Oh what a comeback, a whole new game after 2.3, but this expansion angered me for multiple reasons, all the good was ruined so quickly by a series of terrible decisions seemingly made to annoy the player. I think the following people should be fired and never work in the game industry again: - Whoever designed "Somewhat Damaged". We paid to play Cyberpunk, not a terrible, extremely tedious copy of Alien Isolation with none of the normal gameplay or anything that you built and obtained for so many hours before, not some stupid invincible monster with cheap jump scares, 1 hit random unavoidable deaths while being stuck with more tedious computer puzzles and badly programmed teleportation. Why the hell would you be suddenly defenseless against this little bot after having fought a giant mech??? - Whoever put the unique items in perfectly missable places during the worst mission and on different story paths, instead of having them as cool endgame secret unlockables. Seriously, why? Who gets off on players missing things forever with no way to return to some dumb location? - Whoever wrote the sad ending. So much cheap drama could be avoided by talking to your friends and your love, by not trusting Reed and Langley, by not going alone and bring any kind of help from friends, from fixers, anything. Also after a 2 year disappearance normal people don't react like the psychos in the game "oh it was so long, I was sad, now I'm happy sorry you're screwed, bye". But not this ending, this is written on purpose to be negative and make the player feel bad for dumb reasons. The Songbird path is also terrible, she betrays everyone, she deserves to be betrayed, why would she have a happy ending on the moon but not V? There a secret society on the moon made of manipulative crap women that get everyone around them killed? So Mi can burn in the same dumpster fire as Lucy. Some people in CDPR clearly have issues while the rest of the team makes great games.
It was pretty good before, although kinda broken and flawed, but update 2 made it a whole new game. The only things sorely missing are: - Skippable dialogues/cutscenes/walks/rides for the love of god stop doing this, its cool once, but you may just want to replay with another build - Replayable or randomly generated jobs and enemy groups, again for the sake of replayability nothing sucks harder than running out of things to do and enemies to butcher. Dogtown handles this pretty well with frequent soldier encounters, certain very well guarded areas that respawn enemies and the also well guarded air drops, please add these to the rest of Night City
Such contrast, what a great game and story with fun varied combat, that also manages to be one of the most frustrating and annoying experiences I've had. Loved Talion's story and Celebrimbor's interactions, and the combat has a lot of fun things to toy with and keep fights fresh, but that's marred so badly by the incesant unskippable interruptions. The orc comments can be fun, but being cut out of control so often, for such long times, specially in some battles with many captains, wow, in this day and age I swear unskippable anything should be a crime. Another really annoying thing is the immunity and adaptation system. It's supposed to spice things up and make you use all your resources, but I found it just made the varied combat into more limited, boring puzles at times, and certain captains where just a terrible chore.
It's pretty charming, I played it after Dungeons 3, which makes the flaws more glaring, specially in little quality of life stuff like some rts shortcuts to do chores more easily, but it's pretty charming and fun in its own right. I also like the style and the unit designs in this one more than 3, but that's the only thing I don't like more in 3
It was somewhat fun for around 10 minutes, then for a few hours you realize all missions you get through are the same, the text "story" doesn't matter, and all the vehicles you unlock also play the same, and you've pretty much seen everything as you can buy anything and test it on arcade 10 minutes into the game. All that and yet the balance is curiously terrible having easy missions next to annoying ones with multiple one hit kill enemies. Surely expected more from all the great reviews around, it's hard to disappoint me with something I got for free.
It's a strange game. It starts nice and easy, the story is interesting, the characters are good and fun to use, the difficulty goes up steadily, which is good for a while. Then you get to the last missions, specially the very last one. Things become an extremely annoying puzzle with pretty much no freedom, you need to save and load countless times until you get the exact timing that they intended for the absurd amount of patrols and sight cones in your way. All the fun I was having turned slowly into annoyance, and by the end into abhorrence. I like my stealth and kinda hard games, but this is an exercise in frustration, not to mention the depressing details here and there, makes me think some of the devs may have mental issues. Only for masochists and bragging masters who don't mind the save scumming. Next time, make an actual game that doesn't rely in time travel because in a normal world you're asking something unreasonable from players to extend playtime in the most artificial way.
Some call it a sequel, but I think both parts are integral to the story, dunno why anyone who read the question arcs wouldn't read this. It took me quite a while but it was very well worth it. When I sat down with my headphones for hours over the course of a few months more than 5 years ago, I didn't read a novel, I visited Rokkenjima and the Ushiromiya family, and as I delved deeper into their personalities and mysteries I enjoyed every second.
I downloaded and read Umineko a few years ago with an unofficial translation, I postponed buying it long enough. Without going into spoilerific details, that island and the events that occurred in it, the family, the servants, the music that accompanies it all, they will always have a particular place in my heart and I hope this supports the people involved in creating this work and encourgages others to delve into this beautiful story.
