Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

打击感烂，格挡判定烂，闪避烂。

The game is sufficiently polished, the settings is really interesting. I kinda liked the UX, but often times the UX looked like it was designed for a much more complicated game and then it was dumbed down. The UI was mostly great, but there are parts taht don't fit the genre. The game is extremely long and tedious. The story didn't work for me. I felt like for a game with choices the game tells you quite often what is right and what is wrong. And then there is the gameplay. It's Souls like lite and after ten hours it becomes incerdibly boring and just a chore. There are like 10 types of enemies and 3 bosses. If the game was 60% shorter it would have been fine. I'm 36 hours in and about 70% finished with the game. I am really struggling to continue for how repetitive it is.

A very good game hidden inside a mediocre one. The game would have been significantly better half it's length.

In short: "As good as Expedition 33". It's a massive lift for a studio like Don't Nod, yet once again they pulled it off. As other "double-A" games, Banishers is not perfect. The combat is repetitive, the backtracking is ever present, some animations are janky... Yet there is so much heart, so much soul in this game. I loved the stories of different characters you meet, the portrayal of early America that no US-based studio would dare to put forward. Lots of LGBTQ+ undertones, too - lovely. The think that really hit the mark though were the animations of Red and Antea - their interactions, the way they stand up from the fireplace (a number of random options), the way they move - as in a dance - together. Also, Antea's pull/flying animation was awesome. I could never get tired of looking at them. I also very much enjoyed the maps. So many nooks and crannies, so many spots to hunt for treasure - with something surprising hidden almost everywhere. My only regret is that I got the "bad ending". [spoiler]I promised to resurrect Antea, but tailed to blame/kill enough living haunting characters - resulting in a time loop end.[/spoiler] Fair is fair though. As much as this is one of my favorite games (ever), it is not one I would want to replay. I will watch other endings on YouTube. 56 hours is enough :)

Не блокбастер, но просто хорошая игра с историей и не плохими побочными заданиями.

弃之可惜食之无味，虽说只要个位数的价格，但是自己的时间是最宝贵的，如果不对这种题材特别感兴趣不建议游玩

1. Konsolowość wyziera z każdego zakamarka. Przeskakujesz nad powalonymi drzewami/wspinasz się na klify ale gupi murek w wiosce to bariera nie do przejścia i zapinadalamy dookoła. Bo tak. 2. Świat jest skomplikowany, ale problemy które spotykamy, są tak sztuczne jak w serialach polsatu. Nie wiem kto pisał dialogi, ale nie zdziwiłbym się, że to było ai. Sens gdzieś tam lewituje, ale mózg ma za krótkie nóżki :) 3. Gameplay to połączenie Alana Wake(tylko, że tam poszlaki były trzymane w ryzach, tu przeklikujesz kilkanaście pobliskich, czekając aż partner szanownie skończy pierdzielić. Nie odklikasz kolejnej, wcześniej) i ostatniego God of War (sztucznie utrudniona walka, łatwa, nawet na maks poziomie, ale jak wrogów kupa, to chaos).

Another masterpiece from Don't Nod. I really like it. :)