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This is not a game - this is an experience.

Even tho it does not revolutionize anything gameplay-wise as it is your typical AAA game, with simple mechanics, even simpler movement, kind of dumb combat and stealth, while you run around a map full of activities as your character gets OP af, the overall narrative and the overall presentation of the game make you lose track of time. It pays so much tribute to Japanese and Mongol cultures that history nerds like me would be really happy.

It's like you are playing through a fairytale. I do not remember the last time a game made me feel like that. Maybe Red Dead Redemption 2. Ghost of Tsushima deserves its praises through the years and I am glad Sony are coming to their senses, releasing their exclusives for PC.

*Bulgarians - create the cyrilic alphabet for all slavic nations*
Battlebit devs: Let's add macedonian which is almost Bulgarian language, but from Wish. Let's add Russian and Ukrainian which are almost the same between each other just like Bulgarian and macedonian are, but don't add the Bulgarian language. Let's be simpletons.

Besides the cultural ignorance of the devs the game is aiming to be Battlefield but old school Battlefield. When it was actually good and felt like a sandbox and not an agenda pushing instrument for fake inclusivity. It accomplishes that and takes the best from Battlefield 3 and 4 and even ads its own gimmicks like dragging down soldiers and bleeding after too much damage while balancing some aspects of the Battlefield series. If you and your PC can't run anything besides Sonic, Backgammon or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it for sure will run this. It even has bigger servers with 128 vs 128 which in theory sounds amazing, but the servers probably will never reach these 128 vs 128 numbers because of the fact they are empty.

It looks like EA and Activision can learn a thing or two from what I know is 3 people that developed this. However there are few things that need fixing and are the reasons this is not recommended at least for now:

1..Visibility for some reason is terrible even tho the so called "graphics" are laughable. Yes allies have triangles above their heads, but everyone looks the same. The enemy blends with the terrain.

2.Spawns are just idiotic. Click on a squad mate and watch yourself being headshotted from some dude who was actually shooting at your teammate.

3. Inconsistent and buggy movement.

4. Devs don't allow you to use voice chat if you don't agree to be recorded while playing. I get that this prevents toxicity in some way, but it's 2024 almost and you have to submit to everything a company throws at you in order to experience something to the maximum. Plus if you really want to be a piece of sh1t you will find a way to be a piece of sh1t.

5. The grinding is harsh. Leveling feels like my job - not like a game.
6. It's kinda pricey for what you get if you think about it. I get it's developed by three people and I get that they almost died from starvation while waiting for Valve to pay them, but 15 euro for an idea Battlefield developed for 20 years is too much. If it was cheaper it would have been even bigger success.

It's hilarious how EA just can not understand what F1 is all about. No one cares about F1 world, no one really cares about cosmetics, no one really cares about "My home" or w/e other gimmick they added for this year's game. What F1 fans care about is classic cars, classic tracks, classic drivers, realistic or semi-realistic mechanics and possible anti-cheat.The engine itself is almost 10 years old. Pushing one button to make a "perfect" pit-stop is not fun and is not skill based. The game is good because of the fact F1 22 was absolute and utter garbage so F1 23 is basically a fixed version of F1 22. Ranked is garbage at the lower levels but gets thrilling at the highest ranks. Avoid public lobbies - It's pointless. People will crash into you, because their ego can't stand someone to be faster than them.

Overall it's EA - the same sh1t all over again with slight changes. The future is not bright if the license stays with EA. We already saw what happened to FIFA. Despite that the game is better than 22 so buy ot on a discount.

It's my first Souls-like game and it's overrated garbage. I gave it few chances since I like the setting and the story to some degree, but it's unplayable. The game doesn't even detect my controller so I am forced to play with mouse and keyboard (one of the few occasions where I would prefer a controller). I googled the sh1t out of this issue and people say: "disconnect your mouse, your keyboard, some other USB's etc". In what world in 2020 (the game's release) or 2023 you need to disconnect all of your periherals in order to make a game detect your input preference? If you chose to suffer with mouse and keyboard prepare for janky, uncontrollable camera, idiotic controls that are so inconvenient that you wonder if actually Activision supervised this game, you losing control over Wolf and him running the opposite direction, constant punishment even early in the game. The game takes half of your gold and XP upon death. I don't mind that but at least don't punish me like that in the first mission where I am literally learning the game and the basics. A lot of screen tearing and other visual bugs even on max settings.

I really wanted to like this game and actually learn and grind it, but this version is just unplayable.

It took me 10 years to complete a game that isn't even that hard, I am not even joking. Back in 2012 this game was super hyped and rightfully so. It's a great game with unique mechanics even tho the AI is a bit idiotic at times and you can easily exploit it. Sadly it doesn't pass the test of time in terms of graphics, but who cares - it's still a good game with 3 different endings depending on how you played.

The actual game is good. It's FIFA, but better than the previous ones. Seems a little bit more realistic than the others, they added the World Cup, they added women competitions, which nobody asked for etc. They added new animations here and there. You can actually defend against harder AI. In the previous FIFA's I got totally destroyed without the ability to touch the ball by the higher difficulties. Maybe that's my problem. Overall is it's FIFA, but a better more polished version of it. It's a negative review cuz once again - it's not me, it's you EA. First they make their users enable secure boot in order for their idiotic anti-cheat to work. Btw there are still cheaters. Imagine little Timmy doesn't know how to enable secure boot. He won't be enjoying his yearly opening pack simulator anymore. Second it's insane to me how a company for billions and trillions can't fix bugs like the one that desyncs the cloud save with your local data. That's right, if you start a new manager or player career and you choose to DOWNLOAD the latest squads, your game won't recognize your saves and it will ask you which version to use - the one from the local data on your computer or the last one saved in the cloud, because the game thinks your files in the folder are corrupt. I tried to clear the Origin/EA app's (another stupidity by EA btw) cache. It didn't work. In order to have your game back again or at least try to enjoy it you simply have to suck it up and play with the current squads. TL: DR good game, trash company. But it's EA, so it's nothing surprising.

The game is good, but definetely is not on the same level as the first one. It is longer and maybe that's kind of a drawback. It took a lot of time and chapters (until chapter 10) to fire on all cylinders and live up to its name. What I am saying is that majority of the game doesn't feel like a a Plague Tale game until the very end. But still it's a good game.
As I said the first 5 chapters are spent in nonsense. But it's a continuation of the first game so maybe it makes some sense. You travel with Beathrice and Lucas while trying to find new home and a cure for Hugo. You make new friends who kinda ruin the theme of the game. This family is used to fight alone. The characters they encounter have their uses and mostly are introduced to spice up the gameplay since it can get repetitive. Later on you can even send your companion into a battle to actually oneshot enemies. For the first part of the game you don't even look after Hugo that much. There are barely any rats encounters. You spend most of the time with Lucas, while Hugo is around Beathrice. During this time I got littlle bit disappointed and annoyed by Amicia and her growth as a character , because the developers clearly didn't want to decide by themselves how she would develop as a character and let the player decide to some degree.
I get that she is 14-15 y.o girl who went through some insane horrors in the first game. I get that this can affect your psyche a lot, but she constantly complains and b1tches that she is weak and she can't do stuff she used to do months ago. She even starts to lose it at some point. She wants to kill and act tough without any kind of logic. The game FORCES you to actually kill in some encounters. But I played them as I think Amicia in reality would: try to avoid detection and be a total ghost, because after all you are just a 15 y.o girl. Believe me the game wants to portray her as a killing machine and it wants you to kill enemies, but in the same time when she does, the sidekicks start to question her if that's actually reasonable. This is another inconsistency. Hugo is not far from his sister as well. One minute he is all good, innocent and even "stupid" and naive at times (which is normal for a kid) and the next - he actually thinks like an adult and wants to kill and even gives strategies. I get that his curse tells him that he should kill, but it really looks idiotic at times. The only character which stays consistent is Lucas. He never loses hope and he stays on the right track.
. You know Hugo will die and is a race against the clock. You fight allies who turned out bad for their own twisted reasons and the rats ecnounters get more frequent. Amicia and Hugo lose their mother and Hugo snaps and wants to kill everything in his path, but Amicia brings him back and that's the point I actually started to kill enemies, because it had logic unlike before. After the loss of their mother they are enraged and want to destroy those who hurt them. After that everything is about the rats and Hugo's curse. He gets deceived that Amicia is dead and the rats get even more vicious.
A lot of people dislike the ending, but it actually is good, because we knew someone will die only by the title. . It is a "Requiem" for a reason. The ending pays tribute to Hugo and his struggles. And the way Hugo's death is delivered is really sad, but at some point we all asked ourselves even during the first game: what will happen if Hugo dies - well we know now. The plague stops. The game ends with a cliffhanger for another potential Plague Tale game set in modern times. I just hope it won't "Assassin's Creed" itself to the point you can't even recognize the game anymore.

As I said the game is good, but the first game left better impressions and it's normal for the sequel to be weaker.

The game is good, but the pricing is too high for one-third of the previous' game length including completion of all side missions. Yeah we knew it won't be a sequel, but a "continuation" of the first game. But still it looks like a quick cash-grab in a way by Sony. With that said there are pros and cons.

Pros
-Even better graphics than the previous one with amazing animations
-Good performance on ultra settings
-Miles is just like Peter and is actually likable. He is clunky while swinging or even falling down, showing us he is still a newbie. His moves are sick.
-Swinging is even more stylish and swaggier
-Some of the side missions actually make sense unlike in the previous game where you had to do stuff just because the game threw it at you. Here you have to chase pigeons again, but at least it makes some kind of sense.

Cons:
-As I said: price. Not worth spending almost the same amount of money for basically a DLC.
-Constant agenda pushing. Just like in real life.Little hints here and there just make it annoying and sometimes it feels forced.
-Miles is broken. Literally the most op character you can play. Batman and Thor pale in comparisson to a Spider-Man with invisibility (making the stealth kinda worse than the first game), bio-electricity (yep you are a swinging battery), an unexplained gadjet - gravity well, allowing you to oneshot stuff with electricity and drones that Peter developed without having an actual budget to do so since he is jobless. Yeah it's a game, but still - zero sence.
-Peter looks useless compared to Miles. Why would anyone prefer Peter now if Miles is just that broken?
-Sidekicks and characters - boring. Smart4ss kids who can do anything anywhere. Peter had no sidekicks until Yuri.
-Stealth - they tried to improve it, but it feels like they only tried and didn't do anything significant to actually challenge the player. It's not Splinter-Cell or Thief, but enemies are just idiotic in these sections.
-The story and the villain(s) are so boring and uninspired that I followed it, because of the pretty cutscenes. Generic bad guy with bipolar disorder wants to do bad stuff for money. As for the Tinkerer - her motives were clear, but again the generic revenge plot is just stale. Even Kingpin trying to get Harlem from jail was easy to guess, before it was actually revealed.
-Insomniac didn't take notes and the boss fights suck again. Super easy, because as I said: Miles is stupidly OP. They must fix this for the sequel.
-Minor bugs here and there.

Wait for a sale, cuz the biggest flaw is the price tag for basically those little things they improved so they can brand it as a different game. And that comes from a huge SM fan. It's a good game - just not good enough to make you say: "this was awesome and worth"

Maybe back in 2010 it was real hype, but playing it now just feels dull. Usually NFS games are mindless fun where you can switch your brain off and have a good time. Here you still don't need a brain, but it's not fun at all. The rubberbanding is insane and is the difficulty factor. AI always catches you no matter if you are driving Bugatti Veyron with 415 km/h at top speed or Opel Zafira. And for some reason they will decide to stop and have a breakfast 1 km before the finish to let you win easily so you don't get upset if you are under the age of 10 which might cause your mom to refund the game, cuz her failure can't win in a game.
As a Cop you will hate your life as an interceptor and since the rubberbanding is stupid here, you will pray the car you are chasing does something idiotic like crashing into a turn.
No story, mediocre soundtrack, kinda good graphics, 60 FPS lock, no wheel support, repetitive races, pointless upgrades, grinding for cars, no [real sense] for speed (haHAA) You can be on the brink of breaking the sound barrier, but you will feel like you are waiting on a red light, unless you are driving the Bugatti.
Positives are: the drifting, crossplay and the ability to wait for a sale. Bought it for 6 euro.

It simply doesn't work.It's sad cuz this could've taught CoD or BF a thing or two.