Recent reviews by 両刀使い

guess all modern releases now must be scams...

Aside from the performance loss this is possibly the worst DLC of any soulslike, there's a mechanic that gives 5% damage/defense increase that forces you to explore the area which itself is already a poor design you should incentivize not force but the DLC area already halves your damage negation stats by 50% and buff's enemies HP/damage/defense by around the same amount and while there are some bosses with good design most of them have roll catch delay or AoE long chains of quick attacks mimicking the hardest bosses of the game like Malenia without having any actual meaningful mechanic or design.

If you need to ♥♥♥♥ something up call Sony

You have the recipe for the cake and you already made it how can you fail so miserably? performance aside thanks to bad port and DMR on a singleplayer game... i don't understand the removal of content you should be adding and improving not removing.

I used to love this game but since early access it just got worse, from the stability of the game to the removal of content and turning it into a live service with cosmetics and seasonal events I can't really recommend.

It's a good game and has potential but right now feels lacking, the combat system is so deadly that why medicine even exists every corner either my armor is far above what the enemy can handle or he has a saw and can chop my arms off also it's not an extraction shooter if i can't leave on my own accord sometimes the job is far above my weight why can't i leave? why i have to lose everything i looted or waste time trying to win an hopeless situation? only certain missions allow for evac as you wish, and the combat has a ton of bugs and the sorting system from the ship could use some improvement, i just suggest waiting till the game improves.

The trailer says game is "fixed" so why i still see the same performance issues and bugs from release?

I kinda recommend kinda not, it's definitely not really armored core feels more like Sekiro on easy mode, there's no penalty for failure the AP is in average lower and you have repair kits for some reason...
The combat is a duality it's mostly easy fight's till the boss that doesn't play by the same rules, he can move out of bounds in the arena, the stagger which is a build-up like Sekiro he can just ignore sometimes, too much mandatory one shot dodge attacks feels more like a show than actual fight and they can one shot 20k AP which seems ridiculous, the fight seems to be heavy in favour of close quarters which i don't really mind but i also like long ranged fight's, also sword's have reload and energy weapons have ammo which doesn't make sense.
The story is kinda of alright but it's too fast paced i finished in less than 15h and the ending seems way too much inspired by the soul's games.

Archnemesis is still a thing... somehow...

I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.