Alrighty, after completing this game, I don't know if I can say it is better than heat. But I can say it just manages to be on par.
This game has one of the SLOWEST openings I've ever seen. It took more than an hour for things to finally open up and get into things. I felt like freaking dropping it.
But then once things open up, it is a freaking great game.
The gameplay, is what carries this game so hard. It's so fun. It's addicting, and you just can't stop playing. The new visual effects are so unique and enhance your cars and make them feel so powerful and fast and look so cool. And the gameplay, it feels so so good. Just like the old need for speeds. It gave me nostalgia of carbon, especially since they brought back light trails. I was hooked. Much better here than heat, a huge step up and feels like a throwback to the old nfs racers we loved, not to say heats is bad but this is a clear improvement and what makes the game worth it, as it should.
The graphics, performance, car models, are all better than heat here as it should be.
Car customization, and audio design is on par, if not better, it was already so good in heat and it's all here as well.
The soundtrack is amazing, just as good as heats and better. So many good tracks, a few bad ones it is a modern ea game, but overall very nice.
The story, it's a step up from heat I feel, but that's a low bar. It's cringe and bad but it's more fun here than heat. I liked the characters, not at the beginning they're terrible but as the story goes on u kinda like Tess, Rydell, and even Yaz near the end. Still overall as a whole it's pretty poor and kinda just gets the job done and gives u some enjoyment. However, the plot itself is more nfs than ever, your cars get robbed, you gotta rank up get cars and win your cars back. You become a legend. And man some of the missions are very very fun. Like the ones where you steal cars and one of the missions you get to drive the freaking iconic M3!!! So yeah, on the right track hopefully the next one is actually good and not just meh okay good. I also liked how npc racers were given more personality but not that much better here hopefully they can find a way to improve that.
The grind and pacing of the game, excluding the first 2 hours is very good. Earning cars, doing pink slips, and just racing feels fun and fair. You win so many cars and get to try out a different variety of them and it encourages you to. Some of the cars are a bit pricey, but it's still fair for the most part.
The night and day system are very much here, and they are just like heat. Super fun, and night starts off not being that exhilarating, but ends up being as good as heat if not better. I will say I had more fun in some of the chases in nfs heat, but I also had so much fun here. It's great, the cops still rubber and and have crazy catch up but it's not that bad here. Honestly I kind of miss the nfs heat cops lol.
The world is also great, pretty much as good as palm city, but it's better, filled with so much life. And overall just fun to drive in.
I wish they went more in with the effects, but the effects offered here are great and have a good variety.
Very good ui design and solid UI, looks very nice easy to get to where u need to go like heat. I like the aesthetics here more but heats was also great. I really enjoyed the colours and the way things look and transitions and etc here.
Now we get into the bad.
Multiplayer. Absolutely awful. Awful. Probably the worst multiplayer I've seen in the modern day a complete step back from heat.
Here's the problem with the game, story and multiplayer are SEPARATE modes and your progress is NOT synced. In nfs heat it was seamless. Invite your friend, boom done. Play missions change cars and you progress and are not penalized. And it's super fun, because you can do story missions whatever and you keep your cars and yeah, it's multiplayer.
Here, you start from 0 in multiplayer. None of your progress is synced, and the cars u have in story u don't have them in multiplayer. Why would I do the same thing twice. Also there's no story in the multiplayer LOL. It's a joke.
The crew system is completely scraped here as well. Why? Why is it gone? It was a perfectly good system and you could level up and look forward to rewards with friends and the community but it's just gone here. What a stupid decision.
And the garage system is also scraped. What a joke. It was nice displaying your cars and stuff and it's just gone here.
But overall here, there's lots of fun to be had here as a SINGLE player experience. Definitely would not recommend this if you wanna play this with your friends, just play heat. And honestly, because of that heat feels closer to full price than this game, but like heat unbound went on sale fairly quick. And no mtx, bs marketing, just a release date and they dropped the game so fair play. It's a great game, the core gameplay, customization, soundtrack, story, almost everything here is a step up. The gameplay is so addicting.
Another, good step forwardish? For the franchise, hopefully their next one they figure out all the issues and learn fully so we get a masterpiece.
This game has one of the SLOWEST openings I've ever seen. It took more than an hour for things to finally open up and get into things. I felt like freaking dropping it.
But then once things open up, it is a freaking great game.
The gameplay, is what carries this game so hard. It's so fun. It's addicting, and you just can't stop playing. The new visual effects are so unique and enhance your cars and make them feel so powerful and fast and look so cool. And the gameplay, it feels so so good. Just like the old need for speeds. It gave me nostalgia of carbon, especially since they brought back light trails. I was hooked. Much better here than heat, a huge step up and feels like a throwback to the old nfs racers we loved, not to say heats is bad but this is a clear improvement and what makes the game worth it, as it should.
The graphics, performance, car models, are all better than heat here as it should be.
Car customization, and audio design is on par, if not better, it was already so good in heat and it's all here as well.
The soundtrack is amazing, just as good as heats and better. So many good tracks, a few bad ones it is a modern ea game, but overall very nice.
The story, it's a step up from heat I feel, but that's a low bar. It's cringe and bad but it's more fun here than heat. I liked the characters, not at the beginning they're terrible but as the story goes on u kinda like Tess, Rydell, and even Yaz near the end. Still overall as a whole it's pretty poor and kinda just gets the job done and gives u some enjoyment. However, the plot itself is more nfs than ever, your cars get robbed, you gotta rank up get cars and win your cars back. You become a legend. And man some of the missions are very very fun. Like the ones where you steal cars and one of the missions you get to drive the freaking iconic M3!!! So yeah, on the right track hopefully the next one is actually good and not just meh okay good. I also liked how npc racers were given more personality but not that much better here hopefully they can find a way to improve that.
The grind and pacing of the game, excluding the first 2 hours is very good. Earning cars, doing pink slips, and just racing feels fun and fair. You win so many cars and get to try out a different variety of them and it encourages you to. Some of the cars are a bit pricey, but it's still fair for the most part.
The night and day system are very much here, and they are just like heat. Super fun, and night starts off not being that exhilarating, but ends up being as good as heat if not better. I will say I had more fun in some of the chases in nfs heat, but I also had so much fun here. It's great, the cops still rubber and and have crazy catch up but it's not that bad here. Honestly I kind of miss the nfs heat cops lol.
The world is also great, pretty much as good as palm city, but it's better, filled with so much life. And overall just fun to drive in.
I wish they went more in with the effects, but the effects offered here are great and have a good variety.
Very good ui design and solid UI, looks very nice easy to get to where u need to go like heat. I like the aesthetics here more but heats was also great. I really enjoyed the colours and the way things look and transitions and etc here.
Now we get into the bad.
Multiplayer. Absolutely awful. Awful. Probably the worst multiplayer I've seen in the modern day a complete step back from heat.
Here's the problem with the game, story and multiplayer are SEPARATE modes and your progress is NOT synced. In nfs heat it was seamless. Invite your friend, boom done. Play missions change cars and you progress and are not penalized. And it's super fun, because you can do story missions whatever and you keep your cars and yeah, it's multiplayer.
Here, you start from 0 in multiplayer. None of your progress is synced, and the cars u have in story u don't have them in multiplayer. Why would I do the same thing twice. Also there's no story in the multiplayer LOL. It's a joke.
The crew system is completely scraped here as well. Why? Why is it gone? It was a perfectly good system and you could level up and look forward to rewards with friends and the community but it's just gone here. What a stupid decision.
And the garage system is also scraped. What a joke. It was nice displaying your cars and stuff and it's just gone here.
But overall here, there's lots of fun to be had here as a SINGLE player experience. Definitely would not recommend this if you wanna play this with your friends, just play heat. And honestly, because of that heat feels closer to full price than this game, but like heat unbound went on sale fairly quick. And no mtx, bs marketing, just a release date and they dropped the game so fair play. It's a great game, the core gameplay, customization, soundtrack, story, almost everything here is a step up. The gameplay is so addicting.
Another, good step forwardish? For the franchise, hopefully their next one they figure out all the issues and learn fully so we get a masterpiece.
2021
Amazing amazing game.
The sound design, haptic feedback, probably the best in any PS5 game.
The story is so freaking cool, trapped in a death loop, dying over and over, it's like a Nolan movie.
Awesome lore, gameplay is amazing and super addictive, enemy design is creepy and the atmosphere makes it feel like a horror game at times.
Loved the weapon variety, and can't wait to get back to it one of the best PS5 games.
The sound design, haptic feedback, probably the best in any PS5 game.
The story is so freaking cool, trapped in a death loop, dying over and over, it's like a Nolan movie.
Awesome lore, gameplay is amazing and super addictive, enemy design is creepy and the atmosphere makes it feel like a horror game at times.
Loved the weapon variety, and can't wait to get back to it one of the best PS5 games.
2018
Awesome from what I played, will come back to it eventually rougelikes are my worst enemy I suck.
2022
Amazing game, but dang parry mechanic was too hard for me to grasp.
And I don't understand why I'm not bad at DMC royal guard as Dante and parrying in souls games SO WHY CANT I UNDERSTAND I WANNA BE GOOD....
But I just don't have time to master it rn will definitely come back to it later.
And I don't understand why I'm not bad at DMC royal guard as Dante and parrying in souls games SO WHY CANT I UNDERSTAND I WANNA BE GOOD....
But I just don't have time to master it rn will definitely come back to it later.
1990
Really great game but no multiplayer freaking sucks.
2006
Love this game. I remember playing it as a kid with my friend at his house it was so fun. I think it was this one most likely, and if it was zero gravity that one is just as good.
Fun game. Love the opening. Really cool concept.
1998
Awesome game. Absolutely awesome. Amazing soundtrack too.
Obviously, this game has kinda aged very poorly to put it lightly. The camera is wonky, it's buggy, and downright infuriating at times and rough around the edges.
But, even with it's little flaws this game is amazing. An amazing first entry and great transition into the first full 3D Sonic game.
The story, although simple and pretty bad, it's great! The story and game has charm! It's funny, cute, and very fun! It's great seeing the full cast of characters and playing as them and having some what different stories too. Adds a lot of replayability.
Running as Sonic is exhilarating, it's so fun and you go so freaking fast. Love the dash mechanics, the fighting mechanics, and the physics are kinda wonky at times but it adds charm and fun.
The world is great, it's semi open world and exploring the different areas and all the different stages and bosses are a blast to play through.
This is a phenomenal game, yeah it clearly needed work but the core foundation here, it's awesome. Super super fun, which is what a game should be.
If a game has to remade, Sonic Adventure deserves it the most. Imagine what they could do.
Obviously, this game has kinda aged very poorly to put it lightly. The camera is wonky, it's buggy, and downright infuriating at times and rough around the edges.
But, even with it's little flaws this game is amazing. An amazing first entry and great transition into the first full 3D Sonic game.
The story, although simple and pretty bad, it's great! The story and game has charm! It's funny, cute, and very fun! It's great seeing the full cast of characters and playing as them and having some what different stories too. Adds a lot of replayability.
Running as Sonic is exhilarating, it's so fun and you go so freaking fast. Love the dash mechanics, the fighting mechanics, and the physics are kinda wonky at times but it adds charm and fun.
The world is great, it's semi open world and exploring the different areas and all the different stages and bosses are a blast to play through.
This is a phenomenal game, yeah it clearly needed work but the core foundation here, it's awesome. Super super fun, which is what a game should be.
If a game has to remade, Sonic Adventure deserves it the most. Imagine what they could do.
2013
Was terrified of this game when it came out. Still kinda am. Love the atmosphere, the scary inmates, the camera mechanic is awesome too.
Could've been longer, and feels a little repetitive and cookie cutter at times but still lots of fun and a great start to a new horror IP.
Could've been longer, and feels a little repetitive and cookie cutter at times but still lots of fun and a great start to a new horror IP.
2017
Would have a hard time recommending this.
Cool cinematics and cutscenes, the characters interacting with each other from different FE games is awesome, and the new characters the twins aren't bad.
The implementation of the FE system was not bad, especially the support and cutscenes and all that but it could've been done a lot better. Duel specials are cool but could've been done better and also the rock paper scissors mechanic was good here too, it's FE after all.
The story is lackluster, forgettable.
And the most important part the gameplay, my goodness is it Repetitive. There's nothing wrong with repetition, look at games like Sonic, devil may cry, all about combos and ur doing the same thing. EVEN KT PERSONA 5 STRIKERS, THAT WAS AMAZING GAME AND YEAH REPETITIVE BUT SO FUNNN (CLEARLY THEY LEARNED FROM THE MISTAKES THEY MADE ON THIS GAME).
The combos are worthless, the weapons are worthless, skill trees are boring, enemies all look the same and don't do anything and aren't that SATISFYING to kill after the first hour or so, and map and level design is not very good, generic and bland this plays a huge part in the feeling powerful can cool aspect. Don't get me wrong the game can be fun sometimes, it's like an anime you can go crazy and kill all these soldiers and be super powerful but this is a full priced game and is kinda short too. And even for sale I wouldn't recommend it I would recommend another game. Even if ur a huge FE fan, this game could've been done way better.
The soundtrack is not bad, but not enough to carry the game and make u vibe while playing.
Boss fights, if u can even call it that are terrible. Just more mindless slashing. Also the super attacks are kinda cool but not that cool.
So yeah, I wish I bought another game because I spent 40$ on this but it's decent fun, like it just feels super average and cookie cutter alot of the time. Good on KT for improving on their later entries tho.
Cool cinematics and cutscenes, the characters interacting with each other from different FE games is awesome, and the new characters the twins aren't bad.
The implementation of the FE system was not bad, especially the support and cutscenes and all that but it could've been done a lot better. Duel specials are cool but could've been done better and also the rock paper scissors mechanic was good here too, it's FE after all.
The story is lackluster, forgettable.
And the most important part the gameplay, my goodness is it Repetitive. There's nothing wrong with repetition, look at games like Sonic, devil may cry, all about combos and ur doing the same thing. EVEN KT PERSONA 5 STRIKERS, THAT WAS AMAZING GAME AND YEAH REPETITIVE BUT SO FUNNN (CLEARLY THEY LEARNED FROM THE MISTAKES THEY MADE ON THIS GAME).
The combos are worthless, the weapons are worthless, skill trees are boring, enemies all look the same and don't do anything and aren't that SATISFYING to kill after the first hour or so, and map and level design is not very good, generic and bland this plays a huge part in the feeling powerful can cool aspect. Don't get me wrong the game can be fun sometimes, it's like an anime you can go crazy and kill all these soldiers and be super powerful but this is a full priced game and is kinda short too. And even for sale I wouldn't recommend it I would recommend another game. Even if ur a huge FE fan, this game could've been done way better.
The soundtrack is not bad, but not enough to carry the game and make u vibe while playing.
Boss fights, if u can even call it that are terrible. Just more mindless slashing. Also the super attacks are kinda cool but not that cool.
So yeah, I wish I bought another game because I spent 40$ on this but it's decent fun, like it just feels super average and cookie cutter alot of the time. Good on KT for improving on their later entries tho.
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Culmination of the 3 other games, introduction to Knuckles.
More of the same here, but some of the new elemental mechanics, and true mastery of their craft, Sonic 3 is sonic at his very best and is probably one of the best games ever made. Especially as a complete package. Love everything about it. The trilogy, and CD, Sonic was ALWAYS good.
Culmination of the 3 other games, introduction to Knuckles.
More of the same here, but some of the new elemental mechanics, and true mastery of their craft, Sonic 3 is sonic at his very best and is probably one of the best games ever made. Especially as a complete package. Love everything about it. The trilogy, and CD, Sonic was ALWAYS good.
GTA Simpson
1988
MARIO MADNESS
Awesome game, not what anyone expected but super fun and experimental.
Awesome game, not what anyone expected but super fun and experimental.
1986
So cool. Love the soundtrack and lore. Tough game.
1993
Wow love this game. Where it all started. Surprisingly advanced mechanics for it's time on the nes too. And it has a cute story, and a awesome soundtrack, and artstyle.