Recent reviews by Pejgn

This game is... Well, I recommend it, because I was having fun first... 40 hours more or less... But after that, since I'm completionist, I wanted to hunt all Achievements so I arrived at a lot of things I don't like about this game, gameplay wise. And honestly, they really inflated it, with collectibles, especially, Merlin Trials, because there is 95 of them... Game is sometimes buggy, and I once got stuck in combat, despite not being in one anymore, which had cost me like 15 minutes... Lightning is crazy in small basements under houses, and it's probably every basement like that, even some caves, you walk in, loot chest, turn around and get flashbanged... Story is.... just there... It's not good at all honestly, it really is there for sake of one being there, because even Two and A Half Men had episodes that were better written than this garbage, not even talking about how annoying and complete nothing-burger MC is... No matter what you do you will always be goody 2 shoes with no personality, ambitions, dreams or opinions. Also the game is well... Quite "woke", even tho, I don't like using the term, it fits here, because the devs really really wanted to distance themselves from J.K.R.'s statements on X, and it really beats you in the face, from the get go even, you can pick if you want to be witch or wizard despite obviously being one if you pick matching voice with a body but it doesn't even matter, because outside of that menu, you are never acknowledged as neither, and characters address you as "they" anyway... And don't get me started on "arachnophobia mode".... I'm mentioning it because if the devs put half the effort they poured into making the game so safe and special for non-existent "modern audience", the game could've been without as many bugs and story could've been interesting. Only reason why it did as good as it did is the IP. I can honestly say, I was having fun those first 40 hours, despite noticing everything I've written, because I did watched the movies so the game took me back to those "better days".

9/10 when it comes to sticking with Harry Potter world
3/10 without IP in mind. Yes, it's not really good...

I'm sorry to say but this really wasn't it... The DLC is pretty short. Like, one hour short almost. Which, considering the price feels a little out of place. The DLC added several achievements which most of are just doing same thing over and over again, including collecting the damn boxes again. This isn't content, it's just a chore to fill up game time... But what really bugs me here is absence of Roiland... He was what made the first game iconic, the voice acting was just another level. Harper just doesn't match up at all, and getting rid of Kenny is played for a joke. Which would've been fine but you have this whole "redemption arc" for him in the base game, so it feels unjustified. New locations are... well, somewhat plain and empty I'd say but I personally don't mind it that much. New gun is fine I suppose, I don't really like it personally but I can see the appeal it could have. Overall, unless you want to hunt achievements like I did, don't really bother with this one, just watch someone else play trough it and grab a snack, you'll save yourself some money and stress with the final boss fight, which isn't hard, just so so long for no reason...

What can I say? This game is simply fun and filled to the brim with references to other media, games, series, movies, people and lot of other things. Price is probably justifiable, considering most of these games were free before developers remade them from the ground up and added "Completing the Mission". Don't expect too much playtime, but if you intend to complete all achievements, you will definitely spend some time hunting them.

I love Helldivers II because it's the exact opposite of Overwatch! You don't have to pay anything to access content, except of course, buying the game. It's fun, engaging, developers care and don't push any real life politics or agenda. Only thing is, it doesn't really feel optimized or polished. I have very decent pc and I basically play around 50 fps on average. But I've been having so much fun playing that I don't mind suffering the horrible frames that much. It's very annoying, but for now I tolerate it because I'm having too much fun.

First of all, this game couldn't be worse. I think that everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. Let's start with the, to the series, very unique Tournament game mode. As an idea, it doesn't sounds so bad, combat works basically the same, except that you don't have HP, only points you need to get from the others by beating them to pulp. Sometimes awakening or ultimate orbs are provided, some AOE attacks, obstacles and such. However, this mode is very annoying to play, because all bots mainly target you, so on higher difficulties, you are basically a punching bad, you simply don't get to attack, because all bots are focusing you, and devs picked the most annoying characters possible. Such as Deidara, Tenten, Kankuro, Chiyo, Second Mizukage and similar character. Simply characters that can stay far away and throw their shurikens at you, interrupting your every move and attack. Meanwhile the other two characters are pummelling you up, since you only have 4 substitutions at a time. Then a random area effect spawns at you, then a random obstacle targets you. It's simply too much clutter for the combat system this game has, doesn't matter how good you are if you have 3 enemies targeting you, and half the time can't even see what's on the screen because techniques have visual effects. And if that's not enough, if you want all achievements, prepare for a grind. Because you have 6 categories you need to overcome, each having at least 3 battles, and those 3 battles, each have at least 3 to 5 rounds, round lasting 50 seconds. And then, you have challenges, 5 categories, each having 6 battles, each battle having 5 rounds... It is simply too much and not fun at all... The battles aren't that hard, per se, but they are very unfun to play. That's pretty much all about that cursed mode. Then we have Mecha-Naruto story, which is... Well, not great, fun, interesting or entertaining. It's okay I suppose, you mostly battle the normal way, it's just annoying to travel between locations. Ninja Escapades are great, creation of Akatsuki is the best Akatsuki lore offered to the fans of the series, and the other two are, well, not really worth your time honestly. One only have two battles and the other is just a cinematic. And the rest of the achievements are just pure grind. You just have to mash B button for a day and you will get them. They aren't hard just it takes time to get them. Which wouldn't be and issue, if the game was running at least on 60 fps... Yes, this game is locked on 30 fps and apparently, there is no way to fix it, since game speed is tied to framerate, and if you raised it, the game would not be playable. It's really bad and my eyes literally bleed after an hour of playing. Online is, from what I heard really horrible too. I will never play it, because why would I bother. If I had to summarise this game, I would call it massive failure and I'm actually curious how this game has mostly Very Positive reviews. This game should've never been released in the first place and I'm sorry for any achievement hunters out there, grinding this game...

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+ Creation of Akatsuki

- 30 FPS lock
- 30 FPS lock
- 30 FPS lock
- Tournament mode

Final Judgement


Don't bother, just skip to 4 or Connections

Let's face it. Overwatch has "2" in it simply because of marketing. It's laughable that this game was supposed to, in Jeff Kaplan's own words "redefine what is a sequel". It not only failed miserably in that regard, because devs decided that it's not worth their precious time to come up with evolving abilities for every character, even tho, The Invasion, so far has like 8 characters to choose from, but also failed at delivering a working game. A lot of things went wrong, starting with the fact servers could simply not handle the amount of players on day 1, a lot of features from first game literally being removed, and those were things that didn't really needed to be removed. For example they got rid of Levels and borders you got, which would have been pretty "meh" if they didn't add new level system for account and heroes. Like, how come I have 2k hours on the game but some 250 hour Andy have level higher than me because he played more since the release of 2. Might sound pathetic to compare this, but I wouldn't mention it if they didn't add the new system. Next thing was showing rank of players. This would also be okay if game didn't provided option to make your profile private. Now we can't see who we play against and only reason they hide it is because they are unable to do something about matchmaking, or are too lazy and do not care enough to do anything (probably second option). The endorsement mechanic that this game is completely useless and cosmetic. I'm almost always level 3 endorsement but I have to play with level 1 players, despite the fact that earning level 2 takes almost no effort. I have friend who played on season 4 and his level 2 did not drop when he returned to Overwatch in season 7. And these level 1 players are often not in voice chat and are one-tricking character, despite the fact they are getting countered or the team cannot play into that hero. At one time they also somehow managed to break endorsement menu by making all players same color so you didn't know who you played with unless you remembered their name. Currently, the game has ongoing issue of not being able to leave game as group when you are group leader, it just kicks you out even with box marked. This has worked for years, yet here we are. With addition of 3 Push maps, a little sneaky trick from devs made its way into the game. Push clearly has bigger chance to be picked when searching for a game, yesterday for example, I was forced to play Push, Payload, Push, with push being the SAME map BOTH times and Junkertown between them (Junkertown is a Widowmaker map, a one shot character that, unless your team is capable of countering it, has a domination over the map, therefore securing you easy defeat). And this is so obvious I'm really confused how it has not been addressed yet. This game also used to have gamemode called "Assault" which consisted of capturing 2 points. It was very hated and I personally don't miss it, but would trade it for a Push in a heartbeat. You can be winning for 7 minutes but if enemy team make one good push, then good luck getting the lead back in those 2 minutes you have left. Dev team made some very bad decisions including Orisa rework, addition of Wrecking Ball and remaking Doomfist into the tank. Skins cost ton of money, which is debate for another day, but the fact some skins are locked behind very expensive bundles is very concerning. Also the mega bundle that gets released every season and consist of few items like skins, 2000 coins, battle pass and 20 BP levels, always used to cost 29,99, which was somewhat acceptable price, still too much but according to game economy it would be literally steal to not buy it, have increased in price by 10 bucks thanks to the Invasion PvE missions last season. But no new mission were added this season yet price is still sitting on 39,99. Why, you may ask? Money. And that is all this game has become. Since the dev team got replaced on some spots, even papa Jeff Kaplan left, the game just hasn't been same since. Overwatch 1 was not perfect by any means. Smurfs, Goats, 2CP, lack of new content, SR system and much more has been a bane of my Overwatch carrer since 2017 anniversary when I picked this game to be my League of Legends, my VALORANT, my CS:GO. When this game become mine source of dopamine and my source for hatred of everything the said game stands for. I hate this game with burning passion, I abhor this game, I hate every Ball and Doom player that have a need to destroy my game, while being in my or in enemy team. I despise the devs that worship the altar of some Pharamercy shipper on twitter and twist the game's lore to make their weird, fetish fantasies reality (Yes, talking about you Gavin Jurgens-Fyhrie) so annoying that someone like this is the lead write for a game that had somewhat interesting premise and lore. You might see example A here: https://twitter.com/velocity_ow/status/1690266203829219328 . As you may notice by looking at profile picture, the person who Gavin is talking about is very obsessed with this weird ship. Devs also can't even get their lore right, as seeing how they stated Hanzo, Genji and Kiriko's ages. Hanzo is 40, Genji 37 and Kiriko 21. Nothing seems weird? Oh, I forgot to mention they trained together when they were kids. Yes, when Genji and Hanzo were around 14-17, Kiriko trained with them. The lore has become more of a "We have it because why not, we can at least sell PvE missions by bundles" than "Here is a somewhat interesting story for a FPS PVP hero shooter game that we want to design". Invasion Story has also been very "meh" so far. Instead of expanding the character lore, it's more focusing on "diversity good, racism bad". Like, I don't care one bit Rein made friends with Bastion, despite Bastion being walking minigun. I want to know what Talon wants to do and why the hell do I even care about Null Sector. Or I want to see some more Talon action in general, even if it would be just Sigma and Moira talking about some science stuff or Gabe and Amelie talking about who left the fridge door open. It's laughable how they put more effort into forcing a ship than fixing a lobby bug or getting their lore correct. I do not recommend Overwatch 2 at all. Do not play it, do not invest time into it, and by no means invest any money into it. That's exactly what devs want. Milk every penny they can out of this game before even whales give up and say they simply not care anymore. Play Fortnite or LoL instead. Fortnite has waaaay better economy and waaaaaaaay more content than Overwatch will ever have. It even has story from what I've heard. And League at least, for that 20 bucks, gives you not only skin you actually see whole game, but also other things like recall effects and sound effects and such. I didn't played much League, but I know this. This game is just not really worth it. With every season, new bug appears and devs simply don't care. They updated shop today but guess who still can't leave match with his group? I'm very sad and angry this game has become a cash grab and I hope people responsible will step on lego barefoot every day.

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+ I can't really think of anything besides workshop being a thing but that's work of players

- Literally everything I mentioned and more
- Smurfs are still a thing
- No balancing is taking place ever (Orisa got some ability nerfed by 5%, she is still immortal)
- Game really depends on Tank, if your Tank can't perform, It's gg no matter how good rest of the team is

Final Judgement


Go rather watch that 34 thing, artist there put way more effort into their works

How should I start. This game had one of the worst releases I've ever seen. I didn't played the game at the time because my PC couldn't handle it. However, I've seen roughly in what state the game was. There were players more or less satisfied with the state of the game and the other side was refunding and boycotting the game like there was no tomorrow. I didn't spread any negative opinions since I didn't played it yet, but I agreed with the angry side of the situation. It was only in 2022, that I got my hands on the game. For probably first 20 hours, I just couldn't enjoy the game. I was turning in on for like 15 minutes at one time, play around and turn it off. But after I got used to movement, gun-play, characters, story and watched some videos to understand how skills, combat and earning eddies works, I actually started to enjoy the game. I want to point out that before this moment came, I've watched Cyberpunk: Edgerunners , and the show made me give the game longer time to get used to. If you didn't see it yet, but you played or are thinking about playing this game, give the show a chance. If not before, watch it after you finish it. Now, for the state of the game, now being several days before the release of Phantom Liberty. The game is very much playable, although I want to say that the optimization is not really on the spot. I've decent PC, actually stronger than Recommended specs, and I get around 110 fps outside of the city, 80 in the less stacked parts of the NC and I can go as low as 45 fps when I reach place like Jig-Jig street. I try to play on the lowest possible graphic settings, got the same results. I've figured it could be caused by my CPU Intel Core i7 12700F that is bottle-necking the GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti . I'm not sure about it, but my GPU is showing basically no usage at all in the Task Manager when playing. Other than that, It's not that bad. The game still has several bugs that might be annoying at one point or another, but If you don't overload your game with too many mods, you should be fine. Yeah, the mods. You WANT the mods. One of the most useful mods I've ever installed is the one that lets you adjust your HUD. I also recommend, if you are already past few playthroughs, few mods to change clothing of some characters you meet. I found it refreshing on my second playthrough. When it comes to story, it really is up to each individual, to judge if you like it or not. I personally loved the premise of the story, I could really feel the raw emotions characters expressed and when you basically never leave V's point of view, you can really immerse yourself in the situation. A nice, slow ride trough the streets of the NC, while radio is playing some good tunes and rain is pouring on the roof of your car, neon lights from left and right, suddenly you get a holo-call from someone asking you to do another gig. The game really peaks at the moments like these. Regarding skills, you have several options for a builds, however you can only reach level 50 and the game doesn't allow you to refund the points invested in one of the main categories, so if you changed your mind mid-game, too bad. (There is a mod that enables the refund). Gun combat feels pretty good, but sometimes enemies feel a bit too much like a bullet-sponges, especially Adam Smasher . Driving is, how I said, decent, but when you reach some area with more props, cars or pedestrians, you might get stuck in a very weird way. I also want to point out that game has secret ending, that can only be achieved, if you picked few correct dialogue choices during one conversation and if you picked wrong ones, you either have to load the save or replay the whole game. And if you are on your first playthrough and don't want to spoil things, there is a big chance you will miss one and are locked out of the ending. I find it very frustrating because the it doesn't matter how much you do for Johnny, how many his optional quests you complete or how good your relationship with him is. If you picked one wrong decision during one conversation, too bad.

Please, when reading this review, have in mind it was written before Phantom Liberty and some of the things I mentioned might be fixed, changed or removed. I might edit, replace or add another review depending on how much will change and how much I will like it.

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+ Story
+ Graphics
+ Characters
+ Variety of choices that actually impact the ending and fate of characters

- Bugs (Yes, they are still there)
- Optimization
- Components Economy
- Clothing vary but there is not many combinations that actually looks good

Final Judgement


Was never said in the game