This is one of the best sci-fi stories I ever experienced, and if you love sci-fi stuff then I think you owe it to yourself to play this game.

I am glad I introduced myself to the VN novel right before this game caught my attention, because that’s the only thing that would have stopped me from trying it otherwise, and this game being largely a VN is the only reason why I may not recommend it to someone.

Truly, I think this game is a masterpiece.

How is it possible to fumble the bag this hard? How did we get here? At a certain point it takes active effort to release something as bad and lazy as this. I am almost convinced that it isn’t even laziness but an act of self-sabotage; like how they could have left some of the DLC characters re-using other character’s animations but instead went and stole the work of a modder’s custom animations.

These games were finished and pretty polished, and certainly didn’t take up anywhere near the file sizes as they do now. Even knowing the textures were upscaled to 4K, how does that end up with 60~ GBs of data? Even on Nintendo Switch, this thing takes up 34 GBs of data— more than Mortal Kombat 1 on Switch. I have not heard of a new engine being utilized so I may be wrong but how did all these new bugs get here?

This release has left me with more and more questions, and this is quite possibly the worst fumble with any re-release/remaster I can think of in recent memory. Absolutely embarrassing on Aspyr’s part.

With the final Overwatch event finally rolling out, I wanted to leave my thoughts on this game.

It certainly is hard to talk about Overwatch without at least glancing over at all the serious and cartoonishly evil things Blizzard have done over the years, but I’m not really going to go over that. Blizzard is deserving of every ounce of criticism and backlash they get, though.

Overwatch has been an important game for me ever since it released in 2016, because it gave me almost everything I wanted in a shooter. (If only I could aim down sights with every character—) Since launch day, I’d been playing this on and off for over 6 years. This is the only game I’d ever kept up with for that long.

Blizzard definitely have made some weird, and bad decisions with characters in the game, gameplay-wise, but I’ve never felt upset or outraged about Mercy’s rework, or Hook shenanigans, or how busted Moira or Bridgette were, like how other people have felt. And I’m not saying those people were wrong, but for me, all of that was like little events that kept the game stupid fun or interesting.

I have a lot of memories of playing this with my friends, and every hiccup from the game or from one of us being shit just made that experience much more fun.

I don’t think Overwatch deserves ALL of the flak it’s been getting, especially after Blizzard decided to shit all over themselves in the last 2 or so years, and this will just forever be an oddly special game for me.