Dominik Pucek

I've updated my review. After hitting a wall with a very stupidly designed box throwing task when I finally decided to push through on the story because there's way too much side content and open world chores, I get hit with mini game number 23 or who knows. This was NOT the right thing to do, I'm sorry. I'm extremely disappointed with the total lack of restraint that was present in Remake. They could have cut half the open world and mini games and it would just be a better game. A lot of these things just have no value. ----- It’s hard for me to give this less than 3 stars because clearly a lot of work went into this game. I just don’t care about the work they did. I was hoping for some treatments of the major towns like Midgar, not this open world fetch quest boredom. Paired with endless mini games, my god, I don’t feel like I’m playing Final Fantasy. The fact that there is a part with a dolphin that is a mini game for no reason was a huge turnoff for me. Crushes me because I absolutely loved Remake and wanted more of a game like that. Not a Ubisoft fetch quest fiesta. It’s just boring. It’s a beautiful and boring open world. Chadley was already too much in Remake and now he has a more annoying companion like, why. Why do these two characters who don’t matter have so, so many voice lines. What a waste.

I liked this game for the first bunch of hours I played it, but seeing only 3 weapons with lame add ons, and that they found a way to have finding items suck, since almost everything is blind with many including a blind trade off...as a rogue like it's not very good in that department. The gameplay is very fun and the game is challenging, but getting minor benefits with negative trade offs doesn't really make it feel like a rogue like or rogue lite to me. Part of the fun is having a crazy set of items and this game is part rogue like but also includes progression, but doesn't have the fun in itemization like Hades does. Hades also has instances of trade offs for later benefits, but it is just handled way better. This game also tries to present a story but in 12 hours of play I learned next to nothing about the world, the main character and it feels like the ending is just going to be some unexplained Lost sort of thing that will just be a let down just to preserve needless mystery. It's an awesomely polished game so I can't rate it low, but I would not recommend it to other players and after twelve hours, I didn't think the item system was all that good or interesting. So it gets a couple knocks for that. You either love this game or don't care about it. It might be a great game but a lot of people will never find out.