Recent reviews by GG's Jane

some glitches, some very annoying (that requires restart sometimes) and some benign

overall a pretty cool game, the mmo side of things is really fun and while it lacks a lot in ways to communicate, discord servers and the text chat mod do the job

a superb soundtrack, with old favourites and new songs that are just as good

it has a lot to improve on, be it features it lacks (like main quest progression resets, a base text chat, etc) or just functioning properly (power armor glitch, ragdolls disappearing to repop later) but it's still a solid game, a very addictive one at that too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nearing 200 hours in one month makes me feel weird

Installed it at first to go out with someone but I found fun in it

The movement for the characters relying on it is awesome. You have so many geometry interactions available that Tracer or Lucio have multiple map paths to get somewhere.

The gameplay is very fast paced, and you need to be wary of many many things to not die (especially if you play a very low health character)

There's a character for every playstyle, and while some characters have advantages over others, everything is doable. You can just pick one hero and ram through every thing, no matter the counter pick of the enemy.

This all mixed really makes a unique fps, it reminds me of the fond times I had on Quake or Xonotic.



However MANY things needs to be worked on:

The in-game purchases is really bad, I can only hope it goes better now that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Kotick is gone and Microsoft has come in, but I am NOT paying 25 euros for a bundle composed of one (1) skin, two animations and a key-chain. I never bought Overwatch 1 because I just couldn't spend money in it (and it was only 20!!!!!!!!!!) and to see all additionnal content be locked through these horrid prices really removes a layer of the game.

The progression is slow. This is god-awful. The game is fast-paced, fights are quick but the games are long (and can even go as far as 40 minutes!) Your reward for winning this time-consuming match? One (1) battlepass level, and if you're very lucky, maybe your character progression will go up too!! This is just bad. There's like 1k levels per characters and you have to play a full hour to merely get it up to the next level once you reach level 15.

Also, ♥♥♥♥ ranked progression.
The ranked progression is also disgustingly bad. I sincerely hate this ♥♥♥♥. They announced a rework for season 9 and finally. Your rank (as of writing this review) will not update unless you get 5 wins or 15losses/draws, whichever happens first. When games can be 40 minute long, having it update when I do that 5 times MINIMUM is INSANE. Like what the hell were you thinking????? Let's also talk about the fact that if you lose one of these long games, you won't get shown your ranked progression. The 15 losses threshold is so high that you just don't give a ♥♥♥♥ if you lose. This game never happened and you'll have the exact same thought 8 times before winning 5 times and seeing all of this entire work, which could have probably taken you an entire week if you have other occupations, finally show you a BIG ASS MIDDLE FINGER TO YOU and shows the same rank, as you may have updated visually your rank by wins, but it actually updated all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So you just won back your MMR basically. So nothing changed. You played like 7 COMPETITIVE games, each varying between 10 minutes and ONE full hour, (maybe even more!!!!!!) To have your rank, THE REASON YOU'RE PLAYING COMPETITIVE TO SEE WHERE YOU AT COMPARED TO THE WORLD, STAY THE EXACT SAME. (You got like 5 battlepass levels though congratulations!! Nearing the 200 already!!)

Oh and the challenges suck. Second most thing I hate in this game after Competitive Progression. They're not rewarding, they're easy as ♥♥♥♥, always the same, for everyone, every day, every week, play 3 games while queued for"All Roles", then do some damage numbers and maybe some healing too!! That's it. Challenges are supposed to make me wanna try something, maybe fun idk, but right now they're all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lame.
How hard is it to have specific ♥♥♥♥? Adding some "Kill 10 guys while being in the air", "Pick X Character and do 2 elims with one use of the X ability"???? Make it fun, make it specific, make it rewarding, make it new just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ change that system yours clearly is useless

The only part of the game that is fun is the gameplay (and lore kinda)
Why have all this UI then?? Nothing ever moves, all the level bars stay the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ same and occasionally they play a sound effect. If you add extra to the game maybe make it also fun idk this seems logic.

I recommend this game because I really do have fun playing it, but only because I'm with friends or having a really really good day. Everything that's supposed to keep you in the game sucks balls.

I was not gonna buy this at first but it grew on me

Unlike many fans of the franchise, I had a really really good time with the sixth main opus after 1 hour of play. It looks stunning, online works (can't get it to work on 5 LastRound so I guess that's better) and the new input is cool, I enjoy it a lot, not only can it work as a combo tool but also as a get away as it stuns your opponent

Perfect to play with some friends,

My most favourite game of all time

The art is beautiful, it really gets that Jet Set Radio, Hover, Sunset Overdrive, Lethal League vibe and is something I actively seek in games

The OST is awesome. That’s it, don’t have to argue there The Soundlings was my most listened artist this year on spotify

The controls are so simple, so intuitive! You have a sprint, a dodge, a ball form, a throw and a pass button. Just those few buttons add a lot of depth to every interaction, everytime you’re in a 1v1, you have so many choices:
it has so much depth while still being fair to everyone, the game is purely winnable on reflexes alone

Every map has a little gimmick: Trains, cars, wrecking ball, spinning doors which can ruin a flank/escape, cage ball turrets, litterally 5 maps in one with holowood drive-in

There’s just no end to it I could praise this game all day:

- The game has new gamemodes every 4 weeks, like you can't grow tired of it I swear
- Contests on Discord! (I'm mostly referring to that cool art one Gorndt did where you could design an outfit)
- Velan community manager Lynn's chronicles are always a blast to read every week
- The devs are really really cool, listen and you can sometimes play with them (either because you got matched with them or you "won" a private match against them)

Got this game some time ago but as soon as I played it it won my heart.

Psychonauts has this really adult cartoon humour you'd find on adultswim and at the same time it stays childish, it's enjoyable by everyone, adults and children.
It has a lot of perks that makes this game the way it is :

- The soundtrack is awesome. It conveys perfectly the emotion you feel in this specific level, the ambiance, the theme, everything. They really did a perfect job with this. (Though why is not every track included in the soundtrack is still a mystery to this day.)

- The artstyle is really loveable. It grows on you and soon after the weird design of the characters doesn't shock you that much, you really feel like this is what an actual human looks like the time of a playthrough.

- The characters are all awesome. Some are just a big bag of stereotypes (kinda like TF2) and this is probably my favorite thing about all these characters, they're all funny in their own ways and it's just reinforced even further with the absurd artstyle of some.

- The theme of the game itself ! I'm a big fan of everything that touches psychology, and the simple concept of travelling through people's mind is something everyone must've dreamed of at least twice. Going on every spirit and finding every little detail : background stories, memories, insecurities ; it's such a cool thing to explore, even more so with the absurd artstyle that puts big cartoony pieces of meat in Raz's mind.

I could really praise this game for more ! It deserves it, this game aged so well. If the artstyle is making you hesitate, please give it a shot !