Recent reviews by freddie

My least favourite out of the 3 modern Personas but that ending will stick with me the longest.

Sawa-sensei is said as many times as dream is mentioned in Yakuza 5. Peak RGG.

Best yakuza since 0

Started playing for the fancy, ultra-real-time path tracing, light ray-bouncing graphics, with no intention of finishing the game.

Ended up 100%ing it in 3 weeks.

Would recommend.

Street fighter 6 better

Trash game. Ranked has less character diversity than a smash bros melee tournament.

Elden Ring is a phenomenal game but it's hard to look over the hurdles I had to overcome in order to fully enjoy this game.

Gameplay: The initial 20 hours of this game were tolerable at best. The first area is too dense for it's own good, filled with the most amount of copy and paste catacombs/caves, containing useless loot 90% of the time. I felt as if my thorough exploration wasn't appropriately rewarded. While this problem persisted throughout my 80 hour play through, it became far less egregious as the filler content became far and few between with an increase in more intricate world and level design.
The game truly opens up after you conquer the first legacy dungeon. Suddenly, most of the gear actually becomes useful, and it was refreshing to finally swap weapons 20 hours into the game. This gameplay loop of exploring, killing bosses and looting never got tiresome, because the game gives plenty of opportunities for experimentation and trying new things. Despite the abundance of reused enemies, it was still fun to tackle them with a different strategy.
Story: Like every other souls game, the devs didn't bother to explicitly tell me what was going on so I responded by not bothering to pay any attention to the story. The cutscenes and voice acting were cool though.
Difficulty: Enemies are extremely aggressive and fast, making these some of the most brutal battles in the series. However, the late games bosses are the definition of artificial difficulty.

Overall 9/10