Ghostrunner 2 is an excellent follow-up to the original and improves on it in many ways. You are given more mechanics in combat to utilize and fight enemies, you get a lot of interesting new enemies, and your abilities act as movement and combat tools that you can use. The soundtrack is fantastic, and the artstyle is great while also giving more of a variance in the environments that you encounter. I think the big issues come with the bike, which feels absolutely terrible, and the story. The story is pretty lame with a mediocre ending, and the characters you encounter aren't nearly interesting enough to actually care about. The sub-par facial animations looked really awkward, especially because there are so many robots it gets a little jarring. I didn't try the roguelite mode but if I do, I'll talk about it in my review here.

(Played before 2023)
I’ll say, I really like Dead Rising 2, and this is more of that with a twist. But it shouldn’t be its own game, and I think the story changes are kinda stupid and make it less interesting. It also is where you see them really lean into the silliness way too much. Dead Rising 2 at least was able to pull back a lot, but this one just hits the throttle in comparison which led to 3 and, eventually, 4. Just play the regular version, especially because you won’t understand the DLCs if you do OTR.

(Played before 2023)
An okay shooter that made the mistake of trying to capture lightning in a bottle. A FEAR game where you don’t even play as a FEAR operative, this game just had to keep on yanking on the original game in order to rely on the story because spooky girl. The game “””looks””” better, but interactions with enemies and the environment suffered because of it. The characters you run into are really cool, but the shooting is just mediocre. And the shooting is terrible as well. I will say though, this game has one of the most hardcore endings for a horror game I’ve seen that still bothers me, so maybe play just to experience that. But it isn’t as bad as everyone says it is.

(Played before 2023)
I don’t think people give this game enough credit. First, this game is BEAUTIFUL. The artstyle is great and the movement is so good. The movement system is relatively dynamic but feels nice, and I really really enjoyed this game with my playthrough. I felt that the biggest problem is that you don’t really feel liek a Thief. Almost every mission has you investigating, and most of the stealing you’re actually doing is somewhat of a side thing to do while doing the main mission, not the main mission yourself. The only real theft you do is the beginning of the game. Also, the story is awful. Terrible, bad, horrendous, doesn’t make sense, and clearly was rewritten a lot with how much the game cutscenes at the actual pre-rendered ones don’t really work together. I also think a big issue is the downgrade to a lot of systems the previous games had, but I’m reviewing this as a standalone game.

(Played before 2023)
This is a really pretty game with a really fun mechanic, but that is all there is. Essentially no real gameplay, no interesting exploration, you just walk through a cool environment and do some puzzles that are basically just (go into spirit mode). You run into the monster and can die in only like, five parts of the game which really brought it down especially since those encounters aren’t actually dynamic encounters. You just move when the game makes it clear that you are supposed to.