Magvel
2006
2023
1995
2006
Really conflicted about this one. On one hand the graphics are impressive for the time and still hold up despite the brown/gray FPS aesthetic being ran so far into the ground it went through the other side of the planet. The sound design is amazing and if you want to use gun sounds you should take inspiration from this game.
But on the other hand the sensitivity is too high for my liking (I play controller FPS with low sensitivities) and you can't change it, I experienced way too many bugs and they weren't shit like one corpse twitching, I go inside the museum and I get teleported back and shoutout to one where my entire screen went black (pun intended) in a shootout, couldn't see anything and died.
This is the kind of game that should get a remake instead of what we have (worse versions of classics resold to profit off an established name). There are traces of an excellent game here, I just wish it was less buggy and on PC.
But on the other hand the sensitivity is too high for my liking (I play controller FPS with low sensitivities) and you can't change it, I experienced way too many bugs and they weren't shit like one corpse twitching, I go inside the museum and I get teleported back and shoutout to one where my entire screen went black (pun intended) in a shootout, couldn't see anything and died.
This is the kind of game that should get a remake instead of what we have (worse versions of classics resold to profit off an established name). There are traces of an excellent game here, I just wish it was less buggy and on PC.
2011
Plays better and isn't as oppressively linear as the first. Worse in every other regard even if some of it wasn't good to begin with (Noel is mid and Serah barely matters but their competition is Lightning which means the bar is stuck in the earth's core) . The game playing better and Caius being the kind of character I wish was in a better game bump the rating to a mid.
2009
2019
2009
It's Persona 3 so it has a great base but as much as I like her as a protagonist over her male counterpart due to me prefering more cheerful characters in a dark setting (as far as self-inserts go) FeMc and party control isn't worth losing so much of the game's presentation and the awful new S-Links.
Having to make the story and one of the best moments in the game way less impactful to complete all S-Links for FeMc is also a baffling decision
Having to make the story and one of the best moments in the game way less impactful to complete all S-Links for FeMc is also a baffling decision
2022
Less bloated than 3H, still has some especially in the end. Shez isn't amazing but is much better than Byleth
It's a musou, punching hordes of goons and the movesets are fun but enemy tricksters seem to never stagger.
Story is apparently better with Edelgard and Claude, I didn't like it much with Dimitri even if I welcome that IS finally learned to not have everyone rely on the self-insert. Some people say it's fanfic-tier but it's a musou spin-off what do you expect and 3H's story wasn't all that great to begin with. Thankfully the cast is still there and as strong and interesting as in 3H.
All in all it's a fine game that does things better than 3H and is fun if you enjoy cleaving through hordes for 20 minutes before inexplicably put the game down
It's a musou, punching hordes of goons and the movesets are fun but enemy tricksters seem to never stagger.
Story is apparently better with Edelgard and Claude, I didn't like it much with Dimitri even if I welcome that IS finally learned to not have everyone rely on the self-insert. Some people say it's fanfic-tier but it's a musou spin-off what do you expect and 3H's story wasn't all that great to begin with. Thankfully the cast is still there and as strong and interesting as in 3H.
All in all it's a fine game that does things better than 3H and is fun if you enjoy cleaving through hordes for 20 minutes before inexplicably put the game down