Recent reviews by Ryez

It's not like the glory days of Dauntless, but it gets the job done.

Great free help if you're trying to improve. Dunno if you actually get better with sustained use though.

Game is great, but at launch it sucked ass, and I'm still pissed about that.

Can't recommend this over Smite 1

Gameplay is fun, but the game is structurally incapacitated. If you dont do side quests you will be outscaled hard, because of the way the game scales the main game. However, you can easily ignore this if you find a strong weapon, and by ignore it I mean you find one good weapon five hours into the game, and you can now go ahead and spend the rest of the campaign with that weapon.
In terms of campaign, this game is horribly balanced. By far the worst in terms of Diablo-likes. And also by far the worst skill system in any diablo like. Now I only played one of the characters, so I can only speak of one of the characters, Amara. She has the same ability as Maya from Borderlands 2, so her one ability is also not original. She has variations of this ability and it's generally just the same gimick, but instead of doing it once you now do it twice, or instead of doing it twice you do it once, but there's added elemental damage... and so on. Quite boring in terms of character progression.
The game's focus is solely on weapon progression and it shows, because weapons come in all kinds of forms and have all kinds of buffs. I will say though, that for me this does not make up for the extremely lackluster skill system.

All that being said... the game loop is overall fun if you ignore the fact your character does the same at level 1 as he does at level 100, but instead of doing 1 damage, he now does 100... and of course then the weapon adds three trillion damage. Hopefully a skill system will be added to Borderlands 4, because it isn't in the borderlands franchise yet.

Gameplay is good.
Developer is quite shady though, with needed admin access on launch every time. CCP gold mine essentially.

Great sequel and end of Nathan Drake's story

Very cool.
Endgame is extremely repetitive though.

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Wish I had a friend to play this with.