This review contains spoilers
How catastrophically stupid of S-E to chase the GAAS train with Avengers when they have studios this capable. GOTG is a wonderful, cartoony slice of comic action, absolutely the kind of games that should be coming out of the MCU partnership.
For anyone on the fence, consider GOTG as Uncharted except the cover shooting bits are swapped with much more freeform flashy combat (that is a bit of a mix of ME: Andromeda, Avengers, and Tales of Arise).
Some things I disliked:
If I never hear the word flark again, it'll be too soon.
Sometimes the emotional up and downbeats are predictable to the point of fatigue. It is also hard to place how long the Guardians have been together; are they a grizzled squad or greenhorns in friendship. It still feels like they hate each other at the beginning, it's a bit strange.
Speaking of hating me, most of the game my crew will whine and moan if I do the videogame thing and go off the beaten path to look for the big shiny collectibles. That shit got annoying real fast. Rocket is also truly insufferable for a large portion of the game, surprisingly, and I wanted to shoot him out the airlock.
This might be a bit unfair, but it would be interesting to see someone with a motivation or tragic backstory that doesn't revolve around a dead loved one. That is EVERYone in this game, except maybe the communist mewtwo dog Cosmo.
I had a few bugs on the PC version. The most consistent one would cut out dialogue or mute characters during exploration, like the proximity-based audio was thoroughly glitched. So I missed out on bits and pieces of a lot of banter. Other than that, technical performance was pretty solid.
Things I liked:
This game is wonderfully economical. It will throw beautiful vistas, skyboxes, and new worlds to explore but is not afraid to hide some "backtracking" in clever ways. Exploration is also rewarded with fun outfits that you can actually see in most of the games cutscenes. I loved collecting fucking ponchos in Jedi Fallen Order so im just a sucker for collectible cosmetics like this.
The shooting is fun man. I never felt like the game was "unfair" or "bullet spongey" on hard, and the ramp up in battle complexity is paced perfectly with the doling out of new abilities. Very satisfying, but not very complex, which you probably don't want for a breezy adventure game like this.
People reflexively dunked on the Guardians designs when the game was first unveiled at E3 but tbh theyre good. Gamora is better, Drax is better, Rocket and Groot are basically the same. Peter Quill looks dorky...but he is, he's a fucking dork.
Is the story of this game a takedown of fanatical religious fundamentalism? I dunno, but I could interpret it that way if I wanted to. It's unflinchingly humanist; loss is inevitable, but it is what brings us together. Anything trying to tell us otherwise is a scam and pulls us apart; NovaCorps from those who it should protect, Cosmo from his litter, Drax from his new family, etc. Very solid emotional core for a AAA superhero game about leonardo dicaprio pointing at all the 80s songs.
For anyone on the fence, consider GOTG as Uncharted except the cover shooting bits are swapped with much more freeform flashy combat (that is a bit of a mix of ME: Andromeda, Avengers, and Tales of Arise).
Some things I disliked:
If I never hear the word flark again, it'll be too soon.
Sometimes the emotional up and downbeats are predictable to the point of fatigue. It is also hard to place how long the Guardians have been together; are they a grizzled squad or greenhorns in friendship. It still feels like they hate each other at the beginning, it's a bit strange.
Speaking of hating me, most of the game my crew will whine and moan if I do the videogame thing and go off the beaten path to look for the big shiny collectibles. That shit got annoying real fast. Rocket is also truly insufferable for a large portion of the game, surprisingly, and I wanted to shoot him out the airlock.
This might be a bit unfair, but it would be interesting to see someone with a motivation or tragic backstory that doesn't revolve around a dead loved one. That is EVERYone in this game, except maybe the communist mewtwo dog Cosmo.
I had a few bugs on the PC version. The most consistent one would cut out dialogue or mute characters during exploration, like the proximity-based audio was thoroughly glitched. So I missed out on bits and pieces of a lot of banter. Other than that, technical performance was pretty solid.
Things I liked:
This game is wonderfully economical. It will throw beautiful vistas, skyboxes, and new worlds to explore but is not afraid to hide some "backtracking" in clever ways. Exploration is also rewarded with fun outfits that you can actually see in most of the games cutscenes. I loved collecting fucking ponchos in Jedi Fallen Order so im just a sucker for collectible cosmetics like this.
The shooting is fun man. I never felt like the game was "unfair" or "bullet spongey" on hard, and the ramp up in battle complexity is paced perfectly with the doling out of new abilities. Very satisfying, but not very complex, which you probably don't want for a breezy adventure game like this.
People reflexively dunked on the Guardians designs when the game was first unveiled at E3 but tbh theyre good. Gamora is better, Drax is better, Rocket and Groot are basically the same. Peter Quill looks dorky...but he is, he's a fucking dork.
Is the story of this game a takedown of fanatical religious fundamentalism? I dunno, but I could interpret it that way if I wanted to. It's unflinchingly humanist; loss is inevitable, but it is what brings us together. Anything trying to tell us otherwise is a scam and pulls us apart; NovaCorps from those who it should protect, Cosmo from his litter, Drax from his new family, etc. Very solid emotional core for a AAA superhero game about leonardo dicaprio pointing at all the 80s songs.