Recent reviews by ElliotATK

Very good, I was interested in seeing how a team who has been working on a MMO for the past 10 or so years would handle a single player only game and Im pleased to say it was very excellent, additionally you can tell it was made by a mmo team by the general questing experience.

The music of course is excellent, the characters are very interesting and well designed, the eikon fights are perfect through out, over all a very good final Fantasy, and I hope to see future installments take notes, one gripe with the experience though is that chests you find by exploring largely contain only crafting materials which don't feel very rewarding.

overall a solid 9/10

I didnt expect the story to be that good, excellent characters and moments, an easy 10/10.

I do think playing this before rdr1 is the better way to play from how the story goes, i feel if you play rdr1 first then the fate of certain characters loses its impact.

Cant disable crossplay on pc

Also this is the worse rendition of zombies that has existed in a COD game, there is not a single redeemable feature about zombies in this game, it feels more like MW3 (original) survival, with a cheap zombie skin thrown on. It makes it so that surprisingly Black ops 4 is the last good Treyarch zombies experience.

This also has the worst multiplayer experience to date, the omnimovement is not good, drop shotting and slide cancelling are rampant, assault rifles are terrible, there is no head shot multiplier, melee isn't one hit kill, no interesting game modes, no final killcam, the end game screen takes to long, the character models rival the ps1 in how bad they look, the emotes at the end are janky.

Treyarch has went from the gold standard with black ops 2 to making games that even shovelware developers would say is low effort.

As close to a masterpiece as possible, while i have not done the DLC at the point of this review, I can confidently say I've never had a narrative/lore based game experience as fine tuned and exciting as the Outer Wilds.

It is a visual and auditory pleasure to play this game, the incidental music is perfect, the composer has done an excellent job, the visuals are pleasing and the smoothness of certain events in the game are unmatched by any other.

The only issue I see with this game is that it ends, there is a lot more I would like to know and discover about the universe in game.

Maybe for the time it released it was ok, but now compared with the rest of the series and even the prince of persia games that preceded AC 1 its a very bad experience.

The voice acting is all over the place, the modern day protagonist is the blandest most uninteresting person they could have created, Altair severely lacks in any skill, terrible at parkour, terrible at stealth, terrible at combat and lacks any character.

The game play loop is very uninspired, once completing the first assassination in damascus, the game is essentially completed because its the exact same thing 9 times over, and then a long stretch of many enemies in open combat till the final fight.

AC1 could benefit heavily with a complete remake in the style of AC unity, show Altair as how the future assassins perceive him rather than a weak, slow pathetic character that can barely hold a sword, if new to the AC series this would be the worst game to play at any point as reading the wiki lore about the game is more engaging and fun than playing the actual game.

Very good game and remaster, the time period and setting was very nice as not to many games cover that era of history, the game was also challenging enough though doing the race on classic difficulty was a huge pain.

I have not played much of this game, but thats because like all of Kojima's other stuff its just a whole lot of nothing, their is no draw to the game nothing in it has enticed me to continue playing, granted it started off strong with the opening but after that it falls off massively, whilst some of the mechanics do look promising again their has been no reason to continue playing,
Having only played the first 2 hours I feel I don't need to play more as i've already experienced all the game has to offer.

The peak of Soulsborne design, actual well made bosses, great looking locales, great combat, though enemy placement can be a bit bad just, the only good dark souls games imo followed by DS2, though i did get salty quite a few times and spent an embarrassingly long time fighting the nameless king.

8/10, should have less poison swamps and should give a few more pointers for NPC quests as its called dark souls not Wiki souls which if you want to do anything not on the main route you'll be using the wiki a lot.

So after completing Elden Ring twice this game is a hard no, its the worst souls game, the bosses are badly designed for melee players because youll be spending more time chasing the boss who moves 50 million miles per hour whilst getting peppered by Dots and spells that fire faster than the speed of light, movement and combat on the horse is to floaty, all dungeons and catacombs (if you can tell each dungeon or catacomb apart that is, as most of them have the exact same layout with no deviation or different normal mobs) have the same repeating boss, leaving this game with about 10 unique bosses.
whilst visually stunning going open world was a terrible idea, the map isnt even made correctly as stuff that shows on there isn't always in the actual world with no signs of actually existing in the first place as no ruins or structural damage.
Controller support seems really bad as sometimes the game will just forget its connected or wont register button inputs.
Additionally there are more poison swamps and the new scarlet rot swamps, in areas you can use the horse this is fine as then you wont be affected by them, but in dungeons they are the same old ♥♥♥♥ present in all souls games as they cant come up with anything else creative.
But some positives are that the game looks nice, the npc quests dont require you to study the wiki to complete and the animations look really good.
overall this game gets a 4/10 as everything they did and learnt regarding boss design in DS3 was completely ignored and went so much for spectacle that Fromsoft seemed to have forgotten that this is a game in parts.
The final boss also is really bad, its no Gwyn,Orphan of Kos, Aldia, Sister freid, soul of cinder or Slave knight Gael, instead its just a boss with to much HP while having 2 phases, one phase of which the camera is your worst enemy as well as AOE's larger than the visual for them, and the other phase the main boss also has to much HP whilst doing tons of damage, teleports with a damaging aoe that knocks you down, a grab with the range of a sniper and doesnt get punished for missing anything on you, so it comes down to luck
TLDR: Dark souls 3 is better, elden ring is an uninspired open world game with no care put into it, constantly repeating mini bosses with no new mechanics, terrible mounted combat, controller support does not work well, a rather bland and unnoticeable OST and overall its just very boring, if any other game dev released this game as it is it would be heavily criticized and people would be demanding refunds and its removal from sale as well as various class action lawsuits

firstly its way better than Shadowbringers, as in it doesnt take up to the last 10% of the msq to get interesting, but there are still some stale points, like emet-selch; personally I think Emet-selch was designed to be disliked, he's equal to some of the worst human beings that have existed and all the way to the very end is manipulativ; and Elpis and time travel those 3 things are not only a blight on the the expansion but the franchise as a whole, however everything else was great the Garlemald and mare Lamentorum section were the best parts of the MSQ, the best solo duty in the game also took place there, thvanair and labrynthios served their purposes well, and Ultima thule is hard to decide on as their was some nice parts, but the zone music was really bad and the world boss fate system is still awfully designed, but the msq there for the most part was interesting., the end game content is also really good, a lot harder than previous expansions extremes and savages so far, based on current tiers and hopefully the adventuring foray and trial series are good

Overall 6/10 - the highs are really high and the lows cant go any lower, if you liked Stormblood then you'll like Endwalker