A new low point for Ubisoft. It's a bit fun starting off, although the jank is apparent from the very beginning. It doesn't take long for everything to wear thin though, as you'll be doing the same exact things over and over and over, whether it be for the main missions or side content. The story is generic nonsense, with plenty of unlikable characters thrown at you nonstop. Giancarlo Esposito surprisingly didn't phone it in - his performance is great, the highlight of the game even, but you even get sick of him by the end when the story completely turns to shit.

Nice of them to be constantly throwing the suicide hotline number in your face because wasting time on this will make you want to kill yourself.

Legitimately probably the worst thing I've ever played. Powered through the first 2 chapters then got to the part of chapter 3 where it turns into the Slenderman game and I said fuck it.

The "deep" depressed girl dialogue is unintentionally hilarious with how absolutely stupid it is. The terrible voice acting doesn't help either. Not scary whatsoever, the little bit of gameplay other than walking is abysmal, the story was entirely predictable (in addition to just dumb). Can't believe this game hasn't been given the Forspoken treatment with the dialogue being meme'd to death. Any day now.

Certainly a good game, but also certainly a disappointment given the hype and acclaim going into it. It has so much going for it and also so much that falls flat. While the 2018 game had a clear goal, and you were always working towards that goal, so much of the time spent in this game just feels aimless. Characters make stupid decisions and many character's motivations seem to change out of nowhere for no real reason. Plot points that are made to feel very important are then abandoned out of nowhere.

On the other end of things, some of the story details and way they tie things together are absolutely genius and/or beautiful. While the gameplay has been perfected from the last game, the highlight remains its characters and the dialogue between them. So many great little and big moments between the cast. The side content is also some of the best content in the game.

Please never make me play as Atreus again.

The definition of quantity over quality. It's a wonder they even bothered adding story levels to this, it's clear that nearly 0 effort was put into them whatsoever. Maybe if they scrapped them then the open world side missions could've been more than just fetch quests that have you going back and forth between planets with a terrible tracking system. The sheer amount of bugs as well as lack of QoL features is inexcusable, especially so long after launch.

Where the game does shine and is actually fun is when you're exploring each open world planet, making your way through the collectables with a BotW/Scribblenauts type of 'make your own solution' approach. Even this wears thin eventually though as the same puzzles are repeated over and over and the rewards for most missions are joke characters just made up for the game.

The humor does land a lot of the time, but man these games had so much more charm when they didn't talk.

Incredibly hard game to rate. From a technical aspect, the game is a class of its own. When it comes to graphics, gameplay, animations, etc it is unmatched. I would say the story is good overall with lots of glaring flaws, pacing being the worst of them. Certain portions of the game are way too long. The first game showcased a ton of locations across America which led to large environmental variety, Part II suffers from mostly being set in a single city with the same environment over and over. It's a great game, but doesn't come close to the bar the first set.