Recent reviews by K2

Every moment and every new level, my girlfriend and I were saying "This is so cool!"

11/10, Hazelight once again shows us another banger. GOTY for sure already.

Please focus on bug fixes before adding more features to the game. My girlfriend and I love this game but it's incredibly frustrating to experience so many bugs.

After getting rid of the halloween decorations, there's some massive game breaking bugs that occur in multiplayer:
- Players who join the host cannot put food up on the serving table. They fall on the floor.
- If the host puts a dish on the menu and serves it with the serving tray, other joined players can pick up the same dish off of the floor. The serving table then is serving a dish, without the model of the dish, and the player can re-store the same dish for later use.
- Staff do not continue working (aside from washing dishes) past closing time. Once the final guest has left they no longer continue to collect money and dishes.
- Kebab Wraps unwrap every time after loading the game
- Bins from the Industrial Metal Shelving and Industrial Sink appear after loading the game, even if the items are in the players' inventory.
- Skewers model increase in size when joined players (not the host) pick them up.
- Counter corners do not snap properly, only one side of the counter corner snaps.
- Selling Knife Blocks will keep the knives in your space.
- Selling Frying Machines will keep the frying baskets in your space.

EDIT: Nov 17
This game is getting worse and worse with every hotfix.
- Multiplayer is completely broken now. Complete de-sync with other players. Players can't move, access menus, literally do anything.
- Everything that was previously placed correctly into drawers or kebabs has been completely jumbled. All of our hard work prepping food has gone to complete waste.
- NPCs no longer do anything.

The halloween update completely broke the game. Just re-instate the previous build you had before Halloween. I wish I could ask for a refund at this point because this game is literally unplayable (I actually can't even access menus to leave the game if I wanted to, I had to alt+f4).

Cute game, but level design is really bad. Most of the pathways between mission to mission gets really annoying. Having to go through your farm, through town, then out to explore the world (without having to fast travel) seems like bad design. The map is also pretty useless since I have to assume where the pathways are compared to the actual map.

Other than that, gameplay is meh and kind of unforgiving if you are like my girlfriend and usually don't play video games.

I'm back doing my part

The only good thing that came out of this game is it revolutionized the 3d porn industry

I wish I could give this a mixed review instead of a thumbs up, but it's definitely not that bad of a game so it doesn't deserve a thumbs down. First, if your graphics driver is out of date, expect this game to crash randomly a LOT. I didn't figure that out until about 20 hours into the game, and I had barely any resources online telling me otherwise. On to the game...

It's a little annoying, but the gameplay is fun. I really enjoyed steep and was hoping that this would live up to its reputation, but there's a lot of things missing from steep that didn't carry over here which I really don't understand. In Steep, you progressively gained money to buy your character different boards or skis, jackets, hats, etc. A lot of the equipment wasn't behind a paywall that's also extremely limited depending on what's being sold that week in the shop. Everything was there, and if it wasn't you had to unlock it. I truly enjoyed that about steep because I could even change the different boots I had on my board, rather than a complete set. I hate that they changed that system into this, where all of your gear is ranked and some gear are more obviously better than others, creating a meta that top players would use just to get the fastest times instead of showcasing pure skill.

Second, graphics are worse in riders republic than steep. I don't even know how that's possible, but the snow trails that players would leave in deep snow don't even show that well in this game compared to steep. It's obvious that the game was made half-assed with the intention of living up to steep, but doesn't even bother to retain some of the best parts about it.

Lastly, like many other Ubisoft games now, the unskippable dialogue and cringeworthy writing is terrible. Everything is supersaturated like some sort of advertisement for a hot wheels game. Ubisoft has a very unclear target demographic for this game since it fails to master the racing and extreme components to the hardcore players, and fails to make it arcadey for the kids. It has a little bit of an identity crisis, but hey, that's most of Ubisofts games nowadays.

As an aspiring game developer who wants to enter Ubisoft's NEXT competition for upcoming developers to win an internship there, man I don't know about working for them someday. I'm giving this a generous 7/10 only because I love MTB and Snowboard racing in real life.

You buy some beer for the crew before a mission? Rock and Stone.
You pass out because you drank too much? Rock and Stone.
You mine some Nitra? Rock and Stone.
You ping the Compressed Gold? Rock and Stone.
You order a resupply? Rock and Stone.
You get downed by that resupply? Rock and Stone.

This is the best community in the world because of 3 words. Rock and Stone.

This is a certified hood classic

I've loved the Gundam series for the longest time, and to see a brand new Gundam game come out in North America has finally been a dream come true. It seems that most negative reviews come from random game crashes, which to be fair will be fixed in the coming weeks.

For those trying to see a fair review, it plays extremely well, even on my fairly old PC with a 1060 and i7-7700k. It's very fast paced and you'll get punished often for standing still or waiting for enemies to come to you. It still needs some balancing; some ultimate abilities and skills seem pretty confusing to use or unviable in certain situations, but overall the playable characters aren't too widely unbalanced. Furthermore, the communication system is pretty great and teammates can easily see what the objectives are in order to win. It's a great take on a modern FPS that fits in the gundam universe, my only gripe with it is the lack of characters. With time, I'm sure that won't be a problem either. I look forward to the future of Gundam Evolution!

So now that I’ve completed the initial story up to the end of season 1 of Alicization, I feel like it’s fair for me to write a review and I’ll point out the first few problems right away. I also provide a link to my gameplay below.

- I didn’t have any performance issues, and I’m assuming that’s because I turn off V Sync when I start any brand new game.
- I noticed the camera is absolutely garbage. Sometimes it would freak out and look directly at the sky when I’m attempting multiple commands between party members, and speaking of which
- Your party members are pretty much useless without you providing any input. Unlike Hollow Realization where you can sort of shape your party members into their roles, this game doesn’t make them do anything. I constantly have to switch in between them to make them NOT just stand there.
- There is a colossal amount of dialogue in the first chapter (The first season of alicization). Some people may like this, but this is especially noticeable in the swordcraft academy and ending. I kid you not, in my 20 hours of playtime I’ve probably only played about 5. There's so much dialog that I would simply put the text running on auto and leave to go do things around my room. I managed to make lunch, eat, and clean my room in the span of one dialog. Seriously. Triple A prices to make your players sit there and not play the game. Incredible work Bandai.
- The combat is smooth but incredibly slow. By the way Bandai, that’s just stupid. Considering that quicktime events are now part of duels and how ridiculously fast those are, it doesn’t match the pacing of the battle at all. God forbid you get knocked up in the air because you’ll be in the air for over two seconds.
- The animations are LAZY AS HELL. I actually sat and watched the cutscenes so far and my god was I disappointed. There were so many scenes that could have been completely CG, or better yet SHOULD have been. There are some dismemberment scenes in the anime where in the game they don’t even bother to remodel the character and just lazily angled the camera to hide the limb. Come the hell on guys. If you were going to attempt a 1:1 story up to the ending of chapter 1, why not set the standards to DBZ Kakarot levels. Some scenes needed the extra life that the anime breathed into the series with beautiful animations and sound effects. This game has neither. Take God of War (2018) for instance, you're paying the same price for almost cinematic cutscenes whereas this game has static characters with camera pans during cutscenes.

Aside from my complaints, the only redeeming quality of this game is it's visuals. The graphics are beautiful and it's nice to be able to integrate towns with monster areas for once. However, it doesn't take away from the fact that Kirito's hair has some unnecessary pearlescent on it. As someone who is attending art school and continuously provides critiques for art choices, I just have to ask why. The character models don't match the surrounding areas, and maybe that's due to the really stupid design choice of making all of the character's clothing glossy.

TL;DR: The game is basically a bad visual novel of the anime and Bandai was really freaking lazy when they made this game. It’s not nearly as in depth as the other games and to be honest I’m kind of not interested in continuing past the first chapter. Hell, there was literally an HOUR AND A HALF of dialogue after the final fight. My $14 purchase of Hollow Realization was much more worth than spending $80 on this half baked game.

I'll be streaming all of my gameplay for this game. If you need proof, here is my playthrough on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSFDGRH_HZLimlQ23XIHzYt9g40WwBflY