Recent reviews by Longshot VT

Fun game. After beating the game several times I just come back to it and do a quick 6 minute run through every now and again. I think my best time is a little over 4 minutes. It's a rage game the first 1 or 2 times you beat it. After that it is quite easy.

Best abandonware you'll ever play.

Excellent. I usually don't play horror but this was a great little experience. The story telling isn't exactly subtle but it is still good. I'd like to see stuff like this fleshed out into a lengthier title.

Fun game

Worst madden I've ever played. You think after decades of football games someone would figure out how to make the passing game realistic to any degree. Receivers are basically incapable of catching any ball that is even slightly contested. No big 1v1 catches, nothing. Interceptions most of the time because your receivers won't actually play the ball even if you press Y for "aggressive catching" (it makes literally no difference whatsoever).

Controller mapping on PC completely broken. Spent hours working on it to get it to sort of work, still makes it really hard to play and impossible to navigate menus properly sometimes.

Wish I could still refund it. I was already pretty set on not buying EA but just wanted to play some good football. Will not be buying an EA product ever again. This game is very pretty but designed with gross incompetence and a severe lack of playtesting. If I knew the game was this bad, I wouldn't have bought it if it were 20 bucks.

I'd say the graphics are really good, but they are pretty much on par with anything that came out 2018-2020. Nothing impressive. Human facial expressions are pretty bad, animations are various and comprehensive but overly rigid and lack the fluidity and impact of humans.

But I guess I'm expecting too much from this multi million dollar organization.

game good

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Some interesting gimmicks that might entertain some people for a while. Otherwise, it's just your average early-access-limbo VR title. I wouldn't refund it, but I wouldn't buy it knowing that the game does not typically break 10 players (there is essentially no single player content to enjoy other than bots, maybe). Needs a lot more work before I'd really want to be spending money on this.

Democracy prevails once again.

Honestly, I love the music and graphics for the time the game came out.

The music is pretty well done.

The story is... eh. Pretty uninteresting and sometimes completely incoherent but if the combat is well done it doesn't matter (spoiler alert, it isn't!)

The combat and game-play mechanics are like watching a promising child commit suicide right in front of my eyes.
There are so many things wrong with the mechanics of this game, not at a fundamental level, but at an execution level.

Camera system is a total train-wreck, as was the case for most third person PlayStation games at the time. The lock-on feature works maybe 15% of the time and there is no in-wall transparency. I shouldn't require mods to play the game comfortably.

Parrying is like dark souls if dark souls parrying was wildly inconsistent and didn't give you a guaranteed opportunity to deal significant damage to the enemy.

Most combat mechanics are taught through tutorials that... get this... aren't even taught in the story but that you have to leave the story and do separately????????????????

This is probably the worst aspect of this game... like what the f-? It's not like there are a lack of fights in the game where opportunities could arise for combat mechanics to be taught, other than the very VERY basics. So many other games do this without fail, even long before 2013. I would name them but the list includes... basically all AAA games made after 2000. I shouldn't have to watch a 15 minute tutorial just to understand how to use the mechanics of the game. HELL, even the menu where you unlock new moves doesn't even tell you how to use them! Platinum has done all of these things correctly in their previous games, so why it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible in this one is entirely beyond me.

In conclusion, I recommend this game only if you intend to play it for 1 hour and 59 minutes then refund it. Because there is no way in hell anyone should be paying 30 dollars for a half baked attempt at a hack and slash game, even if it comes from Platinum.