Tired of extremely large open world games that are full of bloat? Tired of repetitive side missions that are forgettable and feel like a grind? Tired of mindlessly following markers to your next quest or side quest? No worries because, Dex isn't any of these things. Dex is a 2d/2.5d semi open world cyberpunk platformer with a little bit of metroidvania elements. - Art is great and distinctive. - Music was great for the most part. - Story is amazing with multiple endings for main story and for some side quests. - Side quests are meaningful and characters are memorable. No repetitive side quests, all side quests are unique. - The voice acting in this game carries lots of emotions. It really brings the characters to life and feel down to earth if that makes any sense. Dialogues are pretty good as well. - Gameplay is a bit janky and not much build variety but its serviceable. There are different ways to approach gameplay. You could rely more on stealth and hacking like I did like a techno assassin playstyle was very enjoyable for me personally. You could focus more on guns or you could focus on melee martial arts and there are little set of move commands for that. There are 3 outfit suits you unlock aside from your default outfit. Each help with a certain build. There are also implants you can get. Some allow you to reach places you couldn't reach before like high jump. This is like what many metroidvania games tend to do. - The game is semi open world but don't let that fool you. There are lots of secrets and places to explore in the game & being a 2d platformer helps add a great sense of scale to some places. The game has you mostly exploring a big city with many distinct districts. Exploration feels condensed in a good way without much bloat. - This is one of the few games I finished to the end. I'd compare it gameplay wise to Anno Mutationem & DeusEx. I did enjoy Dex a lot more than Anno Mutationem however. All in all , IMO , this is a very solid game. 10/10
Is this game good? Its cool. There is fun to be had. What's the problem with this game then? Its not true to the BG series and here is how: BG 3 is more of a DOS game than a BG game. While BG 3 is still a cool game, I'm lowkey mad that BG 3 messed with the BG series DNA For staters, combat in BG is supposed to be pausable realtime not turnbased. BG is supposed to rely more on well written dialogues and narration than pompous cinematics. Like why do your companions get jealous of you if you talk to one before the other? They're supposed to be my character's party of comrades not my character's harem of lovers. I understand they were trying to make the companions more interactive and lifelike this way but they went kinda overboard with it that it came off as creepy rather than interactive. Also the characters writing feels rather stereotypical like at this point, If you played other Larian games, the writing should feel rather familiar to you. Like I had much much more fun revelling in the slaughter alongside my dwarf comrade Korgan Bloodaxe in BG 2 than I had being the the mediating mom among Astarion, Shadowheart and that lusty githyanki in BG 3 I'm also fairly disappointed by the game trying to appeal to the players with more sexual content in the game, dirty jokes and "funny" sexual events or remarks. It feels cheap. BG series appealed to players with the good writing and the sense of adventure it has and the amazing dialogue rather than sexual content and pompous graphics. Games from the PF series would be more fitting as a sequel to BG 2 than BG 3 is even if PF is a whole other different series with whole other rules and other different features than BG. That's how far apart BG 3 is from the BG series regardless of whether it is a good game or not. If its different, it should have been a spinoff of the BG series rather than being a sequel that overwrites the DNA of the series. This is just quite insulting to BG 1 and 2 fans if you ask me.
This is an amazing squad stealth game. It reminded me of good old "Commandos" but this is even more fun than Commandos. This game has got personality, it has got atmosphere. Story is ok. Music is awesome! Art is pretty good and voice acting is pleasant. Skills and tactics are satisfying to use. Lethal takedowns and non lethal takedowns. Ability to hide enemy corpses. Different navigating methods for each character like the first character you use in the game is more into parkour and using a hook to climb on top of buildings and such. Game encourages saving as it gets more and more challenging. The tutorial is also good at getting you familiar with different skills and tactics and how the game generally plays. If you love patient tactical stealth games, I highly recommend this masterpiece as long as you don't mind squad games where you control a few characters not just one.
Ok so this game is an odd one. Its like an isometric stealth ARPG in a cyberpunk setting and with apparent influence from Assassins Creed and good old Thief trilogy eventhough not on the same level of stealth depth as Thief trilogy was. This game is more focused on action than stealth in comparison to Thief and Dishonored. It has semi open world but it feels like there is not that much to do. There is some lack of direction from what I experienced and I kinda felt lost. Now, I don't mind a game that doesn't hold my hand..No, I actually like such sort of game but in this one, I just felt some lack of direction on certain parts and something I can't quite figure out felt rather boring. Like there is something missing that makes the game still feel alittle lacking. May be some more polish. Some more gameplay definition. The protagonist is kinda interesting. Game story starts strong with some dark themes like public executions and such but as I dwell further in game, story started to feel less and less interesting to me. It just gets less engaging I guess. In general, its a great game and there is definitely fun to be had. Its on my good stealth games list but it doesn't compare to Thief, Dishonored nor Hitman, imo. I can say it feels like abit janky Assassins Creed game with more focus on stealth. If you don't mind janky games or isometric view and love stealth games then I recommend you give it a try. 4/5 because, imo, its good but not masterpiece. 5 goes for masterpiece. :)
Ok so before you judge the game by the graphics or how dated it might look, hear me out. This game is pretty much like a gamified literature or like a gamified story book. A deep story book. No, not like a visual novel either. It has much more interaction than a visual novel as it is a point click adventure with some action sequences that feel abit like a primitive isometric ARPG combat system. The game is something that would probably be perfectly described as a game ahead of its time. This game knows ATMOSPHERE. It does so so well with the sounds and dialogue. You will feel the confusion of the protagonist. That confusion when a person doubts whether they're sane or not anymore. This game is labeled as horror and rightfully so but its not the type of "scary" horror like there are no jump scares, etc. Its more like disturbing dark horror. It has lots of dark humour which feels alot like Shivering Isles DLC from TES 4 Oblivion. Since the protagonist is in a sanitarium apparently (or is he?), expect lots of crazy randomness in dialogues. There are so many dialogues, events and interactions you'd not expect to see which, imo, gives this game its own magic. Some chapters can be abit more tedious or boring than the first 2 or 3 chapters. The game starts really strong, btw. It feels like reading a very interesting novel or book and you're addicted to read 1 more page to know what happens next. As for the cons, this game is buggy on certain chapters like chapter 3 for example. To avoid this, I recommend saving manually alot as the game apparently has no auto save (as far as I've noticed at least). I can forgive these problems as its an old game but if they could ever fix them, that would be the cherry to the topping. Tl,dr: This game is like reading a rather engaging and deep interactive novel. It is a nice description for how insanity feels like and it has AMAZING ATMOSPHERE. It does great with the sounds specially disturbing ones. Buggy sometimes so save alot!
