John M. Sigman

I sorta hated this game, but I also loved it. There was so much about this game that was clunky and chunky and just messy, but I was also so engrossed in the game that I thought about it while I was at work during the day. I'm excited that they're going to do another game, but it'll probably drive me crazy while still somehow loving the game as well.

This whole thing felt clunky to me. The fighting wasn't terribly engaging or stimulating and the parkour aspects felt forced and a bit nonsensical. I was truly hoping for a better game than this.

Yuck, just yuck. All this build up and hype for a clichéd pile of yuck.

Everything that every character did was the dumbest possible option. This movie was disappointment after disappointment.

I'm really disappointed in this game. The "combat" is absolutely horrible. If you're fighting two enemies, you're going to die, period. The parkour system is laggy and slow. Plus I find myself constantly yelling at the screen because my character went somewhere that I wasn't trying to go when climbing or running. There are no "missions", they're calling them "investigations" and they are really murky about the details as to what you're doing. The restricted areas are around every corner without warning whatsoever and I'm constantly being chased for turning down the wrong alley in a city full of alleys. I wish they cared about this series as much as the players do.

Just a huge disappointment. I still haven't been able to finish it because it just isn't enjoyable.

I'm 30 hours into the game and I'm thinking about just quitting. They took almost everything that made Zero Dawn great and dismantled it. Almost everything they added is horrible. I have no idea what a valor surge is or how to use one. There are too many weapons with super confusing powers (I still have no idea what purgewater is supposed to be or what it does, plus weapons have stamina now for some reason although I haven't seen it do anything or affect anything) and every machine now throws or shoots something as well as being able to jump the distance of a football field so I've died about 300 times even though I'm 10 levels above the suggested level of the mission. Supplies are super hard to get and every item costs way too much. The simple climbing system and puzzle solving systems are incredibly complicated now. Every machine that says its weakness is frost essentially has no weakness because frost doesn't damage it and it barely effects them in any way. I was so excited about this game coming out and now I'm kind of heartbroken. This game is a complete failure. (There's a level 15 quest that you have to have the vine cutter to do, but the vine cutter is aquired from a level 24 quest. 🤦‍♂️) The graphics are disappointing at best. There's always a sunlight or a glow on the screen and you are literally blind.

Honestly, the game sucks but you can kill a ton of time playing it so that's a good thing. I don't understand the idea of making a game where you die constantly, that's really not fun at all. I absolutely hated the Souls series because of that. People have begged them to make an easy mode or to tone the difficulty of their games down, but they refuse therefore limiting their own mass appeal. There are tons of good reviews and endorsements for this game, but I'm telling you this game is really monotonous and pretty pointless and that those reviews are from the corporate minded people like IGN or from the shut in, sheeple gamer type. I'm playing it because it's winter and there's nothing else to do. If the weather were better I wouldn't be. They tell you nothing to start out the game. No backstory, no lore, no instructions, just go, which is compounded by the fact that there's clearly a ton of lore that should've been explained. I've been playing the game for 46 hours now and I have no idea what 3/4 of the stuff I've gathered is used for so I'm afraid to get rid of it. Lol. (If you love playing the same area 60 times in a row, this is the game for you. Because this game will definitely make you play the same path 60/70 times in a row. 🙄)

I was looking forward to this movie, but ultimately was just disappointed and left feeling very blasé about the future of the MCU. The movie is really slow, the storytelling is poor and feels fragmented, the characters are extremely uninteresting, they chose wokeness over quality and the movie was just simply far too long for way too little entertainment. The movie doesn't even feel like it belongs in the MCU and frankly the MCU would be better off if it didn't. I gave it one star because it wouldn't let me give it 0 stars, but that's what this movie deserves.