Such good character work for a non-voice acted game.
- the writing - the rpg elements
- the process of investigating and accusing people of murder.
- this game is a true work of art in every way. You need to give this game a shot especially if you are a game pass subscriber! If you are unsure wait to make a verdict until you begin investigating the first crime, you will get hooked!
INSIDE comparisons killed this game. This game is good. People expecting it to be INSIDE are going to be disappointed because it is not INSIDE it is not even trying to be that game other than in font and art style. It also is not LIMBO, and that is good because I think it is better than LIMBO (not better than INSIDE). Positives: - Story is good. - Score is beautiful and used subtly. - Art Direction - Stealth sequences. - Some good puzzles. - Fun Achievements. - Different endings. Negatives: - Long ending. It just drags on and on and on and it feels like you are just doing nothing. - Bad navigation. The 3D navigation portions are awful. 2D-3D should be a 2D game with 3D components not a 2D game that makes you navigate in 3D.
I Must Apologize... I always thought these story based games where decisions are the primary way of interacting were dumb. I am sorry I am stupid, I was wrong. If you like telltale games, but wish co-op was an option, this game evolves that formula perfectly. My positives: - The story is thrilling. Gripping, and heartbreaking. - The cast of characters are amazing and loveable. - The plot is complicated and never what it seems. - THE CO-OP IS BRILLIANT! Play this with 7 friends! - The QTE are actually hard lol and have consequence (eh hem god of war) - Art direction is beautiful. - Love the modern western setting and feel. Negatives - My only negative is a positive, there are so many arcs and branching paths it would take a long time to see everything in this game!
Underrated Gem - One of the Best Superhero Games This game blew me away! I am honestly really sad that it did poorly financially because that means we probably will never get a sequel. Here are the positives: - The graphics are truly next-gen. The game looks incredible. - The story is super fun with lots of twists and turns. It is incredibly well paced. Expect 15-20 hours. - Great achievement design. You can get them all in one play through if you are intentional with collectibles (which are not excessive). - The combat is very fun. You play as Star Lord but command the whole team with special abilities and group combos. It is very satisfying and fun. Ability progression is perfectly balanced throughout the game. Love the combat! - Movement feels great. - The villain is awesome and very comic book accurate! - The cast is easily the best part. You will love this version of the guardians. There is a ton of heart and growth amongst each member throughout the game and their ability progression is tied to them overcoming past struggles. Really well done in the character department. - This game is also hilarious. I love funny games (Sunset Overdrive and High on Life for example). I consistently laughed through the whole game. Great writing. Negatives - The end drags on for a laugh or two and it hurts the pacing of a otherwise great final fight. - The puzzle design is just fine.
This is a great DLC for the original game. Here are the positives. - good story - lots of content - amazing graphics - the snowy Christmas setting is the stuff - Miles is an awesome character - it plays like the last game with some new bells and whistles, so it feels great to play. Negatives - this is a $70 DLC repackaged as a full game plain and simple. Sony is ripping you off! Is it great? Ya, is it worth an overpriced full game price tag, no. I'd gladly pay $30-40 for this title, but $70?! I hate that Sony raised game prices and is charging $70 for remasters and DLC. But when you are the market leader I guess you can do whatever you want... -it’s campaign is about 6-8 hours long - the final two boss fights are infuriating (this is coming from a souls player). - the villain is under developed and undeserving of the sympathy Miles gives. - despite the snowy Christmas setting being fun it is just a reskin of the first game's map with a weather system. -the tasks and new enemies offer almost nothing new or different from the first game, they have the same move sets just with different styles and colors as the demons in the og game. - Miles plays the same other than venom (not the goo alien) strikes and invisibility which is basically just used to break out of combat if you mess up a stealth sequence. -this is nothing more than overpriced dlc that happens to be really good. If it wasn’t sold at $70 new without the original game I’d give it an 8.
The second best Pokemon game. This game is edgy. It has a good story, better characters than the rest of the franchise, and some cool new mechanics. My positives - Double battles! - Shadow Pokemon - Story. - Shadow Lugia - Location variety. - the battle tower thing.
One of the goats. This game is legendary. The platforming is perfect, the creativity unmatched, the fun unrivaled, the universe is beautiful. Mario’s power ups are ridiculous and addicting to play around with. This game is a master piece. If I had to give a flaw it’s the Wii controls but that’s the consoles fault. If you can play it on switch I’d recommend that!
Ignore the Xbox/Gamepass Biased Critic Reviews and Ignore the PlayStation fans who will try and bomb this game's user score (tip you can click a profile of a '0' score to see that many of those low scores have rated other Xbox exclusives the same and games like the last of us a '10'. This game is awesome! First off it is made by one of the creator's of Rick and Morty and it shows. The main voice actor in the game is the voice actor for Morty himself and he is so funny! If you like RIck and Morty humor this game is for you, and man it was for me! Here are some positives: - Short campaign with a lot to do. I am a fan of the 10-12 hour campaign, I do not need every game to be a 100 hours of fetch quests. This is a shorter and more refined experience that focuses on art style, funny writing, and good FPS gameplay and platforming. - Combat and movement feel good and are very different. As you get new abilities, suit upgrades, and weapons you can move and kill in new ways. It is very fun in that regard. - The story is actually really fun and compelling. You are a bounty hunter seeking to take down a cartel from the bottom up. - The cast of characters are great. All the Guns have super funny personalities and even a touching and tragic backstory that you will learn about throughout the story. - The game is FUNNY. If you like Rick and Morty, play this game. If you like this game watch Rick and Morty. - The graphics and art direction pops off the screen. - The main villain is absolutely the worst in the best way, and by the lost boss battle you will be so ready to end its life. - The boss battles are a fun combination of puzzle combat and shooting. - The worlds are beautiful and colorful. - The worldbuilding is also really great and clever. There is definitely room for a sequel, I like the lore and factions in the world a lot. - Variety in locations and enemy types. - The achievement hunt it so good! You can, with a guide get 100% completion in one playthrough. - The length is perfect. I want to say my playthrough was around 12 hours with near total achievement completion. I love shorter focused campaigns because I can replay them and it ups the quality. This is one of those classic 12-15 hour shooter campaigns from back in the 360 days. You should play this game, I have no clue why it got bombed so hard it doesn't deserve it at all. Play it on game pass now!
This game blew me away. Everyone told me it would but wow, what a story! Here are my positives right off the bat. - The narrative is amazing. - Senua is an amazing character with an amazing arc in this game. - The exploration of psychosis in gaming is very interesting, the game feels hypnotic at times. You feel her confusion and frantic feelings throughout the story. - The sound design is amazing. Play with headphones! - The puzzles are so cool and clever, very different from many other games. - The setting and lore is fun and deep. - The style and artistic expression of the story telling is crazy good. Here are my negatives - The combat's camera and arena. People like to dunk on this games combat, and I agree that it is rough to a degree but not for the reasons people give. Let me explain. The combat itself is fine, it is simple, feels weighty, and has a good rhythm to it. It makes sense in a narrative game about mental health and grief. The problem is the camera, the arena sizes, the poor lock on system, and the amount of enemies in these small arenas. Those issues combined makes a decent combat system feel clunky and bad. I like the combat, there are just other factors that bog it down. I am hopeful the combat in the sequel will be better. I only have one negative, and it was frustrating enough to bring it down a point. If the issues with combat sequences were fixed this game would be an easy 10. Play it on gamepass now!
This is a really great game and the only reason it’s not a 10/10 are personal reasons and the current state of the multiplayer. CAMPAIGN The campaign is very amazing, has subtle performances, a great villain, and some good twists and turns. Chief and Weapon specifically shine in the story. The map is wonderful, there is so much to do, the sandbox elements are very very fun as well. There are also a ton of fun collectibles to find if you’re into that! This game also has fun boss battles! My problem with the campaign comes from the fact that I love halo 3 as an ending to Chiefs story. I think Halo 4 and Infinite are incredible games, but I just wish it was with a different spartan and that chiefs story closed with 3. As I said that’s a personal reason, I just think H3 id a perfect ending to Chiefs story and every new game moves further from that. I’d love it if this current trilogy told the story of a new Spartan and partner AI. Not a real critique just how I wish the story went. MULTIPLAYER The gameplay is 10/10. It is top tier as far as the shooting and movement go. There is just not a lot of content and the battle pass is just plain bad. I have 1000s of hours into H2, Halo Reach, Halo 4, and Halo 5 multiplayer, but I fell off this games multiplayer after a few weeks. Too few maps, the cosmetics are hard to come by, the battle pass and reward system is poorly designed. This could be fixed with an update and some free DLC but right now it’s just not fun. If it had more content and a better battle pass I could easily sink 100s of hours into this game. If you have game pass definitely download it and play it. I’d say it’s worth buying if you don’t have game pass. If you’ve never played a halo though skip it. The story is confusing to new players and very lore heavy. Edit in Late 2022: The support for this game has increasingly gotten better, it feels like a complete game now and the multiplayer with forge is awesome. Love this game!
