The best CRPG in years. This review is mostly just about how IGN is clearly staffed by fools.
This getting an 8/10 from IGN is a joke. This game deserves no less than a 9/10 even if you reviewed it while sleeping. It is more vast and original than anything else that came out this year. Yet, IGN gives Deathloop a 10/10 and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous an 8/10
IGN should just come out and say "We don't actually play the games we review." or "We only give 10/10 to people who bribe us."
Deathloop is a slightly above average shooter. Slightly above average for 2021. 2021 wasn't a great year for shooters.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is a truly unique experience with many hundreds of potential hours of unique content.
Each and every path in Wrath of the Righteous is extremely different from the one you try before or after it. It is animated beautifully, the character design is top notch. The relationships between the characters are layered and complicated, like real life relationships.
Deathloop just takes aspects of two better games (Prey and Dishonored) and mashes them together. Two one-liner delivering action heroes that you see in most games.
In Wrath of the Righteous There are many endings and variations on those endings. Many NPC personalities notice what class and race you are and even your religion, if your character has one.
The music is epic, the quests original and side quests always have a real reason to be there.
Deathloop has none of those things, it doesn't even have better presentation.
Wrath of the Righteous is one of the top 3 CRPG games in the history of gaming. In recent times the only games that even compare are Divinity Original Sin 2 and the only old games that compare are Baldur's Gate 2 and Planescape: Torment (maybe Dragon Age Origins too)
This game should have been up for the most GOTY awards in genre history...But it won't be because of places like IGN.
IGN should be ashamed of how corrupt they are. If you learn anything, at all from this review it is that Pathfinder WOTR (without any question) is better than DeathLoop but gets scored worse because of low level gaming "journalists" at IGN.