Immortals Fenyx Rising

Absolutely amazing game! I loved it so much and I think the game is so creative. I most love how you have the storyline to complete but you don't have to do it and you can just go do whatever you want.

Pretty decent, never great. Truth be told, I picked up this game because I wanted to play Breath of the Wild but don't own a Switch. I quite enjoy the "you can climb anything as long as you have stamina"-mechanic and the cell-shaded environments. The characters, story and dialogue however failed to rope me in. The characterizations and voice acting are very on-the-nose and can be quite off-putting. The humour is pretty hit or miss, but at times manages to be charming. I personally didn't mind the dual, bickering narrators, but I can see it being grating. Near the end I found myself suddenly really enjoying the game because the objective was just to "find a way to the top of the mountain" without quest markers or interruption by hamfisted dialogue scenes. Where Immortals really shines for me is its puzzle design. The object manipulation/physics puzzles are many but they're always clever, just the right kind of difficult without being frustrating and just enough to break up the gameplay. I was positively suprrised at how satisfying it feels. Early on I worried that the combat was gonna be kind of a slog all game long but especially towards the end I had a good collection of abilities I relied upon and it felt impactful. Notably the combat animations are much better done than any dialogue animations, most of which feel like stock engine animations. So Immortals has some good ingredients but feels undercooked and sadly this isn't helped by the classic Ubisoft bloat. Did I enjoy playing it? Yes. Would I recommend it? Unfortunately no, because action RPGs like this are a dime a dozen and there's better ones to play for your dime, even if that means missing out on some really enjoyable puzzles.