Recent reviews by Queen Ishtar

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they fixed it. now it just needs updates and attention

you can't change certain bindings to certain keys. Dumb and stupid, this is a very basic accessibility issue that shouldn't be in a retail release on steam

This game is amazing. I wish more people played it cause matches are usually empty

this game is cool, we're just mean

they removed most of the content, increased the grind, made your progress delete itself after a few months, time-gated all new story events outside of expansion passes, and made it so that all of your gear is going to be unable to compete with new stuff.

They took everything I enjoyed about Destiny 1, and the early years of this game, and crushed into dust. The devs passionately champion their decisions as a step in the right direction, and it comes off as tone-deaf at best, and malicious at worst. Do not expect anything better now that Bungie is no longer with Activison-Blizzard, because while that partnership was active, it seems Bungie was learning and absorbing the greed, the cold-heart, and the anti-consumer mentalities.

The base gameplay is still good, and new gameplay changes aren't bad at all, but when most of the actual game you interact with is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Skinner Box, you really have to watch out for your mental health while getting into this.

It's a pretty terrible Fallout game but it's a pretty good game otherwise. It's an action shooter, not an RPG. If you want solid post-collapse RPGs, go play New Vegas, or Outer Worlds, games made in part by old Fallout devs.

Pretty good, though it suffers hard from not having local multiplayer at all. This is halo, after all.

as a civ 4 fangirl I am drooling all over my keyboard playing this

I just... I can't, I'm sorry. The previous two entries were neat. They had problems, but they were neat. The second one (Rise of the Tomb Raider) It thought was done really well! I enjoyed it's gameplay and i thought the story it was spinning was quite compelling.

Through it's setpieces and subtext it started to ask whether or not archeologists like Lara should actually be doing what they are doing. It sets up Trinity as this wierd secret illuminati faction, and is Lara's reason for going and doing what she's doing. The logic she uses is "I need to get the thing, so that the bad guys don't have the thing" which is a very flimsy excuse used by imperialist powers in real life to ransack and pillage foreign countries.

So I was really looking forward to this game, Shadow, and how it would continue that line of questioning. It starts with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BANG, directly putting the responsibility for a disaster in Lara's hands. Why? Well, because she thought she needed the thing before the bad guys got it. She goes down this path of obsession and vigilence, putting everything within her towards finding the things that Trinity wants before they can use them to... do something bad. Maybe.

Her companion Jonah questions this behavior. He criticizes it, and lets Lara know very bluntly that she's leading down a path of self-destruction, a path that will harm herself and others, by continuing to obsess and continuing to torture herself with all this responsibility that she... honestly doesn't have a good reason to give herself.

So what does the game do? What does the final entry in this reboot series do to this plotline that questions why Lara puts herself and others at this much risk?

It reveals that the leader of trinity is obsessed with her and her family. He's obsessed with her family for reasons that the game explains, and for reasons that do kinda make sense, but being obsessed with Lara herself kinda elevates her to this weird mary-sue status that frankly she didn't have before this game. Not only that, but even though it's done in different ways, it's functionally the same twist as the previous game.

When beating the game, you fight a boss, you grab the thing, and you um... leave. Then lara sits at her desk, studying something; and she tells the player that she's going to change, but not how. She didn't learn anything, she doesn't know what she did wrong, and she clearly has no intention of stepping outside of her father's footsteps. (the same footsteps that caused her life to be filled with as much danger as it was)

This game.. is not an ending. It's also not a sequel. It uses the same plot structure and arguably the same setpieces as the last one, but with smaller explore zones, less creative geography, tiny and pathetic hunting spots, and a severe lack of emotion and sincerity when it comes to the characters and story.

I had fun, until the end. I realized that the only reason I was enjoying myself was because I thought my actions and choices as the player and as Lara were all leading up to some thematically satisfying and conclusive ending.

What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot I was.