Recent reviews by sbren sbeve

Thoroughly enjoyed this game.

I would recommend this game, since it has decent gunplay and fun mechanics surrounding said gunplay.

Unfortunately I can't because the ending is a turd. The villain lives and the ending is a cliffhanger for a sequal that will never drop. Horrific lack of closure, that will leave you blue-balled. Spend your money on something else.

The game centers around Final Fantasy-like roaming and Zelda like combat, with nods and references to other games thrown in like seasoning on a steak.
Additionally, entire sections of the game shifts the gameplay completly, from the JRPG at its core- into mimicries of other classic games from a wide variety of genres.
I found these (with a few exceptions) fun and exciting since i hadn't tried some particular genres before, allowing me to explore and try them out for the first time.

My biggest gripe with the game lies in the story
The story is similar to Chrono Trigger in that it uses time travel liberally as a plot device. However, this results in a story that seemingly loses control in the late game and ends up suffering from what i found to be a very anti-climactic ending.
The quality of the gameplay and the skill with which the story entranced me earlier left me expecting truck-loads of closure by the end. Instead I was left even more questions about some particularly important characters (including the main character) backstories and motivations.
The game starts hinting, very early- at some pretty drastic twists that I was waiting for to be revealed in the late-game, but this doesn't happen. The ending expands slightly based on how many details about certain characters you've uncovered, through talking to NPCs etc. but i was still left with a need for closure. This was not helped by the post-credits cutscene which revealed some events that poked holes in many of the theories I had formulated to answer the questions i was left with. I suppose its quite a bit like Souls-games in the way it requires you to heavily theorize from minute details.

I think it's worth playing for the gameplay and the story, regardless of the anti-climax waiting at the end.
If you do dive into it, be aware that you won't get as much closure as you'll want for alot of the games main characters, which I find sad, since I had grown to like them quite a bit.

A pause button would have made it decent enough to upload on newgrounds, but not Steam. You need godlike endurance to play this game because you're not allowed to pause the game, and each level needs to be cleared in 2 minutes or less. Do not get this game. Just watch some schmuck play it on youtube or something.

The game is not as good at any of the things that made BL2 fun, and worse at what BL2 did poorly. Unless you feel that you're an absolute diehard fan who MUST experience for yourself the minimal story there is to find in this game, then skip it. Skip it and find the story relevant cutscenes and dialogs on YouTube and the BL wiki.

Oh, and SPOILERS






you don't get any mention of angel in this game. at all.

Most everyone are gonna have a different first session with this game, it's frustrating, but incredibly satisfying.