Caleb Kizer

Absolute dumpster fire of a game narratively and mechanically. If you want to play it, wait until it’s free on gamepass or on sale. Not worth full price and would absolutely not recommend to anyone who’s played the Arkham games.

0/5 PLEASE READ AND MORE IMPORTANTLY DONT BUY. In “franchise mode” on the “legacy leaderboard” NONE of the LA rams where given credit for their Super Bowl win. NONE of the Bengals where given credit for their AFC championship. Every off season the best players leave their teams, by your third season the league will look like a fantasy draft. Draft classes use the exact same mechanics from the years before; along with old character pictures mixed with new ones- players share faces and there’s no algorithm stopping them from having the best players have the same faces (ex.5 first round picks had the same face- a face that was used in madden 16). In “face of the Franchise” your player is a 4 year vet. (As a QB) Checking his stats through the player card will show three previous seasons where the total TDs thrown is somewhere around 60. Checking your players stats through the “stats and awards” under the “league” menu shows your character having ZERO career stats other than what YOU have done for the team in his 4th season. Essentially this makes your player a 25 year old rookie which contradicts the narrative they try and build. In both of these modes you cannot make permanent changes to the depth chart so you have to worry about your coach replacing young talent around you- the best players on your team WILL be gone when their contract is up. Don’t get me started on the actual gameplay.

Pros: the game runs smoothly on Xbox x series, combat is good. Cons: healing takes so long it’s unviable In game currency is easily lost wasting hours of progress. (Lost all of my runes after dying) Game is a death simulator. You’re ether dying a lot or doing chores to make sure you’re not dying a lot.

(PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASE) The game uses almost none of the tweaks Pokémon platinum made to DP. The game has 3 fire types other than the starter and one of them (magmortar) is a version exclusive. Eevee is not available until post game (even though they created two new eevee evolutions for this game), many items that are required for evolution aren’t available until late/post game. Movement in this game is spotty, walls are sticky, also expect to encounter Pokémon even though you’re 4ft away. The grand underground is redeeming but the developers put no thought into it. The underground is full of rare Pokémon but at that point you only have poke balls to use so you’ll waste hours trying to catch something. It feels like the developers thought to themselves “well everyone’s just going to use staraptor, floatzel, luxray, lucario, roserade why should anything else be catchable?”. Version exclusives ruined the game, magby the only flame body Pokémon is pearl exclusive, scyther is diamond exclusive and gligar is diamond exclusive. I refuse to BUY another game where you can’t use the Pokémon you like.