Recent reviews by ethers dual hunting horn

torchlight infinite is an ok diablo like arpg that is not torchlight. if you have played torchlight series before, then, this is not the torchlight you want. it can feel similar with some other well known arpg.

it is an ok arpg game, but, filled with tons of pay to win features. if you are ok with taking things slow or slower or looks worse aesthetically compared to who pay, then, you can have some fun exploring some content. the game itself offer decent incentive for those who play for free and can be played until endgame without paying anything.

+ interesting character and mechanics and endgame mechanics
+ ok performance but it is not that taxing to begin with
+ ok graphic, very cartoony

- translation is bad and sometime wrong or not understandable
- ui need some work
- idle/vanity voiceline can feel happen too often
- it can feel too zoomed in, and no zoom setting
- no coop at time of writing

9/10
very chill and relaxing game with ok amount of strategy/puzzle

if you like dorfromantik you may like this game

+ good graphic, not the best, don't expect ultra beautiful realistic graphic, but it fit the game just perfect
+ ok music/soundscape
+ ok strategy

- need better photo mode
- some ux can be made better, i hate how some ui (the animal search thing) randomly close by itself or some ui (the book) pop up everytime even though i already seen it countless time
- it can feel a bit expensive

7/10

tldr
promising another monster hunter like with great ideas but does not developed and deliver well.
monsters are 5/10.

+ weapon types are interesting.
+ monster are quite unique and interesting. it does have a lot of variants and the real monster type is actually a lot smaller.
+ environment and scenery is interesting
+ sound and music is good

- camera can be enemy
- monster movements is not fun to play. it feels like the monster movements and gameplay are not tested using all weapon types. most monsters feels like just chaining movements with little to no opening specially for slow weapons. it may also have huge input reading.
- weapon crafting is one of the great ideas but the implementation left more than half of the weapons not viable and the mods are not very interesting
- most weapon and armor mods are not informative on what they do and not interesting
- end game grinding material is very random and and not fun to grind

- performance is not good. i can run the game fine on mostly max, 2560x1080, 60fps, but, i can run other game better and more stable with less resource
- bad upscaling and upscaling setting
- expensive specially looking at the graphic and issues
- there is audio issue

best souls like psychological horror fps dating sim i have ever played

joke aside

OBS in steam

another monster hunter

+ hunting horn
+ layered armors and weapons
+ switch skills
+ skills, builds and crafting
+ low resource requirement
+ crafting and traversing made simpler compared to mhw

- liked mhw hunting horn melody gameplay more
- maps and environment feels smaller
- visual feels worse compared to mhw
- dlc fest. too much dlc, need bundles and better pricing.

sunbreak
+ investigations
+ more switch skills
+ more skills and crafting

UPDATE 22 May 2024
The game just keep refuse to launch. It can randomly run but it will be offline and cannot connect to server. Most of my cars are also gone.
update: i found a way by myself to "fix" the game after spend whole day searching. i preordered this game and have to "fix" the game by myself, what a time.

just another nfs arcade racing. should name it nfs rubberband or slingshot instead.
as always, take some lesson from previous game, add a bit new stuffs that works, and throw away a lot more old stuff that works.
the game is more like annoying than difficult.

+ visual and performance feels better
+ more type of events
+ change on heat and cops feels more welcoming to players

- handling feels different again compared to previous game
- nfs cops always known to have very rubberband AI, unbound up the game by applying the same level to the rival AI. this makes things worse. this just add a bit more difficulty by allowing less mess up but also add a lot more "luck" in the gameplay because the traffic and police spawn can be better in restart
- no ai racer in multiplayer. multiplayer is literally unplayable if nobody join and it is not rare that nobody join your race. ai racer help the multiplayer game a bit livelier in previous game.
- personally not liking the design forcing players to play in week, to play in day and night, no quick skip, no free roam
- literally lock story behind "buy in"
- smaller map

pre ordered the game
played the pre order beta access

it is 50 50 between yes and no it is a yes now
the game is ok and can be fun but it does feel incomplete in many place in release day
developer does shows improvements over time on beta access and day 1 release which can be promising
not a game that you play for the story
if you like vermintide, back 4 blood, left 4 dead, and the likes you probably will like this

+ classes
+ there are some builds but not a lot more build after update but still lacking
+ map designs and environments are good and enjoyable
+ good developer with some updates and fixes to the game after release but slow
- crashes to desktop (i actually have less crashes to desktop in beta than in release) no crash to desktop after updates
- builds and feats are not that interesting and exciting it is updated but need more of this

- mods and feats are not informative on what they do
- actually have incomplete feature in game (some crafting option shows "soon") and finished in game shop (and looks like it works well from looking lobby) on release
- voice acting can be more diverse and interesting. the dialogues are nice but it sounds the same for all characters.

early review will change later

+ cool moveset
+ character builds

- no builtin ultrawide. i am ok with ultrawide gameplay and no cinematic ultrawide but the game have no builtin ultrawide. you can get ultrawide resolution option without mods by playing around full screen and resolution.
- bad ui ux specially for kbm
- weird skipping issue in ui menu interaction
- expensive
- default graphic is very blurry

good drawing and painting software. it have most basic features and some advanced features. if anyone have used other software, it may take awhile to learn the flow and interface.

i have used it from time to time since a long time ago and know it is free, bought krita here because i have more money since there is a painting software that i used to use daily that changed their payment model.

7/10

This is a very old game. The game just deliver truck driving experience in Europe. It does not offer a lot but it try to deliver what it can the best.

+ Mods

- Most of the content are in DLC and there are a lot of them
- Online login sometime bugged
- Most of the DLC are just maps and arts but probably it is hard to expand from the gameplay it provide