Recent reviews by hairo

Awesome game!! I had lots of fun with friends in launch week!
Thanks for making GOTY 2025 GGG!! This game rules !!

-6 classes and two ascended versions, more to come
-Exceptionally well crafted skill trees and gem systems that you can customize to your own liking!
-Lot of fun bosses and good balance in standart difficulty! Will test out hardcore later on!!
-Game mechanics plays exceptionally well they are very polished but still requires polishing!
-Ascension trial mechanics and boss mechanics shows that this game is indeed created with lot of thoughts and not called AAA because it is a modern title like %80 of the market of games out there! Mechs bring life to the game!
-Very visionary approach to game design overall in all branches and Gamer Friendly Developers!!
-Endless gameplay, fun with friends, estimated play time 750-1000 hours and more for veterans!
-I must sleep before I write a novel!! 10/10 2025GOTY

Most definitely a must buy! Honestly when I first saw the game's steam page where a white dude advertising a japanese setting game he made I was like naah xD But I saw it got out of early access so I wanted to give it a try. And to a pleasant surprise it wasn't bad as I thought. I like the progression in the game. It didn't overwhelm me at start and pacing felt just right. I can't really ask much more from a progression based game. I haven't yet played it all but of course a game should always thrive to be better. It seems to be in a somewhat polished state but you can't have enough details in a game like this. I hope they will spend another year or two of time to improve on this.

Yush after amazing first boss fight I can certainly recommend this game just watch how this review's gametime will increase over time!

There are 3 things that I don't like about this game though;

- No ultrawide support

- First sidequests were nice but things like carrying a wood or placing a bowl of food have no animations. Small details but game feels like its missing loving touch on that part. Although I gotta say first boss fight was amazing compared to those aspects so I guess thats how they optimized their workflow.

- And lastly it's kinda annoying that playing with JP dub and ENG sub, you realize that both languages have 2 different writings. As an example Clive in japanese writing has less emotions and kinda an unsocial guy where as in ENG sub he shows more expressions and often says thanks or sorry in conversations. So I kinda close my eyes to the sub to not get informed by two different scenarios at same time. Only when there are debate topics (Politics, situations, anything beside casual conversations) my japanese gets a little unsufficient to understand is when I continue to read ENG sub which is also more closer to japanese writing at those certain topics. I wish both language teams worked together on the writing part basically.

Conclusion: I love Final Fantasy games because I am a big enjoyer of fantastic worlds. FFXVI delivers just that in only a Final Fantasy game can so I love it. Besides what I wrote on top I also expect more RPG features in the future FF games which is a personal thing but I'd love to just have dialogue choices specifically in a Final Fantasy world. I hope they will continue to create successfull games like this and will keep improve upon this while sticking true to their roots and growing with time! I wish all of you good time playing this amazing game!

Cheers to devs for a solid launch! This game is very enjoyable and a great stress reliever <3 Can't wait to play more soon.

Made my pc act up and scared the hell out of me twice! after playing for some hours this late after release... I was waiting for it to get better but apparently this game wasn't build to last. I tried this on 5120x1440 ultra graphics but I can see that ultrawiding this game is a hazard for my pc...

specs 4070ti super ryzen 7 7800x3d 32gb ram m2ssd

Thanks for this great game Ghost of Sushi. I love it very polished game. Sony production quality is something else. Didn't skip on 32:9 and streaming doesn't work weird. Hardly any stutters or fps drops.

Now if only every game would be this quality...
Thanks for not ruining the game with dlc mess.

This was on my wishlist for long while and when I finally get it I ask myself why haven't I gotten it sooner.
Japanese setting is always beautiful and they created wonderfull landscapes.
Definitely recommend to play on Lethal.
Story is solid so far.
Nice gameplay.
Deserves price.

one thing I must say to sony is, shove that playstation sub required legend mode somewhere appopriate. don't sully suckerpunch studios work.

Brutal bus <3

TLDR: Definitely a must have DLC great graphics with sticking true to the roots, good angle on story but unimpressive new cast and scenario, tons of fun gameplay.

- Gonna say it straight up not a fan of Wuk Lamat the new hrothgal lead. She is extremely bland she is just a fun side character at best imo. So even though the take in the scenario where we are in a mentor position is good I just find Wuk Lamat is not a good disciple for WoL.

- Besides that graphics are just the way I'd love it, new textures lightning and style of choice brings your characters so so so much needed life into them! I wholeheartedly believe that. Even though this game is no where near realistic I swear to you, your characters will look photorealistic in certain angles and lights. Like it's really amazing to they managed to create this much life without tempering with the essence of characters. I love the new glams as well very subtly detailed nothing crazy over the top design choices, just simple beauties.

- Lastly the gameplay, I've so far cleared the first new dungeon only and can easily say there are improvements in the challenge of the mechanics in a fun way without making it unnecessarily harder. It seems to be just as yoship described them which is something I highly appreciate. Pictomancer is just as I imagined pure fun gameplay with a unique playstyle. I'm still leveling my viper but thats very fine too.

There is not much more review needed, new areas, gameplay, graphics are tons of fun with other detailed side content and some I guess not bad but not good story this DLC doesn't falter behind the previous DLC's. Next DLC must obviously increase the tension more hopefully but like I said this is a good pace change.

Give us 2 already

It's sad to see the amount of bad reviews about issues other than the actual game itself. Like Capcom literally shoot their foot with this one. For me though I've got decent performance with my rtx 2060 and ryzen 5 2600. I don't find the performance in an acceptable state but what I actually want to talk about is the game itself. I love the style of the game. Every boss or miniboss fight can look cinematic and the gameplay is a lot fun. Story is just there but with good twist at the end of the Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen's story. So purely enjoying the world and exploring is worthwhile imo. People didn't really like wayfarer but imo using all the weapons even without skills more than 3 is still enjoyable if you know how you wanna play and enjoy the game. Other than that the enemies could've been more varied but what's already in are very good and polished. Though except for the first hours there aren't many challenges in the game, I hope their next game can learn from the mistakes and make a deeper end game. If you liked the first game you'll definitely like this one if not wait for a sale but I highly recommend playing any Dragon's Dogma game once in your life.