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A rather mediocre experience. The story isn't as impactful as people made it out to be. The villains barely received any screentime to shine, just like the friends that we are supposed to care about. Gameplay is fine, albeit a bit too repetitive. The hardest difficulty plainly wasn't playtested for some of the story missions, some moments were truly cancer-ridden. The takedown mechanic also refuses to work half the time. In one particular case, I failed to kill the last enemy in an outpost and got one-tapped. This incident would repeat itself one way or another throughout the game. But the worst part were the constant game crashes. I'm not surprised anymore, that's just Ubisoft for you.

Bethesda has to be up there as one of the most creatively bankrupt companies to ever exist. Even to this day, they cling to their 5 minutes of fame generated through Skyrim. Looking back at their self-proclaimed magnum opus, it's nothing to write home about. Half the game takes place in caves, and the other half in your inventory. That's not an exaggeration. It's essentially Tomb Raider for the mentally challenged. The leveling system is a complete joke, you can easily exploit the hell out of it which is something I even picked up on when I was a kid. It shows how incompetent the developers behind this game were when a child can play your code like a fiddle. Todd, this game is ♥♥♥♥, stop being proud of it.

This game gave me cancer. There is not a single redeeming quality about it. Story, characters, gameplay, side content, combat, stealth, parkour, it's all terrible. I know it takes place in France, but that is not an excuse to have it be literal fecal matter. Previous AC games gave you the option to purchase maps so every collectible item became visible on the map, this one doesn't. So you can imagine how unpleasant of an experience it is if there are over 400 collectibles to gather. The 'riddles' and murder mysteries are also godawful. A bunch of cryptic ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ combined with popups that overlap on your hud. The biggest pain is knowing that nobody was fired over this level of incompetence. Thanks for adding achievements though, I love torturing myself with crap like this. Dear Ubisoft, I'll be awaiting your upcoming bankruptcy with great anticipation. Good riddance!

Everything revolving around the batmobile and the Riddler drastically drags this game down. The worst is when the two are combined, giving you some of the worst 'challenges' to ever exist in any of the Arkham games. Looking back at the plot, it's just ridiculous. Scarecrow throughout the story has an insane level of plot armor. At least on three different occasions, the game could have ended prematurely with Batman taking him in. But I understand, we need the toxin man to be the main baddy for this one. And once we reach the end, we can have him stand all alone in a room, no guards around him whatsoever, now we can abolish his plot armor. What a joke. And speaking of jokes, I probably don't need to go into detail about how moronic the concept of the Joker virus is. Even if it was sort of foreshadowed in Arkham City, in actuality it's just an excuse to bring back Mark Hamill.

Horrible. It would take upwards of 2000 hours to get all achievements in this Candy Crush rip-off. I'm saying 'would' because half of the achievements are broken. That aside, the devs fight tooth and nail to squeeze the very last penny out of you. Later levels become practically impossible to beat unless you activate several boosters and buy additional turns. I could excuse the insidious greed if it wasn't for the mandatory grind and lackluster state. The game has long been abandoned.

It's trash, plain and simple. The only thing that works in this game are the character dynamics and the humour. Everything else is a bloody mess. The game performs like ass, the gameplay is repetitive, the story itself is a mere afterthought. The worst parts are these long-winded boss fights that just never end. Once I reached the Superman boss fight, I was convinced that none of this ♥♥♥♥ was ever playtested.

And the worst offenders by far are these idiotic side missions that make up 75% of the game. I could handle them just recycling the same crap over again, but they went one step further and introduced the most infuriating mechanic that just drags the length like chewing gum. I'm referring to 'Enemies only take damage from X'. Whoever decided that this should be the main parameter for all side missions deserves a special place in hell.

Truth be told, this game deserves a negative review for having an advanced rainbow flag alone. But I can look over this brain-rotten ideology if the game was at least decent. It's far from it. They didn't even come up with a proper ending. How could they? It's obvious that the story wasn't high on the list of priorities. Usually, I would post this review after I'm done with all achievements. However, I'm currently in the grinding phase for the last few which will take me longer than anticipated. Like I said, none of this was playtested. So if enemies act as bullet sponges or you get downed by a single blow, that's just how it is. ♥♥♥♥ this game and the people responsible for it. 3€ down the drain.

It's the second game all over again just shorter and worse. Frankly, it feels like a DLC. They didn't bother improving any of the gameplay issues, they just added more. The crab vehicle you use to navigate the hub area is a clunky mess. Half the missions are awful racing, while the other half are some mech suit levels. The developers were so utterly lazy, that they decided to recycle every single mech level, forcing you to access each of them twice with an alternative mech. The only positive I can give this game is that it's a short torture to sit through.

Rockstar can add as much detail as they want, I won’t give this game a positive review after all the ♥♥♥♥ they put me through. The requirements for getting 100% achievement completion are just pure anguish.

Online Mode is a disaster with a broken economy, an awful grind for revenue, and terrible design. The reward system is a joke. You get more money and gold for spending an extraordinary amount of time on a mission. So I’m forced to idle for half an hour to reap the maximum reward. And what do I get? Barely enough to afford one weapon or a piece of clothing. And all of this just because Rockstar wants to milk you with microtransactions. ♥♥♥♥ right off.

As for Story Mode, yes it is a masterpiece with a grand level of immersion. However, the amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thrown at you for the prior mentioned achievements is an utter piss-take. I'm not having a great time when I’m forced to close and load into the game 20-30 times just to document a single animal out of the 200-something. The amount of stuff you have to do is already absurd, but introducing a random number generator into the mix? I must have browsed through hundreds of tutorials for this game alone, just to accomplish a menial task.

You eventually hit a point where the immersion building in this game becomes tedious. An animation for looting every single item in a cupboard, skinning a variety of different animals, or a general slow-pacing for absolutely everything is just testing my patience when I’m forced to see it for the hundredth time.

As awful as Online Mode is with hackers ruining your experience or even causing your entire game to crash, at least it has a ton of gunplay. In retrospect, there is little shooting action in Story Mode. At least by comparison. I don’t just want to watch characters yapping for the sake of world-building, I demand action. Especially from a game that is supposedly set in the Wild West.

Why transfer Half-Life to the Unreal Engine when you're not going to improve anything? The game runs like ass, combat and physics are far worse than in the Source Engine. What is even the point? 7 years and this is what you're proud to present? Just chug the whole thing into the bin at this point. After playing this, I have a much greater appreciation for the original Half-Life games.

Can't be bothered to finish this garbage. I made it to the forest and I believe that's far more playtime than this game deserves. Take away the story and atmosphere and you're left with gameplay that takes the piss out of you at every turn. If you're not searching for the needle in a haystack to make progress, you're stuck at one of the convoluted 'puzzles'. There were numerous moments in this game where I would run around like a headless chicken trying to figure out what to do next. The devs thought that giving an objective reminder would be enough but it isn't. If I have to spend half an hour looking for some item or the right way to make any progress, that's awful game design. Your game is ♥♥♥♥, you don't need to artificially stretch it by adding unnecessary backtracking. And don't even get me started on those horrible platforming sections. You're often unable to make clean jumps without getting blocked by some prop. I highly doubt this was playtested whatsoever. The Steam page claims that it takes 8 hours to finish this game. But that's mostly because players usually don't know what to do. That's highly misleading. Whatever, at least this ♥♥♥♥ came with no achievements and was free. The degenerate furry inflation man on YouTube oversold this game, it's actual ♥♥♥♥.