D Faux

Dark souls 2 all over again. The parallels are uncanny, really. Fine game on its own but is just a worse version of the first game in almost every way. Their idea to top the first one was to simply make it more frustrating. More frustrating, not difficult. As with DS2, Silksong fails to leave the same impact as its predecessor and at times seems to intentionally aggravate its players. Let's talk about enemies. In Silksong many can hit you after death, do double damage, have extremely aggressive attacks, movements and behaviour. They all have some wide AOE or ridiculous ranged move that can hit you from so far away. They then pair up these enemies on you constantly throughout this game. Some of their movements are so erratic it's beyond ridiculous. The flying enemies especially. It is more difficult to pogo on them mainly because most of them stay just at the apex of your jump height. But also because it's almost always a 50/50 if you're going to take damage as you hit them because they move around like they all have ALS. This is seriously the biggest problem with the game aside from the fact that the down air attack got a massive nerf. I don't think the runbacks are that bad in length at all. Once you learn the area you move quicker than in Hollow knight. It's what's in between you and the boss that's the problem and these enemies are seriously placed and designed to be as cheesy as possible. It's so bad. In fact the movement is great and the down air attack is not hard to get used to but the fact is with these schizo movement enemies that do double the damage and the down attack requiring more precision. It just makes the game less fun. It's just honestly less fun all around to do any encounter because of those things. The narrative here is much more interesting in my opinion. And the protagonist being able to speak and interact with the other characters makes for more interesting dialogue that I enjoyed. Yet here still I found these characters other than the mains to be less compelling overall compared to the first game. The soundtrack is just obviously not as good as the original. Same guy but who can expect lightning to strike twice. You can tell it's less inspired. We waited a long time for this game and I guess we didn't wait long enough. It is an okay sequel and a good enough game. But in the shadow of the original, the whole time I played this I had wished I was just playing a Hollow knight DLC, instead of a whole game based around the worse idea. And that there was room for content based around the better one. After all this time I can say if they just did this game as it was intended. Then released an extension to the hollow knight's story somehow. Or a different character with the same move-set. I would have preferred that. The last criticism I have is how they have placed the mapmaker. For one for some reason she can just disappear. For two she is always not too far from one of the two main entrances into any area. But often for me I was naturally on the furthest end from her. I spent at least 35% of the time wondering blindly around an area with no map in this game. It's so awful to experience. It's a novel and an admirable effort. But be so for real. It's just a worse version of the original in a majority of any comparison.

I wonder how many kids are playing the Oblivion Remaster for the first time and realizing that Avowed is actually a trash RPG lol.

With the recent release of the second season of the show and the response from a wider and more diverse audience than ever. I think we can safely drop the defence that critics of the game are just mad because of some woke agenda. Even this wider, diverse audience are voicing the exact same criticisms about the narrative direction the sequel of the game took. The gameplay is great but unfortunately it is a narrative driven game. One that spends a great deal of time having the player watch cutscenes and passively engage with it through sections where they simply walk and talk. That is a large portion of the game that gameplay unfortunately can't make up for and since that same gameplay is secondary to the narrative as the driving force of the game it becomes even less compelling. The character deconstruction and ultimate theme and lesson of the game don't show respect to the players intelligence. Rather than a nuanced or original take they go for a cut and dry, elementary, and surface level exploration on violence, vengeance and the balance of morals and ethics. It's pure drivel. Just take out the blood and gore and you've seen this story and its beats already... inside of children's cartoons. I'm not kidding. I think every popular childhood show you can think of has an episode that tells essentially the same lesson you get in this game by the end. That's not what a mature audience is looking for. The people who praise this are the same type of people who like watching an isekai anime with the same set up they've seen a thousand times and seal clap for the whole thing. This game outside of its gameplay is awful torture for the target audience and fans. It's like watching the movie wavelength(1976). The cinematics and principles of the film challenged traditions with its originality but actually watching it is a test of will. That's this game. The parts of the game where you actively play are fun, original, and innovative. But the rest, like watching wavelength, is a test of will. And like those fans that enjoy watching their 100th isekai anime. It's clear the people enjoying this game share similarities. If you can be like that; not think about the narrative too hard or engage with any outer influencing factors, turn your brain off. I can see how it might be enjoyable then. I think most of us just expect more from their entertainment.

It's awful. Movie was probably always going to get a low score regardless of the lead. But Rachel Zegler managed to make sure of it both on and off screen lol.

Trash movie with a cult fan following who watched it when they were young and can't admit it's objectively awful. Movies like pulse, wrong turn, last house on the left. There's something about this era of horror films these people just adore because it takes them back. These nostalgia plagued, and brain rotted fans are causing people everywhere to waste hours of other's lives on awful horror movies. Skip it if you can't stand characters and story beats that are set up to repel logic and rationality. Almost every action in this movie is nonsensical. This movie is just bad. It is so far removed from reality they don't even try to justify it. Not a single person acts normal in this movie. It spends the whole first half having the lead act rude to someone who appears in the moment to be simply helping her out. She clutches her pearls at some rough looking rural folk literally just eating breakfast. The #2 literally reveals himself as a stalker and is barely known to the lead yet she lets him take her off the main road that is snow covered and obviously dangerous. Then she falls for him?!? They're never even given names. The way they end up stuck is ridiculous. The #2 tries to play chicken with another vehicle. Makes zero sense. Not a single person would try that on a snow covered back road. The #2 literally voices he knows the oncoming vehicle is not stopping. Yet he waits till the very last second to then hard steer as far as he can into the snow. Oh right it's cause they couldn't even come up with a slightly plausible scenario that gets them stuck in the snow. Pulling over as much as possible without going too far into the snow would've made too much sense. Even if they were still rammed by the other vehicle it literally is less dangerous than continuing into a head on collision. Then suddenly. Ghosts! A lazily slapped together murder tale with no depth that we're supposed to assume means the murderer now haunts the road and causes people to get stranded and freeze to death. Even though we find out the nearest gas station is literally walking distance from their location. Oh and there is also a cabin nearby in which it may be possible to start a fire and refuge but they decide to mumble about in the cold metal coffin of a car instead. Giving weak justifications for why they need to stay in the car via nonsensical story beats and of course because... ghosts! Which by the way at this point they don't even realize are ghosts yet so it makes zero sense why one or the other doesn't question immediately and try themselves. Also they don't fully trust each other at this point which makes it even more dumb. And for the finale. We get a weak bait and switch. Oh she got out and got help. But oh no you fool, she just dreamed it cause ghosts! Our lead survives the night with the barely present ghost who only shows up to remind you it's a horror film and in the end she walks to the gas station in the morning and gets help. Yeah.... It's okay to enjoy this junk but to say it's actually a good film is embarrassing. The cinematography in this movie is not that great. A lot of terrible shots. Way too many are just straight focused at only their heads and the ones outside of that are clearly given poor lighting. You don't get the impression of pitch black woods and what you can see lit in the scenes seems quite unrealistic. And the audio for the second half is 70% huffing, puffing and gasping.

Actually, the worst movie I have ever seen.

The game only gets high reviews because the original was already such a great concept and game. The remake runs so poorly. I'm sure if you're playing on the standard consumer hardware they designed it for then you're happy with the game. For me having the most expensive graphics card and CPU means I expect to run whatever I want at 4k maxed settings at 160hz especially for a game like this which does not at all push the limits of current gen graphics. It's poorly optimized and that's the long and short of it. Even compromising the fidelity this game doesn't scale thanks to UE5. You get trash performance no matter what. So if I want to run 160hz and lets say go to 1080p with no ray tracing. The difference between 4k with ray tracing on is almost negligible since no matter what you're running sub optimal frames and the difference between 60-120 is much less noticeable from the 30 frames the other 90% of people are playing this on which is already just egregious in itself but people are giving a pass because the base game is great. And IMO bloober team has nothing to do with that and really only the parts that actually make an already good game, worse. To me, it being a remake that tries to pay respect to the original. The most important part was upgrading visuals, sounds and resolutions. They didn't do that part well at all. It then becomes a question of what's the point? I can play the original which conveys the themes way better in sound, visuals and story and doesn't play like a slideshow and could be run on hardware that is 100x less powerful and can be upscaled and run at 1000fps with no compromises to modernity. I think they were able to reproduce and capture a lot of what made the original great. But it on its own not being able to have the game running in a stable state and the odd choice to focus on combat which is completely counter to the original vision. It just ruins the whole thing. It's enjoyable. But I mean for 90$ for a game that I played 20 years ago. I expect it to run better than 20 years ago which isn't the case and I expect it to be elative. The changes only detract from the whole thing and the performance just makes it worse.

Baby's first RPG. Action focused. Role play only the way they want you to. Awful writing. Many of the story beats will have long time fans and people in the know with the lore scratching their heads. A lot of it is nonsensical in the context of the larger lore. We got PG Tevinter that feels like an overwatch map. The game is so desperate to not offend anybody or challenge anybody or hurt anybody's feelings. They tackle topics of racism with the "I don't see color" approach which is just so wrong and full of irony. That's 3 games in a row Bioware. Can we go for 4?

Disney channel movie. Everything that happens is like a silly little joke. They all act quirky and aloof in serious situations like nothing bad is happening. It's concerning that this kind of style is entertaining to anyone over 10 years old. In summary a childish film with very little substance or heart and a disappointing climax. Disney needs to refocus the direction of these films.