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Just an FYI for everyone, this review is an outlier, most reviews hover between 8 and 8.5.

Not throwing shade at ShogunRok's review as it's in depth and he justifies his score quite well, just informing that some reviewers were more satisfied with the game.

@Th3solution I think releasing during the pandemic when most people were stuck at home probably helped with the sales too.

Boycotts from either side of the political spectrum rarely ever work.

BG3 was condemned by one side and it sold like crazy.

Hogwarts Legacy was condemned by the other and it also broke records.

Most people don't care about political extremists.

@Cerny You mean an American game about Japan?

If anything, their judgement would be harsher because it's foreigners talking about their country.

Goodbye to any artistic project focused on quality an innovation and hello to the most predatory microtransactions possible.

I thought EA couldn't get any worse, I was wrong.

Will Kojima be the first person responsible for ghost feet pictures?

@Vaako007 That's the wrong assumption. The reason programmers and engineers are not paid well is because of greedy bloated corporations. Look at Hello games and smaller studios. Games are expensive because publishers are greedy.

I'd rather have a game that is smaller in scope and cheaper than a bloated overpriced AAA mess.

The solution is not the increase of game prices, it's the reduction of size and scope of projects.

£55 for the game? Fair pricing in 2025/26?! How rude of them!

Going for easy influence on children with TikTok cringe. Keep it classy Sony.

Buying used consoles never sounded better.

I bought my barely used Xbox Series X for £225.

I'll buy it in two to three years for £10 with all the performance issues fixed.

Best way to buy AAA games nowadays.

"It's Sony's fault their console is not optimized for our game." - Randy Pitchford, probably.

If there's one Yakuza that needs a remake it's definitely 3.

It's a great game but it's the weakest of the series. The combat is extremely slow and the pacing is all over the place. Clearly RGG Studio like many other developers suffered the hardships of developing a game for the PS3.

You can clearly see they learned from it, as Yakuza 4 and 5 are more solid entries with better combat.

"There’s no doubt the Switch 2 is a phenomenal piece of hardware, and a huge upgrade on the original console"

Isn't there?

The Switch is on par with the PS4 Pro and it will soon be unable to handle any current gen games, much less next gen games.

It's cartridge is so limited for data processing that Star Wars Outlaws had to be a game key card to be able to be played.

If anything, the Switch 2 feels more outdated than the Switch 1, especially considering portable consoles are common now, a very different reality from when the Switch was released.

It's a great console overshadowed by it's successor.

The PS2 is so incredible that sometimes it's easy to forget that it was mostly built on what the PS1 set up.

Going from pixels to 3D was the biggest gaming revolution to have ever happened.

@EfYI Low price? That's absolutely not true. You can consider it refuted, I don't.

PS Premium is £120 whereas Extra is £100. What you call a couple of bucks, I call it a 20% price difference.

The last one is where you completely lose me. Going for the ad hominem response and calling people who complain "sad teenagers" is completely unnecessary. People can express their opinion whoever they want, including yourself. But moaning about other people's opinions is very entitled and it implies certain kinds of opinions have more value than others.

@EfYI I'm glad you have a broad vision that encompasses the reasons everyone should like Premium, not just you.

Oh, wait, that's the opposite of what you did?

The several niche reasons you gave that favor your tastes are largely irrelevant to most people as you can see by the comment sections.

Premium besides being name in such a way, barely offers any premium for its value.

It's much more expensive than extra and it drip feeds a few classics per year, even though Sony's catalogue is massive, it offers streaming which barely anyone uses. Finally it offers demos, and that actually adds value to the proposition, but it hardly justified its pricing.

Fact of the matter is, Premium is good price proposition for you , not the majority of people.

Your annoyance comes from the dissonance of your viewpoint and most people's views, but you're clearly not the general opinion and Sony should listen to others if they want to keep their service at a good value.

Why not hand the franchise to smaller team, reducing the development costs and also the risk of failure?

Mascot platformers are a niche genre nowadays, but there's a market for it.

If you cut the costs and satisfy the niche, you have a smaller less risky source of income.

Not every game needs to be the next blockbuster.

How is it surprising that the only game they play is Call of Duty?

Everyone expected that.

@DennisReynolds Yeah, the runbacks might be worse than in the first game.

It's weird to see this, as From software seems to have learned from that and the boss runs are much more streamlined than they used to be.

There's a lot of tedium involved in doing the same thing over and over just to get to the actual challenge.

@Slayer25c Your opinion.

The original had a beginning a middle and a end, this version is a bloated mess that focuses way too much on the "Cloud Vs Sephiroth" part of the story.

The writing of the remakes reaches fanfic levels of ridiculousness.

@Dragoon1994 That's your opinion not mine.

Showing Sephiroth every 5 seconds has completely ruined the mistique of the character. He grabbed the original story and doubled it, transforming it into a boring bloated mess.

Can't wait for Nomura to finish ruining the original FF7's story.

Andrew Schulz playing a pathetic excuse of a human being?

Great choice!

That sounds a lot like shifting the blame.

Monster Hunter Wilds sold like crazy at release, but the performance was so abysmal that its reputation tanked. Monster Hunter games generally have long legs sales wise and this one didn't.

I think the main reason people said it was a crap selection is because they already bought the games.

Psychonauts 2 is probably the most popular because almost everyone already bought Stardew Valley.

@PegasusActual93 In every way? That's an exaggeration. The voice acting in MindsEye was acceptable. This game has atrocious voice acting.

The only scoring review has given this game a 4/10. It might be better than MindsEye, but it's another terrible game and what makes it worse, backed by Sony.

Will MindsEye have a competitor for GOTY?

"Generic, predictable story
Very dull characters
Attacks can lack weight and impact
Various performance hiccups"

FFXV, is that you?

RE 7 is scary? Since when? The Bakers behavior is cartoonishly evil and they act like they are in a Rob Zombie movie.

Stardew Valley is a fantastic game, but probably everyone bought it already.

Psychonauts 2 is a great platformer and a worthy sequel to the original.

Solid month overall.

This movie has potential...........to be even worse than the second Silent Hill movie.

Just got it here in the UK. It doesn't look great, but if I end up playing for one hour, I got more than what paid for haha

I hope I'm wrong, but everything about this game smells like failure.

It doesn't look good, it barely showed any gameplay right before release, and the pre determined protagonist flies directly in the face of the roleplaying its predecessor was based on.

This game is one of the best gaming stories ever.

They released a broken, buggy, boring, unfinished game with several unfulfilled promises.

Year by year they fixed it, and little by little not only it became the game they promised but much more.

This is a fantastic story of commitment and how learning from your mistakes can make you so much better at something.

Battlefield 6 player numbers concerned them a bit.

Nothing like healthy competition to ensure quality.

That looks like an excuse because they know the reviews are going to be bad.

It's unbelievable that they seem to have learned nothing from what happened with FFXV.

They make one terrible decision after the other.

Ubisoft keeps selling the same game every time and people still buy it.

AC Shadows greatest achievement is not being as bad as AC Valhalla.

Kiefer Sutherland's delivery was really flat, which matches perfectly with the ending of the game.

@Icey664 Most people don't even know the game exists. It's a deep cut not because of age, but because of popularity.

First person MindsEye?

Or if you want a deep cut, first person Wanted: Dead.

Wanna bet how much the PS2 games are coming in the currently unannounced Legacy Collection 2?

My favorite action platformer is Elden Ring: Skyrim.

It's a fun game for a while. The quest formula is pretty repetitive and uncreative, so one week is enough time to know if you're in or out.

@pharos_haven Yeah, I was more exemplifying a campaign that can be played in co-op. If you want a different example, Borderlands.

@themightyant That's fair, but it could have a puzzle based campaign, like Split Fiction. Being co-op does not automatically make it a live service game with no campaign focus.

Although maybe I'm being naive and it's going to be a multiplayer microtransaction cash grab. Hopefully they won't go that route.

Why are people disappointed if literally no gameplay has been shown?

It's unbelievable how quickly some folk get hyped or frustrated with next to zero information about a game.

@Splat Or a Nintendo super fan. They seem to be behave the same way.

This is one of the best looking games I've ever seen.

I's one of those games that will still look good in 20 years due to the strong art direction.