In a year filled with great games, this is still my favorite game so far, somehow. Combat can feel clunky at times, but honestly the level design and the exploration is impeccable, plus SHODAN is such an unsettling villain.
I was quite surprised when I saw the reviews settling at mid-70s on average. Don’t let that scare you away, but bear in mind no hand-holding in this one.
I agree wholeheartedly, I haven’t played any Zelda before BotW and based purely on reviews you’d think it’s the second coming, but then it’s just kind of a cool open-world puzzle game with truly atrocious combat system. It feels like some people just love bland and uninspired as long as it has Zelda branding.
Probably one of my favorite MJ songs
He will never recover financially from this
Ngl made me chuckle
Just finished Sleeping Dogs, strange hybrid game from 2012. On one hand story mission structure from GTA games, melee combat emblematic of that era (focused on countering like Batman: Arkham or early AC games), shooting feels terrible and it borrows heavily from Max Payne. Then you have Hong Kong setting, but the game is made by a Western studio which allows for more graphic violence than say Yakuza series. All in all recommended for open world aficionados, who enjoy that GTA-feeling story, but definitely the ideas become stale after around 3-4 hour mark.
Went back to RDR2, almost 75 hours in and still not even close to finishing main story.
I wouldn’t say 76 is a mediocre score. Just looking at Opencritic of this year, the median score on PS5 is 73, so AC Mirage is at least better than the median. Now, I know game scores are skewed horrendously and barely any outlet uses full scale (more like half of it at most), but still 70 is probably closer to an idea of mediocre. It’s all subjective though, but it is fun to try and make sense of it all