Recent reviews by Stev the Brobdingnagian Wedge

Overall rock solid game. My only ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are that the courses don't progress in difficulty and instead have a 'local' progression of difficulty for each course. Which makes sense from a casual pickup standpoint, but I would've much preferred a rise in difficulty as you go through the game, without each course starting with "hit the ball straight!" for 2 or 3 holes.

Also there's new balls you can find in the world, and most of them are awful nonsense nobody would ever want, with a few being nearly identical (such as the four nearly identical rainbow gradients). While also lacking some obvious stuff people would want, like an 8 ball/pool balls, more than 4 national flags, tasteful stripes etc. Gotta make room for the 12 brown and neon pink balls instead.

But besides these minor problems, overall rock solid, do reccomend.

Razor sharp writing, stellar plot at the macro and moment to moment levels, inch perfect recreation of late 40's LA, ace acting and an ending that hits like a studebaker deuce.

10/10

It delivered the goods.

The "Starter Pack" is so utterly cynical, it's an act of deliberate sadism to market. Dropping the XP gain rate to 10% of the regular rate, essentially making it impossible to actually earn even a moderate amount of classes, which are required to properly play the game. By their own generously worded FAQ, Ubisoft proudly declares that the grind to unlock a single charicter rises from half an hour to an hour to unlock, to 15-30 hours.

This only exists so you buy the product twice, or spend money on DLC/passes. This is predatory, and cruel. And though I'm accountable for falling for the trap, it's a morale transgression that Ubisoft set the trap in the first place. May the Machiavellian subhumans who came up with this system suffer for their actions.

I've used blender for ages as well as some other modeling packages. I'm absolutely willing to say Blender is at the very worst case scanario, directly comperable to 3ds max, Maya or Softimage. But at the very best? I'm willing to say that it wipes the floor with maya, and is just as good if not better as any other modeling package out there, for literally infinitely less money. With a little hoop jumping it can port models to other packages as easily as you can port from 3ds to maya and back again.

Open source, mallable as clay, solid as hell, will use until the end of time