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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.1 hrs on record (4.6 hrs at review time)
Posted: Nov 6, 2021 @ 10:55pm
Updated: Nov 9, 2021 @ 11:20am

A solid meh from me. I'm gonna finish it cause the story is pretty good. It's kind of repetitive and there isn't much in terms of variety of enemies. The gameplay is insanely repetitive for this reason. The combat is pretty ok. This isn't my typical sort of game, but I have finished Shadow of Mordor twice because I enjoyed that. I'd rate this somewhere below that. But the story is good and the comments all say it's a short game which is probably better.

Is it fair to judge this game against a game released by a big studio? Probably not, but in terms of buying options I'd go with Shadow of Mordor. They were released in the same year. 10 dollars for this game isn't bad though and that's the current asking price I see. Definitely better with a controller. The cinematics are next level though and for my poopy pc it's runs really well which is crazy considering how beautiful it is.

In short, there are better options, but this isn't a bad one,. It is a short game according to the comments and the fact i'm more than half way done with 4.6 hours, but that isn't a bad thing if the gameplay isn't amazing but the story is. It lacks the insanely cool factor, and it's a game on rails where you go where the game tells you to down pathways with some chance to pick at times from two preordained paths. So you better be in it for the story (and it's good so far) because there ain't much else here to keep you here.

Update: I finished the game. There are boobs everywhere. Does every movie/first person game that involves Rome have to include a lot of sexy women dancing around the emperor?

More thoughts: The collectibles in this game are stupid to collect. This game did not need collectibles and they break the immersion. "Get to the X fast" but also make sure to pick up some scroll and a shield that are out of the way and you better check every nook and cranny. The titties everywhere are kind of the same. Like imagine you made a game in 2014 and someone asked what's in right now, and someone said titties and collectibles and you added them in because of that. This game, if it weren't so beautiful, and the story so okay, would not be a recommend. I can hardly recommend it now. This is officially the worst game I've ever recommended only because you should see the beauty live and the story is a passable excuse to look at pretty things. I highly don't recommend it if you don't want CGI boobies all over your screen or the most unnecessary violence that isn't even feasible. Also the gameplay is kinda boring and the choices don't really matter. It's so bad but beautiful, but the fact that it's short makes it better. You never want to say that about a game.
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