Brock
2015
(Summary below if you dont want to read thoughts)
Yakuza 0 was a massive disappointment. I was excited to try this one based on the hype surrounding it with some gamers hailing this game as the ultimate modern-city type masterpiece.
I cant stress enough how this game failed with many things it tried to do.
The story is very inconsistent and its structure is weak, the pacing is sloggish and the overall theme was actually interesting, but its filled with many plot holes that takes me out of it, for each chapter i managed to find a couple, an example of that is around chapters 8-12 we have a person who gets shot in the back and suddenly few hours after we see him torturing a character and is acting strong and mighty as if nothing happens. Another example is slightly after that in a prison where one person opens the cell that contained 5+ people previously only for them to disappear after that making the whole thing nonsensical. On another occasion we find a person knows about a secret but we dont get to see how? its a major sin, tell dont show, and many more plot holes to count that i can fill this entire review with, in short the plot is weak and full of problems, for a game hailed as masterpiece story it was far from that.
Next are the characters, they are unbelieveable inconsistent, they keep switching and changing out of the sudden, well except for 2 major ones, a character will do a sudden 180 turn on his loyalty just when the author demands it, its a plot device tactic and its cheap plot convenience because the writers dont know how to advance the plot naturally without it, characters are flat and most of the villains act very stupid, to give an example we have the encounter with Kiryu when Dojima is on the hunt, the characters wanted to capture him, instead they resort to stupid plans and waste him, in fact a guy comes driving with a car and they are standing and watching the whole time, the game is filled with moments like this, and other edgy moments to show the poser villain how mighty and strong he is by shooting a harmless woman, he is angry listen to him...lol bad and edgy writing.
For worse things Women are treated horribly in this game, they exist for pleasure only, which sucks too. A lot of the characters are a bunch of flat and boring angry faces that are dumb as rock.
Gameplay is also bad, the controls suffer from clunky movements and during combat it gets even worse, with inconsistent hitboxes and bad target system. The enemy A.I is very bad and they will take turns to get beaten.
The movesets have some variety but they wore off quickly due to the game being long and it keeps the same human enemies with no variety at all, while also having a lot of useless weapons as a second arsenal that all play out the same.
The visuals are bad even for their year 2015, with visuals that look like PS3 game.
The music is actually good and the sound effect helps immerse the player in the city hubs.
The side quests are weird and dont make sense within the context of the world, like why would a Yakuza drop by randomly on the street to help a girl pretend to be her boyfriend? or help a couple get married by play crosswords? or buy a girl panties? or play rock with a band..and so many other thing, not only they lack the impact on the world and multiple game and choice paths, they also make no sense in the context of the world and add nothing but pointless hours of text.
The minigames are not inspired or anything but they give extra fun hours for those who seek more so im neutral on them.
The cinematic cutscenes are good but inconsistent, transition from cutscene to ingame dialogue is very janky and kills the immersion and intense of it, with terrible animation (literally talking faces) lol.
It's also very tedious, walking from point A to point B each quest only to fight the same 4 thugs around every corner of the street for each 30-60 second makes the game tedious and more of a slog to view the story.
Overall this game is a hugely overrated, i expected a lot better gaming experience from it.
The flow of the story was enjoyable and i enjoyed watching Majima kick some ass, he is by far the best character of this game.
It's not a terrible game, but it was a mediocre one. I was let down, sadly.
Summary:
+ Music and Ambient Sounds to enhance immersion
+ Engaging Story that keeps you interested for more with its twists and turns
+ Minigames to spend your extra time
+ Great main character (Majima)
- Badly written plot, filled with holes and inconsistencies
- A lot of characters are simple plot devices and a tool for asspulls out of nowhere
- Rely on over the top action that kills the tensions
- Stupid and flat villains
- Bad women representation
- Clunky movement and controls
- Generally basic and dull and shallow combat system with low enemy variety and easy challenge
- Tedious walking from A to B sections
- Uninteresting Side Quests
- Disappointing ending and pacing is off
- Janky transition of animation and text dialogue.
Yakuza 0 was a massive disappointment. I was excited to try this one based on the hype surrounding it with some gamers hailing this game as the ultimate modern-city type masterpiece.
I cant stress enough how this game failed with many things it tried to do.
The story is very inconsistent and its structure is weak, the pacing is sloggish and the overall theme was actually interesting, but its filled with many plot holes that takes me out of it, for each chapter i managed to find a couple, an example of that is around chapters 8-12 we have a person who gets shot in the back and suddenly few hours after we see him torturing a character and is acting strong and mighty as if nothing happens. Another example is slightly after that in a prison where one person opens the cell that contained 5+ people previously only for them to disappear after that making the whole thing nonsensical. On another occasion we find a person knows about a secret but we dont get to see how? its a major sin, tell dont show, and many more plot holes to count that i can fill this entire review with, in short the plot is weak and full of problems, for a game hailed as masterpiece story it was far from that.
Next are the characters, they are unbelieveable inconsistent, they keep switching and changing out of the sudden, well except for 2 major ones, a character will do a sudden 180 turn on his loyalty just when the author demands it, its a plot device tactic and its cheap plot convenience because the writers dont know how to advance the plot naturally without it, characters are flat and most of the villains act very stupid, to give an example we have the encounter with Kiryu when Dojima is on the hunt, the characters wanted to capture him, instead they resort to stupid plans and waste him, in fact a guy comes driving with a car and they are standing and watching the whole time, the game is filled with moments like this, and other edgy moments to show the poser villain how mighty and strong he is by shooting a harmless woman, he is angry listen to him...lol bad and edgy writing.
For worse things Women are treated horribly in this game, they exist for pleasure only, which sucks too. A lot of the characters are a bunch of flat and boring angry faces that are dumb as rock.
Gameplay is also bad, the controls suffer from clunky movements and during combat it gets even worse, with inconsistent hitboxes and bad target system. The enemy A.I is very bad and they will take turns to get beaten.
The movesets have some variety but they wore off quickly due to the game being long and it keeps the same human enemies with no variety at all, while also having a lot of useless weapons as a second arsenal that all play out the same.
The visuals are bad even for their year 2015, with visuals that look like PS3 game.
The music is actually good and the sound effect helps immerse the player in the city hubs.
The side quests are weird and dont make sense within the context of the world, like why would a Yakuza drop by randomly on the street to help a girl pretend to be her boyfriend? or help a couple get married by play crosswords? or buy a girl panties? or play rock with a band..and so many other thing, not only they lack the impact on the world and multiple game and choice paths, they also make no sense in the context of the world and add nothing but pointless hours of text.
The minigames are not inspired or anything but they give extra fun hours for those who seek more so im neutral on them.
The cinematic cutscenes are good but inconsistent, transition from cutscene to ingame dialogue is very janky and kills the immersion and intense of it, with terrible animation (literally talking faces) lol.
It's also very tedious, walking from point A to point B each quest only to fight the same 4 thugs around every corner of the street for each 30-60 second makes the game tedious and more of a slog to view the story.
Overall this game is a hugely overrated, i expected a lot better gaming experience from it.
The flow of the story was enjoyable and i enjoyed watching Majima kick some ass, he is by far the best character of this game.
It's not a terrible game, but it was a mediocre one. I was let down, sadly.
Summary:
+ Music and Ambient Sounds to enhance immersion
+ Engaging Story that keeps you interested for more with its twists and turns
+ Minigames to spend your extra time
+ Great main character (Majima)
- Badly written plot, filled with holes and inconsistencies
- A lot of characters are simple plot devices and a tool for asspulls out of nowhere
- Rely on over the top action that kills the tensions
- Stupid and flat villains
- Bad women representation
- Clunky movement and controls
- Generally basic and dull and shallow combat system with low enemy variety and easy challenge
- Tedious walking from A to B sections
- Uninteresting Side Quests
- Disappointing ending and pacing is off
- Janky transition of animation and text dialogue.
This is probably my favorite turn based strategy game of all time. It may not be the best game, but it has its charm, and i played it a lot on my old PC.
Fun game with interesting and hilarious tactics, the music is nice and the graphics aged well for its style.
It's an all time PC classic and its very cheap, try it, i can confidently say it still holds up pretty well even to this day.
Fun game with interesting and hilarious tactics, the music is nice and the graphics aged well for its style.
It's an all time PC classic and its very cheap, try it, i can confidently say it still holds up pretty well even to this day.
2020
Outdated Review will update later!
I think this game is a bit over-hated at this point, sure it has a lot of problems but i feel the constant videos of comparison between this and GTA is actually getting annoying.
On the surface this game is filled with bugs and glitches, the performance is all over the place and without a high end PC you will either sacrifice a gorgeous looking visuals or you will have inconsistent fps.
The game also suffers from lackluster premise, the lifepaths mean so little that they feel like an afterthought. The endings dont make a lot of sense and feel not satisfying (except for one and no its not the Panam ending).
The dialogue also sometimes comes off as tryhard and edgy unlike Witcher 3 where it flows naturally and feels real.
The open world is stale and devoid of any life beyond the quests themselves, there is so very little encounters, the A.I of NPC and traffic is basically A without the I.
A lot of the choices dont matter or have any impact on the world you inhabit so the world feels stale and not evolving, again unlike their previous Witcher games.
Also i understand the devs promised a lot more than they delivered.
However beneath all that i still had a lot of fun with this game, i can see this game has great art direction, the visuals look very pretty especially at night. The soundtrack and the music is original to the game (not licensed like GTA) and its actually a blast, i loved the soundtrack and the voice acting. Female V voice is much better than Male V btw.
The gameplay and the combat is one of the best for a first person rpg, the gunplay in particular is satisfying and well made.
The story and side quests have their high moments too. I liked the main characters too except for Silverhand lol.
Customization sucks, the clothing system is a joke.
With all its problems i still enjoyed it and i believe this game is still above average when played on a good PC.
Hope for a good DLC and good fixes to make it better.
6/10
I think this game is a bit over-hated at this point, sure it has a lot of problems but i feel the constant videos of comparison between this and GTA is actually getting annoying.
On the surface this game is filled with bugs and glitches, the performance is all over the place and without a high end PC you will either sacrifice a gorgeous looking visuals or you will have inconsistent fps.
The game also suffers from lackluster premise, the lifepaths mean so little that they feel like an afterthought. The endings dont make a lot of sense and feel not satisfying (except for one and no its not the Panam ending).
The dialogue also sometimes comes off as tryhard and edgy unlike Witcher 3 where it flows naturally and feels real.
The open world is stale and devoid of any life beyond the quests themselves, there is so very little encounters, the A.I of NPC and traffic is basically A without the I.
A lot of the choices dont matter or have any impact on the world you inhabit so the world feels stale and not evolving, again unlike their previous Witcher games.
Also i understand the devs promised a lot more than they delivered.
However beneath all that i still had a lot of fun with this game, i can see this game has great art direction, the visuals look very pretty especially at night. The soundtrack and the music is original to the game (not licensed like GTA) and its actually a blast, i loved the soundtrack and the voice acting. Female V voice is much better than Male V btw.
The gameplay and the combat is one of the best for a first person rpg, the gunplay in particular is satisfying and well made.
The story and side quests have their high moments too. I liked the main characters too except for Silverhand lol.
Customization sucks, the clothing system is a joke.
With all its problems i still enjoyed it and i believe this game is still above average when played on a good PC.
Hope for a good DLC and good fixes to make it better.
6/10
What an amazing game, I didnt have such high expectation for this and i totally loved it.
Love the soundtrack, the details of the world is nice to look at, the origin characters are interesting to know and the dialogue is engaging. This also has the best turn based combat gameplay for any rpg imo. Best game of 2017 by far and one of the greatest rpg games of all time.
Love the soundtrack, the details of the world is nice to look at, the origin characters are interesting to know and the dialogue is engaging. This also has the best turn based combat gameplay for any rpg imo. Best game of 2017 by far and one of the greatest rpg games of all time.
2008
Honestly i dont see all the hate for this game here, sure its not the best Fallout game, its not even the second best Fallout game, but this game was far from terrible, even far from average.
The story as usual with Bethesda games is poor, but the world and the gameplay is a treat, the VATS mechanics was innovative and super fun to play with, the big weapons arsenal, the post apocalyptic atmospheric setting was horrifying. The exploration was fun and side quests while not on the same level as games like New Vegas or Witcher they were fun to play.
I also liked the expansions quite a bit, The Pitt offers good shades of grey storytelling, the Mothership offers funny humors action alien adventure, the Broken steel was bad in story but it gave the game more content and the point lockout was like a horror island mix with fallout gameplay.
Music is lackluster as well as interesting characters, except for Ghouls. Ghouls are cute.
Fallout 3 is a really good game, its fun to play and its memorable and innovative, I think it deserves more love here on this website.
4/5
The story as usual with Bethesda games is poor, but the world and the gameplay is a treat, the VATS mechanics was innovative and super fun to play with, the big weapons arsenal, the post apocalyptic atmospheric setting was horrifying. The exploration was fun and side quests while not on the same level as games like New Vegas or Witcher they were fun to play.
I also liked the expansions quite a bit, The Pitt offers good shades of grey storytelling, the Mothership offers funny humors action alien adventure, the Broken steel was bad in story but it gave the game more content and the point lockout was like a horror island mix with fallout gameplay.
Music is lackluster as well as interesting characters, except for Ghouls. Ghouls are cute.
Fallout 3 is a really good game, its fun to play and its memorable and innovative, I think it deserves more love here on this website.
4/5
2013
This game is a disappointing mess at best and a complete failure at worst. I won't go into full detail as to why. But after i loved the first Bioshock and even the 2nd was decent with what followed to be some of the greatest expansions, Levine messed up big time with the 3rd title.
The writing is a pretentious mess and the story is all over the place, if it was more fast paced i would have declared it a trainwreck. Characterization the feels so lackluster and uninspiring gameplay which is the opposite of what the first Bioshock did.
Its a mess of a game, and one of the most overrated games ever made.
The writing is a pretentious mess and the story is all over the place, if it was more fast paced i would have declared it a trainwreck. Characterization the feels so lackluster and uninspiring gameplay which is the opposite of what the first Bioshock did.
Its a mess of a game, and one of the most overrated games ever made.
2002
After my disappointing experience with Silent Hill 2 i was hesitating about trying the Remake of the first Resident Evil game, having watched a fragment of gameplay videos and noticing the similarity of control mechanics I had my doubts on playing this game. Until recently i saw the remaster edition available on the PS4 and at a good discount as well, being a fan of the new Resident Evil games i decided to jump in and try this game.
Turns out the control style of directed camera scenes was not my problem at all, as surprisingly i fell in love with this game within the first minutes.
This game is great, its a masterpiece actually, I would even say its better than any Resident Evil game i have ever played.
The Mansion is a very terrifying setting, built in a dark forest, isolated, it creates a type of horror immersion unlike any other, its similar to that dark gothic Prussian castle in Amnesia one of my favorite games. Exploring the mansion and figuring out its puzzles have got to be one of the best gaming experience ever, the progression towards the outdoor like Courtyard and Residence was also captivating as well.
Music is top tier, the save room keeps ringing through my ears, the puzzle music, many other atmospheric pieces are so damn memorable and do their job with immersing me with the game.
Camera direction is fantastic, weapon and item management and combat is also good, the combat is surely outdated but its still serviceable.
Puzzles are interesting.
Story is also interesting as i always wanted to solve the mystery behind what is happening. Characters are simple and not explored like other genres but i surprisingly liked them especially Jill, i loved my playthrough with her.
This game caught me by surprise as i never was even expecting to enjoy it as much.
5/5
Turns out the control style of directed camera scenes was not my problem at all, as surprisingly i fell in love with this game within the first minutes.
This game is great, its a masterpiece actually, I would even say its better than any Resident Evil game i have ever played.
The Mansion is a very terrifying setting, built in a dark forest, isolated, it creates a type of horror immersion unlike any other, its similar to that dark gothic Prussian castle in Amnesia one of my favorite games. Exploring the mansion and figuring out its puzzles have got to be one of the best gaming experience ever, the progression towards the outdoor like Courtyard and Residence was also captivating as well.
Music is top tier, the save room keeps ringing through my ears, the puzzle music, many other atmospheric pieces are so damn memorable and do their job with immersing me with the game.
Camera direction is fantastic, weapon and item management and combat is also good, the combat is surely outdated but its still serviceable.
Puzzles are interesting.
Story is also interesting as i always wanted to solve the mystery behind what is happening. Characters are simple and not explored like other genres but i surprisingly liked them especially Jill, i loved my playthrough with her.
This game caught me by surprise as i never was even expecting to enjoy it as much.
5/5
2019
Good action combat, good graphics and sound design, but everything else falls flat, weak story, poor worldbuilding, boring characterization. gets half the score for the combat and the visuals.
5/10
5/10
My favorite game of all time, everything is top notch.
Gameplay, Story, Music..
Masterpiece.
Gameplay, Story, Music..
Masterpiece.
1998
Best JRPG ever made.
2011
Very Innovative game, excellent gameplay and great story as well.
5/5
5/5
The Best DLC ever made, i dont understand how can anyone score this low, it improved on everything the Witcher 3 had, with a fairly low price and so much content, this is my favorite expansion ever.
2001
Most overrated horror game of all time, i went into this game few years ago expecting the masterpiece of gaming the fans talk about, it ends up being the most overrated game ever.
1) the game is not scary at all, its just creepy, the monster design is creepy so maybe thats why people were scared? however the game fails at every point to be scary due to its clunky controls, awful combat mechanics and generally bad sound design.
2) Control are clunky as hell and James control like a truck, its hard to move around with him and the camera is just horrible.
3) The story has its good moments but the symbolism is overrated, its themes are slightly above average, it has no good message at the end, i would rather say this game story is edgy.
4) Combat is awful, the worst combat i have ever seen to date, boss fights are absolute joke, fans really are in denial if they think this kind of combat is passable.
5) Some ost are good, the rest? so boring.
Overall this game is the most overrated horror game i have ever played, Amnesia and Alien:Isolation puts it to shame.
2/10
1/5
1) the game is not scary at all, its just creepy, the monster design is creepy so maybe thats why people were scared? however the game fails at every point to be scary due to its clunky controls, awful combat mechanics and generally bad sound design.
2) Control are clunky as hell and James control like a truck, its hard to move around with him and the camera is just horrible.
3) The story has its good moments but the symbolism is overrated, its themes are slightly above average, it has no good message at the end, i would rather say this game story is edgy.
4) Combat is awful, the worst combat i have ever seen to date, boss fights are absolute joke, fans really are in denial if they think this kind of combat is passable.
5) Some ost are good, the rest? so boring.
Overall this game is the most overrated horror game i have ever played, Amnesia and Alien:Isolation puts it to shame.
2/10
1/5