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2020
What a perfectly competent but completely unremarkable game.
It almost doesn't need to exist, and I'm sad by how indifferent it all left me.
It almost doesn't need to exist, and I'm sad by how indifferent it all left me.
2020
This review contains spoilers
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What an enjoyable shooter absolutely marred by the insistence of doing DEEP LORE.
I really wish I had just ignored all the codex pickups, because they've essentially got me hating the Doom Slayer. Who gives a fuck about his past? The character works best as an ultraviolent tornado of a man that strikes fear into the hearts of creatures from hell as he runs on pure hatred. He's doesn't need to be special, some chosen fuck. A regular fella who is just infinitely more angry than demons is plenty. But every single codex pickup had me sighing as I anticipated another essay.
Far too much about him outside of combat just felt neutered too. How is this the same person from DOOM 2016? Who is this using touchscreens normally, and calmly listening to people talk? Bending the fuckin' knee to some ghost? Away ye go. If the combat wasn't still shit-hot adrenaline revving fun I'd have bowed out very early.
What an enjoyable shooter absolutely marred by the insistence of doing DEEP LORE.
I really wish I had just ignored all the codex pickups, because they've essentially got me hating the Doom Slayer. Who gives a fuck about his past? The character works best as an ultraviolent tornado of a man that strikes fear into the hearts of creatures from hell as he runs on pure hatred. He's doesn't need to be special, some chosen fuck. A regular fella who is just infinitely more angry than demons is plenty. But every single codex pickup had me sighing as I anticipated another essay.
Far too much about him outside of combat just felt neutered too. How is this the same person from DOOM 2016? Who is this using touchscreens normally, and calmly listening to people talk? Bending the fuckin' knee to some ghost? Away ye go. If the combat wasn't still shit-hot adrenaline revving fun I'd have bowed out very early.
2019
A brilliant wee short laugh.
Masterful voice work.
Masterful voice work.
2017
Souls games have spoiled me, but Nioh's equipment system of always swapping out for a minimally better version of what you already have gets tedious so quickly. Feeling nothing for your sword because it's only been in your hand for ten minutes and you just picked up another that does 0.25% more yokai damage. Random loot can work really well, but for me it just doesn't here.
It's a fun enough game, but the decent combat can't save what still feels like loads of bloat and padding without the variation to back it up.
It's a fun enough game, but the decent combat can't save what still feels like loads of bloat and padding without the variation to back it up.