Jared Camire

Another shiny glossy Fight Night game that should make a lot more sense than what occurs in screen. I play legacy mode primarily and it should be much more fun. Minigames run a gamut of playability. Sparring is spammable (it shouldn't be) while others make little to no sense (Maize bag hit detection is bizarre). Management of stamina and athleticism is very formulaic in the 50/20/10/rest split. All stats degrade beyond manageability, designed to make you invest in the micro transaction boost system. Yawn, EA...yawwwn. Action in ring can definitely be fun, but it's so shoddy fight to fight. Some fights are classics, and fun to lose. Some are miserable slogs that are boring even to win. Frustration is always there lurking in the background. Even taking a few losses to obtain boxer growth can't make it worthwhile to advance and watch your character throw 240 straight punches to an opponents cut eye waiting for the TKO only to be stunned/knocked down by their first punch in 2 minutes of action. At the end of the day, no amount of in ring skill boxer growth allotment, or training strategy can make up for what can only be described as CPU slanted RNG being the real deciding factor in every fight.

A jumbled mess that kept me more confused about the direction it was taking than developing a fun narrative. Want a splash of Indiana Jones? Well it's WWI so we can't use Nazi's, so let's put in an awful clichè and terribly acted Kaisery World domination villain/"plot" line. The Macguffin here is a plant that fixes anything and somehow gurantees eternal life. You can see where this goes between vague threats, bad guy deals, captured allies, etc... Are you bored yet? Want some Pirates of the Caribbean? Unexplainable yet somehow repetitive ghost story that fails to do anything but provide some vague paranormal threat to tie into the protagonists history. There's no Jack Sparrow here though, no Will and Elizabeth, no Barbossa, no charm or oneupsmanship in any of the characters who seem to be briefly mildly annoyed with each other instead of having competing agendas to drive the tension. In fact, the film has no tension at all despite the obvious attempts to recreate the Pirates formula. Want humor? It's sparser than the source material promised. Puns are mostly missable and entirely secondary to the scripts attempts to make you care about plot exposition that boil down to "Somehow Palpatine returned." While bad CGI and bland set pieces zap your interest in trying to find Easter eggs, the film is focuses on giving you awful transitions between boring stunts that don't seem to connect to one another before invalidating every event that precedes it with a "shocking" "twist" that provides no substance to the narrative except to make you realize the previous reels of the film were essentially worthless. Spoiler: Why are our characters getting knocked out with blowdarts if at least one of them knows it's not real? Johnson and Blunt stroll through the jungle cruise without chemistry while comic relief relative provides nothing but a completely forced and unmanaged woke background that the film exploits without exploring. The epitome of bad writing and forced, artificial deadlines producing inferior products in hollywood. Disney is on a downward spiral of this is the future of their filmmaking, which it feels like it is.