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I fugged up and bought a game with Denuvo. There's no telling whether this game will still work in 10 years due to "Denuvo Anti-Tamper" being the super-speed, piece of ♥♥♥♥, Anti-Customer software that it is.

***** DO NOT SUPPORT GAMES WITH DENUVO *****
It's too late for me to refund. Do Not Let This Be You.

1. Mods (Textures, LOD, etc.) have fixed this game's GLARING graphical fidelity discrepancies FOR YEARS. 4+ years later, New Patch doesn't include any of these mods that fix all the issues.

2. Community screams for 4 years to update the game's issues, but NO communication from Publisher or Developers for 4 years.

3. No one even knows if Square Enix will ever patch it again to come back and address the other issues not fixed by today's patch.

4. Will change this review to POSITIVE once they redeem themselves by fixing the REST of the issues.

5. Comments open...

Overall Rating — 6.7/10 (ALRIGHT)

• PERFORMANCE? = 7
  
• GAMEPLAY = 6
  
• GRAPHICS = 8
  
• MUSIC = 7
  
• SOUND = 8
  
• STORY = 6
  
• VOICE ACTING = 9
  
• MOD SUPPORT? = 7
  
• STORE (ATOMIC SHOP) = 3

REVIEW

Bethesda released the game and practically dropped the ball on fixing it or making it the complete game that it should have been. Fallout 76 improved in many ways over Fallout 4 but Bethesda (the publisher and development studio) decided they no longer cared for it's customers - ONLY MONEY. I have over 50 mods (closer to 100) installed just to fix / fill the glaring issues still present today 5 YEARS LATER and offset the mounting frustration you too will have while playing. There are many frustrating elements that take away from you enjoying yourself in Fallout 76. Let's name a few shall we?

• LOW STORAGE LIMITS + STORAGE FOR MORE JUNK BEHIND PAYWALL — You have a low, hard limit on items stored in your "stash" — your entire storage inventory. In a Fallout game. Where you collect enough junk and trash to rebuild America. BUT WAIT — If you want unlimited junk storage Bethesda has SO GRACIOUSLY offered a MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION to "Solve" this little "Problem". $14.99 / month and YOU TOO can have unlimited storage FOR JUNK ONLY. Want unlimited storage for everything (what basically EVERYONE playing the game right now wants)??? Well Fugg you. That's a totally asinine concept and we are only doing this for junk. Fugg everything else. Even though you pay us. Fugg off and keep paying us.
  
  
• UN-INTUITIVE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT — Inventory is sorted by several MAIN categories and that's it. No way to filter out what is a cooked meal or what is raw organic tissue. Everything that could possibly heal you, boost you, or provide sustenance in any way is in the [AID] category. Anything that you can wear is in the [APPAREL] category. This may not sound like a big deal if you don't know how previous games worked but imagine a store that sells clothes — imagine that all they did was have a massive recycle bin labeled "APPAREL" that has every kind of shirt, pants, shoes, accessories, glasses, underwear, jackets, coats, etc. all in there. Then the store just says if you want something from the store just "fish" it out of the 1 bin, LOL! RIDICULOUS! That's Fallout 76 inventory. (You Guessed It — A MOD exists to UN-Fugg this system)
  
  
• NO IN-GAME CHAT SYSTEM IN A MULTIPLAYER GAME — There is NO text chat system in the game. *!!!* In a game that encourages you to team up and play together, run, hide, play, and seek one another. There are a FEW little emotes you can use to "convey" SOME things that you need to communicate, otherwise you must have a microphone in order to talk in this game. Because Fugg you. (You Guessed It ---- A MOD exists to UN-Fugg this system)
  
  
• LOW LIMIT ON DAILY CAPS EARNED — There is a low, hard limit on how much in-game currency you can make every day from NPCs. They all have 1400 caps every 24 REAL HOURS. Everything in-game costs a metric Fugg-ton more than it should and EVEN if you spend caps at a store, the store never sees but a handful of what you spent. This means that you can buy all day long but that store stays broke as Fugg for the rest of the day regardless. ONLY FOR YOU. Everyone else has their own 1400 caps limit and they too will see that same NPC be broke AF the rest of the day. No particular reason. The rest goes to an invisible void labeled "FUGG YOU AND YOUR TIME - WE WANT YOU TO LOG IN EVERY DAY TO ACCOMPLISH THE MOST BASIC OF THINGS". (NO MOD exists to UN-Fugg this system. You're perpetually Fugged.)
  
  
• BUGS — Lots and lots of bugs. Servers randomly freeze you in place, and shortly afterwards disconnect you and boot you to the main menu (Losing your progress with an entire quest at that point.)
  
  
• MORE BUGS — Enemy NPC's standing still or in mid-air, full-health, un-killable... Most of them won't even attack you. Some people have reported hilarious times where the enemy is just an invincible killing machine GOING AFTER YOU (but un-killable)
  
  
• NO ULTRAWIDE MONITOR SUPPORT IN 2023 — Most games have it already, since it's 2023 but not this one. This one is special. Bethesda is ALLERGIC to doing ♥♥♥♥ correctly. "Bethesda Speshul".
  
  
• LOW QUALITY SHADOWS — Seriously. Shadows in this game are stupidly PIXELATED even at Ultra settings. "It breaks muh immeeeeeeerrrrsssssssiiioooonnnnnnn" no but really, it absolutely makes my OCD go bonkers. Even if you don't have OCD it will make you feel "ugh." at the fact Bethesda hasn't poured the required effort to have this game look amazing on the most basic aspects of graphical fidelity. Nitpicking? Maybe, but I'm not letting anything slide here if they are collecting thousands, tens of thousands of dollars, etc. per day via selling the community over-priced items in the "Atomic Shop".
  
  
• ... and another bucket-full of ass-backwards design decisions of the user interface or any random element of the game that prevent anyone from enjoying this game fully.

OVER 50 MODS INSTALLED TO CONTINUE TO FEEL LIKE THIS GAME IS WORTH PLAYING.

I can't recommend it to anyone at this point because:

• I just don't want anyone to get suckered into paying $12 for some incomplete bundle in the Atomic Shop, and then spend an additional $10-20 fetching the rest of the individual items that should be in those bundles, separately throughout the store. At best it's an oversight, at worst it's a scam.
  
  
• I wouldn't want to slap my recommendation on a game that HAS NOT and IS NOT currently doing it's players justice by working towards making it's community feel more fulfilled playing their game.
  
  
• It's a game that comes across as "WOULD BE SO GREAT IF.." but has not and does not seem to be on the path to actually BE great. Bethesda is DEAF and has not "listened" to it's community for YEARS now, why should you fund them to continue to be deaf?
  
  
• It requires MODS in order to offset the amount of frustrations one has while playing the game. Even then not all things are offset, and not many things can be properly fixed by our beloved modding community. It shouldn't have to be them to fix things either. Too many things bring about a "Why did they do this?" question routinely while playing. I never even searched for reasons to dislike the game — slowly and over time while playing, the oversights, the bugs, the flat out STUPID design decisions I have come face to face with in this game have lightly-to-moderately slapped us all in the face (Myself, everyone I have played with, and likely everyone I will play with in the near future) one too many times which ultimately brings about "GAME FATIGUE" — That feeling you get when you're tired of one particular game's Bull-Kaka

FINAL VERDICT — "NOT RECOMMENDED."

"Read lots of reviews before making the purchase. Make sure you're DAMN SURE you're ok with a game that is more focused on making more money from you than making you feel welcomed to enjoy it."


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UBISOFT — "Corporate Pirates."

1. 50% Cut Content — BAD!
   • Standard Edition — Only 50% of the Game.
     
   • Deluxe Edition — Only 52% of the Game.
     
   • Gold Edition — Only 75% of the Game.
     
   • Ultimate Edition — Only 75% of the Game + TWO "Remastered Games".
   
   How Does This Happen???
   • Before release, "Ubisoft" (the publisher.), decides to milk "You" (the consumer) for all your money — Taking the entire game's available content, cutting it in half and selling it to you for ($60) as the standard edition.
     
     
   • Then the remaining content is torn apart into bite-size pieces as DLC between the "Helix Store" and "Season Pass" items.
     
     
   • At the highest tier ($120 Ultimate Edition), only 25% of this cut content is "returned" to you (Story stuff + few items) along with TWO "Remastered" Assassin's Creed Games: (AC3 & Liberations) that have nothing to do with Odyssey.
     
     
   • The other 25% of the game's content is left exclusively inside the Helix Store — Requiring your real $-MONEY-$ to unlock.
     
     
   • PAY-to-PAY-to-PAY, so you can PAY-to-PAY-all-DAY.
   
   
2. HELIX Store — BAD!
   Ubisoft's microtransaction system. Even if you bought the ($120) Ultimate Edition of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, they STILL withhold all of these items from you, the customer, in order to get even more money from you. It's too expensive to get all the items in the store and makes you feel like ♥♥♥♥ knowing they purposefully withheld this from you in order to make a quick $$$.
   
   
3. DENUVO "Anti-Tamper" DRM — TERRIBLE!
   What's wrong with Denuvo?[everythingdenuvo.wordpress.com]

ACTUAL GAME RATING — 9/10 "Superb"

1. THE GOOD:
   
   • Story & Progression — A+
     
   • Graphical Fidelity — A+
     
   • Optimization — C+ (The game is CPU-intensive; a known issue.)
     
   • Quality of Base Content — A+
     
   • Voice Acting — A+
     
   • Quality of DLC — A+
   
   
2. THE BAD:
   
   • 50% Cut Content — BAD!
     • Standard Edition — Only 50% of the Game.
       
     • Deluxe Edition — Only 52% of the Game.
       
     • Gold Edition — Only 75% of the Game.
       
     • Ultimate Edition — Only 75% of the Game + TWO "Remastered Games".
     
     How Does This Happen???
     • Before release, "Ubisoft" (the publisher.), decides to milk "You" (the consumer) for all your money — Taking the entire game's available content, cutting it in half and selling it to you for ($60) as the standard edition.
       
       
     • Then the remaining content is torn apart into bite-size pieces as DLC between the "Helix Store" and "Season Pass" items.
       
       
     • At the highest tier ($120 Ultimate Edition), only 25% of this cut content is "returned" to you (Story stuff + few items) along with TWO "Remastered" Assassin's Creed Games: (AC3 & Liberations) that have nothing to do with Odyssey.
       
       
     • The other 25% of the game's content is left exclusively inside the Helix Store — Requiring your real $-MONEY-$ to unlock.
       
       
     • PAY-to-PAY-to-PAY, so you can PAY-to-PAY-all-DAY.
     
     
   • HELIX Store — BAD!
     Ubisoft's microtransaction system. Even if you bought the ($120) Ultimate Edition of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, they STILL withhold all of these items from you, the customer, in order to get even more money from you. It's too expensive to get all the items in the store and makes you feel like ♥♥♥♥ knowing they purposefully withheld this from you in order to make a quick $$$.
     
     
   • DENUVO "Anti-Tamper" DRM — TERRIBLE!
     What's wrong with Denuvo?[everythingdenuvo.wordpress.com]

"My Original Angry Rant"

? — Don't do it. It's just another "Ubisoft signature", Micro-Transaction(MTX) riddled cash-grab.

1. A Quality game, MIRED by a MASSIVE Paywall.
   
   
2. You'll never get the complete game unless you spend over $200.
   
   
3. My FIRST Assasin's Creed game and I absolutely regret spending $120 on the Ultimate Edition, since ULTIMATE does NOT mean you get everything included in the helix store. It's just a cash grab edition. Thanks a lot for scamming your player base HARD Ubisoft. F**k us, right?
   
   
4. I don't think I'll ever be able to get the Helix Store Items despite having paid for the highest tier available — NEVER "ENOUGH" MONEY FOR UBISOFT.
   
   
5. Never again will I buy the top-tier of any of your games Ubisoft. *smdh*
   
   
6. Do yourself a favor and either find another place online or "do what you gotta do" to get this game (cheaper) or wait for a DEEP sale. Don't even bother with the ULTIMATE, GOLD, or DELUXE Editions — THEY ARE ALL JUST OVERPRICED CASHGRABS.

DEAR UBISOFT — "To the Corporate money-grubbing, Anti-consumer Executives at UBISOFT, and everywhere else too."

JIM STERLING explains it best, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTitHF6-xlI

FINAL VERDICT — "NOT RECOMMENDED."

"I would have been fine with the game as it is, but knowing that UBISOFT is satisfied knowing that the majority of the world is missing out on 50% of all currently available content for THIS SINGLE-PLAYER GAME, because of their decision to lock the other half behind a paywall — It's infuriating. If even $120 isn't enough for Ubisoft to give you every grain of content ever produced for THIS SINGLE-PLAYER GAME, imagine a world where the price of the newest game costs $300...

Ubisoft — You've made it clear that your loyalty lies only to your bottom line. I hope your collective disregard for your fanbase backfires, flushing your money and your company straight down the drain."


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GAME RATING — 8/10 (IT'S GRRRREAT!)

• Best Original Game Idea 2018 — A+
  
• Multiplayer/CO-OP GEM! — A+ (Local For Now)
  {1v1 | 2v2 | 3v3 | 4v4}
  {1v1 | 1v2 | 1v3 | 1v4}
  
• Funniest Death Sounds! — A+ (This won me over in the end.)
  
• Unique, FAST Transitions Between Games — A+(You won't ever have a sterile moment while you're playing!)
  
• Infinite Replay Value — A+
  
• Arcade Machines With FULL HD Screens — A+
  
• Couch-Competitive Co-Op Action for The Whole Family — A+

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DISCLAIMER:

The following review is my own. Though I have received a free copy of this game, I have not been paid to write a review in the game's favor. This is 100% my own experience and the resulting "happy energy" after playing this cute little game is truly genuine.

WHAT IS THIS GAME ABOUT?

"Blast, dodge, and charge your way through an array of classic 1980's Data East arcade machines. 1-4 Players can battle against time-honored characters in a nostalgia-inducing collage of retro set-pieces from BurgerTime, Karate Champ, Lock ‘N Chase, Heavy Barrel, Side Pocket, and Bad Dudes!"

• You play 13 different arcade games, invading them all with your same little character (Invading all of them just like in the 2012 "Wreck-It-Ralph" movie). Your objective is to grab the sack of cash and take it to the "Bank" which happens to be in one of these arcade machine's game. Your character has a weapon that shoots colored tennis ball-looking bullets, and you run around also shooting up "enemies" that are specific to that game (or maybe they also invaded each other's games.
  
  
• You can collect different weapons that produce more bullets at once or faster bullets, or even a laser death ray you can fire across the screen. I especially love that laser now, it's so satisfying to "TAG" the enemy bot or HUMAN that you're playing with when they are doing so good against you, lol. That's another thing too---The bots even on easy mode are not stupid, or pushovers like some AI on other games' "easy" mode----they will make you work for your points! The levels include a PAC MAN-like, A Pool Table (yes, you shoot balls, at other balls, and those other balls run into each other, and you pocket them either into pockets or at your enemy team and just laugh it up at their hilarious "death" sounds.
  
  
• You can collect different power-ups that make you faster and speed your way across the map!
  
  
• The enemy team bots are just hilarious to watch (as you try to get them too!) they sometimes run into other enemies that completely demolish them, they make a funny K.O. (or death) sound and then "respawn" in the form of stacked burger ingredients until they come back to life in their corner, where they start again.

PERSONAL NOTES

• I never thought I'd love a pixel game again — I was expecting this game to be a cheap remake of some LONG-ago expired game of decades past. BOY was I wrong.
  
  
• I sincerely thought that I couldn't have this much fun with pixel games ever since the late 00's. I am not a fan of pixel games, but this game has reinstated my faith in the human race — of pixel games. This game isn't just some cheap cash grab, it's a cute but amazing mashup of Arcade games with modern graphical stability.
  
  
• "I am beyond words amazed at the ridiculously awesome job the developers did to make this game...WORK. The idea is original in my opinion, and something about the formula for this game just is perfect. This is such a fresh take on arcade games in general, you would do well to buy this game for someone you know will play it with you. I kid you not, I'm going to buy this for my group of friends who love these kinds of games and I basically can't wait to laugh myself into a soft coma."
  
  
• This game just might clear your depression for a little while — it's that funny!

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"Made by two 'Bad Dudes' in Los Angeles."

• "Games like Nidhogg, Enter the Gungeon, and TowerFall were huge inspirations to me.
  ~ Eric Urban, founder of Lub Blub, programmer and co-creator of Heavy Burger.
  
  
  
• "Eventually we (Eric Urban of Lub Blub & Scott Barrett of International Headquarters) decided the coolest experience would be an authentic one... Use the original sprites from these games, model the arcade cabinets to exactly match the real ones, and really deep-dive into the nostalgia. Pixel-art all the way. (And some 3D)."
  ~ Eric Urban, founder of Lub Blub, programmer and co-creator of Heavy Burger.
  
  
  
• "Our goal was to focus on a simple, compelling experience... One main game mode that’s completely unique and solid, the perfect party game."
  ~ Eric Urban, founder of Lub Blub, programmer and co-creator of Heavy Burger.

FINAL VERDICT — "RECOMMENDED."

"Heavy Burger stands to be one of the best "Casual Couch Fun" games I've played all year. If they add new machines (like a bunch more) this is a serious contender for the best-hidden gem of 2018 hands down. This is an instant buy. If anything, buy it for the laughs you'll have when you play by yourself, a friend, or seriously the entire family. It's past 2 am and I just woke up my wife with all my laughing!"


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Overall Rating — 4/10. (SUBPAR)

"Because us keyboard & mouse users were just clearly forgotten about. In fact, we PC Gamers were just an afterthought altogether."

(The game looks like jagged dogsh*t and has many glaring issues at $60.)



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Factors For Consideration:

1. Port Quality = 4/10 (SUBPAR)---("Basically a quick cash-grab for PC users.")
   
   
2. Graphics & Optimization = 5/10 (MEDIOCRE)---("A complete afterthought.")
   
   
3. PC Controls = FAIL---("It exists. That's about it.")
   
   
4. Support For 21:9 Resolutions = FAIL---("FromSoftware", the devs, showed a clear disregard for PC Gamers here.)

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Notable Remarks:

• Do NOT buy this game unless you plan on BUYING a Controller / —For Your PC.
  
  
• Alternatively - Do NOT buy this game until you've researched the PC Controls and are totally ok with all the issues it still has.
  
  
• Do NOT buy this game if you're looking for either a polished game OR one you don't have to mod the living daylights out of, just for it to look and play ok on your PC.
  
  
• Do NOT buy this game if you're looking for modern graphical fidelity & customization. The game features neither.

This Review sheds light on the major discrepancies with the game's developmental aspects.

1. "Port Quality"
   ("Console Port" is a term specifically used to describe a game that was originally made for a console (such as PS3 or Xbox 360) before an identical version is created which can be played on a personal computer.)
   
   
2. "PC Playability / Quality of Life."

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OUR COMPUTER - "System Specs"

(At the time of this writing)

• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
  
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700
  
• RAM: 16.0GB Dual-Channel G.SKILL @ 2933MHz (16-18-18-36)
  
• Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (AM4)
  
• BIOS (motherboard): 1.K0 (Release Date: 11/01/2018)
  
• Monitor: LG-29UM67P (ULTRAWIDE) (2560x1080@75Hz)
  
• Graphics: 11264MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Hybrid(EVGA)
  
• Drivers: Nvidia - 417.22 (Release Date: 12/03/2018)
  
• Storage: 698GB Crucial_CT750MX300SSD1 (SATA (SSD))
  
• Audio: (onboard) Realtek High Definition Audio
  
• Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G3, 80 Plus Gold 1000W

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Personal Notes:

• Forced to Refund after 1 hour, due to PC Playability / Quality of Life ISSUES ~
  
  
• This is a completely unpolished console port of an otherwise extraordinary game.
  
  
• I want to love this game more than anything, I'm even tempted to UN-refund and buy it again to just give it one more shot and see if I can fix (and tinker) with this game to make it into what so many have said this game already is.. but Dark Souls III *AS A PIECE OF SOFTWARE* currently is not the game everyone seems to rave so highly about.

Issue #1: PC Controls

• I cannot recommend the PC version of Dark Souls III to PC Gamers at this time unless they have a controller at the very least. If you look online, you’ll see that the majority of Dark Souls III owners recommend--NO, ADVISE using a controller for this game: Because developers decided to just copy and paste the console version to PC with ZERO attention to detail for mouse & keyboard users.
  
  From every PC video of DS3, all of the game’s hints, actions, and menu options are still geared towards a controller. DS3 still has the “press A” to perform an action. When I was playing, all of the “tips” say to press this controller button and that controller button. "FromSoftware" (The developers) showed a clear disregard for PC Gamers here.
  
  Since when is it industry standard to use a PC with a controller? I seriously do not understand why the developers couldn’t just add keyboard and mouse options/hints.
  
  
  
• There are several MEGA THREADS online (and on Reddit) that were created to post solutions to FIX glaring issues on the PC release. Below are the Reddit URL links:
  
  
  1. "PC Tech Support Megathread"
     
     
  2. "PC Support Megathread 2"
  
  However, the issues I have pointed out in this review are either not mentioned or mentioned with no resolutions.

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Issue #2: Graphics

I have a GTX 1080 Ti + Ryzen 7 1700 OC'ed @ 3.8GHZ and this game shows how much effort (or lack of) was put into the graphics. I put all general & advanced graphics options at MAXIMUM and the game looked nothing like the videos and screenshots that I had seen. Unacceptable quality for a supposed $60 game. STILL the case AFTER. 3. WHOLE. YEARS. "FromSoftware" (The developers) showed a clear disregard for PC Gamers here.

1. Broken Antialiasing - Seemed to not be doing anything since I saw a ton of jaggies that surrounded almost every loaded texture.
   
   
2. Low Texture Quality - Setting this at MAXIMUM only appears to be mediocre quality. Not at all like you would expect from Ultra or High settings in other such games.
   
   
3. LOW + Locked Field Of View(FOV) - Locked at a pretty low setting (the 40's). It doesn't help that my monitor is a native 21:9 Ultrawide, but it's an issue even with standard 16:9 monitors.

I even went to Nexus Mods and downloaded mods (like the basically mandatory mod "Souls Unsqueezed") -- to fix the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ FOV & unsupported 21:9 settings. "FromSoftware" (The developers) showed a clear disregard for PC Gamers here.

FINAL VERDICT — "NOT RECOMMENDED."

"I would have been fine with remapping keys, EVEN buying a controller, but the game looks like dogsh*t and has many glaring issues --to the point-- it made me feel like I paid $60 for a RUSHED cash grab + sh*tty console port."



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I recieved this product for free.

Larian Studios ----- U DA REAL MVP =D

"These orcs... The blade of Gondor demands their gullets." ~ Me.

GAME RATING — 9/10 (SUPERB!)

• Story & Lore. = A+
  
• Graphics & Optimization. = A+
  
• DLC Expansions. = A+
  
• Voice Acting. = A+
  
• Content. = A+
  
• Replay Value. = A+

My Story.

I GOT SAVED FROM DEATH AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I DIDN'T BRING YOU WITH ME TO MORDOR.

I specifically ordered Theodore, my captain, to stand-down and let me die with dignity if the time came. Did he listen? No. Instead, he came, to my surprise, and decapitated "Az-Hatt"(Pronounced: "Ass-HAT"), my orc sparring partner, while we were sparring.

HIS WORDS: "F*ck that, I stepped in because I believe in you and you are "Captain, my captain." to me."

At this point I'm noticeably upset with him, tears rolling down my cheeks, and my voice cracking under the circumstances.

He separated me from mentoring my favorite orc into becoming EXALTED in his community, by way of unceremoniously slaughtering EVERYONE's favorite Tark (yours truly)-----Ultimately, I felt he ruined what could have been the sweetest, world-transcending "Orc-Tark" life-bonding relationship a Tark like me could ever have.

MY WORDS: "I shall never know the the fruits of my labor, because you put the blade of Gondor through his gullet. My name is Inigo Montoya, You killed my Az-Hatt, prepare to die."

42/10 - At least I got to be with Az-Hatt in his final moments... Now, I shall also get to be with Theodore for his final moments...

FINAL VERDICT — "RECOMMENDED."

"The definitive edition is out now and it's always going on sale too. This one is a no-brainer. Absolutely recommended."



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Ki-ller!
Ki-ller!
Ooooooooooh
She's A Ki-ller!

GAME RATING — 10/10 (EXEMPLARY!)

• Story & Lore. = A+
  
• Graphics & Optimization. = A+
  
• Voice Acting. = A+
  
• Content. = A+
  
• Mod Support. = A+
  
• Replay Value. = A+

THE REVIEW

This is THE spiritual successor to the Baulder's Gate games that have made their homes in our hearts, some long time ago.

Here are reasons I believe this game DESERVES your money:

1. A COMPLETE GAME.
   AAA Quality For Only $45.
   
   
   • NO Anti-Consumer "Monetization" schemes.
     
     
   • NO Bullsh*t “Season Pass” or cut content Micro-Transactions.
     
     
   • Continual Updates - Still receives updates by the devs (Larian Studios) over a year after release.
     
     
   • DEFINITIVE EDITION - An ACTUAL Definitive-level update, FREE for everyone.
   
   
   
2. Quality DLC.
   Great for those who love to dive deep into extra content outside of the game:
   
   
   • The Original Soundtrack & Score - Contains all 36 (+1 Bonus Song). For you audiophiles: Each song is recorded in a WHOPPING ~1411kbps Bit Rate~ (320kbps is High Quality, so imagine...) Also INCLUDES All 36 songs in FLAC Format as well.
     
     
   • Complete CONCEPT ART of the production of DOS:2 - (Architecture, Artwork, Banners, Characters, Creatures, Cutscenes, Design, Environment, Factions, FX, Items, Map, Nature, Tiles, and Unique)
     
     
   • Complete and Designed ARTBOOKS (Containing obviously the Art of DOS:2) & LOREBOOKS (Containing the knowledge of ALL content and the underlying Storylines - in both: [High Resolution] & [Low Resolution] to meet the need of either enthusiast-grade or budget devices.
     
     
   • The Reaper's Coast MAP in all it's glory.
   
   
   
3. 100% Voiced.
   Every line & Every word:
   
   
   • Every quirk of every character is pronounced and clearly spoken in the manner in which it's intended audience correlates to the character's background or origins (I.E - an Irish man will sound Irish, a British woman will sound British, Americans sound American etc.) Professional-grade, A+.
     
     
   • All voice files were recorded professionally; Mixed, and Mastered to perfection.
   
   
   
4. An Organic, Living, Breathing Novel.
   Such story..
   
   
   • This game shall walk you through the beauty that is Rivellon - the world of Divinity. I have become attached to the characters that I play, and those whom I've met in passing and in temporary scenarios. I'm even attached to some of the prominent enemies that rival your own character. There are personalities to be had and so many things that just resonate with me as a human being.
     
     
   • I cannot attest to things that would resonate with lizards or other races though since I'm only a human at the moment. Perhaps later I shall enjoy the proclivities of Lizardry or Gnomery, or Dwarvery, when I have retired my organic life as a human and returned as one of these races. Gosh, I have an active imagination... Moving forward.
   
   
   
5. MODS - An Active Modding Community.
   Such mods:
   
   
   • There are mods out for the game, so you can make it yours. I use like 100 different mods already, because I do that sort of stuff.
     
     
   • Mod-related Links at the end of the review.

FINAL VERDICT — "RECOMMENDED."

• "I dare say that Divinity: Original Sin 2, is by far and hands down, the BEST game of 2017." - myself.
  
  
• "It had my vote on The 2017 Steam Awards -
  THE "CHOICES MATTER" AWARD

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LINKS

• Steam - My D:OS2 Mods
  
• Nexus Mods - My Mods[www.nexusmods.com]

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