Immortals Fenyx Rising

A triumph of open world design, exploration, and writing. And one of the most endearing characters you'll meet in a videogame. Immortals Fenyx Rising is an excellent game filled with satisfying activities, wonderful movement, and action-packed combat. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3755365888 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3768195150

Probably one of the few genuinely fun Ubisoft games I've played in decades, and likely my last one. This game initially had no Steam Achievements and the Ubisoft Connect requirement is a pain. Still, I'm glad I got to play this one. The art style and the colourful world was really nice and fun to explore, like an enormous playground. There was enough witty and funny dialogue from Zeus and Prometheus that it kept me going through most of the story. It is pretty basic in terms of structure, with freeing four Greek Gods, but I found the questlines fun and interesting to go through. Combat is great and has a good amount of depth, and enough gear to create different builds. I ended up using a stun focused build that relied on the axe attack and regenerating health through stuns, but I also switched to an exploration focused set and a boss-killing set later on. In terms of flaws, the cursor-based pointer on controller was an incredible pain. There's not really an excuse for this on modern day PC releases. Remapping the controls, while possible, was still a bigger hassle than it needed to be, as some combinations of functions were unavailable to me because of the way things were coded. Not sure why swapping buttons in all uses wasn't possible. Most of the flaws can be pointed to this game's "Ubisoft"-ness. Popups reminding me that I'm in a video game, cursor, and requiring Ubisoft Connect, along with a world with a lot of collectibles that you scout out Assassin's Creed Style. Thankfully I haven't played a game like this in years, so it didn't bother me that much, but there was a bit too much to explore for my liking. Still I was happy and had a lot of fun with this game. A nice casual open-world Zelda-esque game. DLCs were also included, which is nice value wise. DLC 1 (A new god) was a bit of a drag as it was basically a puzzle gauntlet, but if you like puzzles you'll probably like this one. DLC 2 (Eastern Realm) is pretty much an expansion with another island reskinned to be about Eastern gods and small conflict there, separate from Fenyx and the Greek storyline. My favourite was DLC 3 which adopts an Isometric view, kinda like a CRPG/Diablo, which translated pretty nicely from the base game. Story was also the most interesting here, focused on some of the other gods that weren't in the base game.

It's a pretty good game! but sadly I'm not quite the puzzle person

It's just a more clunky then necessary and also just a worse version of Zelda Breath of the wild the flying seemed interesting and the game looks decent but it plays poorly and some of the way you control the character just annoys me more then it should. for me its a no thanks and i would say they should give it another go and fix things but its Ubisoft so no chance for redemption for this game i'm afraid

hidden gem, fun to play and good for the brain.

Wieder die typische Ubisoft Beschäftigungstherapie. Am Anfang erscheint es frisch aber spätestens nach 3 Stunden erkennst du das ständig wiederholende Schema der Hauptmissionen und Nebenaktivitäten.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but this game just insists on crashing. I will crash AT LEAST once every half hour. Doesn't help that every time I restart the game, Ubisoft launcher will check and verify all files/updates which takes a while. The times I managed to play, I enjoyed it. It was fun but not worth the pain of dealing with the constant crashing.

I don't know what it is, its not the best story game, its not the best combat game, but DAM it feels so good I love the design I love the style, the feel I LOVE IT