Kyle Phillips

I'm having an enormous amount of fun with this game and I'm generally pretty critical about games. At launch I'll admit it could use a patch. But nothing in this game is broken that is unfixable. Mostly, the glitches that I have discovered are some see-through rocks and most notably some of my settings don't save and when I log in I have to reset them. I have to reset my emblem every time. But, it's an emblem so, really, who cares I can enjoy the game fine and wait till that gets patched. Gameplay Someone below me mentioned that the character movement was awful and that real-life operators aren't so sloppy. I think this game tries to go great lengths to make you feel like a human and not a superhero who can just zip around and walk up mountains. And honestly, I feel this makes the gameplay a bit tighter. Firefights are more engaging as a result of your player feeling more grounded to human limitations. In my opinion, it makes the game more immersive. Level design The level design is the best it's been. It's definitely an improvement over wildlands and if you're coming from that game it will be welcomed. The weather system is more dynamic, the towns and villages feel less generic, the swamps and jungles are fun to fight in, and there's no shortage of mud to roll around in and get yourself all camo'd up! Questing The quests are great and the acting is an improvement. They're still not winning any awards with the voice acting, but it isn't cringy like in Wildlands. They borrowed RPG elements from Assassin's Creed Odyssey. By that I mean you can choose dialogue options and in addition, you can also choose if you'd like to play on guided mode or expiration mode, much like the option they give you in Assassin's Creed. Graphics The graphics are also an upgrade. Not a massive upgrade, but enough to call it an upgrade. I'm playing on a PS4 Pro and I'm quite impressed by the draw distances for how detailed the map is. Co-op Someone below me mentioned not being able to play co-op with more than one person at a time. That's not true. In fact, I've joined many games where I was the third or fourth person in the squad. When you search for a match, most often you will be put into a game with just one other person. But that doesn't mean that you can't begin matchmaking again with your party of two. They should just add a setting so you can choose how many people you'd like to play with, but otherwise, co-op is not broken. I would go as far as to say that co-op has even been improved. There are no more AI teammates on the single-player mode. When I had the AI to help me on Wildlands, I found it much easier to just play how I wanted to play with the AI rather than trying to work with another person. Or, I was strictly playing with my friends. Not the case here. This game forces you to work with other people if you want help. So, in this regard, it's better. This is the goal after all of a co-op game. Microtransactions Don't like them? Don't buy them! I'm not going to get into the semantics of whether or not microtransactions are okay. They are there if you want them, and if you don't, avoid them. Gear and loot Gear and loot work in this game much like the way it does in The Division. If you have a friend who owns the game they probably already told you that. However, there are clear differences between the games. Division 2 defines itself as much more of a loot shooter, while Breakpoint is more about the adventure and tactical 3p shooting. 8.2

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this game. Despite that, it had been sitting around in my console's library for about a year before I finally decided to get more into it. I tried a number of times in the past and was put off by the graphics, but this time I decided I was going to give it a real shot and in doing so I learned the bulk of my problem was the chromatic aberration. For anyone having a hard time getting passed the visuals in this game, I recommend immediately turning that off. It's night and day. The game itself was very charming. I enjoyed the characters, a lot. The dialogue was well thought out, funny, and interesting. I'm one of those people who skips through all the dialogue just to get to the gameplay and I actually found myself enjoying sitting through some of the dialogue in this game. The world's and locations are really cool too. I didn't mind that this game was smaller than your average because it felt more detailed. Each world is like its own little set piece and I really enjoyed the lengths by which they went to make each world feel different. I could go on and on, but I won't. Just play the game!

I have fond memories of playing this game.

Feels unfinished and unbelievably buggy.

Full disclosure: I have played and beaten the game. I have not watched or read other reviews. I successfully avoided all leaks prior to release. This is my genuine (mostly) spoiler free opinion of the game. I will make a note before any spoilers and spoilers will only be at the end of the review. Overall, the last of us two is a great experience. It certainly does, at least, meet the enormous expectations laid by the first game. It is however a flawed game. Not technically, not graphically, and not philosophically. By all means it is a beautifully designed game with amazing artwork, attention to detail, clever level design, and smooth character controls. The developers should be proud. But where the last of us two falters is its storytelling. It is a long and twisting story. The beginning of the game is as you would expect. It's very straightforward and so are the characters motivations. In fact, the first 1/3 of the game was beautifully done and the build up leading into the 2/3 portion of the game was everything I wanted it to be. But alas, the transition between that beautiful build up of the first 1/3 into the 2/3 of the game was horribly anti-climactic and the way you are thrust into the 2/3 of the game was very forced indeed. I imagine I'm not the only one who found my immersion completely broken at that point. I actually had to turn the game off and wait a week before I could come back to the game with a new mindset. The 2/3 part of the game was a slog. I just couldn't wait to get to the end of that part. When I finally got passed the 2/3 part of the game I was really excited for what was to come in the final 3/3 part of the game. (Slight spoiler ahead) I was ready to get back into the saddle of controlling the main protagonist and continuing what I started, only, by this point in the game the game has made it very clear that nothing is going to go the way you want it to. And then a boss battle ensues that literally triggered me to my core. (SPOILERS FOR THIS NEXT PART) The battle I previously referred to is the LONG awaited fight between Ellie and Abby. It's no surprise that Ellie is the main protagonist of the game. The first 1/3 of the game builds into a long-awaited face off between Ellie and Abby. Except, when you finally get there, for whatever reason they decided to make you play as the antagonist. And it's hard to stomach because for the last few hours of the game all you can do is think about this moment and what's going to happen. All of it is out of your control. And none of it goes the way you want it to. Such is the tone of this game. Luckily, the end of 3/3 redeams itself, but still, nothing goes how you want it to and by the end of the game you just left with a helpless feeling that it was all for nothing. It was all for the sake of simply telling another story in the last of us universe.

Easily a 10/10. I love a game that unashamedly knows what it wants to be. In the wake of one sub par shooter after the next, this game is a breath of fresh air. It likely won't be for the action aficionado. This is an ADVENTURE game through and through with action elements being the cherry on top. But it is by no means focused on the action sequences. This game is about reconnecting the world and adventuring the beautiful meticulously created landscapes. The slew of gatgets you have at your disposal creates ever increasingly fun ways to traverse the environment. The story is, as expected, some of the best storytelling you can get in modern gaming. It's long, full of substance, bug free (in my experience), and it offers so many ways to play. The characters are all loveable and interesting, even the bad ones. The only reason I can see people being disappointed by this game is because the went into believing it was something other than it is. There is so much detail in this game.

Days gone is a really good game, but I will admit that I really struggled to like it at first. There are a lot of great things about the game The reality is it doesn't really bring anything new to the table. It is a standard open world game which involve the usual quest varieties, side missions, upgrading, and customization. With that in mind the beginning doesn't do much to suck you in. You're kind of just dropped into the world and expected to be compelled to find out what's going on. In the beginning I didn't much care, I wanted to be grabbed by the game. But when I went back to it later on and went through the entire story I found it to be substantial. Found myself caring about the characters more, I found myself enjoying the protagonist more, and I found myself enjoying the story as a whole. Where this game really excels is it's world building. The graphics are also amazing. It is in my opinion one of the best looking games this generation. Gameplay itself is very fun and addicting once you get the hang of it. Once you progress far enough in the game and get some weapons fighting horses fun. It has all the elements of a great game. It just struggles to put them all together at times. I will also add that I'm very upset that they won't be coming out with a sequel because I would like to see them make another game like this just a bit more realized and with some additional features like co-op.

I thought it was a great film. Particularly with what's happening now in America. So much of this film could almost serve as a warning and I don't think it's that far of a stretch from what a new civil war in America could look like. It was really impressive that it was all shot on the same camera and in one continuous shot. You really have to respect the level of preparation and choreography that went into it, especially considering it was filmed in Brooklyn. It also had a very low budget. At times the edginess and grittiness obviously show, but all things considered this is a film that kept me on the edge of my seat and entertained all the way throughout. And it has me thinking about it well after I've watched the film.