Tl;dr: great game. Highly reccomend. This game makes me feel like that kid opening up his first ps1 on Christmas and popping in crash bandicoot for the first time all over again!
I never leave reviews on here, but Holy smokes is this game awesome! I'm someone who never buys games brand new. Typically most modern games are buggy when they release and it's usually better for me personally to wait until they go on sale later on and have had majority of the bugs patched by that point instead of paying full price for a broken game. This is the 1st game I've pre ordered, let alone bought brand new in years (I honestly think the last game I pre ordered was black ops 2 lol). After playing the astro game that came with the ps5, I knew this was going to be great because that last game was an amazing experience, and boy, this one did not disappoint! Amazing soundtrack, amazing attention to detail, pretty much every single thing in the game can be interacted with, and I still have not encountered 1 bug. Plus, it's just all-around fun, enjoyable game play. This is modern gaming done right, which is what led me to support it by pre-ordering it. We need to show these game developers what kind of expectations we want our games to live up to by showing them with our wallets. This developer gave us an amazing game for $60 instead of $70 (unless you got the digital deluxe version like myself, which is then only $70 and you get the soundtrack, an avatar pack, and special skins), no paying extra for dlc, everything included woth your initial purchase (at least as of now), and took their time to ensure we would have a good experience without having a buggy mess of a game upon release. This is a team that actually cared about its fan base and it shows. Kudos to the development team that worked on this. Chefs kiss 👨🍳🤌