Recent reviews by Warthog

So after playing for 70'ish hours of the game, beating the story completely and having over 50% total completion rate of items, characters and missions done:

I simply cannot recommend this game at it's current price of admission. As for why? Well, here's a list of pro's and cons:

Pros:
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Decent Graphics that in certain setpieces looks absolutely stunning, for a lego game.
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"Open world" exploration. I say "open world" cause you are relatively restrained to a small arena on each planet. So you don't really get to explore the whole planet per say. Only important pieces related to the story such as the "Mos"'s of Tatooine and the desert.
Alas, the world is huge which is a +
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Playable Characters. The fact that there's over 300+ characters you get to play as is mindnumbingly insane. Just go explore the galaxy far far away as you like it, if you will.
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Music, VFX and sounds in general are very "Star Wars". If you enjoy the sounds, you'll feel at home.


Cons:
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UNFORTUNATELY. The open world we have is relatively empty, certain areas are packed to the brim like the Ewok Village but other areas are desert empty with little to do.
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Missions are boring and puzzles are too easy.
The missions are very straight forward and easy to understand, but that's as far as it goes. There's no complexity or variety.
Not to mention, the story missions are "split" from the rest.
They aren't quests like the ones you get from NPCs.
They're just there? to progress the story and nothing more. Replayability with the story missions are also a negative due to character limitation(I;E No Freeplay)

As for the puzzles, I never once felt mentally challenged by the game, nor stimulated in success of a completed puzzle. I understand the game is mostly aimed towards children with a lower intellect level but having some sort of "hard mode" puzzle setting would have been appreciated.
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The characters are all the same.

There are not 300-400+ playable characters. There are 10 characters and 390 reskins, + some hidden extras like the rancor.
How though?
Take any two characters from the same category like Heroes. Those 2 will play EXACTLY the same and have the SAME abilities. Only different is how they sound and look. Strip them of those two factors and they will be indistinguishable from one another.

So yeah, there's ONE character for every category, hundreds of reskins and again, some hidden characters.
In fact. You can even go as far as delete one or two categories of characters and not miss out on anything.

Back in the original Lego Star wars games, Jedi and sith behaved the same with the exception that Sith could also interact with dark force objects as well as regular stuff. Jedi could not. Therefore, if you play the 1st Lego star wars game and unlock Maul, you never need to play a Jedi ever again in Free play. The same thinking applies in Skywalker Saga to a degree.
This also includes the DLC characters. You overpay for a reskin, not quite worth it.

Especially since you do NOT get all the DLC's for buying the Deluxe edition that I bought. You get season 1 Skywalker saga DLC's, anything after you don't get. As I do not have certain characters unlocked from the DLC category.

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Overall, is it worth it? Only if you can get Galactic or Deluxe edition for 20€ or less. Otherwise, it is unfortunately a waste of money as the game cannot pay for itself with it's content available.

Long story short: Don't waste time, energy and potential resources on this game. It's not worth it.

Now, the game is a nightmare of clusterbombs that is the game's visuals. Most of the time you can't even tell what is going on. You can, for example: Take damage from an Area of effect ability but there's clearly no "damage" going on. You can clearly "not stand in the fire" but take damage from it.

Gameplay balance is another matter entirely that is atrociously bad. Certain Gundams just outperform others in every area.

TL;DR: Game is trash, don't spend time or money on it. And certainly don't "wait for the devs to iron out the gameplay". By that time the game will most likely be dead. As finding a match on EU servers is already taking long enough.

Having played almost 12-13 hours of both the base game and truth quest as well as having completed everything there is to do with the sole exception of killing the Atomic Leviathan.

Running the game was more or less fine in the beginning. But the moment I started truth quest the performance went to sh!t. Even something like consuming beach goers as a quest now causes stutters. This is also the reason why I can't kill the leviathan, due to the massive stutters happening, which is caused by the game using 100% of the GPU and CPU.

Which shouldn't be the case but it is for whatever technical reason. Even costumer made band-aid fixes doesn't work such as modifying the config to reduce the settings far more than what you can do in-game.

Until the ENTIRE game(base + truth quest) has the performance and a few bugs being fixed I genuinely cannot recommend buying ManEater nor it's DLC. It is not worth the price of admission.

Not worth buying. Was good when it was released but now it has gained the "COD" Standard. Less than 5K players online and a vast majority of those players who still remain actively cheat. Your money is better of burned on something else.

Game runs poorly, textures glitching and muddy character models, not to mention the god awful frame rate.

Though it seems to work better for others than it does for me. Have not been able to play the game so therefore cannot make a "thumbs up" recommendation.

Absolutely horrible experience. The PS2 version was better performance wise by far. Mouse lag and fps dropping below 60 at the slightest movement.

0/10, would not recommend for PC.

The game has an amazing storyline. Controls are weird but using a joystick helps a lot. A lot of different crafts to fly. Even more crafts and weapon packs to unlock by completing the story.

Multiplayer exists but is quite dead
CO-OP would be fun if you have friend to play with.
Singleplayer offers different missions which can be tackled in different ways with different crafts.

Cheat codes exist but there is little to no point in using them as every craft you can unlock with cheats must still be unlocked in singleplayer to use. You are free to use these crafts in multiplayer if you wish.

I've played CS:GO since it's release date all those years ago. I have more than 3.5K hours across two accounts.
Battle Royale is a cheap way to gain players. As cheap as it gets as there is literally no point in playing when you can just download the superior Royale version in Fortnite, or, if you prefer: PubG.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has always had a active problem with cheaters. Making the model Free to play will only increase that number significantly. And those cheaters who aren't banned now have access to PRIME matchmaking.
Something you could only get previously by linking your steam account with your own Phone number as well as leveling up in-game.

With the game going Free to Play. What do us hardcore CSGO players get for sticking with the game for so long get? A rare special skin? No.
A somewhat rare special item? No.
A special "Status" indicating how long we've played? Hell no.

We get a dinky badge worth jack that no one will pay attention to.
I would rather get a full refund for the game and all the money spent on it than touch it again.
I as a longtime player feel really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ offended by this course of action ValvE has taken.
I am very disappointed...