Recent reviews by Isthiriel

Solid retro-nostalgic shooter that leans into its theme.
Continues the story from Space Marine. (and is expected to be canonical to Space Marine 2)

This game has a great story and a neat storytelling mechanic that's wonderful on the first play through.

Unfortunately, it also has achievements. (If it didn't, I'd recommend it.)

Some of the achievements are broken. In the ten months since release they have released multiple patches attempting to fix the broken achievements (including today's) and each patch has fixed something, and broken something. Since half of the achievements are missable collections and it takes another full playthrough (~3h) with unskippable dialogue, unskippable cutscenes (there is a remappable SKIP key, that's also broken) and a 60 second pause in the middle of the game where you can't move, can't talk, can't interact, and are just expected to admire the (dark) room you're currently locked in, I can't recommend this game.

My recommendation is DO NOT BUY.

If you didn't notice in the fine print:
3rd-party DRM: Ubisoft Online Service

That's UPlay, Ubisoft's always-on DRM with a separate patcher (for the DRM), separate updater (for the game) and separate account and login. I haven't managed to get to the actual game part yet thanks to all the Ubisoft crud and hoops they want you to jump through before they will allow you to load the game.

(And yes, you will see three separate "Now patching..." prompts with progress bars before you get to the UPlay login screen.)

As a side note, the UPlay username "WhyDoIHaveToDoThis?" is already taken. So are "WhyGodWhy", "WhyDoIBother", "UbisoftAreIdiots", "UPlayIsStupid", and "KillMeNow". At that point I got bored and mashed the keyboard. So look me up, I'm sazwethiujolk on UPlay. (Also, UPlay requires your birth date but limits it to an earliest year of 1910, requiring those of us born before that date to lie in answer to the question.)