Stop being a moron.ĥ) 'Personalities like Jason Rubin or Shinji Mikami warned us about the destructive behemoth Sony was becoming but you didn't listen.' Neither Sony nor Nintendo are at fault in either situation, only their idiot fanboys.Ĥ) 'Why do you want the death of the japanese industry and videogames diversity?' I'm not defending Sony, I'm pointing out to all the people screaming 'OF COURSE SONY WOULD DO THIS TO OUR POOR INNOCENT NINTENDO! ONLY SONY! EVIL!' that Nintendo fans are just as bad. Neither tickle my pickle, so I don't know why you're describing your thoughts on either since I don't care.ģ) 'No tell us why you are defending the biggest megacorp on the market who use all its power to kill the smaller competitors instead of making good games?' I played 5 hours and thought 'I've got the gist of this' before moving on to something interesting.

Mon 2nd Sep Strangely the unspoken has been done and evidence seems hard to come by on the internet, BUT, with the power of about 2 minutes looking and the way back machine, I grant upon thee, my dear child.Proof!Ģ) I'm not particularly fond of Horizon Zero Dawn.

You'd certainly have a hard time arguing that Astral Chain is a '0/10' game, irrespective of your complaints against it. While some of these disgruntled scores may well be based on genuine complaints, several sites – including GoNintendo, and Game Rant – feel that many of the 'zero' scores are simply down to the fact that the game is a Switch exclusive, and nothing more. In another example of what is becoming a depressingly regular practice, angry gamers have taken to review aggregate site Metacritic to 'review-bomb' the game – the practice of multiple users spamming user review sites with a high volume of negative ratings in order to pull down the game's user score as low as possible. However, it would seem that even when you produce a title of this high quality, you can't be assured to please everyone. We gave it a solid 9/10, stating that it 'could well be PlatinumGames' most accomplished game yet'. Drifting Lands might have some good ideas and a lovely visual style, but the presentation and repetitive nature of the game can’t back it up, delivering a rather mediocre game.Original Story (Mon 2nd Sep, 2019 12:30 BST): Astral Chain launched last week to widespread critical acclaim PlatinumGames' latest packs in impressive visuals, tight combat and a generous dose of detective work to deliver one of 2019's stand-out Switch releases. The story presentation certainly isn’t the strongest side of this game and I found myself not really caring about it. But in all honestly, it couldn’t captivate me and soon I found myself clicking away the text balloons. At first I was still following the story. These rather static scenes tell you the story of the game through basic text balloons. In the command center, where you select your mission, you’ll also be treated to small story sequences presented in comic book-like panels. Even if there’s some kind of rarity system and a difficulty tier system that allows you to reap better rewards on higher difficulties.

But again, this is nowhere near as elaborated or satisfying as in real ARPGs. Trying to emulate the loot grinding from RPGs, enemies also drop items. When you’re not on a mission, you’ll either be upgrading your ship in the hangar or researching blueprints and buying and selling items in the shop.This is all rather basic, so don’t expect a deep RPG system here. Due to all of this, you might get the impression you’re playing the same level over and over. Even the variety in enemies is rather limited. Besides the enemies there are no obstacles to be found. The lack of diversity can become a bore, especially considering the level design is flat. During the missions of the first chapter, you’ll fly 90% of the time through the level design you see in the picture above. Since the levels are procedurally generated, they are very bland and repetitive. A Forgettable ExperienceĪfter playing a couple of missions, you’ll start noticing some flaws in the game’s design. You’ll have to come to terms with the silly ‘pew pew’ sounds some weapons make though. But other than that, the shooting and dodging can be pretty fun. But giving you so many options and swapping out skills, can lead to easy mistakes which results in frustration as you press a button and you forgot you swapped another skill instead of the one you wanted to use.

At times there can be a lot of enemies and projectiles on the screen, turning the game into a typical bullet hell. There’s a variety of skills available that allow for different attacks and the different weapons do change the experience.

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