eugene719
1996
1998
2024
This game has one of the best soundtracks I have had the privelege of having my ears blessed with as someone who cares a lot about music.
This game has one of the best combat systems I have had the privilege to experience as someone who is an action game fan.
I adore the acting and the cosmetics. I adore the characters and their accents. The graphics are beautiful and the characters are beautiful. The world building and lore is fantastic.
When I enter this game, hear its music and see its characters I enter the warm arms of Stellar Blade.
This game has one of the best combat systems I have had the privilege to experience as someone who is an action game fan.
I adore the acting and the cosmetics. I adore the characters and their accents. The graphics are beautiful and the characters are beautiful. The world building and lore is fantastic.
When I enter this game, hear its music and see its characters I enter the warm arms of Stellar Blade.
2019
2024
2002
2022
The game is best at the start when you have so much freedom and the difficulty is manageable. But once you use up your paths during late game to the point where the only place you can really go is to fight this single boss with 30 patterns that forces you to continuously die to it for several days in order to learn them it gets quite stale.
Unless this game's combat is your favourite you might rather play something else less painful.
Unless this game's combat is your favourite you might rather play something else less painful.
The game starts a bit slow, especially for Markus, but once it picks up it becomes an experience unlike any other adventure game. There are not many games that immerse you in an engaging narrative with well-written characters that make your every choice and even QuickTime event feel like they are extremely consequential. The sound design and visuals from this game also might as well be from a film.
Many aspects of this game have aged poorly since its release such as the combat and story pacing. After the first half of the story, the gameplay starts to almost feel like a chore. However, it is a solid game for its time with lots of content that highlights the passion that the developers put into it. The expansions see much improved from the base game but it's pretty easy to be burnt out by the time you get to them.
2013
2007
2005
Super satisfying and tight combat system that gives you the freedom to do lots of cool stuff with great spectacle for a game of this era. However, there are lots of painful sections of the game that are a product of its time such as the spinning blades and the battle before the ending which I found too difficult in hard despite finding the rest of the game's difficulty fine.