After trying and failing many times to get into this game, it finally clicked for me after I decided to drop the tutorial and just start playing. For some reason the tutorial killed the interest in the game for me. Close to 300 hours later I've finally beaten this + Space Age. This game, like Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Project, are all crack in video game form. It's really satisfying to solve problems in these kinds of games.
The planets this adds are fantastic (except Gleba) and varied. They're all different and have different playstyles and challenges, and for the most part the challenges are fun to overcome. Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Aquilo are great. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses, but all planets (except Aquilo) are fully capable of supplying everything the other planets can (and some resources are either infinite or basically infinite). Though it can be a bit of a headache to get it set up sometimes, it's always worth it and rewarding. The only planet that sucks is Gleba. Spoilage sucks and is super unforgiving. Nutrients/Science spoiling sucks and is super unforgiving. Eggs "spoiling" and being so damn hard to find sucks and is super unforgiving. Finding out which tiles are even growable because yellow tiles around the argi tower doesn't necessarily mean you can even grow on it with gowing foundations sucks. The whole planet is awful and it's why they lose 1 star.
I've beaten 1 2 & 3 at least twice each, but I've never played 4 because I never owned a PS4 or PS5. I read over the years that Uncharted 4 was weaker than 2 and 3, so when I found this was on PC and I bought it I was expecting it to be alright at best. I was so pleasently surprised. Uncharted 4 is, by far, the best Uncharted in the series and it's not even close in my opinion. The biggest strength this game has over the others is the writing. In the previous games, the bad guy always knows everything and is always either right behind you or ahead of you in the search for whatever it is you're looking for even if it makes no sense story-wise. They honestly feels like a worse version of Raiders of the Lost Ark where Nathan isn't even relevant to the story until the end. This game, however, writes its scenarios and characters in a much smater way so you're not scratching your head wondering why the bad guy knows what he knows or how he could have known it. The gameplay is also way better, the graphics are incredible (Although, why they decided to force TAA on everyone is beyond me. TAA is the worst AA ever), the characters are amazing, and the story is the best part. It wraps up Uncharted beautifully and even leaves it open for future games (which unfortunately doesn't look likely). The Lost Legacy is also fantastic. A great little story (~6-8 hours) after the events of Uncharted 4. 100% worth playing as well. The only downside to this game is Uncharted 1-3 are not available on PC and you miss out on sooooo much by not playing those first. This game doesn't hit as well if you don't have the context of the previous games unfortunately. Bring the Nathan Drake collection to PC!
Before you get all up in arms, the writing and characters are good. The thing that really irritates me is the combat. I'll have my party of 6 people beating the holy fucking shit out of one guy, and none of us can seem to hit. Eventually, after like 30 seconds of this, the enemy will likely die with maybe one or two of my people getting hit. The combat is so incredibly boring that I just cannot get into this game. That's not my only problem, either. Some random enemies that shouldn't be hard to kill are nearly impossible. I'm not sure if they're exclusive to the enhanced edition or not, but its fucking ridiculous. I get to the town of Beregost, which is about an hour into the game. I go into the Inn that Imowen was talking about, and what happens? This guy harrasses me for being an adventurer, and no matter what I say, he ends up fighting me. I could just leave the inn, but why should I have to do that? So I fight this guy and his friend. His friend gets killed almost instantly, but this guy who started the fight is invincible. He single handedly will kill my entire party every time I load up my save game. He's one random HUMAN NON-ADVENTURING MAN that will kill my entire party. Compare that to these two Orcs I found, all kitted up with weapons and armor. I wiped the floor with them. No one in my party got hit once, and we decimated them within seconds. What kind of balance is that? A battle hardened, been fighting since he was born Orc goes down within seconds, but this random farmer who isn't an adventurer is able to, with his bare fists, kill my whole entire party. I'm still planning on at least trying Baldur's Gate 2, so I hope that that one is much better and I can actually finish it.
There are only two (Well, three, considering this includes two games) movie licensed games that I know of that are ANY good. South Park: The Stick of Truth, and these two games. Escape from Butcher Bay is the real star here. Not to say Assault on Dark Athena is a bad game, not at all, it just isn't quite as good as EFBB. It's got solid game mechanics, a nice story, and it even looks pretty nice considering how old it is. Hell, both games have great mechanics, story, and graphics.
