Recent reviews by DawnGrave

Overhyped game with cool visuals.

Damn.

Short 5 missions with repeat maps from Dishonored 2 + minor changes. Some of the powers were cool but there was no real way to upgrade them apart from collecting bonecharms. The thing that made DH good was the powers and you're basically given the worst powers in the entire series in this game. They're not bad per say but being able to take someone's face and then roam the entire map with it isn't challenging. Map traversal was also quite boring here. Just not a very intuitive way to move around with Billie's own version of Blink.

Level design wise: there's nothing interesting going on here. The levels were bland for the most part and sure it was cool seeing some of the maps from DH 2 change and evolve. There was good ambiance and maybe slightly better graphics but otherwise, nothing special.

As a main character, Billie Lurk is weak. She doesn't change at all. There's no character growth in this entire game, and I still hate Daud even if there was some backstory given about him. The entire premise of the DH series was classism and how absolute power corrupts absolutely, there's none of that here. It's just "oooooga chagga outsider came to me and turned me into a weird partial void monster thing by taking my arm and giving me a weird eye". Blergh...

Then there's the entire mystery about the Outsider that gets unveiled, completely ruining him as a whole. By removing any mystery they've basically taken what made him so cool. In any case, they used a very safe formula here in DOTO which was disappointing.


Story-wise this is the weakest in the entire DH franchise. All in all a 6/10 experience and *really* not the best Dishonored game.

This should have just stayed a DLC, honestly bad decision on Arkane's part.

/// Buy when on sale, otherwise stay away.

Tedious, boring, and incredibly uninspiring. 5/10

I went into this thinking it looked pretty solid, but it turned out to be a lackluster, boring, and overall buggy mess. The game has head bobbing and motion blur enabled at the start which just made me dizzy until I turned those off in the settings.

Furthermore, killing anything in this game is not exciting. Enemies are about as aware and unaware as a capybara on copious amounts of coffee. AI in this game is bloody terrible. The gameplay loop is a chore. The stealth gameplay is about as deep as a puddle with the promise of it being as vast as the sea since you're supposed to get abilities that are Dishonored-like, but no it just does not hit the same.

A few more things I did not like:

- I hated the guns in this game. Why put a rarity system at all? It makes anything you collect useless, thereby making their Residuum infusion mechanic stupid.

- The controls are annoying to get used to at the start, but eventually turn out okay-ish. Meh.

- I 100% disliked the movement in this game. It isn't fluid like you'd expect.

- "Protect The Loop" is straight up ASS. It's one of the worst modes I have ever played not just because no one is there to play it but because it just sucks. I hate invasions, and without it Julianna turns into a dumb AI that can't discern what's left or right, making her an easy kill.

- The game is basically roguelike-esque in its approach and wants you to figure things out on your own, but Christ this was terrible. Going on missions just felt pointless. Kill this, kill that. Or, don't kill this, don't kill that. Boring.

Tl;dr this game sucks and I regret buying it expecting Arkane to deliver something on par with its Dishonored series. It's no wonder Arkane Austin shutdown, this studio's down in the dumps.

Good game but the ending felt a little lacking.

The Anomaly DLC killed any love I had for this game. Why pander to such a niche bullsh-t horror community rather than develop the other aspects of the game? The Anomaly DLC could have simply been replaced with a mod that's how sh*t it is.

Great gore physics, fun gameplay, optimal time waster as you hack and slash zombies. It's a game that shouldn't be taken seriously. I understand people's frustrations with Epic Online Services but they're just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for no reason. Latest DLCs are interesting and promising especially Haus, SoLa is not so bad itself except for the ending. 8/10 game.

Not for me, game is good though.

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The game is so barren, there's like 3 different buildings in the game and not enough POIs to really grab your interest. The enemies are absolutely mediocre and a bore to actually fight once you understand their move set. The 'tutorial' quest is a walking simulator to go fetch some wanker so he can craft stuff at your base, boring. The building UI is mediocre and clunky, why do I have to press so many buttons just to get to a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ building corner or some other element. Controls are meh. The gameplay loop is boring, you never really understand what the ♥♥♥♥ you're supposed to do as a new player. Loot pool is repetitive, it's like playing Diablo with the same drops from the same mobs over and over again -- what's the point? You die, you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ respawn 9000 meters away unless you frolick in front of some flame totem like a caveman! OOGA BOOGA! They adopted the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ food eating system that Valheim has where it gives effects based on what you eat which I really dislike.

I didn't like this game at all, it's tedious survival and it's boring, there's much better out there. I'm not going to wait years for another Early Access game to come out of the woodworks when titles released by then will likely be better -- or worse. Who really knows? Either way, refunded.

P.S. To all you caveman who play this, have fun. It's probably not *that* bad I just didn't have fun *shrug* -- or maybe I just needed to play with friends? Do I even have friends? UGH!!! EXISTENTIAL DREAD!

They want MB coins so you can upgrade items faster in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME???????????????????????????? WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥