sairam71
2016
⌚ Time to finish - 1 hours 40 minutes (some exploration)
🤬Difficulty - easy
🔊 Soundtrack - Great sound track.
🌄Graphics – really pretty. makes you appreciate the beauty of the ocean its life and nature. It really makes you feel a sense of wonder and love for the ocean.
🌦 Atmosphere – great atmosphere, the visuals and audio are something to experience.
📚 Main Story / Characters – The game tells its story through visuals and murals. Pay attention to it. I think the game is mainly a metaphor for us to take care of our oceans and restoring its balance and beauty. It was a nice message.
🤺 Combat – none
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – for those that want to unlock things like meditation spots, well its there.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Game wasn't long and nothing complicated was asked of me so movement didn't get in the way. But I could not fully get use to it. Not only because of input lap but because character can move in full 360. I haven't played too many such games so i had trouble wrapping my head around it. But it didn't hinder the main story. It did cause me to not explore as much as i wanted.
📣 Voice acting – Not much
💡Final Thoughts:
A beautiful game with a beautiful message. Play it on the best settings and biggest screen you can handle. There are certain scenes that are universally loved in this game that others who played it will talk about. I am sure you will feel the same. This game made me feel a sense of love for ocean life and nature and invoked good positive feelings in me. Its a game where you are basically swimming through works of art. If you didn't catch the story look it up afterwards.
🤬Difficulty - easy
🔊 Soundtrack - Great sound track.
🌄Graphics – really pretty. makes you appreciate the beauty of the ocean its life and nature. It really makes you feel a sense of wonder and love for the ocean.
🌦 Atmosphere – great atmosphere, the visuals and audio are something to experience.
📚 Main Story / Characters – The game tells its story through visuals and murals. Pay attention to it. I think the game is mainly a metaphor for us to take care of our oceans and restoring its balance and beauty. It was a nice message.
🤺 Combat – none
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – for those that want to unlock things like meditation spots, well its there.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Game wasn't long and nothing complicated was asked of me so movement didn't get in the way. But I could not fully get use to it. Not only because of input lap but because character can move in full 360. I haven't played too many such games so i had trouble wrapping my head around it. But it didn't hinder the main story. It did cause me to not explore as much as i wanted.
📣 Voice acting – Not much
💡Final Thoughts:
A beautiful game with a beautiful message. Play it on the best settings and biggest screen you can handle. There are certain scenes that are universally loved in this game that others who played it will talk about. I am sure you will feel the same. This game made me feel a sense of love for ocean life and nature and invoked good positive feelings in me. Its a game where you are basically swimming through works of art. If you didn't catch the story look it up afterwards.
2005
⌚ Time to finish - 13 hours and 30 minutes
🤬Difficulty - easy. Some parts were unintuitive to get past so I did have to look up in 2 places as there were no hints or anything provided. However, I find the professor provides enough help that It wasn't a big issue. Thank god for this professor. :)
🔊 Soundtrack - fitting nothing memorable
🌄Graphics – Game is very old so graphics don't hold up but apart from cut scenes where it was really apparent, the actual gameplay wasn't too hampered by it.
🌦 Atmosphere – such a unique atmosphere and mind bending levels. Its clear that they probably wanted to do more but the tech was not up to par for it. I can't wait for psychonauts 2 and see what they do.
📚 Main Story / Characters – The story is very creative and funny. They turned how our mind works, childhood fears, and facing our inner battles into a game. Rez jumps into people's heads and helps them with their problems just like a therapist would. Because he was in people's minds this allowed for some really cool level designs.
🤺 Combat – fine, but the real fun is mixing and matching your abilities. Bosses are pretty simple to beat but they all have great personalities.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Some interesting side activities but I wasn't compelled to find everything. Some of the brain collection puzzles require creative thinking so its worth it.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Overall good. But there are one or 2 places where the camera angle is all screwy so its hard to make certain jumps. This was especially true in the last levels. But its ok nothing frustrating. took a few tries.
📣 Voice acting – Great. All the voices were great.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Creative level design that will leave a lasting impression
💡Final Thoughts:
I played this on my road to psychonauts 2. I know i am coming to this game 10+ years after its release but it still works! This is a fun game though does feel a little dated. However come here for the creative level design that will stick with you for a long time, story, funny dialog, and every character has a personality. Like pixar turned mind into the movie, Inside Out, Psychonauts turned mind into a game.
🤬Difficulty - easy. Some parts were unintuitive to get past so I did have to look up in 2 places as there were no hints or anything provided. However, I find the professor provides enough help that It wasn't a big issue. Thank god for this professor. :)
🔊 Soundtrack - fitting nothing memorable
🌄Graphics – Game is very old so graphics don't hold up but apart from cut scenes where it was really apparent, the actual gameplay wasn't too hampered by it.
🌦 Atmosphere – such a unique atmosphere and mind bending levels. Its clear that they probably wanted to do more but the tech was not up to par for it. I can't wait for psychonauts 2 and see what they do.
📚 Main Story / Characters – The story is very creative and funny. They turned how our mind works, childhood fears, and facing our inner battles into a game. Rez jumps into people's heads and helps them with their problems just like a therapist would. Because he was in people's minds this allowed for some really cool level designs.
🤺 Combat – fine, but the real fun is mixing and matching your abilities. Bosses are pretty simple to beat but they all have great personalities.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Some interesting side activities but I wasn't compelled to find everything. Some of the brain collection puzzles require creative thinking so its worth it.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Overall good. But there are one or 2 places where the camera angle is all screwy so its hard to make certain jumps. This was especially true in the last levels. But its ok nothing frustrating. took a few tries.
📣 Voice acting – Great. All the voices were great.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Creative level design that will leave a lasting impression
💡Final Thoughts:
I played this on my road to psychonauts 2. I know i am coming to this game 10+ years after its release but it still works! This is a fun game though does feel a little dated. However come here for the creative level design that will stick with you for a long time, story, funny dialog, and every character has a personality. Like pixar turned mind into the movie, Inside Out, Psychonauts turned mind into a game.
2004
⌚ Time to finish - 10 hours (82% complete - few levels replayed for fun. External HD crashed so had to replay about 2 hours of game)
🤬Difficulty - easy - medium - The difficulty on the later 7-9 stages ramps up to hard. But once you go through it a few times and figure out your optimal path forward it gets easier. The ball is also very hard to control in the beginning but you soon get the hang of it. It took me a while to really learn how to control the ball so I probably took longer than most to finish this game.
🔊 Soundtrack - I really liked a few tracks few, they were quirky and fun. Some were fine. I can see why this is a highlight for most people.
🌄Graphics – Nothing to speak of. Its an old game but doesnt look too bad.
🌦 Atmosphere – Not much of an atmosphere game. It doesn't need it.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Story is only here for quirkiness. Nothing really to write home again. I do love how the king berates you everytime you fail lol.
🤺 Combat – None
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – I did all the trophies except collection ones. The ball is already hard to control, I didn't want to bother trying to control the ball to get to exact places where all the rarer items are.
🚗 Movement/Physics – It takes some time to get use to. Later on I got pretty good from very bad. Its crazy how on youtube the best players are controlling it so smooth. Stick with it and you will learn. Its meant to be clunky. Its a ball of random crap! Its pretty impressive though how well the ball moves considering the size and what you rolled into it.
📣 Voice acting – None
🥇 Best thing about the game - Its absolutely impressive to me how the same level looks so different based on your size. In the park when you are small you gobble up shovels, as you get bigger you gobble up people, and play structures, and shops, and eventually even clouds, and tornados. Its nuts! There is no game that helps you see sense of scale like this.
💡Final Thoughts:
Must play. However if you find yourself frustrated with the controls stick with it. Its well worth it, no other game like this. However, if you decide not to, play enough to get a feel of this sense of how scale is represented in this game and just play a few easy levels over and over again. Like I did for practice.
This game fundamentally exploits a common human tendency, collecting and feeling powerful. It zeroes in on it and makes you feel so.
--- Tips (Spoilers) ----
1. Start small and go up
2. Find areas of density and move quickly. Don't back track for ONE thing when you can grab 4-5 things in the same time. Density is the name of the game.
3. People, plants, buildings give tons of progress
4. Learn how to quickly flip from one side of the ball to the other (press l3+r3)
🤬Difficulty - easy - medium - The difficulty on the later 7-9 stages ramps up to hard. But once you go through it a few times and figure out your optimal path forward it gets easier. The ball is also very hard to control in the beginning but you soon get the hang of it. It took me a while to really learn how to control the ball so I probably took longer than most to finish this game.
🔊 Soundtrack - I really liked a few tracks few, they were quirky and fun. Some were fine. I can see why this is a highlight for most people.
🌄Graphics – Nothing to speak of. Its an old game but doesnt look too bad.
🌦 Atmosphere – Not much of an atmosphere game. It doesn't need it.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Story is only here for quirkiness. Nothing really to write home again. I do love how the king berates you everytime you fail lol.
🤺 Combat – None
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – I did all the trophies except collection ones. The ball is already hard to control, I didn't want to bother trying to control the ball to get to exact places where all the rarer items are.
🚗 Movement/Physics – It takes some time to get use to. Later on I got pretty good from very bad. Its crazy how on youtube the best players are controlling it so smooth. Stick with it and you will learn. Its meant to be clunky. Its a ball of random crap! Its pretty impressive though how well the ball moves considering the size and what you rolled into it.
📣 Voice acting – None
🥇 Best thing about the game - Its absolutely impressive to me how the same level looks so different based on your size. In the park when you are small you gobble up shovels, as you get bigger you gobble up people, and play structures, and shops, and eventually even clouds, and tornados. Its nuts! There is no game that helps you see sense of scale like this.
💡Final Thoughts:
Must play. However if you find yourself frustrated with the controls stick with it. Its well worth it, no other game like this. However, if you decide not to, play enough to get a feel of this sense of how scale is represented in this game and just play a few easy levels over and over again. Like I did for practice.
This game fundamentally exploits a common human tendency, collecting and feeling powerful. It zeroes in on it and makes you feel so.
--- Tips (Spoilers) ----
1. Start small and go up
2. Find areas of density and move quickly. Don't back track for ONE thing when you can grab 4-5 things in the same time. Density is the name of the game.
3. People, plants, buildings give tons of progress
4. Learn how to quickly flip from one side of the ball to the other (press l3+r3)
It took me a while to figure out what rating I wanted to give this. But ultimately I decided on a high rating. This game is definitely a roller coaster. Overall, I am rating this based on the story they told, vs the game I WISH they had delivered. It just goes to show how good the game 1 was that I was so invested in what they would do in game 2. That I think is an achievement. Simply put they made bold and polarizing choices at some parts, but I commend them for doing that to push conversation. Its clear in the game they threw every idea they had at it. This review aims to be spoiler free but this is a huge story driven game.
-- pretty spoiler free review --
⌚ Time to finish - 26h 30m (35% complete - focused mainly on story, but I did open every desk, room I can go into, so I explored a ton. ) I felt at times the game was very long, and story was moving slow at times. But I reminded myself, even if its slow, I reminded myself to focus on what is fun, the combat. This is no doubt an ambitious project and you can see that playing the game.
🤬Difficulty - medium - Harder than game 1. Lots of fun new mechanics. Almost everything about this game is better than the 1st but as we will see further in the review there are some very questionable things which are way worse than game 1.
🔊 Soundtrack - Awesome. The guitar the tense music. A+.
🌄Graphics – Huge step up from previous. Really a little more detailed texture and more grass/foliage really changed it. Some mountain landscapes are mind-blowing good.
🌦 Atmosphere – Amazing. Every fight I felt tense, ever corridor i walked through I was listening for people and clickers. A+.
📚 Main Story / Characters –
There is ALOT to say here! And Because I don't want to spoil anything I won't. Simply put there are large chunks of this game where you are forced to likely do things you don't want to do. Though its well done (which is why I give it high rating), because its a story driven game, its one thing to watch it, its completely another thing to do it and be forced to do it. It leaves a VERY bad taste in your mouth. This also steers away from the main purpose of the game. Luckily this is only part of the game and though this part really brought down the game, the rest of the game is a masterpiece, this I chalked it up to them wanting to make bold decisions.
Overall the new characters in this game are less likable to the chars in #1. I still love all the chars even side chars in #1. I dislike most if not all #2 new chars. Again for them to create chars that I have such emotional response to is a great. Example: I don't like tony soprano & walter white, but I watched every thing they do like a hawk. Big difference here is watching vs playing as them...
Story wise I wish they had told a different story. There was so much setup in game 1 that I wish they followed on. Where they did, it was brilliant, where they didn't it was polarizing.
🤺 Combat – Step up from 1. Really enjoyed all the battles. Never felt too easy, had to use a combo of items. Always had enough but not too much. Combat does go from stealth, to brawl, to uber boss fight. I enjoyed all of them though some people felt uber boss fights aren't the theme of this game. I liked the challenge.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Boring for me. Mainly collection, check every desk, there is a tiny bit of open world at one part, which I didn't care for. Why throw that in there?
🚗 Movement/Physics – Thank god they got rid of ladders from game 1. Everything was as expected and as it should be any good game, stays in the background and makes sure you aren't encumbered by it.
📣 Voice acting – Brilliant. What can I say. The best in any franchise. The facial expressions coupled with the voice acting is top notch. You can REALLY feel the emotions.
🥇 Best thing about the game - the first 1/3 and the last third of the game are absolute masterpieces of story telling, gameplay, emotions. Everything. Its near perfect.
💡Final Thoughts:
Despite the roller coaster this will likely take you on. Its a must play and an amazing game. The parts that resonated with me are sooooo good, that they overshadow the parts that didn't. Its an ambitious project where they threw everything and the kitchen sink. Likely this game could have used sometime focusing on the best parts, but its also clear they spent a lot of time developing lots of concepts and maybe didn't want to cut it. Which is fine. The more last of us the better. Maybe they could have thought about releasing some parts as DLC/expansion. Either way an amazing game which you will be thinking about for a long time. So much work went into this and you owe it to yourself to play this game and experience it for yourself.
-- pretty spoiler free review --
⌚ Time to finish - 26h 30m (35% complete - focused mainly on story, but I did open every desk, room I can go into, so I explored a ton. ) I felt at times the game was very long, and story was moving slow at times. But I reminded myself, even if its slow, I reminded myself to focus on what is fun, the combat. This is no doubt an ambitious project and you can see that playing the game.
🤬Difficulty - medium - Harder than game 1. Lots of fun new mechanics. Almost everything about this game is better than the 1st but as we will see further in the review there are some very questionable things which are way worse than game 1.
🔊 Soundtrack - Awesome. The guitar the tense music. A+.
🌄Graphics – Huge step up from previous. Really a little more detailed texture and more grass/foliage really changed it. Some mountain landscapes are mind-blowing good.
🌦 Atmosphere – Amazing. Every fight I felt tense, ever corridor i walked through I was listening for people and clickers. A+.
📚 Main Story / Characters –
There is ALOT to say here! And Because I don't want to spoil anything I won't. Simply put there are large chunks of this game where you are forced to likely do things you don't want to do. Though its well done (which is why I give it high rating), because its a story driven game, its one thing to watch it, its completely another thing to do it and be forced to do it. It leaves a VERY bad taste in your mouth. This also steers away from the main purpose of the game. Luckily this is only part of the game and though this part really brought down the game, the rest of the game is a masterpiece, this I chalked it up to them wanting to make bold decisions.
Overall the new characters in this game are less likable to the chars in #1. I still love all the chars even side chars in #1. I dislike most if not all #2 new chars. Again for them to create chars that I have such emotional response to is a great. Example: I don't like tony soprano & walter white, but I watched every thing they do like a hawk. Big difference here is watching vs playing as them...
Story wise I wish they had told a different story. There was so much setup in game 1 that I wish they followed on. Where they did, it was brilliant, where they didn't it was polarizing.
🤺 Combat – Step up from 1. Really enjoyed all the battles. Never felt too easy, had to use a combo of items. Always had enough but not too much. Combat does go from stealth, to brawl, to uber boss fight. I enjoyed all of them though some people felt uber boss fights aren't the theme of this game. I liked the challenge.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Boring for me. Mainly collection, check every desk, there is a tiny bit of open world at one part, which I didn't care for. Why throw that in there?
🚗 Movement/Physics – Thank god they got rid of ladders from game 1. Everything was as expected and as it should be any good game, stays in the background and makes sure you aren't encumbered by it.
📣 Voice acting – Brilliant. What can I say. The best in any franchise. The facial expressions coupled with the voice acting is top notch. You can REALLY feel the emotions.
🥇 Best thing about the game - the first 1/3 and the last third of the game are absolute masterpieces of story telling, gameplay, emotions. Everything. Its near perfect.
💡Final Thoughts:
Despite the roller coaster this will likely take you on. Its a must play and an amazing game. The parts that resonated with me are sooooo good, that they overshadow the parts that didn't. Its an ambitious project where they threw everything and the kitchen sink. Likely this game could have used sometime focusing on the best parts, but its also clear they spent a lot of time developing lots of concepts and maybe didn't want to cut it. Which is fine. The more last of us the better. Maybe they could have thought about releasing some parts as DLC/expansion. Either way an amazing game which you will be thinking about for a long time. So much work went into this and you owe it to yourself to play this game and experience it for yourself.
2021
Note: atypical short review since I abandoned the game. It’s not fair.
pixel art is great as is the music. From level to level it tells a story of how things start small and eventually you get more stuff, move into larger spaces. It felt zen to organize everything and look at the nicely laid out rooms. But about half way through, I felt i saw enough and didn't want to continue any further. I think it is very repetitive and can deteriorate your experience unless you are really into the zen of organizing drawers. Its great to play a few levels for anyone i think.
pixel art is great as is the music. From level to level it tells a story of how things start small and eventually you get more stuff, move into larger spaces. It felt zen to organize everything and look at the nicely laid out rooms. But about half way through, I felt i saw enough and didn't want to continue any further. I think it is very repetitive and can deteriorate your experience unless you are really into the zen of organizing drawers. Its great to play a few levels for anyone i think.
⌚ Time to finish - 17h (35% complete - focused mainly on story, and did a bunch of fun trophies. skipped all the grindy ones.) The game always moved at an excellent pace as the franchise is known for.
🤬Difficulty - easy. As expected from drake series. Combat was fun and varied. Really enjoyed all the different combat set pieces.
🔊 Soundtrack - Awesome.
🌄Graphics – Drop dead gorgeous. I probably spent many minutes just looking at the scenery and taking it in. Its a shame if people skip all this and follow the plot. There is so much beauty here. Hats off to their creativity and design.
🌦 Atmosphere – Amazing. A+. Masterpiece.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I always found the drake story lines hard to follow. I chalk it up to how action movie stories don't make any sense and don't link well together. This is on par with that. Instead of going to A -> B they follow bunch of artificial leads as they do in 3 and just travel around everywhere. As in uncharted 3 characters are added and removed as the gameplay demands but its not so bad here. 3 it was pretty inorganic here its mostly organic. However the story is fun and i liked Sam and Sully along with the new bad guy Rafe. Nadine was one dimensional. Overall the story was fine but not uncharted 2 level.
🤺 Combat – They have refined this again and again. Stealth attacks are pretty viable and I enjoyed that alot. No issues enjoyed everything about it. Some combat set pieces were amazing here. Some of the best in the series. Reminded me of uncharted 2 level creativity here. One of the combat set pieces moves from foot, car, air, car, etc seamlessly. it was amazing!
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Skipped all the collectibles (boring) so I did not plat it. But I did a bunch of fun side trophies. Would definitely recommend.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Perfect. Sure its linear but what do you expect? Get stuck in a drake game and miss out on the fast pace action. No thanks. There were one or 2 places I did get stuck and not know how to progress. It took some time to find it. I do not ever remember this in other games.
📣 Voice acting – Brilliant.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Story, music, action and how it all comes together. Another masterpiece and its pure fun. Naughty Dog is so good at this. I am so impressed how every game in this series is so damn good. It marries movie making, video game making, story telling, sound design into a package time after time that no one else has been able to replicate.
💡Final Thoughts:
Must play! Absolutely no boring parts, which i thought 3 hard. I think its on par with uncharted 2, if not a littttle worse. But better than 1 and 3. Spoiler alert: Lost Legacy is the best Uncharted game, and I will cover that in my next review. GO PLAY IT NOW!
🤬Difficulty - easy. As expected from drake series. Combat was fun and varied. Really enjoyed all the different combat set pieces.
🔊 Soundtrack - Awesome.
🌄Graphics – Drop dead gorgeous. I probably spent many minutes just looking at the scenery and taking it in. Its a shame if people skip all this and follow the plot. There is so much beauty here. Hats off to their creativity and design.
🌦 Atmosphere – Amazing. A+. Masterpiece.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I always found the drake story lines hard to follow. I chalk it up to how action movie stories don't make any sense and don't link well together. This is on par with that. Instead of going to A -> B they follow bunch of artificial leads as they do in 3 and just travel around everywhere. As in uncharted 3 characters are added and removed as the gameplay demands but its not so bad here. 3 it was pretty inorganic here its mostly organic. However the story is fun and i liked Sam and Sully along with the new bad guy Rafe. Nadine was one dimensional. Overall the story was fine but not uncharted 2 level.
🤺 Combat – They have refined this again and again. Stealth attacks are pretty viable and I enjoyed that alot. No issues enjoyed everything about it. Some combat set pieces were amazing here. Some of the best in the series. Reminded me of uncharted 2 level creativity here. One of the combat set pieces moves from foot, car, air, car, etc seamlessly. it was amazing!
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Skipped all the collectibles (boring) so I did not plat it. But I did a bunch of fun side trophies. Would definitely recommend.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Perfect. Sure its linear but what do you expect? Get stuck in a drake game and miss out on the fast pace action. No thanks. There were one or 2 places I did get stuck and not know how to progress. It took some time to find it. I do not ever remember this in other games.
📣 Voice acting – Brilliant.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Story, music, action and how it all comes together. Another masterpiece and its pure fun. Naughty Dog is so good at this. I am so impressed how every game in this series is so damn good. It marries movie making, video game making, story telling, sound design into a package time after time that no one else has been able to replicate.
💡Final Thoughts:
Must play! Absolutely no boring parts, which i thought 3 hard. I think its on par with uncharted 2, if not a littttle worse. But better than 1 and 3. Spoiler alert: Lost Legacy is the best Uncharted game, and I will cover that in my next review. GO PLAY IT NOW!
⌚ Time to finish - 5h (100% complete - one trophy was a little tricky and i did not understand it the first time so I "wasted" 45 minutes trying it a 2nd time)
🤬Difficulty - easy.
🔊 Soundtrack - pleasant.
🌄Graphics – Nice nothing to write home about
🌦 Atmosphere – great.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Not ground breaking but its a sweet touching tale of love and bond between a family. Definitely worth hearing.
🤺 Combat – none
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth exploring to 100%. They add to the story and the world and I thought were very fitting except for one, which I think went against the main brothers personality. Its at the beginning.
🚗 Movement/Physics –no issues. Some puzzles were cool how the brothers worked together. Nothing ground breaking. It does take a while to control 2 chars at once. However if you keep left char on left side of screen, right char on right screen its easier.
📣 Voice acting – They made up their own language for this game but they perfectly convey everything on screen. BONUS! Watch the hour long developer playthrough, he adds so much commentary that helps you appreciate the behind the scenes. The main dev did all the voices and motion cap cuz they had no $$.
🥇 Best thing about the game - A touching story.
💡Final Thoughts:
Play it if you want a nice small game coming off a larger game and need a break. If you miss it its probably ok, but I will still suggest you play it. Especially if you plat it its a nice achievement.
🤬Difficulty - easy.
🔊 Soundtrack - pleasant.
🌄Graphics – Nice nothing to write home about
🌦 Atmosphere – great.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Not ground breaking but its a sweet touching tale of love and bond between a family. Definitely worth hearing.
🤺 Combat – none
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth exploring to 100%. They add to the story and the world and I thought were very fitting except for one, which I think went against the main brothers personality. Its at the beginning.
🚗 Movement/Physics –no issues. Some puzzles were cool how the brothers worked together. Nothing ground breaking. It does take a while to control 2 chars at once. However if you keep left char on left side of screen, right char on right screen its easier.
📣 Voice acting – They made up their own language for this game but they perfectly convey everything on screen. BONUS! Watch the hour long developer playthrough, he adds so much commentary that helps you appreciate the behind the scenes. The main dev did all the voices and motion cap cuz they had no $$.
🥇 Best thing about the game - A touching story.
💡Final Thoughts:
Play it if you want a nice small game coming off a larger game and need a break. If you miss it its probably ok, but I will still suggest you play it. Especially if you plat it its a nice achievement.
2017
⌚ Time to finish - 36h (100% complete - I did buy 8 grindy trophies from in game store, so I guess I grinded the money for it than the collectibles, before that I had all but 8 trophies, 16 unlocked endings, and 80% quests completed, not to take away from those that true plat it). My first plat game ever, and would totally recommend everyone do it!
🤬Difficulty - starts of medium goes to easy.
🔊 Soundtrack - awesome. Some songs are still in my head. My fav is the song that plays in pascal's village.
🌄Graphics – Very bad. This is one of the worst parts of the game. Its not bad enough to detract, but there is no color. However, considering the female chars are so well designed if you are into that I doubt you will be looking at anything else in the world. :P
🌦 Atmosphere – great. Music adds alot.
📚 Main Story / Characters – This is the 2nd biggest problem with the game apart from graphics. The story could have been amazing. But the story telling is poor. Both needs to come together (story + story telling). Here the story telling falls into the usual Anime tropes, mixes way too much philosophy, assumes you know so much background info, drips info at you via audio during combat, which I cannot follow since I don't want my ass whooped. Throws bits in hidden items that you have to find and read, hidden endings, etc etc. Its a mess. I had to watch a story summary after the game to understand what happened. Even then I am not sure. Sure there is no game like this out there that marries philosophy, sociology, and sci-fi. But please do a better job with it. However i stuck to it because there are super fun pieces like combat, boss fights and set pieces that trump all this!
🤺 Combat – Awesome! Sure it gets trivial after you lvl up but i dont care. Its fun mix of bullet hell, hack and slash, side scroll, and more. I loved it. Some of the boss fight set pieces are soooooo awesome. I can picture them even now. This is the best part of the game.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth exploring. If you played enough rpgs you can guess the side quests. But i am a sucker for completion and side quests. I did up to 80% side quests and felt it was enough as finding the other 20% was getting hard and i only needed 80% for my trophy.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Super fluid. This studio is known for it. You play 3 chars, 1,3 play the same. They are fluid and awesome. Feels so good controlling it. 2, plays very differently, but i loved his style. There are a few moments where the camera gets wacky but execusable.
📣 Voice acting – Excellent.
🥇 Best thing about the game - ACTION, combat set pieces! Lots of fun Easter eggs to discover. These were so fun to do. Its clear the amount of time they spent thinking about these, maybe they should have spent it on graphics upgrade. :) I don't think those trophies can and do exist in any other game.
👎 Worst thing about the game - Story telling and anime tropes
💡Final Thoughts:
Pros far outweigh the cons. Play it, enjoy it. Live in the world and experience it as much as you can. Sure there are better games but this one still not to be missed. The combat sequences and each chapter finale are amazing. Bonus, its fun to plat. Go discover what the game has to offer including the side bonus stuff!
🤬Difficulty - starts of medium goes to easy.
🔊 Soundtrack - awesome. Some songs are still in my head. My fav is the song that plays in pascal's village.
🌄Graphics – Very bad. This is one of the worst parts of the game. Its not bad enough to detract, but there is no color. However, considering the female chars are so well designed if you are into that I doubt you will be looking at anything else in the world. :P
🌦 Atmosphere – great. Music adds alot.
📚 Main Story / Characters – This is the 2nd biggest problem with the game apart from graphics. The story could have been amazing. But the story telling is poor. Both needs to come together (story + story telling). Here the story telling falls into the usual Anime tropes, mixes way too much philosophy, assumes you know so much background info, drips info at you via audio during combat, which I cannot follow since I don't want my ass whooped. Throws bits in hidden items that you have to find and read, hidden endings, etc etc. Its a mess. I had to watch a story summary after the game to understand what happened. Even then I am not sure. Sure there is no game like this out there that marries philosophy, sociology, and sci-fi. But please do a better job with it. However i stuck to it because there are super fun pieces like combat, boss fights and set pieces that trump all this!
🤺 Combat – Awesome! Sure it gets trivial after you lvl up but i dont care. Its fun mix of bullet hell, hack and slash, side scroll, and more. I loved it. Some of the boss fight set pieces are soooooo awesome. I can picture them even now. This is the best part of the game.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth exploring. If you played enough rpgs you can guess the side quests. But i am a sucker for completion and side quests. I did up to 80% side quests and felt it was enough as finding the other 20% was getting hard and i only needed 80% for my trophy.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Super fluid. This studio is known for it. You play 3 chars, 1,3 play the same. They are fluid and awesome. Feels so good controlling it. 2, plays very differently, but i loved his style. There are a few moments where the camera gets wacky but execusable.
📣 Voice acting – Excellent.
🥇 Best thing about the game - ACTION, combat set pieces! Lots of fun Easter eggs to discover. These were so fun to do. Its clear the amount of time they spent thinking about these, maybe they should have spent it on graphics upgrade. :) I don't think those trophies can and do exist in any other game.
👎 Worst thing about the game - Story telling and anime tropes
💡Final Thoughts:
Pros far outweigh the cons. Play it, enjoy it. Live in the world and experience it as much as you can. Sure there are better games but this one still not to be missed. The combat sequences and each chapter finale are amazing. Bonus, its fun to plat. Go discover what the game has to offer including the side bonus stuff!
⌚ Time to finish - 9h (70% complete - I tried to play through crushing for about an hour+ and found it very unfun so I stopped. Rest are into the main game and trophies).
🤬Difficulty - easy unless you play crushing, then its unfairly crushing. Crushing requires a bit of stealth where in a game stealth is somewhat of an after thought at higher difficulties.
🔊 Soundtrack - awesome! On par with the main series.
🌄Graphics – Drop dead gorgeous. This is the first game in series apart from uncharted 2, but more so here, where i felt they had both outdoor and indoor beauty. I come from the india culture so I could appreciate the love and fine details they put into the interior of the temples and buildings. The art work is authentic but not a copy. So they learned things about the Indian architecture, ingested, and created something unique. absolutely mind blowing. I stared at the architecture and art work for a long time and even showed my family.
🌦 Atmosphere – Awesome.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Story was simple to follow unlike other in series and I appreciated that. They had a short time to tell everything and they kept it crisp. Chole returns as her best version ever and I was unhappy to not see her in 4, and poorly show in 3. Other chars that show up are great too! It does NOT feel like an after thought. I love playing as Chole, and the best part is all the color commentary she adds about the Indian mythology and symbolism. Its stuff most Indians don't even know about. I am glad they did this and just didn't represent Ganesha with the common cliches. Go Naughty Dog!
🤺 Combat – Awesome! On par with rest of series.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth exploring and completing fun trophies. Plat does require collecting stuff so I did all the trophies except collection.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Super fluid.
📣 Voice acting – Excellent. Infact the side conversations the thugs have very much represent some of the sentiments Indian people feel. Wow! They captured that too!?
🥇 Best thing about the game - Mind blowing architectures and interior designs. Culture sensitive and informative commentary. Very memorable set pieces that are even better than the main series. Sure some of them are a rehash of things they know work well, but I don't care. If something works well do it again.
👎 Worst thing about the game - the damn truck and slipping on mud. Its fun to drive that truck. But....
💡Final Thoughts:
I maybe a little biased being Indian, but this is the best game in the series. I could clearly see the attention to detail that went into this game from design to cultural representation that it took a 4.5 game to a 5 for me. They even mention the name of the snake around Shiva's neck, which majority of Indians don't even know. Indian kingdoms before invasions were mighty, but no one knows much about it, this game brings that to light as well. I am glad they didn't do the Indiana Jones temple of doom or Simpsons Apu racist bull shit. Everyone should play this game! What a cool and unique setting. I hope others also see how great this setting can be and make more games in this setting. Egypt, Norse, Chinese, Japanese ahs been done guys! As an indian person I 100% endorse this game.
🤬Difficulty - easy unless you play crushing, then its unfairly crushing. Crushing requires a bit of stealth where in a game stealth is somewhat of an after thought at higher difficulties.
🔊 Soundtrack - awesome! On par with the main series.
🌄Graphics – Drop dead gorgeous. This is the first game in series apart from uncharted 2, but more so here, where i felt they had both outdoor and indoor beauty. I come from the india culture so I could appreciate the love and fine details they put into the interior of the temples and buildings. The art work is authentic but not a copy. So they learned things about the Indian architecture, ingested, and created something unique. absolutely mind blowing. I stared at the architecture and art work for a long time and even showed my family.
🌦 Atmosphere – Awesome.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Story was simple to follow unlike other in series and I appreciated that. They had a short time to tell everything and they kept it crisp. Chole returns as her best version ever and I was unhappy to not see her in 4, and poorly show in 3. Other chars that show up are great too! It does NOT feel like an after thought. I love playing as Chole, and the best part is all the color commentary she adds about the Indian mythology and symbolism. Its stuff most Indians don't even know about. I am glad they did this and just didn't represent Ganesha with the common cliches. Go Naughty Dog!
🤺 Combat – Awesome! On par with rest of series.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth exploring and completing fun trophies. Plat does require collecting stuff so I did all the trophies except collection.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Super fluid.
📣 Voice acting – Excellent. Infact the side conversations the thugs have very much represent some of the sentiments Indian people feel. Wow! They captured that too!?
🥇 Best thing about the game - Mind blowing architectures and interior designs. Culture sensitive and informative commentary. Very memorable set pieces that are even better than the main series. Sure some of them are a rehash of things they know work well, but I don't care. If something works well do it again.
👎 Worst thing about the game - the damn truck and slipping on mud. Its fun to drive that truck. But....
💡Final Thoughts:
I maybe a little biased being Indian, but this is the best game in the series. I could clearly see the attention to detail that went into this game from design to cultural representation that it took a 4.5 game to a 5 for me. They even mention the name of the snake around Shiva's neck, which majority of Indians don't even know. Indian kingdoms before invasions were mighty, but no one knows much about it, this game brings that to light as well. I am glad they didn't do the Indiana Jones temple of doom or Simpsons Apu racist bull shit. Everyone should play this game! What a cool and unique setting. I hope others also see how great this setting can be and make more games in this setting. Egypt, Norse, Chinese, Japanese ahs been done guys! As an indian person I 100% endorse this game.
2021
⌚ Time to finish - 6h (100% complete - totally worth 100%. No BS trophies.).
🤬Difficulty - easy. Some jumps may require a couple tries if you aren't use to platforming.
🔊 Soundtrack - Great. Not much variety in music but the score that comes up often is pleasant. They are an Indie studio so i can understand.
🌄Graphics – Nice to look at. Fits the chill vibe of the game.
🌦 Atmosphere – Cool. I love the creatures that you meet and greet. Its a pleasant world to experience.
📚 Main Story / Characters – The story borrows heavily from eastern philosophy, Buddhist teachings, i think. If you are into that you will enjoy all the things you find and the text you read. There is very little to the story, its basically this creatures journey to his ultimate goal. To me akin to liberation.
🤺 Combat – None. This game anyone can play and watch and enjoy.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth 100%
🚗 Movement/Physics – fluid.
📣 Voice acting – none
🥇 Best thing about the game - its pleasant and feels nice. Fills you with good thoughts.
👎 Worst thing about the game - nothing really.
💡Final Thoughts:
Definitely play the game. Its simple, nothing ground breaking but refreshing between 2 long games. I enjoyed it and showing it to my family as well who enjoyed the creatures and the journey.
🤬Difficulty - easy. Some jumps may require a couple tries if you aren't use to platforming.
🔊 Soundtrack - Great. Not much variety in music but the score that comes up often is pleasant. They are an Indie studio so i can understand.
🌄Graphics – Nice to look at. Fits the chill vibe of the game.
🌦 Atmosphere – Cool. I love the creatures that you meet and greet. Its a pleasant world to experience.
📚 Main Story / Characters – The story borrows heavily from eastern philosophy, Buddhist teachings, i think. If you are into that you will enjoy all the things you find and the text you read. There is very little to the story, its basically this creatures journey to his ultimate goal. To me akin to liberation.
🤺 Combat – None. This game anyone can play and watch and enjoy.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –Definitely worth 100%
🚗 Movement/Physics – fluid.
📣 Voice acting – none
🥇 Best thing about the game - its pleasant and feels nice. Fills you with good thoughts.
👎 Worst thing about the game - nothing really.
💡Final Thoughts:
Definitely play the game. Its simple, nothing ground breaking but refreshing between 2 long games. I enjoyed it and showing it to my family as well who enjoyed the creatures and the journey.
2021
Review includes base game + all 3 DLCs
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⌚ Time to finish - 15h (60% complete - including DLC trophies - I did all the trophies expect collection and play on hardest difficulty).
🤬Difficulty - easy. I didn't find the game to be very difficult however going for the combat trophies actually made the combat more interesting.
🔊 Soundtrack - Great!
🌄Graphics – Better with the ps5 remaster but I played the Drake series just before this and Alan still moves very clunkily and the atmosphere is dark. So yea it was ok, but made worse since I just came off Drake series.
🌦 Atmosphere – Awesome. For the first couple days I actually dreamt about the scenes in my dream. LoL. It was spoooky for SURE. You eventually get use to it. One of the best atmospheres of any game.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I liked all the characters including Alan. However, the story is confusing as hell. I love twilight zone so I completely ok with mixing sci-fi and horror, however twilight zone tells the story in a way you can understand and ponder. Here I had to look up a lot of things after playing the game to connect the dots. I liked what the story was about I didn't like how it was told.
🤺 Combat – Fine. Shine a flash light shoot. There is no variation apart from guns. Trying to do trophies made me think a little more and was higher stakes. Definitely try those combat trophies.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – none. Exploration is finding flasks and non sense collectibles. I did find a bunch but was like 10 away from the trophy. Lame... why can't people introduce a trophy for 50% and 100% collectibles found?
🚗 Movement/Physics – Clunky
📣 Voice acting – Excellent.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Spooky scary atmosphere. It really hits you. The promise about what the story could have been.
👎 Worst thing about the game - Storytelling.
💡Final Thoughts:
Definitely worth playing since its a quick play if you don't go for trophies its even less. Its short enough to experience and also makes you ponder the sci fi story line, which is definitely very unique to read about. I never watched twin peaks but people said this borrows heavily from that. So maybe if you watched twin peaks you wouldn't be as surprised as i was by the story premise. I hope alan wake 2 does a better job with the story telling.
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⌚ Time to finish - 15h (60% complete - including DLC trophies - I did all the trophies expect collection and play on hardest difficulty).
🤬Difficulty - easy. I didn't find the game to be very difficult however going for the combat trophies actually made the combat more interesting.
🔊 Soundtrack - Great!
🌄Graphics – Better with the ps5 remaster but I played the Drake series just before this and Alan still moves very clunkily and the atmosphere is dark. So yea it was ok, but made worse since I just came off Drake series.
🌦 Atmosphere – Awesome. For the first couple days I actually dreamt about the scenes in my dream. LoL. It was spoooky for SURE. You eventually get use to it. One of the best atmospheres of any game.
📚 Main Story / Characters – I liked all the characters including Alan. However, the story is confusing as hell. I love twilight zone so I completely ok with mixing sci-fi and horror, however twilight zone tells the story in a way you can understand and ponder. Here I had to look up a lot of things after playing the game to connect the dots. I liked what the story was about I didn't like how it was told.
🤺 Combat – Fine. Shine a flash light shoot. There is no variation apart from guns. Trying to do trophies made me think a little more and was higher stakes. Definitely try those combat trophies.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – none. Exploration is finding flasks and non sense collectibles. I did find a bunch but was like 10 away from the trophy. Lame... why can't people introduce a trophy for 50% and 100% collectibles found?
🚗 Movement/Physics – Clunky
📣 Voice acting – Excellent.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Spooky scary atmosphere. It really hits you. The promise about what the story could have been.
👎 Worst thing about the game - Storytelling.
💡Final Thoughts:
Definitely worth playing since its a quick play if you don't go for trophies its even less. Its short enough to experience and also makes you ponder the sci fi story line, which is definitely very unique to read about. I never watched twin peaks but people said this borrows heavily from that. So maybe if you watched twin peaks you wouldn't be as surprised as i was by the story premise. I hope alan wake 2 does a better job with the story telling.
2018
🎮 Platform: PS5
⌚ Time to finish - 5h (90% complete - one trophy - finish without ever loosing the ball was not completed. There are ways to quit the game before ball fails but that sounds not fun at all and already mini golfing is not a precise art ).
🤬Difficulty - easy. Some shots were tricky and frustrating but nothing you can't figure out. Impossible if you go for the plat without quitting the game before failure and restarting.
🌄Graphics – Fitting and pleasant. Its mini golf levels.
🌦 Atmosphere – Great. I really enjoyed the soundtrack which added alot. I really did feel like i was golfing on a post-apocalyptical earth.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Simple and touching main story. Twist expected very early on but still enjoyed the simple premise.
🤺 Combat – None. Although when the ball didn't go where i wanted i wanted to blow it up :)
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –These were fun to do. I enjoyed all the side exploration which often resulted in trophy. You will likely need a guide to discover them but they were fun and silly to do.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Mostly fine. You do have to play with the arcs and pressure each level. But in general i got use to it. I think there were 3-5/33 frustrating holes total.
📣 Voice acting – none.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Soundtrack
👎 Worst thing about the game - none, maybe the no ball loss trophy but its optional.
💡Final Thoughts:
Simple mini golf game with a great sound track and nothing more. If you don't enjoy mini golf you won't like this game. At least get the soundtrack and listen to it.
⌚ Time to finish - 5h (90% complete - one trophy - finish without ever loosing the ball was not completed. There are ways to quit the game before ball fails but that sounds not fun at all and already mini golfing is not a precise art ).
🤬Difficulty - easy. Some shots were tricky and frustrating but nothing you can't figure out. Impossible if you go for the plat without quitting the game before failure and restarting.
🌄Graphics – Fitting and pleasant. Its mini golf levels.
🌦 Atmosphere – Great. I really enjoyed the soundtrack which added alot. I really did feel like i was golfing on a post-apocalyptical earth.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Simple and touching main story. Twist expected very early on but still enjoyed the simple premise.
🤺 Combat – None. Although when the ball didn't go where i wanted i wanted to blow it up :)
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration –These were fun to do. I enjoyed all the side exploration which often resulted in trophy. You will likely need a guide to discover them but they were fun and silly to do.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Mostly fine. You do have to play with the arcs and pressure each level. But in general i got use to it. I think there were 3-5/33 frustrating holes total.
📣 Voice acting – none.
🥇 Best thing about the game - Soundtrack
👎 Worst thing about the game - none, maybe the no ball loss trophy but its optional.
💡Final Thoughts:
Simple mini golf game with a great sound track and nothing more. If you don't enjoy mini golf you won't like this game. At least get the soundtrack and listen to it.
2021
🎮 Platform: PS5
⌚ Time to finish - 6h (100% complete - no reason not to do this. All trophies are very much core gameplay oriented. ).
🤬Difficulty - easy. I did use a guide on few of the hidden items i couldn't find. but mostly done without a guide. Just be keen and observant on what you are seeing.
🌄Graphics – Fitting, loved the ending. I can't say i expected it!
🌦 Atmosphere – Family friendly, no drama. Its like going people watching/tourist in a new city. Its the vibes I got.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Simple and nothing to write home about. A kiddo going on their first adventure!
🤺 Combat – None.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Totally worth doing unless you hate the game. I gave it avg rating and I still found it fine to do them all.
🚗 Movement/Physics – no issues.
📣 Voice acting – none.
🥇 Best thing about the game - it was fine. I can't say what was great.
👎 Worst thing about the game - none.
💡Final Thoughts:
Its a fine game. It essentially comes down to go to each town take pics to complete quests. That can only sta interesting so long, kind of like in unpacking arranging cupboards can stay interesting only so long. I tend to go for more meaty games so the simple game was just that too simple. However, Its a nice stress free game between 2 large titles. I played this after death stranding which was 115 hours so it was nice. If you miss this you are probably completely ok. I know this rating goes very much against the avg 4.1 here but... not every game is for everyone i guess. :)
⌚ Time to finish - 6h (100% complete - no reason not to do this. All trophies are very much core gameplay oriented. ).
🤬Difficulty - easy. I did use a guide on few of the hidden items i couldn't find. but mostly done without a guide. Just be keen and observant on what you are seeing.
🌄Graphics – Fitting, loved the ending. I can't say i expected it!
🌦 Atmosphere – Family friendly, no drama. Its like going people watching/tourist in a new city. Its the vibes I got.
📚 Main Story / Characters – Simple and nothing to write home about. A kiddo going on their first adventure!
🤺 Combat – None.
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – Totally worth doing unless you hate the game. I gave it avg rating and I still found it fine to do them all.
🚗 Movement/Physics – no issues.
📣 Voice acting – none.
🥇 Best thing about the game - it was fine. I can't say what was great.
👎 Worst thing about the game - none.
💡Final Thoughts:
Its a fine game. It essentially comes down to go to each town take pics to complete quests. That can only sta interesting so long, kind of like in unpacking arranging cupboards can stay interesting only so long. I tend to go for more meaty games so the simple game was just that too simple. However, Its a nice stress free game between 2 large titles. I played this after death stranding which was 115 hours so it was nice. If you miss this you are probably completely ok. I know this rating goes very much against the avg 4.1 here but... not every game is for everyone i guess. :)
2007
I will not be writing my usual thorough review because I abandoned this game. I picked up the game for book club I participate in and wanted to experience an important game in gaming history.
2-3 hours in its getting already repetitive. The controls are clunky. Easy to get spotted. So much of the core gameplay got improved in later games it’s hard to go back. It almost just seems like a tech demo now. Gonna watch a YouTube summary of the story because it’s cool. I don’t think I have seen a game age worse than this considering how high it’s rated. I wanted to see how other games from 2007 aged as comparison. Most are still awesome. I guess the novelty really helped though Sands Of time came first and did it better. Compared to other games released this year … https://www.gameawards.net/2020/09/2007.html?m=0 maybe this game shouldnt be as well regarded as it was. only 1 awards vs 47 for bioshock!
2-3 hours in its getting already repetitive. The controls are clunky. Easy to get spotted. So much of the core gameplay got improved in later games it’s hard to go back. It almost just seems like a tech demo now. Gonna watch a YouTube summary of the story because it’s cool. I don’t think I have seen a game age worse than this considering how high it’s rated. I wanted to see how other games from 2007 aged as comparison. Most are still awesome. I guess the novelty really helped though Sands Of time came first and did it better. Compared to other games released this year … https://www.gameawards.net/2020/09/2007.html?m=0 maybe this game shouldnt be as well regarded as it was. only 1 awards vs 47 for bioshock!
🎮 Platform: PS5
⌚ Time to finish - 14h
🏆Trophy completion - 62%
🤬Difficulty - felt easy. I played on hard and did not find any issues with the game. Most of the time I could clear waves and plan out how i wanted to attack. The game does get you to use all abilities and I did not use the same 3 button combo over and over again. I found fire element to be the strongest for my play style.
🌄Graphics – Great graphics and still hold up today, especially on remaster. This game is just so epic and how it presents scale, amazing. The animations are smooth, its awesome to look at. Of course its not going to look like Ghost of Tshushima.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – I felt so bad ass in this game. I felt like Kratos in their world. Loved it! The music is absolutely amazing. The chanting of Kratos' name and the crescendo of orchestra. I felt such like a bad ass. AMAZING music !
📚 Main Story / Characters – Its fine its a revenge story. As usual I had trouble keeping up with the details but I got the over all gist and didn't care. I just want to go kill the next god.
🤺 Combat – This game has some of the best combat of any game. C'mon who doesn't want to scale Gaia and take on Greek gods! Who doesn't want to face 1vs1 Hercules and beat his ass? Every fight in this game is A+ and epic. God damn, just righting this review I want to play it again. The game also introduces different elemental blades, they were fun to play with and i did end up switching here and there based on what I needed but overall stuck to fire. I got familiar with all his moves and used them as i needed. I believe you can probably get through the game mashing but why....
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – did not do the collection trophies and the arena trophies. The ones I did collect were fun and some of them required skill so I had to try a few times. Arena trophies are too hard and known to be luck based, and will suck out any joy I had in this game. The puzzles in game were great too. It never felt cheap and everything can be figured out on your own with exploration.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Fluid, awesome. Scaling monsters, climbing walls.
📣 Voice acting – AWESOMEEEE. So much angst in Kratos voice. He doesn't give a crap about anything and it shows!
🥇 Best thing about the game - Epic combat and music. Immersion, Adrenaline pumping. The opening of this game is one of the best in any video game history. Somehow it manages to start that high and still keep it that high the entire game!
👎 Worst thing about the game - none. I donno doesn't last forever?
💡Final Thoughts:
This game builds on everything in 1 and 2 and makes it even better. The graphics updates make the immersion that much better. The music, the fights, the boss battle direction, the variety, this game is a masterpiece and a must play. I love god of war series so maybe I am a little biased but don't care. I had so much fun! This game makes me feel so god damn bad ass. Played this on my road to complete all the GOW games before GOW 2018. I am slowly building up to it!
⌚ Time to finish - 14h
🏆Trophy completion - 62%
🤬Difficulty - felt easy. I played on hard and did not find any issues with the game. Most of the time I could clear waves and plan out how i wanted to attack. The game does get you to use all abilities and I did not use the same 3 button combo over and over again. I found fire element to be the strongest for my play style.
🌄Graphics – Great graphics and still hold up today, especially on remaster. This game is just so epic and how it presents scale, amazing. The animations are smooth, its awesome to look at. Of course its not going to look like Ghost of Tshushima.
🌦 Atmosphere/Music – I felt so bad ass in this game. I felt like Kratos in their world. Loved it! The music is absolutely amazing. The chanting of Kratos' name and the crescendo of orchestra. I felt such like a bad ass. AMAZING music !
📚 Main Story / Characters – Its fine its a revenge story. As usual I had trouble keeping up with the details but I got the over all gist and didn't care. I just want to go kill the next god.
🤺 Combat – This game has some of the best combat of any game. C'mon who doesn't want to scale Gaia and take on Greek gods! Who doesn't want to face 1vs1 Hercules and beat his ass? Every fight in this game is A+ and epic. God damn, just righting this review I want to play it again. The game also introduces different elemental blades, they were fun to play with and i did end up switching here and there based on what I needed but overall stuck to fire. I got familiar with all his moves and used them as i needed. I believe you can probably get through the game mashing but why....
🧭 Side Activities / Exploration – did not do the collection trophies and the arena trophies. The ones I did collect were fun and some of them required skill so I had to try a few times. Arena trophies are too hard and known to be luck based, and will suck out any joy I had in this game. The puzzles in game were great too. It never felt cheap and everything can be figured out on your own with exploration.
🚗 Movement/Physics – Fluid, awesome. Scaling monsters, climbing walls.
📣 Voice acting – AWESOMEEEE. So much angst in Kratos voice. He doesn't give a crap about anything and it shows!
🥇 Best thing about the game - Epic combat and music. Immersion, Adrenaline pumping. The opening of this game is one of the best in any video game history. Somehow it manages to start that high and still keep it that high the entire game!
👎 Worst thing about the game - none. I donno doesn't last forever?
💡Final Thoughts:
This game builds on everything in 1 and 2 and makes it even better. The graphics updates make the immersion that much better. The music, the fights, the boss battle direction, the variety, this game is a masterpiece and a must play. I love god of war series so maybe I am a little biased but don't care. I had so much fun! This game makes me feel so god damn bad ass. Played this on my road to complete all the GOW games before GOW 2018. I am slowly building up to it!