NovaNiles
1993
Im close to giving this 5 stars but I will conset thats its a kinda clunky action game, barely an rpg. The story is what makes this incredible and the writting consistantly goes further than most games even after the SNES. Shame on people who claim we didnt have good game storys in the early 90s. This one has some real gut punches.
2019
2018
Im a defender of this game. Yes, the constantly blocking enemies can eat a dick and chasing Rikiya around every fucking Convient Store in Japan should be a CIA Torture method. Doesnt keep from loving the rest of the game. I have never seen a group of kids in game written so well and just the opening in Okinawa should be its own game honestly. Seriously underrated stuff
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2012
Im gona be blunt: The story is absolute piss. What if we took out all the humor and subtlety, instead replaced it with just crassness and profanity. Ignore the ending of 2 where "She was dead, but it was ok". Nah Max didnt get over any griev, instead just became more of a alcoholic pig. Yes, this game looks incredible and plays super polished but its Rockstar: They have more money then some small countrys, it be really insulting if it didnt even have that.
Unpopular opinion: I find the gameplay the worst of the trilogy. The changed BT system makes you pretty unstoppable and it becomes fairly dull cause there is no challenge at all aside from the occasional physics object that instant kills you. Lucky for Remedy that the story is one of the best of all time and it delievers such a fantastic conclusion that Max Payne 2 could honestly be the definitiv end. If only they could it left that way.
2001
Its almost a perfect first attempt at a Video Game. And contrary to popular believe: This isnt a quick save nightmare and if you actually play well using the bullet time to slow down and speedup the action, then you can blast through even the highest difficulty. Besides that the game has fantastic voice acting, a fun story and a killer atmosphere that still holds up.
Minus some of the growing pains that comes with making a brand new setting and characters this is still one of the best platformers on the PS2. Naughty Dog pushed the PS1 with Crash and they pushed the PS2 with Jak, on launch too. How shameful is it that every official rerelease from Sony can be best descriped as pure piss but a team of fans managd to make a flawless PC Port for free ?