Recent reviews by MattOtacon (End-Apartheid-State)

"You have to pay your respects to the game that birthed the “snax-like” genre."
-some reddittor

Masterpiece A-RPG to date, really set bar in A-RPG genre gaming industry at 2022

beat first playthrough at 67Hrs roughly

+It break limitations which dark souls franchise had before, also customizeable power-stancing on standard weapon that was introduced before on Dark Souls II has returned.
+Horse combat introduced major combat changer in certain area, but that doesn’t make game easier, still need to learn jousting by horse.
+It punished the players for those rushing game, and reward players for exploring more and level up stats, Melee and Magic are meta changes, unlike like Dark Souls III (Melee will be subjectively hard in late game, just try it)
+Dungeon Explorations introduced, but proved real challenge and not teleport-able inside.
+Map was vast comparable with The Witcher 3 Maps (Subjective statement) including partially underground Maps (Yes it had underground maps)
+Best NPC Questline and longest one required you for best Ending. (go figure)


-Beefy PC requirement, game optimisation was really cpu-bound, expected i5-9th intel generations for stable framerate at least.
-Optional Multiplayer Invade/PvP imbalance. (Just purely optional experiences in-game)
-No swim character (eventhough Sekiro has one), that was a bit unnecessary considering the world is huge to explore both surface, dungeons, and also underground maps.


Conclusion:
No doubt this will be biggest title FromSoftware to date and strong contender for Game of The Year 2022. Even in-game it has some euphemism jokes about ‘Maidenless’, ‘Touch Grace’, ‘Margit’, ‘Morgot’, (Git Gud, Got Gud), and a lot of online troll message online with emotes. Still game offered players with Amazing vast world landscape to be explore, mesmerising soundtrack, intense plenty bosses combat also lot of Dragons, and Questline which to attained Romanticizing your melancholic Solitude.

P/s: Dare I say the Game would be Game of Generation which will be remembered for next decades, plenty of memes, attracts to non-souls player alike, phenomenal situations, and the only concerned existed on how FromSoftware will be topping this title for their next Project.

Game sit somewhere between average and good, 7/10 perhaps subjectively speaking

-Glitches still exist even this game nearly decade old game (laughable glitches), but not gamebreaking bugs except blackscreen after intro where forced you moved installation files of game in C:/
-Targetted to fans, intro never meant to newcomer AC player, started the game already introduced with side activities on map

It's amazing to tell the storyline without specific language in game, one in particular where met with an old depressing man to commit suicide (optional to help him), without understanding what has happened, and the answer is just move the players to the left... better just discover by yourself, that pretty genius camera trick and way to tell storyline subtlety

started as Prison Break, ended up with to latin giving vibe of Max Payne III, also influenced by iconic film of Scarface, then eventually reminded us with MGS 4 Snake-Liquid moment

Standing here, I realize you were
Just like me trying to make history.
But who's to judge the right from wrong.
When our guard is down I think we'll both agree.
That violence breeds violence.
But in the end it has to be this way.
I've curved my own path, you've followed your wrath;
But maybe we're both the same.
The world has turned, and so many have burned.
But nobody is to blame.
It's tearing across this barren wasted land.
I feel new life could be born beneath
The blood stained sand.

Pretty Amazing ngl, omw to Queen Elephant now as i wrote this short review, so far 10/10, find your best buddy to co-op, some timing puzzles was not easy to execute, plenty of small timing window with co-op puzzles

Spectacular co-op game

“Fool me once shame on me, fools me twice shame on you”

I literally got ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by EA also request for refund denied due to played BF2042 less than 1 hrs, literally scammable policy

Played on RTX 2070 Super Gpu, I5-8400 cpu, 16GBs-RAM, Installed on SSD

performance i got:
windowed mode 900p, low settings (ALL) V-sync: Off
DLSS: Performance, (Ultra Performance way worse but same framerate)

Game played on 25fps reload animation and 30fps on field, laughable performance indeed, got laughed in Discord while streaming to friends

don’t be fool like me, first impression really matters, that’s what we got when Publisher pushed yearly half-baked product on PC, also play Halo-Infinite 👌🏼

Announcer:
"Oddball"

"you have the BOLL!"

"If At First You Don’t Succeed... Die, Die Again"
-yeah not quite true unless you found all of visionary leads which personally a bit pain for me to gather intel, randomize code (every playthrough passcode in world will randomize to prevent easy speedrun) you will stuck in deathloop, it's good mechanic and giving player own curiosity in searching for clues.
-Gameplay it just like Dishonored, even movement animations, melee finisher, and Slab's ability (similarity with Dishonored's outsider powers), but that doesn't mean it was not fun, it is still amazing.
-aesthetically the world and character's designs still reminded me of Dishonored/prey world but filled with complex puzzle and information which link toward next objective in unlocking visionary leads.
-every loop which missable thing is non-existent, you can always loop for next time, to repeat.
-no HDR setting for game on PC version
-Kickass OST, strums of guitar when in Combat mode, cue hint OST when discovered clue, that was really good.

It is amazing game and really worth for game of the year contender 2021,