This game is phenomenal. I've replayed Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow and Ashes: Hard reset countless times. Perfection.
It's just amazing, fun game with excellent music, atmosphere story and gameplay. It goes to my 'best games ever' list!
Go get it, it feels awesome, looks awesome and plays awesome!
It has a great atmosphere, awesome soundtrack and looks really cool. The story is interesting, but nothing to write home about. Gameplay-wise you either steer your flying car or walk on street level and talk to people. You are either delivering packages or passengers. Sometimes you get to make a decision as to how you want to handle a certain situation and it will have some impact on the story, but as far as I can tell, nothing groundbreaking. Simply put: if you like cyberpunk atmosphere and is intrigued by the idea of driving a flying car through always rainy-always night-neon lit city from point A to point B get it. But don't expect much. It's a simple, but good game if you just want something you don't have to think about and just relax. A solid 3/5.
If you like Lovecraft, get this game when it's cheap. Not really worth the full price. Good atmosphere and some interesting ideas but a bit questionable gameplay decisions at times...
I haven't been so conflicted about a game in a long time. There were moments where I would give it 4,5, or even 5 stars, and yet there were moments where I would go for 1 or 2. So to get to the point... PROs: + Interesting, branching story that I was genuinely invested in + Interesting characters with their own motives + Great voice acting + Amazing atmosphere especially during the nights with fog everywhere + Interesting sidequests, where even the "fetch-quest" ones do have some tidbits of worldbuilding in them + Great, tense music that adds to the averall atmosphere + Finding clues and putting them together in each case is very satisfying! + Great UI that's satysfying to use CONs: - The open world city is meaningless, there's almost nothing to do in it, except traversing it - Moving around the city is tedious, until you unlock most of the fast travel points - Infected zones are pointless and serve more as an obstacle than a looting place - Combat system is kinda boring. It's just sor of... there. It works, but you'll be fighting the same kinds of monsters everywhere over and over again. - The grind for resources (to craft ammo and some other things) is tedious. When you find yourself in a situation without ammo, it's a long process to try to find crafting materials without fighting monsters everywhere and wasting ammo again - The skill system is kinda pointless a few percent bonus there, a few more percent bonus elsewhere... Summary: Even with it's flaws, I found myself constantly returning to this game and having a great time. If there was a more fleshed out open world and better combat system It would be a very solid 4/5. But like this I cannot give it more than 3/5 stars.
The visuals are great, the story is mostly ok, but nothing ground breaking. It's good for the voice acting and atmosphere. It's quite short though, so it's mostly fun for one evening.
If you like walking sims with amazing visuals, great voice acting and interesting story, get it. It's worth your time.
The title says it all...
Blurry textures half the time, no matter the setting - I've tried two fixes available on the internet with no result. Add frequent FPS drops and a broken game if you try to start a new playthrough (all saves has to be deleted manually, otherwise the game just doesn't work as it should). I really want to like this game, but it agressively prevents me to...
