Reseñas recientes de InVader

EDIT: DON'T start in hard mode. That is supposed to be a 2nd playthrough difficulty. I started on it and it was suffering for the first quarter of the game, but after I reached the capital city, I got so much XP I got outlandishly OP instead. Just play on Normal.

You know how in MMOs every class has its role? This is like that, but single player with AI and it's your responsibility to "teach" your AI companion what to do in fights. Unlike most modern RPGs where every class is dps class, here the classes have their own responsibilities and depending on what class you choose, that's the role you're going to take in your party - warrior tank with shield, healer mage, cc mage, nuker mage, dps rogue, etc, so if you play healer mage, that's what you're going to do in fights. Might not be flashy because you're not the star of the action, you're just channeling big, long spells, but my god it's so cool that this is possible and it sure as hell makes for an interesting combat system. This is also where the "teaching" comes in, afterall, you don't want your mage pawn rushing into the middle of all the enemies like a warrior tank with a shield. This extends to other skills like pawns gaining knowledge of quests, or areas (they can show you secrets!), or what each enemy's weakness is, tactics for taking down bosses, doing combos with each other (e.g. one pawn holds the enemy down for the other pawn to deal a deathblow) etc.

Now as cool as this is, after the novelty of the pawn system wears off, the rest of the game really is just the average jRPG slop: poor fantasy jRPG story with a horribly written ending, one of the worst designed boss fights (the final dragon fight is up there with DMC2 chopper fight), shallow characters, extremely boring questing with what you could call "organic random encounters" in the sense that the game is open world and you just randomly find some goblins blocking the road - even if you cleared that area before -, tedious walking, bad stamina system. The game can't take the 'j' out of jRPG. I'm not even going to play DD2 after this, NOPE!

Campiagn plays fine, but as soon as you play PvE or PvP the game is just crashing non-stop. EAC is now detecting NVidia driver DLLs as cheats for some reason????? The devs don't understand that other apps - like Discord or web browsers - are hardware accelerated and make use of the graphics card. Lots of crashes. There needs to be an FoV slider and a better mouse sensitivity setting, because currently you can only change sensitivity in large increments. I'll change my review to positive when they fix all this.

Yes it does require Epic EULA. No, it doesn't matter that the agreement says you waive your rights to sue them, because an EULA is not above the law and law in most sane countries says that's an illegal agreement and the judge will just throw the EULA in the trash. The data harvesting being on by default with no option to turn it off is definitely illegal in EU countries. You can uninstall the Epic Online Services. You don't need to link accounts. I already had an Epic account before because of Unreal Engine/UT so I don't mind.

Now if you'll excuse me, I got xenos to purge.

EDIT: Finished the campaign on hardest difficulty. I think the gameplay is a downgrade compared to SM1. In SM1 the optimal way to play made you feel even more like a badass. The optimal way to play in SM2 is hiding behind cover like a coward, waiting 30s for your shields to start recharging, because otherwise you don't survive the ranged fire. In fact, while in the first game you could fully heal using executions, in this game the best heal is unironically reloading the last checkpoint and saving stim packs for mid-fight heals, because gun-strike is unreliable and the recoverable white health disappears too fast. If you ever find a melta or a sniper, keep it forever.

A good portion of the bosses in this game are secrets. There's no quest log. You just have to remember what someone somewhere said, check item descriptions, read lore and even then you won't know what to do. This is a game that you play with a guide open.

But it is a good game, I just wish the optimization was better. You cannot rebind buttons to additional mouse buttons or the numpad, for some reason, no alternate key for same function either. If you want to get rid of the grass flickering, you'll have to pump Global Illumination up, which is very costly, makes it difficult to stay above 60 fps on RTX 2070. LOD is done in a quite strange way as well, because no matter which graphic setting I change, I can't get rid of the annoying shadow resolution pop-in, where the shadows suddenly switch to higher resolution based on distance and there's no setting for extending that distance so that it's less a less obvious pop-in.

Red Mommy!

Finished 1 playthrough and I'm not about to do the rest. It's really overrated tbh. Yes it's pretty, yes the character are nice, yes Dusa is cute, but the gameplay and combat just really isn't there imo. Especially the buffs and upgrades are lacking, they just don't transform the combat enough over time, and guess what, this is a rogue-like, so combat is what you're going to do 99% of the time. There's way better rogue-likes out there (Synthetic, Wizard of Legend, Noita, even Ziggurat...).

The game really should start you off with a free weapon upgrade, because without any the weapons just feels horribly clunky. I imagine there's probably an artifact for exactly that (I hope!), but I really can't be bothered to find out.

This game aged so well. Building a nice castle so you can watch your crusader king take a stroll on its walls and towers is just as cool as I remember it being.

Make sure you bring either one of the newer DLC cars or the Nissan. BMW M4 in particular just eclipses all other cars. Is fast and takes all the bumps super smoothly, the rest drive like an enraged donkey missing a limb.

EDIT: Now with Mustang GT3!

Here's hoping the the devs don't mess up the balance patches going forward and then it'll be a really sweet game, but I for one will think twice about buying a Sony game in the future.

Awesome game! Plays like a faster paced sekiro with a bunch of environmental interactions like Sifu. It's the Zorro game we always wanted but never had. Only really missing an option to have Spanish dub while having English subs and UI, becuase the English dub is just a forced Spanish accent. Devs pls.

Definitely want more of this, looking forward to the sequel.