Returnal™

basically a perfect game?

Returnal is badly designed. It isn't genuinely difficult or long; it just purposefully wastes your time. The first run acts like a deceptive tutorial so you play past the 2-hour refund window. After your first death, the game permanently cranks up the enemy count and strips you back to weapon level 0. This artificial difficulty spike isn't a fun challenge—it's just an annoyance designed to trap your money. Total waste of time.

Story: 10/10 Strategic planning and patience needed. Just download and play the game.

NUNCA PASE DEL CRASH DE LOS SHADERS. ESTUVE BUSCANDO SOLUCIONES Y NO FUNCIONA NADA. UNA VERGUENZA. MAS DE 3 AÑOS Y QUE SIGA CON DRAMAS. PIDIENDO REFUND SIN PODER PROBARLO SIQUIERA. NUNCA MAS COMPRO UN JUEGO DE HOUSEMARQUE. PRIMERA VEZ QUE ME PASA ALGO ASI. Y CON ESTA GENTE TAMBIEN VA A SER LA ULTIMA.

This might be my favorite game ever, right alongside Elden Ring and the Dark Souls trilogy. The atmosphere, sound design, visuals, and the way the story is told are all exceptional. It is technically a roguelite, but a fairly light one. You primarily become stronger between runs by finding weapons with new traits and permanently unlocking those traits, making them available much earlier in future cycles. It gives each run a clear sense of progress without removing the tension that makes the genre work. I love how the biomes are structured and how the game handles revisiting them (and I haven't touched Act 3 yet!). Biome 4 and everything after it build on the mechanics you gradually learn during the first three biomes, but the game then forces you to use that knowledge properly. Unless you get some truly otherworldly RNG, you will not progress by ignoring its systems. The bosses can be spectacular, but unlike in the Souls games, they are rarely the main source of difficulty. The real challenge comes from ordinary enemies and surviving your way through the randomly assembled biomes. A bad room, the lack of good guns, or one careless decision can end an otherwise excellent run. RNG does play a slightly oversized role, but it also creates some incredible moments. Finding a god-rolled weapon or putting together an absurd combination of parasites and artifacts feels fantastic. Sometimes the game gives you garbage. Sometimes it hands you a build that makes you feel unstoppable. My only real complaint is the PC performance out of the box.... but as the game runs on Unreal Engine 4, you can heavily modify the configuration files or force DirectX 11 if necessary, but players should not need to do that just to get stable performance. There is also frame gen and FSR/DLSS, ofc. I still have not tried co-op or the endless mode, so there is plenty left for me to explore. I strongly recommend it. It is one of the best games of the last decade, especially for anyone who enjoys science fiction, roguelites, bullet hell combat, and rhythm-based gameplay.

Excelente desafío, un RNG demasiado cruel con los coleccionables.

Got this for $19.79 and it was definitely worth it. Huge fan of FPS and roguelikes so this hit the spot. Love how you can feel yourself get better at the game the more you play it - it definitely rewards technical skills.