Recent reviews by ImAFlyingPancake

A little slow to start because you have to unlock a few zones by progressing the story before getting into the real game loop. The gameplay is fun from the start though, the gunplay feels great, and the progression is satisfying.

Once you get there, it's an awesome grinding game that is satisfying and not overtuned. It's not too hard getting new characters and weapons, and only requires a couple hours of farming at most. Character building and abilities are great. The "void intercepts" (boss battles) are very cool and feel new for the genre.

Apart from a few jaw-dropping areas, the environments are quite bland despite the beautiful graphics. The character models are gorgeous and very detailed. The game runs very smoothly for me.

The story is okay, but not very interesting. It does a decent job to give context to the events and the bosses and everything, but that ends there. Don't expect a deep story. The characters all have a cool personality though.

The developers have a very open and honest approach to communication that is very much appreciated. There is also an abondance of information about drop rates, drop locations and everything available right from inside the game. You don't have to alt-tab to a wiki when you want something specific.

Monetization looks bad at first. They put a ton of payable convenience in there. However, the more you play, the more you realize that they are absolutely useless and I don't see any reason why I would buy them. Just a whale bait I guess. The battle pass just doesn't look interesting at all to me too, it really isn't mandatory. Monetization really isn't right in your face. I would have liked more customization options though, even paid ones.

Great fun that is easy to get into, but has a surprising amount of depth and details in the gameplay. The tone and satire are funny but do not lessen the intimidating nature of the enemies and the epic chaos of each mission. The progression is satisfying too.

I highly recommend.

A nice experience with good looking and clean graphics, a very chill mood, and an interesting concept. However, for a puzzle game, the riddles are very easy and not challenging at all. On top of that, the game takes only between 2 and 3 hours to complete. For these reasons, I think the asking price is too high for what is offered by the game.


It's not really a thumb down, nor a thumb up, but an in-between.

Truly one of the greatest games ever, and I'm not exagerating. The game is very polished and enjoyable to play, with beautiful graphics, excellent sound design and OST, pretty good story and world building. The world is vast, there is a lot of content without any padding, it's always engaging. There is a bit of everything for everyone, and you're not forced into any type of content, just play how you like, at your pace. This game respects your time.

The endgame is fun in my opinion and the legion raids are absolutely fantastic experiences that require skill and coordination with your party.

The game runs smoothly at all times even in intense scenes like world bosses with dozens of players spamming their spells.

About monetization: the game is a true free to play. You won't ever need to buy anything with real money. Paying can only make you progress very slightly faster, it's not even worth it. Your time playing the game is highly valued, as you are more incentivised to play the game than paying. Monetization mostly relies on small quality of life perks and cosmetics. Everything someone can buy with real money can be bought with in-game gold as well.

This game is incredibly fun, with deep and interesting mechanics that are all pretty well balanced to feel rewarding. Loot is always useful, even the lower rarities.

Some classes take more time to reveal their true nature but in the end all of them are really enjoyable to play. You have the freedom of the play-style, and there is no clear superior one.

The only problems I have with this game are purely technical. For me the game plays very smoothly and doesn't stutter, even in the heat of the action. But crashes can happen, I had a few of those. And multiplayer can lag sometimes. Overall, these issues are not affecting the experience so much and don't really break the fun or the will to play. When everything runs fine, it's an absolute blast and I highly recommend it.

Excellent combat perfected by a surprising amount of variety. There are so many bosses, and all of them are challenging and fun. The coop implementation is very well done and difficulty is just right. This game has a lot of replayability.

The base game is already excellent, but Iceborne improves it in every possible way. This extension DOUBLES the amount of content and adds even more variety to the gameplay thanks to new monsters, sub-species, mechanics and weapon moves. It contains a lot of quality of life improvements too, the most important one in my opinion being the layout of the new city Seliana, and the new gathering hub. Late-game content is fun, interesting and stays challenging even if you're fully maxed out.

If you liked the base game, you'll love Iceborne. It's a must-have!

This is a pretty good game. There are a lot of options so you can use the type of controls you prefer (smooth, teleportation, snap or smooth turning, etc). The experience is polished and comfortable.

However, the game is short and has no replay value. I finished it in about three hours. I would definitely recommend this game, but without a sale, it is a bit expensive for what it is.

This game is very relaxing. The graphics are pleasing to the eye. Despite the minimalistic approach, it is very much entertaining.

This is a lazy and probably rushed remaster. I asked for a refund.

They delivered on the graphics upgrade. It is satisfying even if it could be better in certain spots such as the canon textures. This is pretty much the only pro of this remaster.

The optimization is just not there, performance is really bad even on top-of-the-line hardware.

RTS veterans will not be satisfied with the hotkeys and even less by how configurable they are. Hotkeys are not standard by default (A-click is K by default for example, and is located just next to J, which is "Delete unit"). Keys are grid-based and not context-aware, meaning that you can't use separate hotkeys for buildings, settlers and military units.

Units and AI are so dumb you spend more time fighting your own units so they march forward instead of getting stuck between themselves. They take a significant delay before responding to orders, an A-click move can take up to 3 seconds before units start firing, and sometimes units ignore enemies entirely and march through them to their demise.

Technical limitations of the times haven't been removed and no quality of life improvements have been made: for example you can still only select 50 units at once, not more. There are no markers for chained actions (with shift), villagers don't gather cows automatically, and many more inconvenience like this.

Don't buy it, you'll be disappointed, and the nostalgia feeling fades away very, very quickly.