Recent reviews by Gintochad

[This review counts for base game only]


| What I Like |
- Complex and super interesting lore and story
- Extremely challenging but very fair gameplay
- The learning curve and challenge to stay persistent with the games difficulty, especially if you're new to soulsborne, it teaches you mistakes are the best teachers and to never give up
- Top tier boss fights, the best you'll find in a soulsborne, if talking about bosses individually you'd be reading a much longer review
- The game doesn't hold your hand and tell you exactly where to go or what to do
- The absolute best soulsborne game to start with
- Extremely fun to experiment and try out builds
- Great RPG elements
- An amazing OST, especially hardhitting if you have
- Extremely good level design if you dont have a DS1 fan in your ear telling you it sucks
- Super well thought out world design with references to DS1 and the feeling of ash being everywhere due to the overprolonged first flame
- Very fun and easy to replay
- Fun character questlines that are easy to miss

| What I Don't Like |
- Guide required to find certain things in the game that are a little too well hidden...
- Some people will play this game with magic builds or summon for bosses........

Personal Time to beat - 60 hrs
Fav Character - Siegward
Fav Area - Irrithyl
Fav Boss OST - Soul of Cinder
Fav Questline - Siegward
Fav Class - Knight ofc
Fav Ending - The End of Fire


| My Score |
10/10 - My first soulsborne game and as of right now, my absolute favorite. I enjoyed the majority of this game (yes even irrithyl dungeon) and the boss battles are fantastic, even the ones I dont like as much were never unbearable. One of my favorite games of all time and another entry to titles I can replay as many times without getting tired of it
Fav (Base Game) Boss - Nameless King, the most difficult boss in the game and rewards the greatest feeling ever for overcoming the difficulty and beating him

| What I Like |
- Incredibly fun cast whom is equally as well written. I had so much fun playing through all the SLs, I dont think there was anyone in the main cast I didnt like
- Combat can be fun at times
- An ending that is incredibly satisfying and thematically beautiful
- THE MUSIC
- The Storytelling and narrative
- Incredibly fun gameplay loop

| What I Don't Like |
- Tart becomes boring, repetitive and grindy incredibly fast
- EXP isnt shared for the entire party, the clock to level up other party members never worked for me
- So many bosses are just damage sponges
- Fights end when MC loses HP rather than the whole party
- Money hungry Atlus leaving 'the answer' dlc out of base game and also making it a paid for dlc
- It's persona, so obviously there is ped0 stuff normalized
- Towards the end, the game presents us with what it thinks is a difficult choice but its for a character we met only a few hours ago... and struggled to form any proper attachment to

Personal Time to beat - 60hrs
Fav Character - Aigis

| My Score |
10/10 - Even though the grindy 300 floors of tartarus aspect of this game I despise, almost everything else about this game was perfect. This game kept me going through a lot of exam stress and created some amazing memories that I now hold dear. A gem that introduced me to the persona series and has me wanting more, I will be replaying this many times in the future

| What I Like |
- Very well crafted story and characters
- One of the best twists to a piece of media I've seen
- Very well designed areas
- Fun power ups to mess around with and swap out
- Fun weapons
- THE HACKING MINIGAME
- The voice acting

| What I Don't Like |
- Lots of running back to fight the 1 enemy until they die
- The hacking minigame auto generating an impossible to complete puzzle
- Final boss was easier than the big daddies

Favorite Area - Cohen's masterpiece
Personal Time to beat - 10-11 hours

| My Score |
8/10 - I dont have any major flaws with this game to give it such a low rating, but I think Bioshock failed to have an extreme personal impact on me with either story or gameplay. Neither is bad but neither blew me away, but 8/10 is far from a bad rating, I think its extremely fair and I still really recommend playing this

I don't even know what to say.....

| What I Like |
- One of the best written characters in gaming
- Very fun open world without having too much to collect
- Many fun weapons and cool outfits
- Amazing soundtrack and voice work
- Charming graphics
- Amazing lore

| What I Don't Like |
- Outdated controls and design, its an old game but I'd love a remaster/remake
- May not be as good on replay
- Steam version isnt as good as console ezio collection
- No official controller support...

| My Score |
9/10 - An extremely influential game not only to AC but to open world games as a whole featuring extremely influential AND well written protagonist to go along with an amazing journey that its crazy to think this is only the start of....

| What I Like |
- Dominating and building an orc army is one of the coolest things ive ever done in a game similar to this
- The nemesis system is one of the most creative and FUN systems in gaming that I have more hours in the now removed Nemesis Forge than in the campaign
- Troy Baker is perfect in every role, that includes Talion
- The story is very underrated but at times feels like missions exist just for the sake of extending the game
- Uruk aren't all serious and threatening you can find a lot of entertaining and goofy ones too
- Using Uruk weaknesses to kill them feels intense on harder difficulties but very fun

| What I Don't Like |
- Gameplay feels a little strange at times and I can't explain why
- More characters needed to be fleshed out and exist just for plot
- Nemesis Forge removed and no replacement sandbox mode
- The nemesis system could have revolutionized many open world action adventure games but was copyrighted by WB....
- Accidentally killed my strongest warchief at the click of one button

| My Score |
8/10 - Overall there are definitely things this game needed to improve upon but is still a lot of fun even just messing around with the open world and nemesis system which honestly CARRY this game but I do wish they kept the nemesis forge which gave me my fondest memories of this game

| What I Like |
- The campaign is not only extremely satisfying sendoff to the original trilogy but just as enjoyable to new fans without prior knowledge of the series
- The custom games, the community for this game made some of the most fun out of the multiplayer mad editor and game mode editor that it just blows my mind
- The multiplayer is very fun and doesn't require a large amount of skill
- The map design for both campaign and multiplayer is perfect and way ahead of its time
- The graphics were also very ahead of their time and I argue hold up today for a 2007 game
- The armor customization is great and having 343 add NEW ones is so insane
- Legendary difficulty may seem easy compared to Halo 2A but is one of the most well balanced legendary difficulties of the series
- The menu music
- Forge mode works amazing as both map maker and editor
- Split screen makes for some amazing moments

| What I Don't Like |
- Sniper jackals... they're not broken they're just annoying

| My Score |
10/10 - No first person shooter will ever come close to this game and although I may not have been around for its prime, I guarantee I can share the love with someone who was

| What I Like |
- Alike episode 1, creates an incredibly uncomfortable atmosphere
- Jumpscares just as good as episode 1
- Implies some pretty heavy stuff if this is based on a real story
- Perfect game length
- Cool radio songs

| What I Don't Like |
- Couldn't find the coffee machine for 10 minutes.....

| My Score |
8/10 - Just like episode 1, the atmosphere of this is really unmatched by any other horror series I've played. It's scary, it's eerie, it's uncomfortable and just hits the nail on the head when you know what's in that room, but you're still scared to open it

| What I Like |
- The extremely uncomfortable atmosphere
- Jumpscares
- Uneasiness
- Background details

| What I Don't Like |
- I had to restart like 3 times
- Only 20 minutes although there's nothing much else it needed to do

| My Score |
8/10 - It may only be 20 minutes, but the atmosphere it creates alone is enough to push this up to an 8 as it nails horror in a way I've always wanted

| What I Like |
- Great multiplayer with moments that will create unforgettable memories for a group of 4
- Soundtrack to make you ascend
- Very funny
- New/casual gamer friendly

| What I Don't Like |
- Button mash for 8 hours
- Repetitive
- BACK OFF BARBARIAN IS AWFUL
- Lack of reason to replay more than a few times

| My Score |
9/10 - I'd be lying if I didn't mention that nostalgia greatly influences the score but I just love this game to death and think it's a must play for everyone