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Undiscovered gem is a classic word and it´s so true about this game.
I did not enjoy the combat in Diablo games but loved combat in
Gauntlet. So if you want a mix between those two with some very nice
levels I really recommend you to try it out.

Its very enjoyable with a gamepad. It´s not really a lootershooter
and more of a oldschool hack and slash. I was competly surprised
of how good it looks.

Also playable in coop.

Story is meeh but the gameplay is solid and I´ve had quite
a nice time with it. And for 4,99 you can´t go wrong .

So easy to like and enjoy

Pawns
A fantastic thing that makes the world feel alive.
Basicly its a player created NPC that you can
send on quests into other players worlds. So in
my world I encounter lots of groups with Pawns
made by other players. And you can recruit up to
2 pawns except your own pawn. Then the knowledge
they learn while you have them on quests they
can then tell about for the player that created
them and help them in their adventures. Also when
you want to dismiss them you can send back a gift
to the player created them. So it´s a very different
way of using NPCs that started with Dragons Dogma 1.
I just adore this intelligent and different aproach
how to create a unique gameworld that really feels
alive in this way. So very many playercreated pawns
stand out so differently and you can add them to
a favorite list to hire them again to help you.



Animation system
The animations is what truly makes it
stand out and there is nothing like it.
Similar to Dark souls in terms of the grittyness
but more beautiful. It gives me a feel of animated
figures in terms of how many frames there is on the
characters when they move. So many games have few
frames for characters when the figure suddenly has
it sword in the enemy and then drawn out, no inbetween
movement. But that is what is striking with Dragons
Dogma 2.

Dark souls world feeling
(If you never played Dragons Dogma 1)
I hate Dark souls boss fights and would so enjoy
it if there was no tideous bosses where you need
to time attacks in a closed down area. Also the
crap that noone talks about in Dark souls is that
when you roll you are magically hitproof. That is
not the case in Dragons Dogma2. Also no bosses like
mentioned above.

Nature
The most beautiful nature I ever come across with
fantastic natural lightning. Its also that all
colours in the game is in harmony with every other
tree,object,armour,house,brick,window. Blends perfect
and makes it more real than any other. Very soft
and also how the daylight progress over the landscape.

It´s extremly diverse in terms of how the terrain
goes up and down with bridges,rivers,crossing
small canyons and even tiny streams. If I compare
it to Witcher3 that is extremly flat and does not
feel half as interesting in the topography as
Dragons Dogma2

My toplist over nature ingames:Dragons dogma2,Path of
titans,Arma reforger,The isles of Yore.


NPC chatter
Also both Pawns and enemies talk alot between them
and respond to each other. There was a wandering
Magician pawn being attacked and we help him.
Then when we continued our path he got ambushed
again by another enemy that killed him. Then we
shoot that barbarian warrior and when he got hit
he scream out loud "I will not die like this" and
fell to the ground.

Quests "Time is of urgency"
You cant stack up as many quests as you want like
in Skyrim and other games, because it´s a living
world and they will dissepear from if you wait to
long with it and will no longer be valid because
the questgiver has solved it or is not interested
anymore.

Exploring at its finest
There is no GPS system built in like in Reddead2
with a line to follow how to get to a certain
location, this you need to find out by yourself
and I absolutely love it. It´s refreshingly
frustrating that when you walked a road for a
certain amount of time just to notice that the
bridge is broken or that is massive river in
the way that is not possible to pass. Or why
not just a giant minotaur roaming the area and
will possible kill your whole group.

"Flee to fight...a little later"
Sometimes when I encounter a Cyklop or something
else that is to much for me and my group to chew
on. I just retreat and start to dash to another
band of travellers on the road and then we together
take on the creature or enemies.

Night "The horrors of the night"
One thing that is fantastic is that it really
is so much scarier travelling by night because
there will be different kind of enemies roaming
around in the night that. At one time I was ha(u)nted
down by ghosts in the forest and killed. So I had to
take another path since I didnt have a magician in my
group to get help killing them.

Wandering monsters
I was travelling with my group in the forest when
suddenly a massive giant cyklop stomped by. It was
such a fantastic and also scary thing to see. So
many games have scripted or is agro dependency but
this giant was just walking around in and not just
waiting for agro because it does not react to me being
just a bit away.

Only one savefile possible
But you actually have two characters created since
you have your pawn aswell. It would just be fun
to be able to have at least 3 different saves with
different characters created. No clue why its like
that.

+ Good character customization
+ Can hide clothes and look at a nice ass while running
- Uninspiring cartoonish landscape
- Not real open world, if u travel to far without having proceded in story you will get killed after 10seconds
- When you are running Deers and rabbits will spawn in right in front of you.
- NPCs dont travel around so much and just stand still in the world waiting for you to kill them, they also dont react if you shoot at them.
- Horrible looking playerbuilt houses. Probably not because of the players and more about what is possible to create.
- MASSIVE install at 85GB that is hard to explain since it really does not really good graphics.

If you enjoy ARK survivals gameplay and the style its created in and dont mind npcs that wonders around back and forth short distances this is for you. Except I think combat in ARK has more too it.

I enjoy games where I can feel immersed into the world. This is not one of those :)
One creature was quite interesting that looks like a bus but with legs and arms walking around in town and following the roads, seems inspired by the catbus in Totoro.

This is my animal sim dreamgame, except textureclipping where you sometimes can walk inside mountains with turkoise colour which breaks immersion and that its finicky animal control and you cant really zoom in so much.

But if we pretend none of those problems and the freezes didnt exist its a very charming animal game where you can choose between lots of different animals and just enjoy being different ones like foxes,raccoons,bears,eagles and so on. I recommend you to buy it and try it regardless of me leaving a negative review. But that is based on that the developer didnt want to finish the game and left it in this unoptimized state.

It has been very unoptimized since the day I bought it. I still get freezes for short times even on my new computer which I can play Path of titans on max, The isle, Arma reforger on medium.

Its a broken promise by the deaed after he didnt want to use the unity engine anymore and talked about learning unreal engine. Unfortunatly and sadly his cat died. So he choosed to skip developing this further because of that and will instead make a game about his cat if I understood it correcly.

My tip is to turn off the antialias. but you can still get lagspikes.

DONT BELIEVE POSITIVE REVIEWS, THEY ALL LIE!!

-Buggy mess.
Its riddled with bugs and its so depressing because the gameworld is so fantastic but its "Amateur night" behind the developers of the online game. utter garbage. I tried to enjoy it with my dear friend at all costs for 48hours and its only okey to play if you dont expect anything. Just ride around in the world and hunt. Thats what working without problems, and only that.


- Hackers turns you into UFOs when you play.

The hackers are all over the game and destroy all fun.

- Flawed Paid content, I craete a group with my friend. I take a wanted poster. She gets the mission and a waypoint and I see nothing. We reach the wanted criminals. I see 3 men on horses and she instead sees 4 men on horses AND A WAGON. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up garbage game where you cant even complete missions that you paid to be able to play.

- No immersion. You got 5 emotes and your characters are all mutes including all players you meet. This makes it feel extremly shallow and pityful.

If you buy it regardless, just dont expect anything because the
developers didnt care to fix the bugs or tackle the problems with all the hackers.

DONT BELIEVE POSITIVE REVIEWS, THEY ALL LIE!!

Waste of money because the first puzzle will get you stuck for hours. It´s just infurriating. Perhaps it can be worth to buy if you can get a save file that you can load further into the game.

I played this for more than 3hours with two different friends and we can not in any way manage to get past the first puzzle with the symbols. I played it with a english speaking person (both of us are not native english speakers) I also tried it with my best friend that I usually play lots of game that speaks the same language as me, namely swedish. It just seemed bugged because it cant be that hard but according to all positive reviews it seems we are one of the fews that hasnt gotten past the first puzzle.


+ Fantastic atmosphere
+ Really nice idea

- Horrible first level and noway to skip it that I know off., cant speak about the other levels.

Interactive film with gameplay elements.

The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and longest most retarded tutorial & intro I ever played in my whole life. It seems it´s aimed towards people that never ever played a first person shooter before. Problem is that you can´t skip it. Press X to crouch , press X to open door, press X to climb ladder, press X climb into the vent system, press X to stealthkill. And then you also have to every 5th minute need to change facemask so you dont get out of oxygene, that part is just superboring to do and not a feature that makes the game more fun. Why not add press LEFTTRIGGER to walk forward with left leg and RIGHTTRIGGER to walk forward with right leg.

- Tutorial & intro (First level )
- Artyom is a mute and has no voice (Perhaps its a part of this game based on the book but I dont remember him being a mute inthe first book that I read about Metro)

- Arcady action. If you start to run during a cutscene mixed with playable action where youre overwhelmed with monsters you can just run past all of it and they will dissapear without following you and the story will continue. very silly.

- Storytelling
Very oldschool retro feeling over how the game is progressing with forced cutscenes you can´t skip even though some scenes can be skipped. I come from games where you can still play when characters talk to you overall or that you can speed up the text and such. It just feel very old and outdated in terms of storytelling.

+ Open world And that it will not hold your hand with questmarkers and crap that is lithered all over minimaps and crap in other games. Thats the reason I bought it. Problem is haha that I havent managed to get past the tutorial & intro yet because I try to treat it as an openworld and I of course then constantly die if I dont do as it´s scripted and how the developers wanted me to play the game. So you need to at least spend about an hour to get past this part I guess until you reach the open world part.

So based on my feeling for it so far its garbage haha.

Update:
Afte been playing sidequests and exploring the one at 30h+ I went back to the mainquest
And I wondered why I stopped doing it.I was supposed to join an assault at Garbage and Elimante bandits. So now when I looked back I saw that I finished all objectives except tone of the objectives in the middle namely "Eliminate the bandits", because it was broken.

And since the game has only a limited set of save files I didnt have any of the old ones where I was about to do that mission anymore so I had to replay THIRTY HOURS of gameplay o_O

I´m totally shocked that it´s so broken. I really don´t dare to touch it until again until it has received quality updates so mainmissions don´t break.

I´ts not possible to recommend it where the mainstory breaks. Perhaps it only happens to few players but it´s extremly irrititating since I´m one of those players that hate to replay scripted stories.



Update: I actually downloaded som A-Life mod fixes thats made by the community and also fixes stuttering on my potatoputer and now the ai feels quite believable even though I know its just a workaround . So its worth a thumbs up because the modders, and also since the Devs made it moddable (Like they did with the other Stalker games in the series :)
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- Npcs are very broken and quite often spawn close to you and makes it not feel like an alive world.

Perhaps it´s not functioning like this but that is how it feels. I had some problems making it run good since I use a GTA 970 which is quite an old card but I installed som tweaks mod and fiddled with the settings and I think it runs okey even though I think it would be nice to see an option to see the FPS in a corner.

So far I enjoy the Call to pripyat more than this because the Ai does not randomly spawn around you. But its not far to compare them because this is such a hugely bigger game and also the developement of those games where not created during a time when nations you belonged to were at war. All that crap burdens pple in the extreme. Regardless of whatever I´m sure the Ai that is supposed to handle the NPCs will be fixed over time. So I will probably wait a bit until more patches has come that will take care of this.

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It´s so bland and uninenteresting gameplay that I forgot it directly after I uninstalled it.
I allmost played it an hour and feelt it was so boring and lackluster. I´m kind of dumbfunded why it has so many good reviews. Very mediocre gameplay with no atmosphere and feeling. It´s very wellmade graphics and also the gamemechanics works well. But it just falls short of giving me a feel of "Perhaps I should do the dishes or continue my campaign play in "Put name of other game you like here".

Other games I feelt something for but feel strongly it was pure garbage are:
Killing floor 2 (Super boring arena shooter and more than 40gb install for no reason)
Vermintide 2 (The true feeling of boredom and being an unstoppable hero, Epic graphics)
Deathwing (Fantastic graphics with stupified dumbeddown hordeshooting with no tactics"
MadMax (Good atmosphere of being in MadMax world, None openworld with lackluster combat)

I was surprised that you had to play it tactical in fights and that you also have a squad to command.
It feelt so oldschool and cozy. But I stopped play when I got shoot through the doorway when the enemy couldnt see me. I´m probably used to pixelperfect shooters and. I will try it again and I can just recommend you to do that aswell if you want a nice tactical shooter with a story. You cant go wrong since its free. Also I think its worth paying for it even if its not my cup of tea so much. I love Bohemia softwares games and Swat4.