Recent reviews by Flying_Cat

The game is excellent, the remake is mostly excellent but it has a huge dealbreaker, TECHNICAL ISSUES.

The game has serious game-ending technical issues. The game randomly crashes constantly. I had as many as seven crashes in one two-hour session I ♥♥♥♥ you not.

The worst glitch is what puts me into a hard "do not recommend" is a crash during the Interloper chapter. Once you exit this giant tube into a room, the game crashes immediately. I haven't been able to figure out a way around it. Googling, I can see that other people have this exact same glitch. Its unacceptable. Do not buy until this is fixed.

The gameplay is fast and natural, the graphics are beautiful. What could go wrong?....
Well more than I possibly imagined. This game is riddled to the gills with technical issues.
These technical issues include:
-First mission ending in a black screen while your character appears visible. Like the audio, checkpoints for mission completion, and game rendering were all decoupled.
-Collision detection issues (causing you to walk through objects and being unable to walk in certain places because your position is misaligned)
-Complete system freezes.

The lack of quality control on this game is truly astonishing. Each of these issues I've encountered have been reproducible and occurred multiple times in a row. I cannot recommend a game as unfinished as this.

Great game. Everything Deus Ex Mankind Divided aspires to be and much more. This game is the most recent game by the lead behind Deus Ex and Invisible War. It is engaging from the moment when you....well...you can play the demo and see for yourself.

The jump scares and possibility of being attacked by a mimic at any moment produces this low level tension and eerie atmosphere. Subtle and simple but effective.

The game doesn't spoon feed your options to you, you're free to choose your own path to complete your objective. Your actions determine your moral alignment and how others react to you, not your dialogue options. Did you just shoot the possessed crew members or did you incapacitate them and kill the Typhon controlling them thus sparing them?

The game reminds you of the trade-offs your gameplay style carries. Use guns a lot? Well you wont be able to upgrade your skills as quickly, you'll burn through resources. The recycling system is a clever mechanic and you're always feeling the resource limitations. If any criticism can be leveled at the game, it's that there aren't enough resources. I wish they'd give you a little bit more, maybe 15% more materials would make the game much more enjoyable.

What happened to the Deus Ex I used to know? This game is no more than a cash-in on the Deus Ex name. So here are my main complaints: The game spoon feeds you the possible routes to complete your objectives...like ventilation shafts may as well have a giant yellow sign pointing you towards them. It's really really annoying. It sucks the fun out of exploring the environment. If you play the original Deus Ex, you will notice that it feels different. You have to explore the environment if you want to take a stealth approach. The storyline also feels overly melodramatic and just didn't resonate. It felt generic all the way through. The game may be worth 10 bucks but not the 20 I spent on it.

If you want a game like the old Deus Ex games, I would recommend Prey, the most recent game by Warren Spector, the lead developer of the original Deus Ex and Invisible War. Prey forces you to think about how you want to solve problems and forces you to be methodical. You can't always blast your way out of every solution. There are times for stealth, there are times to pull out your shotgun, there are times to pry the door open, there are times to hack a terminal. Play a demo of Prey and you'll see what I mean about it being a much more engaging game. The storyline is also much more immersive from the instant you start the game. You may also like the Dishonored series. Those games capture the spirit of what Deus Ex should be, not some cheap cash-in reminiscent of the Star Wars prequels. If it gives you any indication, I would sooner buy Prey at 60 than buy this game at 10.

This is the second time I bought Rez (last time was the Xbox live arcade Rez HD release). I don't regret buying it a second time. The game is the perfect hybrid of an on-rails shooter, a music game, and a psychedelic light show. Even owning the HD remaster of Rez, this edition is completely worth it due to the VR option and Area X. The music, the graphics, the gameplay. I can't think of any other game that produces the states of mind this game does (in all of the right ways). I hope Area X is expanded some day into a full game. I haven't played this game in true VR yet myself but I gifted the game to my game developer brother in law and he was blown away by the VR and said that it is hands down the best VR experience he has ever had (though he complained about some of the perspective settings being off and disorientating if you are new to VR).