Recent reviews by pk

Ass jokes aside, this is a truly great game. Movement feels amazing and the level design complements it perfectly. It's short, sweet, and absolutely worth your time.

Using AI for promo art after your lead art director SPECIFICALLY said that would never happen is ghoulish. Go ♥♥♥♥ yourself, respawn.

As far as "bang-for-your-buck" goes, Terraria is one of the best games you can buy. Dense amount of content for the $10 pricetag. Progression post-skeletron is a bit obtuse for new players, make sure to read the wiki.

Late to writing a review. Starfield can be fun if you play it as a looter shooter, but it's an atrociously awful space sim, and a pretty bad Bethesda game at that. The typical Bethesda style of exploration where you march towards an objective, stumbling across new dungeons and quests along the way? Completely gone- replaced with 1,000 completely empty planets with nothing to do on them. There are dungeons you can find on these planets, of course, but none of them are randomly-generated- there's only a few different layouts copy-pasted everywhere. You've seen one, you've actually seen them all. Every planet is like this, a pretty view for 15 seconds before running towards an objective, then getting back in your ship and leaving. There is no reason to explore, there is nothing on them to explore, so why are they the main focus of the game???

As far as RPGs go:
The way you unlock perks is fun at first but quickly becomes a slog. You have to complete challenges, but they quickly grow out of proportion, and they are NOT TRACKED after fulfilling the requirements until you purchase the next level. Kill hundreds of ships, but forgot to level your ship skills? Too bad, go kill another hundred. Grinding out some of the later-game skills was horrible. On-par with the Nidus grind in Warframe, if that means anything to you.

Writing is mixed. Typos in subtitles are alarmingly common. Overall, I thought the main story was pretty bland, but what the writers did with some of the characters was interesting. The hunter was pretty cool as far as nihilist-stuck-in-time-loop characters go, but Undertale already did that in 2015 (and did it way better to boot). This seems to be a recurring theme for the game, where Bethesda tried to punch above their weight class and ended up falling short.

Faction questlines are also mixed. I liked the UC questline a lot- it had amazing atmosphere- but it also soured the others, because out of all of them it was clearly the most finished.

Regular quests are horrible. Every quest NPC is protected and cannot be killed... even for short fetch quests. There is ZERO player freedom here. I tried to kill the slimy exec at the resort that suggested the colonists stuck in orbit should be placed into indentured servitude, and the game wouldn't let me. You're forced to play along, for better or for worse.

Starfield was scientifically designed to be the most 5/10 game in existence. It tries to do everything, but it doesn't do any of it well. Playing it didn't make me angry or frustrated- most of the time, I just felt disappointed. Is some of it worth experiencing? Sure, maybe, but absolutely not for the hefty $70 pricetag!

If you're in the market for space games, check out No Man's Sky for exploration or Outer Wilds (not Outer Worlds!) for story. If you want a meaty RPG, go play Elden Ring or Baldur's Gate 3. Play literally anything other than Starfield unless there's an extreme discount. Treat yourself right.

KILL

By far one of the best games I've ever played.

Devs took advantage of artists and musicians, didn't pay them. Too late to get a refund now...

it's like if smash bros and baseball had a baby

The latest experimental branch update has fixed the problem with upgrade modules caused by 4.0, by greatly increasing the stat bonuses provided by upgrades. As such, I am changing my review back to a positive. Good work HG :)