Recent reviews by Braven

Game starts out pretty decent but becomes worse and worse the more you play.
It's just not fun playing the same race over and over again, grinding over and over again.
The story is non existent, the AI is terrible, it's just not a good game. Get NFS Heat, it's much better.
As for me, I'll keep playing till I beat this and then never touch it again.

• Car selection is great. Good variety of fan favorites, classics, modern stuff and even fast & furious vehicles.
  
• Betting system is awesome, and it's great to be able to actually lose cash in a race, makes it interesting.
  
• Limited restarts per game day system makes the game a bit more challenging but it's fairly balanced.
  
• Rydell and Tess are great characters and actually funny!

• Extremely low amount of race events. It's always the same handful of events, sometimes just reversed.
  
• Events don't pay a dime, I spent 12 game hours with my FIRST car... Too grindy, like a F2P.
  
• Racing car AI is beyond stupid. You can get past them in ANY curve, no matter your car or the difficulty.
  
• Cop AI is even worse, it's too easy. Too cheap. They don't even try to catch you at all.
  
• Story is practically non existent. When you do get a bit of story, it's very bad.
  
• The cartoon styled characters are beyond cringe and look completely out of place.
  
• The soundtrack varies from meh to outright terrible.

Just endured 15 hours of this game – it aged me like a president in office. It's the kind of scary that makes you debate whether recommending it is a friendly gesture or a plot for revenge. Horrible in the best way possible – my sanity approves but regrets every moment. 👻🕰️😅

I've lost my job, my social life, and possibly my sanity playing this game. I can't stop, won't stop. Send help, or snacks. Preferably both.

Welcome to the time machine! This game's graphics are so outdated, it looks like it came right off 2012. The AI is so dumb, you'll want to get inside the game and strangle it. Don't even get me started on the DLC and MTX. It's like a loot box factory exploded in the game's lobby. A must-play for anyone who enjoys uninspired, low effort cash grabs. I recommend this game if you can get it for free and you are a masochist! 🚀🎮💰

Huge price increase despite the game not having received any real update in over 2 YEARS?! This is a joke.

I loved Gwent in Witcher 3, but this standalone version is terrible in my opinion due to 3 main aspects:

1) Unfair advantage
At the beginning of each match, the game will decide which of the players gets an unfair advantage. As you know, in Gwent the objective is to end the round with more points than your opponent. In this case, whoever gets the advantage automatically gets at LEAST 5 points for free, on top of playing first. This means they can immediately gain dominance, they get 5 points for free AND by the time you start playing they may already have cards ready to attack you, or whatever buff they have. This simply breaks the entire concept of the game for me.

2) Only 1 game mode
There is basically only one game mode, which is standard, where you play with people that at the very least are of your skill level, but after a few matches you will often be paired with people whose decks are already much more advanced than yours. I lost count of how many times I played with people that I simply never had the chance to beat. There is only one other mode, which is in beta mind you, where you get a set of random cards and make a frankenstein deck. Almost nobody plays it though.

3) The grind is insane
I had never seen such blatant milking on a game before this one. This is just sad. Even for a F2P game. You must grind for hours and hours to get a single LOOTBOX containing 4 random low tier cards odds are you already have, and *one* average card. You also can't obtain any battlefield skins or anything like that for free, so unless you pay for it you'll be seeing the same battlefield over and over again. To top it all off, this game has a season pass. And the worst one ever no less. Either you pay *30* dollars for it to get cool rewards, OR you get the same crappy grind key over and over again. That's it. You only get *one* reward over and over again, which is an item you use to grind.

No thanks. Huge pass for me.

Subnautica Below Zero is the awkward sequel that forgot to bring the fun. They ditched cool features, gave us a slower "Seatruck," and recycled sea monsters like a bad horror flick. Building bases? You get one new option – talk about a design downgrade. Save your sea bucks; this feels more like DLC than a real game. 🌊👎💸

Bought this game thinking it'd be a great purchase to play with friends, turned out to be complete garbage. The game is extremely unfair, giving you useless items as rewards for quests and battle encounters, and a very low amount of money which you are forced to use to buy a healing item whose price is always increasing.

As if that wasn't enough, the user interface is bad as well. The chat covers half the screen and I have seen myself not being able to see anything because an item was covering the entire battle more often than not, and sometimes I couldn't even attack the enemy I wanted.

So you'd think ok well at least the combat is good right? NO! The enemies are so overpowered it's maddening. And the boss fights are worse! Instead of making a challenging but fun boss fight, they make a boss who is literally immune to all sorts of debuffs, and is always completely immune to one of the 2 types of attack there are in the game every single turn. On top of that he gets 500 HP which is 3x more than your character will have IF YOU ARE MAX LEVEL, and he gets 2 mini boss minions. If you die, you lose everything and have to restart again.

Pure waste of time, would not recommend. Trying my refund right now because this is just rage inducing. You can spend 20 hours in a campaign, only to die at the final boss and have to restart it from zero! The gameplay is super rigged, and it's all intended for you to sink hours in it before the flaws show up, so you can't even refund it

Microtransactions and Lootboxes ruined the game, period

This game continues to get MAJOR updates to this day, when most developers don't even bother updating a game post release. Beautiful art, great sound design, fun gameplay, amazing to play with friends, and endless updates. Sign me up, always.