John-Dylan Hunt

First two episodes I was actually optimistic. But this third episode has undone all of that. SPOILER! Disney has some kind of vendetta Tony do everything George Lucas made Star Wars to be. They’re dead set to make anakin and everything that made him special as the chosen one irrelevant. The twins being made of from the force is a slap to the face for people who love this franchise. You want to make this an all female lead story, go for it we’re fine with that. But stop trying to ruin Anakin and the original six films because you want a female to be the special chosen one. Like what they tried to do with Rey and having her “balance the force” bringing palpatine back. I pray Disney gets it together and stops insulting the fans with stuff like this.

Very glad I didn’t pay for this game. They really thought they could just copy and paste Skyrim in space and we wouldn’t notice. At first I was having a good time with this game. But quickly into the game you realize just how repetitive it is. What was fun at first is no longer fun when you’re hours in and doing it over and over and over. Same loot, same bases, same temples and missions again and again. They say how massive the game is, “thousands of planets you can explore”. You realize very soon most of those planets are empty and void of anything to do. Would it not be better to scale the size of the game back and fill that space with engaging material? Go to the planets scan a few plants and animals and run through the same base you did 12 other times in one sitting. So. Many. Loading. Screens. Board your ship, loading screen. Need to travel to another planet, loading screen. Get to said plant, loading screen to land. Need to now exit your ship, loading screen. Boarding another ship or station, loading screen. Now let’s talk about the “original” story. You’re a seemingly nobody minding your business when you’re attacked and thrusted into a conflict where you learn you have special abilities, and you gain these abilities from visiting unique locations of power to learn how to harness these unique abilities, like an unrelenting force push, time slow, speed dash and sensing where your enemies are, just some to name… now did I describe Starfield, or did I describe Skyrim?? This game is just space Skyrim, but Skyrim works because it came out in 2011, and Starfield can’t hold the same success in 2023 with 2011 standards. The story about Terramorphs and the crimson fleet should have been the main story, not space Dragonborn chasing space shouts. But instead you can go and do the same side hustle missions again and again. Go kill this guy at this base, then go blow this ship out of the sky, then go rescue this hostage from a ship. Rinse and repeat. Right now I think this company needs to figure out what they want to do with the future of games. Because right now they are stuck in the past beating a dead horse that is their algorithms for game development. At some point someone there will need to realize they can’t keep copy and pasting the same game over and over. Because how could a game this empty and unoriginal take the years it took to make. Go play No Man’s Sky, or just go play Skyrim again.

I have loved MK for 2 decades now. I played MK11 for well over a year before putting it down. But MK1 is just not what I expect from these guys. The multiverse, alternate timeline gimmick is way over done these days in movies and games. “Here’s the same characters doing the same thing again and again, pay us $70. Oh and if you don’t pre order you’ll have to pay extra for a core character of the game.” We’ve already had the story rebooted and done over before, I’m confused why we go back and reboot again. Same bad guy, same evil scheme, same same, same but they look and sound different, oh boy. The campaign left me feeling like I lost a sneeze, at the end I sat there and said “that’s really it??” And I put down the game and haven’t touched it since. Juggle combos have gotten out of hand, and the combat is nothing new and honestly the fatalities are goofy. Shao suspends himself mid air and spins his opponent around like a Looney Tunes cartoon. Who put their heads together to come up with that masterpiece? The only hype this game had was the cameo fighters but developers can’t keep banking on nostalgia for success and most of them don’t release for quite some time, probably in hopes it’ll bring the fans back. Very disappointing and I hope in the future they will shake things up and present something we haven’t seen before. But let’s not hold our breath.