dancingmind

This was great DLC. Made me fall in love with the game all over again. DLC and Game of the year for sure. [+] Excellent characters, fun missions, challenging new bosses, and some neat new customization options. Highly recommend it

[+] Polished controls; Lots of extras to unlock; some cool sidekicks in Dhorse, Ddog, and Quiet, Great Soundtrack. [-] Unlocking starts to become a chore more than fun, certain missions present giant difficult spikes and can only be completed a certain way (omitting point of open world environment); Keifer's voice acting leaves a lot to be desired; Miller/Ocelot/Snake all sound similar in codec and lack the distinguished sounds of SolidSnake/Campbell/Miller/Otacon for example; becomes a grind to get anywhere; online mode is annoying; microtransactions, not as cinematic or epic moments as previous entries in series. This game was fun at first but I don't think it has the same impact or long lasting appeal as the older titles in the series. Moments have caused me to rage quit and hate gaming entirely. It's a miracle it turned out as well as it did with the turmoil of development, but in the end the game feels more like a job than fun.

Never alone is looking to use the game medium to share the stories of the Iñupiat people through puzzle platforming, illustrated cutscenes and unlockable documentary segments. Unfortunately the title does not pull off what it is trying to at all as each element is executed poorly. The game portion is mostly frustrating and comical. There are plenty of checkpoints (thank fully) as the game seems to know it will make you fail through poor visibility of where to jump, poor self-destructive companion AI, and poor jumping mechanics. The illustrated cutscenes look like poor flash animations. They seem to disgrace the magical art style of the Iñupiat. The story told is supposed to be from a legendary story teller of their people but most of the lines are just "there is a blizzard and it is cold. And the blizzard continued". Then the unlockable documentary videos are... okay. There's nothing really exciting nor do you get much of a sense of the culture besides it being in Alaska where it is cold and there is snow. A bit of a disservice to the people in my opinion. It's an easy set of trophies and won't take very long to obtain so long as you have a tolerance for repetition and frustrating design.