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21 people found this review helpful
651.9 hrs on record (152.9 hrs at review time)
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Honestly after playing a bit more of the game, my opinion changed as in a review way.

Tl;dr short version : This isn't a cashgrab, it kind took away the RPG aspect and it's now only soulslike and roguelike, in my opinion it has a similar leveling system scadutree fragments delivers to the player in ER dlc.


complete version
I'm gonna speak about the negatives first, in a sense you know what you're dealing before you get into it.
- They need to improve communication, being able to PING and leaving a notification like a spam ping i'm +/- able to communicate, but you need to hope your random match is able to understand that,like instead of the same ping, a ping with strong enemy-normal enemy, vc could be useful too, text chat, but the customizable ping would be my n1 recommendation as a patch.
- Censorship in name being silly, i can't use my nickname Nightlizard without getting a ***htlizard, night time is offensive in a modern society.
- One BS matchmaking system, no crossplay, region lock doesn't work, I was getting paired with Chinese or Asian players, I was literally floating in the world, enemies too, trying to parry with 2-3s delay is a nightmare, funnily enough I didn't lost a single round with these issues, but it was annoying for me getting hit by stuff i can dodge/parry in a normal server.(I have cross region disabled, that's why I'm flagging this as negative, isn't working for me).
- The lack of customization for mp session, you can't define a host unless it's a steam friend, so the same issue as above you can keep getting bad host connection, also i have doubts if the delay besides country region related could be netcode related, i had more delays playing with a Brazilian friend than my Serbian friend, the three of us have decent network, although the delay with my Brazilian friend wasn't common such as playing with random Asians.
- I strongly think the game lacks content, endgame wise, you have only 8 nightlords, i finished the game with 18-19h i guess? i spent most time in the matchmaking queue than actually fighting bosses, currently I just help randoms while i farm for relics to test builds i want. I hope they address this in some sense, either adding more bosses, some kind of ng+(we don't have) maybe pvp or even team pvp? Invasion being a feature only to npcs instead of players i kind felt as missed opportunity.
- Any game with RNG can have some issues, took me 60h to get a zweihander in the game as drop, some bosses, specially returning dark souls one, it can take a lot of runs for you to get smelter demon, nameless king and etc, nameless king and nightlord are also the only bosses in the game with two phases, which kind made me sad...
Random players opinion

I won't strongly bad mouth randoms, it's true a lot of duchess and executors players are weak af, but if you're strong enough you can carry them, i mean, it's a team effort game, if you noticed someone is struggling, there's items in the game which helps teammates, I'm using perfumes(uplifting perfume is the best one at that) and (Golden vow). A sure way strat which made every nightlord so much easier with randoms, so instead of being toxic being a sunbro is so much better.

YET we do have some trolls or griefers or whatever, some people hop on to do their character questline and just become afk so you lose the current day, i think i had 5-6 guardians do that in my playtime, i reported each one of them :). Also, while I'm aware it's the best tank but for some reason i think i only played with one guy who knew how to use guardian ULT, if you HOLD IT the entire team becomes immune to damage for 10-15s seconds? Yet any random player simple don't use this effect at all.

Positive stuff
- While it will become a repetitive experience, the replay value is a lot better than any previous soulslike.
- You have 8 playable chars, each with a unique background questline, revenant questline and executor is pure cinema.
- Each char excel at some stats, but you can play with any weapon with any char, even spells, so you can test or make some mixed builds whatever way you want, therefore FUN in this game is 100% legit and you won't have to farm a item to respec your current char like previous titles.
- Honestly the revive system being around beating your teammate is funny af, specially if you're in a call with your friend.
- Every Nightlord has a very unique and cinematic bossfight, each of final bosses is unique to fight against, to the point two of them even require different team chars so you can use an efficient strat to win, only melee chars is viable but some bosses you're gonna struggle hard without a bow char.
- Relic system, while the RNG sucks, it's a lot better than bloodborne chalices-runes grind, also more consistent and fun than elden ring rune, i hope their next main game they use smt like this
- Btw i finished all the bosses with all chars, so some chars rely more in relics than others, wylder,raider,executor get insanely strong with the right ones, yet the same applies to the others, i got 12k with a single hit with revenant using a DPS focused build...she may be a midget but she packs a punch very well with the right relics.
Posted 1 June. Last edited 8 June.
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32.3 hrs on record (15.0 hrs at review time)
people are review bombing this due to politics

Explored the swamps quite a bit, I was expecting film grain, blur and a lot of other stuff with every review bomb of 0.3 minutes.

Fact is : this is indeed better looking than the OG, I used a modlist which gave me the same graphics, so in this aspect the difference is now plug and play.

It also has steam workshop, in the future new mods are gonna be organically added.

It has steam achievements, I remember year round a lot of stalkers fans such as myself asked the devs to insert this feature. Even before stalker 2 release...

Saw people saying the game was overheating their gpu, mine literally didn't even went to 10% and playing at 4k.... Bro this is literally a grandpa game by now..... xD

Negatives : Russian dub or accent was removed, immersion break speaks volumes.

And that's it?! No blur, no performance issues. Just that.

In another hand English voiceover is better than stalker 2. That game I played in Ukrainian without understanding bs, cause the English voiceover was extremely bad, which at least isn't the case here, but I miss the Slavic accent.

Well, personal opinion vs facts :

Fact is two devs of stalker team died at war with Russia, the game start with a big logo MADE IN UKRAINE. It's totally and humane possible for the studio wanting to erase their past due to this "simple reason". It kind sucks for us, who are outside of conflict zone, but let's be honest imagine how the studio and their families will feel when a lot of your friends and coworkers and etc died at war, worse I read reviews of people : I don't care about the stupid war I just want my game. How entitled you need to be, to write this in the comfort of your house not knowing when a bomb is gonna hit the street...
And lastly this was given for free for all og fans who supported the studio and just wanted more of stalker universe being a thing.

I wish success for the zone universe and a peace negotiation for the countries, the best of both worlds

Edit from original:
After exploring 5 areas, i only had a SINGLE wall with Blur render/flickering at Duty's HQ, going by story this took me around 10h at master rank, i legit don't trust anyone saying this game is full of blur under 1h, because literally the swamps i didn't had any issues to speak of.

- I saw people saying the bodies went missing when killing enemies, while this DIDN'T happen in my save, what I did noticed was : enemies or npcs spawns feels shorter? Specially military base at Cordon killed the machine gun thrice in like one hour i guess, this is good for people which enjoy farming gear. On another hand, mutants and bandits will be always in your back.

I think it's a bug, but it seem i get the effect of "Overload" as soon I hit 25kg, doesn't matter if i have 90KG of max limit, i always get the stamina debuff and other stuffs. Which funnily made me noticed the only thing stalker 2 is really inferior in the OG trillogy was the A-life which was working splendid for myself, enemies and npcs fighting each other, conquering bases and try decent flanking tactics against you. But i hardly got a drop of bandage/energetic so i need to buy those very often, and this kind made me think about how i had an easier time exploring in stalker 2 as using energetic there made the open world good to explore, which isn't usually the case here.
Posted 20 May. Last edited 21 May.
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43 people found this review helpful
176.8 hrs on record (0.6 hrs at review time)
By Azura, By Azura, it's the Grand Champion!

Honestly, i didn't knew if i was gonna write hyped review, joke review, or an actual review of the game.
I love OG oblivion for a bunch of reasons, and this game for one, fixed every issue i had with OG oblivion, in another hand, this game has their own issue which are mostly cosmetic for myself. So i'm gonna write both positive-negative traits without spoilers. My last paragraph in another hand, i'll flag with [lore] and well, not main story spoiler...but oh well, i'll leave some my nerd takes there kek.

Positive Traits
The most obvious one, the RT, seriously besides cyberpunk i think this is the only game where ray tracing is actually worth it.
aka the improved graphics.
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3470753539
BUT HERE ARE THE GOAT POINTS:

C-U-S-T-O-M spells.
Unleash your autistic naming style+strongest effects to ever be present in Tamriel. Tbh i create spells which increased NPC's movespeed. Are you tired of slow walking npcs quests? This game lets you FIX that ! You can also use the same logic to increase attack speed of enemies and infuse it with Frenzy ! Watch your enemies kill themselves fast! Or maybe such as myself you enjoy using reflect spell and watch mage kill themselves when they attack you !

They fixed the attribute system from OG in a sense this will make the game easier for you, but you can tweak that with mods and difficulty slider, the key thing is, char with 100 SPEED or 130 with vampirism+ohgma infinum was extremely funny to watch walking xD i was able to glitch half the map without the gaming crashing to boot, so def worth trying out! - Lvl list was also fixed for myself, while endgame there will be a lot of daedra variants, i wasn't plagued with bandit camps full of daedra knights and some other hellish situations, in another hand there's will be gloom wraiths and xivilai, it was alright to me using poisons at master difficulty, but each of us have our own style, hopefully yours will have a similar experience :x
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3471581494

The story telling, while morrowind has maybe and perhaps a better main quest, i always felt more immersion from Oblivion, from sidequest to other stuffs too, While the voice was funny/bad/memeable it's also has it's own charm, you can feel people with emotions or trying to enact emotions, some missions are pure gold with it, Shivering Isles DLC is one of most feast able stuff to the ears, and Martin Septim voiced by Sean Bean himself, what a game! Lastly between the tree main plot one of Politics (Morrowind), Oblivion (Hellspawn slayer) and Skyrim(Dragon Slayer). Oblivion feels more epic, the issue the gameplay was kind ass due to at high levels your character becoming weak at OG, so you had to play "capped" remastered fixed that, meaning now we have the best offer at hand!

Negative Traits

First of all, genderless customization, isn't even about goon, male characters dont even have a bulge in their crotch, for all i care everyone in the game has female oriented body, difference is if you have breasts or not, and this felt slop to say the least. Khajiits in another hand, had it worse, they can't toggle beard customization on/off all female khajiit look like ass. I have quirks about how some background doesnt match the races, AN ORC has a INT buff at the start of the game, really?? In another hand you can max all the main stats of the game after lvl 40, so it isnt the worst issue, but this bothered me somehow at creation screen.

Customization again, you would think the bad stuff is just the body slider...but no, armors in this game while got an improved candy eye care, they could've included more glove clothes items, or something along the lines, btw the console command and your char start with one of those, did they ? No they didnt, but created a deluxe version with 10$ horse dlc and okish armor. :D - Therefore dont gimme the excuse or try to defend this BS.

They changed the better and superior HUD of oblivion to the HUD of skyrim, i always used oblivion huds in skyrim, they release a remaster and do this dirty trick with US. First mod i bothered looking and downloading too... This goes with ... this game dont has any improved QoL so if they took out Gender from the game, created new paid extra armor, bothered to switching HUD you would expect we would get Fallout 4 Loot system(which i use in any bethesda game nowadays) and nooooo "QoL will ruin the experience for the players" was the excuse we got, this is literally the mod of when it launches the game is gonna be perfect for me, otherwise it was really fun but the lack of QoL is def a deal breaker for me.


Oblivion being oblivion i got a lot of weird bugs, either invisibility not working properly, not receiving quest reward such as dragon imperial armor(best looking one in the game...) and not being able to save-open and close the game until i'm able to save KewK.
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469284231

So yeah, the strong positives points are good, but the negatives are equally as bad so i wont sugar coat something and deceive others for what they're getting at!
+PS: I used both below mods for the optimal experience i wrote above. I was able to get stable 60fps at 3440x1440 with Ray tracing on and ultra using the engine.ini below, which in vanilla was simple...not possible and i didnt lost visual quality(i love the game industry alright' modders doing dev's work KEK) the reshade one is simple to take off the filth piss film overlay they put in the game.
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/79?tab=posts&BH=0
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/72?tab=files

Hero of Kvacth (Lore/Spoiler)
Imagine being the strongest human to walk in Tamriel since ancient times, rising to fame protecting a destroyed city where Imperial armies were unable to! Getting sanctified and represeting the 9 divines and Pelinal whitestrake while at it, and doesn't end there, you the strongest mortal to ever live, defies the very logic of creation and fabric....guess what... due to that you become the Chosen one, similar to what happens to Jyggalag the embodiment of Justice for Daedras which becomes Cursed and turns himself into a MADGOD...the same happens to YOU! The strongest mortal to ever walk Tamriel, it's kind poethic even.
How the two versions of the MADGOD were once the two strongest paragons of justice and order, this makes our protagonist here, my favorite one in TES lore.(Plus he's an elf slayer, how tf i wont love this kind of hero)
Posted 30 April. Last edited 30 April.
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0.0 hrs on record
Is it a flock of birds? Is it a cloud gathering? Nah, it's a sky filled with arrows
My review is under TW1, not TW2 or 3 content wise.

The achievements from the TW1 dlcs, this was legit the most fun to do.

I also used this faction for the win 30 multiplayer battles etc achievement.

Arrows go brrrrrr.

Legit if something is pierceable, the elves here will pierce.

Also, the enemies are mostly beastmen which i usually despise, so def, it was enjoyable to play as it's.
Posted 20 March.
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33 people found this review helpful
0.0 hrs on record
As with every total war blood addon this shouldnt be a separated purchase and that's while i enjoy total war, i def wont buy their games prior to 50%.

In another hand i'm surprised this dlc got % never saw the other gores dlcs getting a % so i got it.
Posted 20 March.
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0.0 hrs on record
recommend 4070ti, me the owner of a 4070ti super, couldnt get 60fps stable with this, def not worth right now, you can ignore the 70GB, did the texture improved? yes, if you use nvidia too and if you use Sharpen+ in nvidia ansel you get a better effect without eating 30fps. Like this did.
Posted 28 February.
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I can't simp for capcom anymore

Honestly despite the buzz people had at release, i was actually able to play it without issues, usually at 100fps with everything maxed...nowadays it's 60fps with frame drops, i was interested in grinding some layered weapons after i got relics i wanted in ER:Nightreign, so the 30 June new feature sounded like a solid reason for me to get back at the game. Also luckily for me i got 100% of this game in the holiday my country had, 'cause currently it's unplayable LMAO.

Tl;dr
>Have a lower playerbase than previous title despite being more fun to play simple due to being currently unplayable.

p.s: ngl i also regret not buying Kingdom Come 2 instead. Game looks really fun and the devs actually cared for their playerbase, unlike what capcom did... xD
Posted 28 February. Last edited 12 July.
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0.0 hrs on record
its free but it should be in base game as some of these gestures were already in previous games lmao
Posted 28 February.
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23 people found this review helpful
111.2 hrs on record
Get rekt Persona
Well, like my review of persona 5, this will be a lenghty review where i'll separate the non-spoiler/spoiler one.

non spoiler
For start this is a lot better than any persona, while my favorite/comfort one being persona 4 and i think P4 song is still the best one from Atlus yet, story wise Metaphor is better. There's a lot of reasons for that, but basically one revolves around a teenager at a school, and in case of persona 5 you even go out dating your teachers/doctor .... well you get the drift which is WEIRD. Yet in Metaphor the story revolves around you trying to become a King of a country & saving the prince, and while at that resolve Kingdom minor strifes, while the plots of p3,p4,p5 are really good, in a way Metaphor Plot has everything they had and more. So Atlus outdid their previous titles and delivered smt really, really, really good in the sense of JRPG/History. The biggest weakpoint for me was endgame grinding or ng+ grinding, both are cancer for different reasons.

Gameplay wise
I genuinely loved the Archetypes idea, it's a system better than Persona, the way you handle it, it's more fun and enjoyable if anything what i disliked is the price of buying passives being expensive and you need to buy for each character which create the need to grind for completion sake, which i did not to in this game.(the inherit skill traits)
As for unlocking every archetype+summon+mask i did that, while at the end of the game it was def not a fun aspect of grinding just for having access to rank 8 lineages, the system itself is better than the mask capture one (in my opinion at least i had more fun with it).

You being able to kill off weak enemies in the map/main dungeons, i remember we were only able to do that in p5 in a specific location, any dungeon in metaphor you have this skill unlocked at the start of the game, this was such a timer saver/grind saver too.

audio/performance
I believe the game could had a better audio design experience, previous titles had more remarkable songs, while metaphor has good songs, they're simple overshadows over other titles of Atlus, this obviously is a small nitpick, even so, must be said.
Performance wise, this game at 4k in some areas after third region in the game, playing at 4k had sudden performance issues, which didnt made sense for at all with a 4070ti and i ssws

Story with small spoilers
Well every companion is really interesting after you get used to them, main ones at that, some of sidechars they really be like sidechars the entire game.

I think personally Eupha and the protagonist are in a relantionship, the game doesnt has a romance route, but if you observe all dialogues, eupha and the protagonist had the best chemistry and she made two gaffs about dating with Protagonist and later asked forgiviness and tried that.
Strohl? IS SUCH a good companion i only changed him from the party when Basilio became a thing, be it in the story, gameplay or whatever, they wrote Strohl character so well i wanted him in my fights until his skill arent helping me anymore.
Hulkenberg, best shield in the game, literally after you properly equip her with repel. she can repele almost all attacks and it's incredible.
Hesmay's son story was one of most worth things to enjoy in the game as sidecontent
Junah while a lot of people love her due to her utility i felt playing with Eupha was better, but Junah herself is a force to begin with.


Overall i could say more,as there's much more in the game yet. The plot of story unfolding when smt i wasnt expecting at all the way it di at the 4 city, Therefore do enjoy the specetable know as the pice
Posted 7 February.
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Early Access Review
I bought the premium stash upgrade, i had two premium + currency, bought another two to trade waystones and relics from trials i do .... but the devs only gave me a third one, they ate 1,5$ i send an email to the support of the team hoping they would fix it, which so far wasn't the case, so i felt obligated to change my positive review to negative.
Posted 16 December, 2024. Last edited 2 January.
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