Recent reviews by Kanten

One of the greatest redemption stories in the history of video games. Finally reaching Very Positive overall and HG earned bit of it.

Devs need all the support they can get.

For those only with a cursory context of the lawsuit, Nintendo is suing Pocketpair claiming infringement of patents that Nintendo applied for *4 months after* Palworld launched.

Take a stand against frivolous bullying from corporate entities that straight up attempt to retroactively fabricate claims of infringement.

* There is still nothing resembling a "Motive" mechanic. Killers are still found through either the fingerprint meta or by leaving blatantly obvious clues like "this business card I left proves I'm a coworker" or "here's my name scrambled on a piece of paper because reasons". Despite having an entire case board mechanic, there's virtually nothing of substance in 95% of clues to tie the case together. "Find the weapon, check the fingerprint, woohoo we're done" is still how the vast majority of cases are resolved, feel free to check the email, phone, notes, journals if you want but it won't do anything to investigate the case. Additionally, there's still no such thing as red herrings in the cases.
* Multiple clues are still not used in any tangible practical fashion. "Blood Type" for example is still basically a waste of a clue slot.
* Dialogue interactions are basically still barebones placeholders.
* Many items still have basically no use and are about to be left in "placeholder" purgatory.
* Optimization is still poor. Rain in particular will bring a top end rig to its knees.

But they spent the last year porting it to consoles so it's time to renumber it 1.0 and call it a day.

A vanity project brought about by McAfee extorting the devs into putting his friends into the game by threatening to refuse to be in the game unless they did so. The reviews are accurate.

Was willing to overlook some bugs, transparent nerfs to MyFaction rewards and still doing no upkeep on Universe whatsoever.

But banning the most respected content creator in the community while leaving swaths of NSFW content up on Community Creations says exactly just where 2K's priorities are in this game.

Do better, 2K.

Suitably atmospheric but not much gameplay to speak of. Some pessimistic types would say "eating soup for the spoon" but it succeeds in providing a solid Lovecraft narrative though there are mechanic elements it could have expanded upon further.

Best survival horror in years.