Recent reviews by ✞Calcifer Angelwitch✞

Constant crashes, do not buy

I gave this game a chance after waiting a whole year for them to fix the abysmal launch, don't bother playing this if you've not tried Worlds or Rise, everything in this game feels as if it's a massive step down from previous games...

-The graphics look terrible even with the high resolution pack
-The performance is still bad to this day, the patch that supposedly makes performance better feels like a lie as it is unplayable at 4K even with a 5000 series with frame gen turned on
-Every monster is made out of paper and dies in 3 minutes
-Monsters continuously run away across the whole map sometimes to make fights feel longer
-The story still sucks ass
-I felt no reason to bother crafting or trying out new weapons since everything dies so fast
-Numerous bugs, the foggy areas kept glitching out for me turning the fog on and off
-The HDR is broken making cutscenes in certain areas so bright you can't see ♥♥♥♥
-So much hand holding, the game practically plays itself with many times where you can literally leave your controller on the floor and not worry about anything
-Too many slow cutscene moments where you can't control your character and are forced to 'be amazed' at the beautiful PS2 era graphics
-Palicos have taken a major back seat in this game, feels like they're barely around

...and the biggest issue of all, MULTIPLAYER

This MH is by far the WORST multiplayer experience I've had in an MH game and probably ANY multiplayer orientated game I've ever played!
First you have to add your friend in the in-game friends list as a 'Hunter Friend', then you join their Hunter friend session, then join their lobby session, then you have to create a link party to be able to even SEE when their quest is available, then if you want to see them in the open world you have to invite them to an environment link, thats 4 things you need to be invited to before you can even have a chance at playing together! What do I mean by 'have a chance' you say?
Even after doing all that ♥♥♥♥ to set the game up for playing with each other, you still can only do the story by yourself until you actually get to a monster fight and THEN you can have people with you, so one of you has to keep dodging the monster until everyone gets into your session which can take up to a minute, then you have to wait for everyone to actually get to the monster together which can take up to another minute, all for the monster to die within 3 minutes.... great, that was totally worth it.
Then after killing the monster and you want to move on to the next story quest you have to repeat all that waiting around, starting at the EXACT same moment ♥♥♥♥ all over again!
Even with the environment link (which is another invite you have to send to allow people to even see you in the open world) if you want to switch to a different world map you have to kick everyone from your current environment link just to go to another world map and then invite the same people again! Absolutely the worst multiplayer I've ever come across...

This game is the most disappointing I've ever played, I loved Worlds and Rise so initially I was excited about this MH, but boy do I absolutely regret buying this POS even at a discounted price from a key website now... I think I'd of had more fun with even Wild Hearts!

tl;dr Stick with Worlds/Rise, this game offers nothing new or interesting and feels like it was made 10 years ago.

Silent Hill has returned to form, everything in this game is exactly what a game like this should be, the music, the depth of the story, the multiple endings, the characters...

The only faults with this game are the combat can feel a little clunky though I sometimes feel this is intentional as previous Silent Hill games make fighting a last resort, you're not a soldier, you're an average girl in a sleepy town.

I also feel towards the end of the game that some more enemy types would of been appreciated.

I'd highly recommend watching Tara A Devlin's video on what happened after the events of Silent Hill f to further flesh out the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMcEMIS9cw

If this is the quality that Konami will have with other mainline Silent Hill games then I can't wait for the next entry!

9.5/10!

Game runs like ♥♥♥♥ still, glitchy mess when using the bike in the demo where I almost phased through the map in the first 5 minutes, refunded

It's an alright game but absolutely overhyped like crazy

Probably the best thing to come from Xbox since the 360 days

The story was interesting at first with the whole stealing kids brains thing , after this initial reveal however the story gets a bit too convoluted and confusing for me in typical Kojima style.

The combat is very fun, the parry system and slicing mechanics are addictive to chop enemies up into a million pieces, fighting Gekko's like how Raiden did in MGS4 was so cool, I only realised about halfway through my playthrough that there were actual combos you could do, initially the game tells you to just mix and match buttons to see what happens, I would of appreciated being told there was an actual move list during gameplay.

I really wish this game fleshed out the main villains though because when you first meet any of these guys they have so much about them that you want to know more but are reduced to small boss fights and maybe just one cutscene, very disappointed with the character development here, as for Raiden himself he seems a bit off in this game about halfway through, he isn't the same ninja we see in MGS4, he turns into some cringe edgelord from the 2000's that a 10 year old would probably find cool, it wasn't for me at all and it ruined his character from the previous games.

Spoilers
I also feel as there should of more info and closure as to what happened to the old cast, I understand this is Raiden's game but there's barely even a nugget of info about what happened to Snake, Otacon, Rose or even Jack's kid, with this being the last game in the timeline I was hoping at least for some nice info on the end days of Snake or what Otacon's been up to, how Rose and Jack's kid is but nope, you get Boris, Kevin and some other uninteresting characters to talk through the codec, by far the weakest characters in the game

This game's been made relevant again because of the memes about the senator which is fine, but don't expect this to be anything amazing, it's ok at best and somewhat worth playing as an MGS fan but if you're looking for more lore into that world then this game will disappoint you.

If this game is a foresight into what Sonic is going to become then it was a good run folks.

SEGA seeing that Sonic's had somewhat of a renaissance has decided to milk the fanbase for all their worth through greedy microtransactions MACRO transactions for skins costing upwards of $40; thankfully the Sonic fanbase for once has had some sense to have rated this game accordingly to what it deserves.

Knock it off SEGA, we don't want this s***.

Every character is annoying asf, quip filled awkward silence humour, no thanks

I like the setting, I like the weapons and the whole going to the underworld thing it's got going for it, it has an amazing vibe and I am looking forward to playing the sequel when it eventually comes to Steam, however...

...do not play this in co op.

With my boyfriend as my co op partner this game was too easy to the point it didn't feel like a true soulslike challenge at all, every boss we encountered we defeated on the first try, the enemies around the map were more of a challenge than the actual bosses!

Had I know this before going forward I'd of played this by myself as I think then it might be a better challenge, this game was absolutely not made for co op at all.

I enjoyed my time in it, the game is good!

The orius ending has a cool little twist ending for the story, but the final boss (if you can even call it that) sucks ass.