Dean Radley

Entertaining if you like gawking at mentally people. As a documentary it’s terrible and very deceiving. Full of misinformation, misleading facts, misleading editing, very selective information given (great example Joe Exotic has an extensive history of racism and animal abuse but it’s never brought up because you wouldn’t watch if it was and Carol Baskins husband was a terrible pilot who had his licence revoked and lent money to South American Maffia but yeah she muuust have fed him to tigers), character framing (Carol Baskin being the prime example, she runs a none profit sanctuary and her enemies basically run sex cults or are known animal and human abusers BUT she’s made out to be the enemy who killed her husband). The examples of deceptions go on on. By about the fifth episode you’ll start to realise that the show doesn’t have some great end revelation or even a goal as the shows it’s seems to be repeating itself and milking the tiniest bit of ‘he said she said’ and it becomes a bit of a drag as you start realise most the people on the show have mental health issues.

I’m a big Souls fan, recently getting platinum trophies on Demons Souls Remake and Dark Souls Remastered, and I’d had my eye on Mortal Shell for a while. A 15hr souls like with a twist on gameplay mechanics and for £15 I couldn’t pass this up. Well I wish I had, I uninstalled the game after about 45 minutes. The gameplay reminds me of a mid 360 era game, it looks like an end of era 360 game. The first area of the game was terrible a boring looking swamp maze full of enemies and it was just a chore to play. Combat wasn’t fun and became tedious about 15 minutes in. The dodge mechanic is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. It feels like the people who made this game love Dark Souls but have no idea what actually make those games good. Maybe there’s a good game here but what I experienced in less than an hour was really bad. If you’re after a Souls like that isn’t Dark Souls pick up Lords of the Fallen. It costs bout £3 on PS/Xbox stores and is money well spent.

Imagine Tomb Raider x Uncharted x Dark Souls x Star Wars then take away the great controls, combat and character progression and you get Jedi Fallen Order. When I heard this game was Dark Souls with lightsabers I was very excited, when I played the game I was very disappointed. I would like to see another Fallen Order game but there need to be a overhaul of character progression and new combat style implemented. Some general thoughts, I played on hard/Jedi Master The game is really hurt by having very little character progression, there’s no stats, equipment/weapon upgrades, build options, crafting etc you do get force powers and dual light sabre option but they offer very little. This in turn hurts exploration as all in game items are cosmetic apart from health and force upgrades. One of the best aspects of Tomb Raider is exploring and finding/ crafting new weapon and equipment. This is the most buggy game I’ve ever played, enemies spawning and floating all over the show, textures not loading, strange character faces, janky controls. Traversal is generally fine but the swinging and sliding section aren’t easy to control and very inaccurate, I must have missed jumps about 50 times. These sections should be either really easy to play or practically play themselves. The graphics are good but nothing in special, I’m playing Witcher 2 on 360 in 2020 and it looks better than this. Combat is nothing like Dark Souls or any Souls type games. It’s rough! Attacks and movement don’t feel accurate, the block stamina gimmick doesn’t work in fights with multiple enemies, many enemies have attacks that auto lock onto you even if you dodge, it’s very easy to get cheesed by enemies as you’re attacks don’t cause stagger so you can be hit instantly after landing a hit, many enemies can attack immediately after landing an attack meaning you get hit once there’s nothing you can do to avoid a second attack. There are many other issues but overall I found combat to be frustrating and lacking fun, I never felt like a powerful Jedi nor did I feel like I was overcoming adversity like you do in Souls types games.

First off, gorgeous graphics..... That’s about where the positives end. It’s been pretty well documented the amount of content missing that was in the original and to be honest when you actually do a like for like comparison it’s pretty shocking how much has been left out, this is a lazy game that was rushed out for... god knows why. There’s a lot more comparisons you can make to the original but they boil down to this, the PLAYSTATION ONE game had better story telling, story pacing, intrigue, sense of dread. NEMESIS.... there are no words how disappointing the implementation of the Nemesis is. He’s basically a set piece rather than a real looming threat. Ignoring all the comparisons to the original the game is just full of boring scripted sections were you hold forward whilst stuff happens, the story is bare bones and has all kinds of plot holes and things that make no sense, characters are bland and Jill has been made into a generic action star, oh and the gameplay is boring. If you like this game you honestly need to assess what you value in games if you understand basic creativity and story telling.