2018

An incredibly fun game with a story that more than outstays my investment.

Incredible and unique experience

Feels like it's close to being great, but all the Dark Souls trappings make it a lesser thing. Incredibly obscure side quest requirements (and potential lockouts) don't really mesh with the Castlevania style exploration when there are very few warp points and no movement abilities. Plus the last couple of bosses are a huge difficulty spike and then drop off a cliff.
But it looks, sounds and feels great!

A good laugh in co-op, but I wish the AI was better. The highest difficult is so close to being great, but adds some really stupid stuff.

My first Monster Hunter experience and I had a blast. The weapons all give such a different style and finding one that fits you feels great.
There's enough shit to do and upgrade that this is a dangerous kinda game for me.
It's a blast with pals too!

Ach, man. What a disappointment in the end.
The combat is almost good, but every fight is the same loop and I'm either taking 0 damage or dying in one hit.
The world and all the wee side stories are so cool and the story is so interesting but just comes to a "this is it for now, buy the DLC" ending.
The game is really bloated by bad sidequests, which I recommend skipping, and a weird need to be a metroidvania... and that DREADFUL map.

I really wanted to love this.

I didn't enjoy it as much as Disgaea 1, but the characters are nice and there's more systems than you can even imagine.

I don't get why people love this game so much.
I'd been excited to play it for so long but I hated pretty much every minute I played.

Singleplayer:
Excellent Halo, but a really weirdly executed story.
I'm not sure if the sort-of reverse story telling really worked, since apparently a bunch of shit happened off screen before the game.
The open world stuff doesn't really work, so here's hoping they sack it off, or improve it.
Multiplayer:
Cracking Halo.
Weird battlepass, with silly challenges.
I dunno how much longevity it has, but I'm having a great time right now.

An absolutely incredible combat system that is undercut by all the story stuff at every turn.
The tone wildly veers and the jokes are often the most embarrassing shit.
Just make him an angry man who must rip & tear.

Combat:
The ballet between flamethrower, grenade, shoot, glory kill, chainsaw is just incredible and anyone who complains about the low ammo count is bad at the game.

The last boss is dreadful.