Recent reviews by Ryzoe

Alright, so this is a painful review. Playing Darksiders 2 on console could've been a memory living forever in my head, but that has been completely tainted by the sour taste of this remaster. I can't finish it, I can't do it. Between the bugs, crashes, out dated and self-sabotaging combat, I just can't do it anymore.
Cons: Cause bad news first.
-Bugs, bugs galore. Not like animation bugs, but pause menu bugs. Pausing the menu sometimes keeps the foggy overlay when unpausing, you are stuck there. Nothing works.
-A similar bug/issue is UI lock. Suddenly you can't swap your items or abilities, pause doesn't work. And this happens randomly unprompted.
- Certain very basic yet very vital things do now work in some cases. For me it was a ring beneath the long bridge in the Dead Kingdom. You have to use a series a rings to pull yourself here, however you cannot pull yourself back and fast travel doesn't work so...ya stuck. Only way out was to restart last save, which surprise, surprise, i didn't do by choice.

Higher Difficulty = bigger HP sponges, not a real challenge, save yourself the trouble.
Pros:
The story setting is fantastic. The voice acting isn't half bad. Pacing isn't half bad.
Pro/Con: It is as it's core a hack-n-slash with puzzle elements. The puzzles are fun and challenging, but sometimes those puzzles are a little inflated for what the game is trying to do. At several points you have to throw a bomb to yourself through a portal to solve the puzzle, but it doesn't aim the bomb at you unless you are standing at a certain points.
So you can throw the ball to yourself 30 times, miss every time, not believing it's the answer till your a mental break down and 7 shots deep trying things all over again.

Aight review time. Pros first.
So the aesthetic of this game is phenomenalm, Villedor and all its glory is a pretty place to explore. The world feels alive, and you could almost imagine a place like this existing in the real world. 10/10
The story...-eh, right? Like it's kinda all over the place, but its pretty damn good for what it is in a post apocalyptic setting. 8/10
Now that we got that ♥♥♥♥ out of the way lets talk about gameplay.
Gameplay 5/10 maybe 4/10, maybe less depending on your perspective and how you play. I've played DL1, Mirrors Edge, Mirrors Edge 2. In short I've played parkour games. And So far this is the most counter intuitive parkour system I've ever played. Before I go down that route, I want to start with how Survivor Sense, which is a base mechanic in the game, much like DL1 is helps you find things and get around. They have taken 3 steps back with this Survivor Sense is the most unresponsive mechanic, no matter what button you put it on you find yourself spamming and pausing the game to figure out why the ♥♥♥♥ aint working.
Cons:
Now, with that at its base the parkour system follows the same logic, DL1 had its issues, but not to this degree. Like in DL1 I never had the issue of wall running on a wire, or getting stuck in one spot while trying to climb because I'm milimeters too far to the left to grab the ledge.
Most of the abilities seem wack, like there's an ability called Crowd Runner and another ability called Bash, both have the description of allowing you to run through crowds of zombies the only difference being that you press a different button. Like...what?
Honestly, for what it is I wouldn't recommend this to my friends, I want to enjoy it but I find myself just becoming frustrated too often when I try to jump ON a small object, but the parkour system makes me jump OVER it and I fall to my doom. Or I try to grab a ledge but wind up wall running to my doom.
It's like the development team was on too different pages when deciding the scaling of the parkour.

In short, it's a fun game, but it has it's issues, maybe sometime down the line I will recommend this to someone, but now now. I may edit this in the future but for now, this be it.

I wanna love this game, I wanna recommend it, but it's got so many bugs I can never seem to beat it. I always get frozen at some point in some cutscne thats suppose to play, most recently Blindsighted. I even bought the Special Edition thinking it would fix this issue. I mean it's a good game, I'm just the unfortunate one encounter every gamebreaking bug.

I am...so late on this train, I played Fallout 3, 4, and a lil bit of 76 and New Vegas is by far the best Fallout game. HOWEVER, it's not without it's issues. Narrative and content is on point, but there's crashes...crashes left right and center, stutters, lags, etc etc. I blame Bethesda, though they didn't really have creative influence over the game, they did rush it out the door cause I think Obsidian was doing things they didn't even consider. The theme is darker than most Fallout titles, even the good endings don't feel like you want, which is what you'd expect in a chaotic post-apocalyptic world. I recommend, play it for yourself, this is how I feel, don't @ me.

Nastolgia bliss really, even though this game came out not too long ago, still plays good, if not better than it was before.