Christina Hall

First off, Jet was perfect. He was by far the best and most interesting character. Spike was not quite as suave as I'd have hoped but Jon Cho still did a great job. Fey's rewrite grew on me. She's most of the comic relief which is usually a role reserved for men. And the additional content and backstory was a nice touch. Is it as good as the original, no, but I'm satisfied with the new take. The character rewrites and story restructuring was a new take and I'd say 90% of it was pretty good. I would like to see the series concluded and wouldn't mind a few new sessions here and there. Little nervous about Radical Ed's introduction. It's a really hard character to translate into live action so I feel for everyone trying to make that work. Loved the additional music and was really pleased that most of it was Jazz, keeping to that original Neo Noir vibe. Would be down for the soundtrack anytime. My only disappointment oddly was not sticking with the original rating. Much more violent and explicit than I was expecting which sadly I think ended up narrowing it's target audience. There are a lot of people I now can't recommend this to. Still holding out hope season 2 will be in the works.

Out of the gate this game felt like what I was expecting Death Stranding to be, a creepy and disorienting Sci-fi journey towards something large that controlled your fate. With so many movies/tv shoes lately doing the Ground Hog's Day theme, such as Edge of Tomorrow, Russian Doll, Palm Springs, its pretty cool to see someone attempt a similar theme in a video game. There are a few mechanics that you must get used to. Every time you die, you start over. Lowest level of health, basic pistol, and most of your items gone, save for ether and key items (area unlocks). That's pretty intimidating, but fear not. There are several checkpoints that help you save your progress, though at first they may appear subtle. The biggest one is suit augmentation gear. When you reach these checkpoints you will not lose it if you die and these give you new access to major and minor parts of most maps. The second placeholder is unlocking types of weapons and items. Once you have discovered them, you can easily find them again in the game. Third is weapon traits. You must continually use a weapon with a particular trait until you fully unlock it. When you find that gun again, you won't need to grind to unlock its full potential. Lastly there's the scout logs, ship logs, lore / research on creatures and glyphs you find in the game. None of these get wiped when you restart and do help you feel a sense of project, despite the reset button that is death. I tend not to enjoy survival games because they are procedural and after a while, start to feel hollow and devoid of content. This game is gorgeous and does a great job of having procedurally generated maps connect seamlessly while still giving you a solid story. The frustration comes when you spend hours fighting things, collecting upgrades so you can handle tougher areas, only to die and have to start over. The whole point of the game though, as well as all of the Edge of Tomorrow type stories. You have to learn from your mistakes. And the additional challenge is the next time you restart, you'll get a different set of maps, gear, items. But when you do finally defeat a boss, unlock new gear, and hit that progress checkpoint, it feels amazing. Kudos to the team that made this. Its a great sci-fi, lite-horror survival game. Excellent animation, environments, atmosphere, story, and mechanics and is a great milestone for PS5 games and they high quality they promised to deliver.

She says she doesn't like it and she wants her money back. This game is so strange. I was really looking forward to it but it wasn't at all what I imagined. The UI is confusing and unintuitive, but the worst thing is the narrator / translator. Incredibly annoying, gives the tone of the game a childish vibe will your character murders people. You have to listen to NPCs say entire lines in gibberish and then wait for the narrator / translator describe what they said. And just when you think your ending a conversation, you discover you were in a subdialogue, causing the NPC to say goodbye multiple times in one chat. The narrator also constantly speaks up while you are doing things with random cliches like "Every journey has an ending". "Heroes are not born, they're made". This off brand Stephen Fry ( whom I genuinely adore) with his childish fairytale dialogue that completely clashes with the visual styles makes this one of the most annoying games I've ever played. I'm playing with the sound off. They find ways to make this game drag. Slow, disappointing, confining environments, too linear, not enough resources, and irritating characters. The only thing I like is the visible evolution of the character. Somebody lost a battle on the development of this game and I feel sorry for them.