alanbessa
These supernatural games like Death Stranding, this one, have no story with the most weak plot ever, they have no backstory to sustain it and only offer mundane gameplay.
2012
This review contains spoilers
It's amazing how much you can care about a fictionary world, about made up characters, but they seem like you know them personally.
The story is top notch and so smart, it's incredible what they could do with Leviathan and the Reapers: purpose, not making them Bond-villains with terrible wishes or desires for the world, but logical grand scheme life choices.
While your choices don't matter in the end, they matter a lot in your journey, it's the most ridiculous thing hearing about lack of choices in a game where every dialogue changes the next one in a meaningful way, the ending with the three choices, should have a end organic life, but they knew that could never happen, regardless the game leads you to Synthesis being in the middle of the screen, you just need to run there, and the Catalyst says this is the ideal one and all the other choices would lead to the same even if they fail, eventually Synthesis would be the only way to have Organic and Synthetic life in the galaxy.
It's sad watching so many comments, thinking that ending organic life it's the "perfect" choice, because in the end it will lead to the same place where Synthetics will revolt against Organics, even without the Reapers, another Synthetic race will rise.
The perfect choice is Shepard living along all of his crew, this is not The Sims, and the story is about war, sacrifice and preservation of life and the galaxy, Synthesis is the only choice and the only one Shepard himself would choose, every life needs to have a choice, even Synths like EDI need to understand, Shepard died but he saved the galaxy, the greatest mass effect is Shepard himself.
The story is top notch and so smart, it's incredible what they could do with Leviathan and the Reapers: purpose, not making them Bond-villains with terrible wishes or desires for the world, but logical grand scheme life choices.
While your choices don't matter in the end, they matter a lot in your journey, it's the most ridiculous thing hearing about lack of choices in a game where every dialogue changes the next one in a meaningful way, the ending with the three choices, should have a end organic life, but they knew that could never happen, regardless the game leads you to Synthesis being in the middle of the screen, you just need to run there, and the Catalyst says this is the ideal one and all the other choices would lead to the same even if they fail, eventually Synthesis would be the only way to have Organic and Synthetic life in the galaxy.
It's sad watching so many comments, thinking that ending organic life it's the "perfect" choice, because in the end it will lead to the same place where Synthetics will revolt against Organics, even without the Reapers, another Synthetic race will rise.
The perfect choice is Shepard living along all of his crew, this is not The Sims, and the story is about war, sacrifice and preservation of life and the galaxy, Synthesis is the only choice and the only one Shepard himself would choose, every life needs to have a choice, even Synths like EDI need to understand, Shepard died but he saved the galaxy, the greatest mass effect is Shepard himself.
Playing ME2 Legendary Edition, it's so refreshing, despite noticing there's not many changes, the game still holds up as a masterpiece, a phenomenal game like no other, this is art and will always be in my heart.
ME1: Just finished 1, i give it a 4 out of 5. While it improved a lot from the vanilla game, the limitations are still there, the Mako "worlds" where you can explore are so repetitive that starts to get boring, the combat improved a lot in this version, and it's bugged but way way less. What ME has to offer that maybe no other has, is that it makes you into a universe explorer, it's so beautiful watching the galaxies and the planets, the environments, it's a terrific RPG Sci fi game single player, that has no competitor until this day. The story is compelling and shows the fundamentals from the entire series, while it had a terrific story, a lot of the other points lacked in this game and improved a lot on the other games.
2021
If the gameplay was a bit better, seems like it has a great story.
2017
Platform is not really my genre, but you can't deny how good this game is, the art is livid and the gameplay flows really well.
My god, you need stomach to play this kinda of game, jesus christ.
2019
It's creative, but so clunky that it's a mess, they tried to replicate the film but the fluidity in action it's not here.
A solid game that has a lot to offer, in this genre only a few games thrive and this is one of them, while the UI is awful, the game compensates in everything else, there are hundreds of builds and unique paths to take.
2019
Incredible game that you can always learn something new, it's amazing how much there is to it, unfortunately the monotone gameplay get stale really quick.
2021
It has the fundamentals, sadly it's extremely bugged in this state, do not play this, it's just frustrating.
I was really disappointed, i can't imagine something more generic and unrealistic even for Max Payne levels, a disaster of sorts.
Man this is the definition of generic and overplayed. Time to change or dump the series.
A beautiful game with depth and lore, thinking about this game as a detective one is so wrong, there's so much more about it. The Karaoke scene will always be in my heart.
Incredibly original witha good-ish story, what makes this game a great one is the environment, the characters, it's beautiful, the side quests are enjoyable and the combat can feel rewarding.
But what sets a part this game from great to a masterpiece, is the enormous hydra bugs, it's impossible to play this game without any bugs, and they are so so annoying, the amount of freedom is bound by the bugs that you may encounter, the bushs that feel like a rock, the clunky combat bites your ass, and without some quality of life mods, feels a chore to play. A lesson for the next game, but this one has a extremely solid foundation.
But what sets a part this game from great to a masterpiece, is the enormous hydra bugs, it's impossible to play this game without any bugs, and they are so so annoying, the amount of freedom is bound by the bugs that you may encounter, the bushs that feel like a rock, the clunky combat bites your ass, and without some quality of life mods, feels a chore to play. A lesson for the next game, but this one has a extremely solid foundation.