Recent reviews by Nox1gen

When I first heard there would be a PC port for this game I got excited for multiple reasons:
- I was always curious about this franchise
- To my understanding there has never been a PC port for Persona so far(?)

This is the first Persona I ever played and so far I enjoyed every second of it. I would really love to see more PC ports of Persona games in the future or even better for the franchise not to be exclusive anymore ;P

A relatively short but incredibly beautiful game which makes use of creative ways to play around with sound and colors to tell its story.

I purchased CODE VEIN because I am a huge fan of the Dark Souls series and generally enjoy the "Souls-like" genre and so far I regret nothing and even doubt I ever will, because I already have plans for builds I definitely want to try.

--- OFFLINE REVIEW BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE A STABLE INTERNET CONNECTION ATM :( ---

When I heard that some players described this with the words "much easier than the Souls series" I was afraid that the game would just offer a casual playthrough with no challenge whatsoever and at first it really felt like it would UNTIL I decided to leave my companion behind (who would just destroy everything - even bosses - while I focused on evading attacks, however I can not confirm this for the later parts of the game as I decided to drop them very early).

Without the companion(s) the difficulty very much resembles that of the Souls series. The combat system feels smooth and there are lots of options for character customization (appearance wise AND build wise). The rush events can be challenging, the secrets well hidden and the boss fights might take a few (lol) tries.
There are tons of bloodlines/abilities to unlock and combine AND lots of weapons to try out (some with cool special moves like in Souls).

If you enjoy a Souls-like playstyle with lots of possibilities, anime and waifus with back-pain due to their enormous personalities and/or husbandos this might be the game for you.

When I ask others about the FFXIII series I often hear complaints about the combat system or the story, but I cant bring myself to agree with either of those. I really liked how SE tried something else for the combat system in every one of the games, making them more and more fluent to the point where it doesnt even feel like round based combat anymore.

The story itself (between the 3 games) is well written and carries over from one game into the next very smoothly. The characters keep developing constantly as they progress through the arc.

10/10

I dont usually write reviews but this is a game that I played really much because I enjoy the genre and tried many games in it to compare DotA 2 with. Basically in terms of speed DotA 2, along with Strife (which is basically DotA 2 in graphics style of LoL with a pet+item system which you can level up by playing) is average, so if you think a MOBA should be slower you should try League of Legends and if you think it should be faster you should try Heroes of Newerth. If you are looking for an alternative that is less knowledge based you should probably try Heroes of the Storm, since you dont have to learn as many item effects.


DotA 2 in a "nutshell" after ~2400h of playtime:

-New players (if interested in cosmetic items) will have to visit the shop now because game drops have become so incredibly rare that it has become hilarious.

-IF you buy item chests in the shop and dont get the set you bought it for, you can't sell the items since volvo put a trade+market cooldown (2 months I think) on every new item that gets released (yay!) so if you dont want to spend money until you have each possible drop from that single chest (RNG is strong in this one) you're better off waiting until the desired item is marketable and then buy it off the market.

-Volvo greed simulator: The old loot system, in which you could acutally gain items after a game ,for DotA 2 profile levels, and a leveling chest you had in your inventory (which could be opened every few profile levels and contained a new chest to open later) was successfully reworked into greed-mode. The chances to get ANY items after a game are as low as getting a legendary (or higher) before. Sure they drop ENTIRE sets now, but most of them are common to rare, which overall is still less rewards than before if you add up singe items and put them up against the set drop chance now in both, item quantity AND value. Maybe you should try some "never change a running system" in this particular function.

-Mostly developer/support abandoned game. the new content this game releases is mostly made by the community since the hero sets are workshop based and hero releases/patches are just really really rare. Special events are mostly the same every year and the report system is most likely 100% count-based/not reviewed by support employées (for example if you express your annoyance towards...lets say russians...for not being able to communicate in english on EU servers, you will most likely end up muted because out of the 10 players in a EU game 3 (probably more) are most likely russian and will report you for speaking english)

-These days russian-infested to the max...8/10 games you play will result in eyecancer due to russian chatspam, even though they have their own servers(!) because its way cooler to go to international servers and spam your native language, thanks volvo for letting that happen! maybe one day the EU servers will be renamed into russia 2 and russia 3 and the actual EU will have to play on american servers after all :D

*EDIT*-In addition to the listed issues, the game servers are now absolute ♥♥♥♥! 1/4-1/5 of the games crash and are not counted due to connection issues with the servers, great job of making it even worse when ppl thought that wasn't possible...

Conclusion: If you want to play a game in which you get rewarded for playing (in terms of cosmetic effects and/or profile progression) this probably is not the right choice anymore, because as stated you don't get level rewards or similar stuff anymore, just REALLY rare item drops (probably in the 0,2% range).
If you want to blow off some steam with trolling other players, spamming your native language while being sure nobody will be able to understand you this might probably be YOUR gamechoice #1. The community these days is mostly toxic and troll based so this is NOT your game for some serious gametime (at least not in solo matchmaking).
I didnt check the other games these days but the community in HoN was much more friendly and less russian.

In my personal opinion DotA 2 isn't playable solo anymore because there is too few games where you can actually play properly, without being annoyed by trolls or russians...

Gameplay/Balance: 9/10
Community: 2,5/10
Rewards System: 1/10