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.
