I feel a little bad trash-talking this game because it was clearly made with a lot of passion. From the colorful and visually striking environments, the fantastic motion-capture work that gives all the characters a realistic presence, and the incredible writing that went into this fresh re-interpretation of the timeless story of Journey to the West, you can very clearly see the love and craftsmanship that went into its creation. It's rare to see that in games nowadays, I want to make it clear that I applaud and appreciate that.

But yeah, this game blows.

Sorry Andy Serkis, you killed it as usual but this game is a chore to play. The combat is extremely limited and becomes repetitive very early on, the platforming too is very restrictive and basically devolves to an exercise in "press the button to continue the game", and the story is just not very good. I praised the writing earlier, but your character's traveling companion detonates the explosive band on your head if you get too far away hahahahaha like this obliterates all the character development, awww they're growing closer together that's so sweet BEEP BEEP BEEP BOOOOOOOOOM lmao c'mon now

At one point she finally trusts him enough to take the explosive headband off and lil bro puts it back on hahahaha sad piano plinking away while I'm laughing at this simp

yeah uuuuhhhhhhhhhh nah

The city area is a 9/10. Cool graphics (unreal noisy), engaging story that suggest a meta twist (came here for
Alex Garland), good flow and gameplay, excelent voicing and very good acting. Demo ends.

From the town on... Bugged puzzles, very detailed but uglier environments, terrible camera, waves and waves of the same 3 robots, lots of padding platforming, and story became the usual pack of tropes (sacrificial hero, the bad guy moral ambiguity, cheap love scene) and bad dialogues that makes videogames look like bad movies... that's the opposite of what they were supposed to be looking for.

The DLC has nice cutscenes, but that's all. Hidden gems like this should be kept hidden.

This game doesn't make anything groundbreaking, but it's still a great game which contains mechanics from other games such as Prince of Persia and hack-n-slash genre (heavenly sword). Loved it. Pigsy's DLC was interesting and a little bit sad...Still good game, alas, it is sad that there won't be 2nd iteration of this game, but who knows?

Recommend.

An interesting take on Journey to the West. An entertaining adventure that never gained much traction.

This is an excellent action adventure game, albeit the graphics are subpar and the gameplay has limitations. The story and the characters are well-developed, and the gameplay is fun.

Still an amazing game.
Hard to believe that Enslaved: Odyssey to the West arrived to us 14 years ago. Omg, how old I am.
The game is visually outdated, but gameplay, animation, actors performance and story are amazing.
Game still runs smoothly, like eleven years ago when it came on the PC platform. Yeah, this was a different time when developers tried to optimize their games.
As for me, my opinion hasn’t changed after 14 years - this game is very UNDERRATED, unfortunately. Nowadays games of this genre are very-very rare! And this is a tragedy, for me at least.

Only one con for me is the very simple battle system. That's all.
Strong 8/10.