Recent reviews by ☻sAk-zz

I am noob to ARPG games.
I am enjoying this quite alot.

Game is crashing every one and half hours.
Pretty good for early access title, i will most likely play the Three acts and then do Warframe 1999 and return here after full release.

Edit after 161 hours:

The campaign is AMASING, the standart felt amasing from Acts 1 to 3.
Cruel is complete cake walk, and the you get to Endgame and mapping.
The difficulty suddenly spikes very high in maps, then you adjust to it and game is again extremely easy.
Then Tier 14 and 15 juiced maps, you can feel some difficulty again.

I think the game is extremely easy when you get your setup working somewhat, not WELL but just little bit. (i am witch)

I am hoping full release campaign is extremely hard, and endgame aswell. How they would get this done, instead of just oneshot enemies. I do not know.

HIGHLY recommend SSF(solo play no trading), since market will take ANY difficulty away from you. I personally do not like HARDCORE, but would prefer more difficult endgame.

Maybe the monsters should be faster or something, forcing players to get some crowd control. No you can just blast trough them all.

There are not many CC skills, and most of them are quite ♥♥♥♥.

The bonewall which pins enemies is good example... you need to use it atleast 2 times to pin, while you could just kill the mobs and boss during the time it took to use bonewall 2 times.
(also it uses it on you, if you dont support gem it.)

Game just needs more CC skills, so the enemies can be MUCH more aggressive.

worth all the money i put in the game, and waiting patietly for full release.

Very intense experience so far 12.5h + demo ~5 hours. Topics inside the game have all been super dark commentary of humanity in large.
Will fix/change review as i progress. 9/10 so far.
There are few things i would change, like running motion blur with white lines for example.

13/10/2024 https://github.com/Lyall/MetaphorFix This is highly recommended mod.
Features

General
Intro skip.
Disabled ALT+F4/exit handler.
Remove 60fps cap in menus.
Fix 8-way analog movement.
Custom resolution scale.
Adjust resolution of ambient occlusion.
Adjust shadow resolution.

Ultrawide/narrower
Support for any resolution/aspect ratio.
Fix cropped FOV at <16:9.
Correctly scaled movies.
Fixes stretched HUD.

Graphics
Disable dash blur + speed lines.
Adjust ambient occlusion resolution.
Adjust level of detail distance.
Disable black outlines.

OK.

Performance as of 4.5.23, is ♥♥♥♥, just ♥♥♥♥. Not worth its price just for that alone.
But if if dont calculate the performance in to the game score, its still only gets around 7.9/10.

The game is pretty boring, on story side.
Gameplay is pretty good, the jedha temple with the esxavator (that you see in trailer) is very good sequence of events.
But the story is very bad, it shows that it was rushed out.

Whole game can be said in this way "It does not try to invent anything new, or push boundaries"
And this applies to everything, from gameplay to storytelling.

Cal as a character, you will learn nothing new about him. He is as monotome as one can be, and there are no twists or turns. Its just plain canvas that was left to fill some othertime. Dissapointing writing on this one.

Side characters, on the otherhand got served the better hand. They are the stars of the show, most story is told trought them while cal just hangs around and waves the light stick.

So in short, the story is very dissapointing. But there are some nice set events, but they just wont run in a way that you can enjoy them(example: There is a speedbike event, it starts in 60fps, but longer it last the less fps you have. It last around 2 mins and at the end you will be around 15 to 10fps. Its so funny how bad this game works.)

Then the biggest problem.

Exploration. The exploration is "walled" off by having to aquire certain skill. which you get around 4th to 2nd last mission in main story.

So lets say you want to do side quests and learn more about the world. Get stronger get better look for your self, mod the light stick.
You will need to explore do Rumors(side quests), but some if not most are walled off by these skills for exploration. Its so stupid design choice, you have to play 25 to 30 hours.. and then stop playing main quests for 10+ hours. While you do side ♥♥♥♥♥.
And then when you have done them, you wont get to enjoy them in main story.

For this reason, i actually didnt bother to do most of side activities.

well game is pretty "mid", nothing exciting here.. Gots 70euros, get it for 50 and its worth it.(if the game works)

Ending words:

There were news how the execs were happy how fast they cooked this turd, Well it shows how rushed it is.
In performance to the story to the gameplay. Its all kinda meh.

So in same spirit, i cant be bothered to fix writing errors.

Game has very strong start.
Story is exiciting and all.. Then it goes to mid game. Fall begins, and then winter.

The mid game ends. There are 2 main line guest. One against thugs, and one vs goblins.
And game is over.

Story is just very weak. I had to put mask on my character because of the cringe i got from sebastian quest line.

Its not bad game, game play loop is "ok" boring as it is.
gameplay is exiciting. Spells are like rock/paper/scissors typy thing. They make sparkly effects and thats it.
Would had like more "magic" like spells, Maybe filipendo is to hands that flip the enemy. instead of just weird purple effect,

magic is suprisingly boring, in this game. like best one is the air spell which send out a sharp air cut. rest are just effect with different color and sound. quite boring after like 15 hours.

Game is bit too easy, even on hard more enemies are like 2 hit dead everytime. some even die from 1.
To balance this, they but bare ass trolls whith 3 attack moves. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 3.
combot waS exiciting till like fall, and after fall it was just pure boredom.

I whole game, there are 2 good quests. First quest and the last.
They are only once where you feel like its magic game, its suprising and epic.(there was the book, was ok change of pace)

Music is kinda bad, i dont remember any good pieces from it.
Some music played at the last quest against, goblins.. It sounded just weird like it didnt belong there.

This game is wizard game, that had good start. There just isnt much after half way point.
Side quests are actually side quest instead of just fetch quests.

The boredom level is much higher than death stranding last mission where you travel from other end of the map to the other. Atleast there there is story, and story telling and performances of actors and actresses to help to carry the end. Here its just waiting for it to end.

Sebastian sallow story line if whole game had been around it. Your abilities of ancient magic would had allowed you to see traces and mysteries. That would had been exiting.
Here the exitiment ended when you got your main spells.

Its good game, but not worth its money.

grade is around 7.7 to 7.9 out of 10

Its a game you should play, because its different.
Just buy it in sale.

EDIT: cant believe i bought good game, that turned full spyware... pure bethesda.
EDIT 2: Spyware been removed, its ok for us who only play Single player.

This would be game of the year next year.
Sadly it wont be this year.
ffVIIR, last of us 2 or cyperpunk 2077 will be GOAT.

But this is 9.8/10 FPS.
wanted it to be 2 hours longer or even more, its so good.

Not bad, not bad at all.

Bit short.

Game is good open world.

but the story is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad.

Having played main story, all side quests and all DLCs.
I can explain how bad.

In Assasins creed you go in to animus from present time, to uncover something to help you on your time/timeline.
So there are 2 stories "The story" that spawn multiple games, and "Story" of the individual game.

This ones main story had NONE to ALMOST NONE of the "The story" parts what would push the universe forward, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nothing.

First DLC with darius and such, its pure Side story dlc.

Second DLC, Fate of atlantis, was short but good.

So in my book, Whole game should had been centered around mystery of atlantis, current time line hard fights power usages and such.

Whole main story felt like SIDE QUEST, and ATLANTIS DLC like mid part of the game, and we are missing the ending.

If you would want to compare this game to something similiary disapointing game.
You should think of Final Fantasy XV Royal edition.(not the original ♥♥♥♥, that just ♥♥♥♥)

Only thing this gets better are: Combat, characters and DLC.

ps: it took 140 hours to complete, this had maybe 60 hours of story, rest is just gameplay stretching which seriously got to my nerves.(do this, do that, go here, go there, you need,i need) so much pointless side quests, and pointless romances.

Next game could be good, if they just would do "the story" intead of SETUP for something future happenings.
Overall pointless game if your only interested inte overall story of the Assasins vs templars

Game is bit dark.

Gameplay is fun, just find your set of DAEMON.

No problems, using wired pc xbox controller.
You are capable of button mapping on settings.

BIG MINUS for no support for 21:9

Recommed this for JRPG fans, and action game fans.

It is super fun to use one auto attack on enemy and see your character get 4 buffs, tough i do hate the audio it makes.

edit after completing:

final boss, and last 10 hours was super easy on normal
Izana is so op its a joke.
on last boss

Manifest + realm change(+ damage) + buff up (few autos + skills)
use all your skills once and you take 80% of boss HP.

Buffs are as broken in this one as they were on last game they made.

Music:

Great overall, sets perfect tone for the game.


Story:

It is not bad, but it feels like its missing something happy in it.
read comments about people crying, but the pacing is too fast to get emotionally connected to anything.
Like they try, but then next cut scene they die or what ever,

Good summary for the story is "what ever"

There are some choises in late to end game, just check them all, its not like the end boss is hard.

Review for Wolfenstein fans.

Things not in game

- TRUE singleplayer, you are always tethered to your AI partner or your friend.
- True FPS enemies are RPG enemies meaning the damage you will do is tethered to your level and skills., Like MASS EFFECT or like WARFRAME or DESTINY.
Enemies have similiar weaknesses as older games(new colossus), but there is no satisfaction of hitting if your low level because you didnt do sidequests (kill this, rescue these or like get this info)
- No Story to write about. IF you want to know and get spoiled for ONLY spoiler.
4th Reich, but nothing happens. Its like GAME PREY ending and then playing MOONCRASH it does not matter even one bit.
it dosnt even really setup 3rd main Wolfenstein.

So in short this game is:

Wolfenstein CO-OP RPG FPS, Where you die many times like dark souls, but not because your bad, but because you didnt do the sidequests.

Alone dont play, unless your just bored.

This new rpg fps trend sucks

Yeet good