Slarvath
2009
2019
A game that has been completely ruined by esports. I hope everyone who was pushing for games to be considered real sports in the 2000s and 2010s gets kept up at night by all the games thoroughly ruined because of that. When it was good, it was REALLY good, but it's completely impenetrable to newcomers these days and every edge has been sanded off to create a very sterile, very balanced game that vaguely resembles the chaotic and inventive fun it used to be.
See Valhalla works because its side quests are all bite sized 10 minutes long at most events that could be creative and fun. Odyssey is a bloated mess that tries to be 10000 different things and excels at none of them. I guess it doesn't matter because Ubisoft has given up entirely on this style of game, but yeah.
2014
See I can only give this game half of the 9/10 it deserves because square enix fucked with it so bad that it killed the franchise. An amazing game chopped in half because of studio meddling. I don't even care that much about the deus ex series as a whole but the second half of mankind divided is one of my most wanted games ever. One of the best immersive sims of all time butchered like this. Fuck you square enix
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