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Honestly, the only reason I got PSPlus was for cloud-saving. But even that's no longer worth it after the latest price hike. With inflation and constant rise in cost of living, subcriptions are the first to go.

Absolute trash, so much so that I'm going to skip the third part of the game. Nothing like being told "let's change fate and destiny" over and over again only to have the ***** end plot giving you the exact same childhood trauma but this time in 4K and a bloody PhD to understand it.

This is why Nomura should've stayed in designs where he belongs instead of attempting to write a story. Such an insult the OG plot.

Not everything needs to be a ***** Kingdom Hearts

A solid 8, questionable English VA and level designs aside; accessible fluid combat, great characters, extremely fun boss fights, and Keiichi Okabe's god tier soundtracks made Shift Up maiden's voyage on a console game a home run.

Let them cook!

As usual, Ubisoft once again misread their players on what we wanted in a Watch Dogs game. They are first and foremost still a character driven story. Watch Dogs 1 and 2 were a commercial success because the players care about what happened to both Aiden and Marcus.

Legion removed this character-driven stories in favour of a gameplay that wasn't even that good to begin with. I had my time with Legion but I honestly can't remember what I did in it or how it went. On the contrary, I can still recite Aiden and Marcus stories if I wanted to.

No loss. Ubisoft has been flailing and flailing recently, I can't wait to hear and cheer about their bankruptcy.

I played this on PC, for the studio's side project that was worked on alongside My Time at Sandrock, it was surprisingly complete and really addicting. Great chill game.

Mine comes directly from PSN digital store with 48h early access.

I honestly don't know why people still struggle with physical copies these days and age.

Gonna...Pass...on this game or at least wait till it's deeply discounted for a complete edition.

Inifnite Wealth then Unicorn Overlord.

Can't wait for Megaton Musashi and Eiyuden Chronicles this month.

Oh don't worry, there will be streamers playing a naked run for a challenge within the first two weeks.

An absolutely resounding yes!!

Oh wow, they had me at that first 3 seconds of the trailer music.

Very well deserved. It was a fantastic entry into a genre that has been really barren for a while, and hopefully it'll be a continual IP for them to create a sequel in a space that has been long dominated by Fire Emblem.

Definitely a game made you wanting more and more even after it took me 100+ hours to complete everything the game has to offer. It was just that good.

6/10.
It serves what it attempted to do well enough but that's it. A very safe game following a very safe open-world mechanic without introducing anything new or mind blowing. Is it fun though? absolutely. Splitting your enemies in two with a nodachi never gets old.

The best open world game of 2013.

@Orochilocka I answered this before and I'm still surprised people can't see why most are hating on Rebirth's open world checklist.

Rebirth is a lazy attempt at open world designed with a closed-world map mindset. You can only climb where you are told, you can only glide when you are told, and your ex warrior superhuman still can't jump a short distance to go to a tower so he had to circle around a short cliff that was jumpable by any normal human standard.

Square Enix created a pretty good open world with FF15, but Rebirth was just a lazy attempt at recreating that with their arbitrary invisible walls. Open world doesn't work with Rebirth traversal and it's only frustrating.

Open World works with RoR and any AC games because they did give the freedom of exploration with their traversal. In an era where true open world games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles exist, Rebirth was just a sorry excuse to pad the short story in order to earn more money.

"And on this episode, we're going to outline how we made our players believe they can change fate and destiny by keep repeating that phrase in our marketing. But at the end of the game, we decided to kill off Aerith anyway so nothing change. We'll still give you your childhood trauma but this time in 4K and a PhD to understand our mess of a multiverse plot. Oh we'll make this another Kingdom Hearts mess and a worse graphic than Remake. Also here's Chadwick"

Trash game.

Gonna wait till the discounted complete edition, if I even still interested by then.

"Obviously, the cost of making games is increasing, and you don’t need to invest in any of these items to enjoy the outing"

It's funny that this site didn't use this kind of sentiment when SEGA and ATLUS showed their DLC package with Persona 3 Reload and Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth but just outright bashed them. Biased article is the worst.

Who is Skydance New Media and why have I never heard of them before?

This trailer is fantastic!

@ShogunRok how does it feel coming to this from Rebirth? because that game utterly burn me out on Open World contents.

Also "Custom Character", do you create your own Ronin in this game?

I'm wary on this, gonna wait for a review.

They should have included a demo for this game.

Yeah even I can't support this ***** practice. They can keep this DLC, I'll get it when it's heavily discounted and *****. I couldn't care less of the other two "expansion pass" DLC and just wanted to play The Answer.

What an absurd practice but not surprising from greedy ATLUS.

@Giggleshot the different is AC series gives you the freedom of movement in their open world games and that's why it works.

Square Enix lazy and horribly designed open world restricts your movements every single time with arbitrary invisible walls and single points of climbing. Hell the stupid EX soldier still can't jump in 2024. It's an "open world" designed with single player restricted map movements because they can't do open world right and it's just frustrating how much it turned this otherwise great series into garbage.

FF7 never need any of these. Just give us the great series we loved back then and focus on that. Remake got it right, but Rebirth is what happened when they lost sight on what made the series great in the first place.

But lesson learned, I'll skip the next game and just watch the new ending from YouTube or something because Square clearly has lost their passion for storytelling with Rebirth and trading it for bloated trash in the name of money.

Notice how it's only those that are not even halfway through the game ("I just hit Golden Saucer, OMG~!") that gave this game a high score.

@PaperAlien yeah the burnout rate is real. I'm just powering through the main story right now and if this is how they're approaching the third game, I'm gonna skip it and just watch the events on Youtube.

Square is absolutely regressing with Rebirth.

6.5. Great new combat mechanics and great story, ruined by bloated mini-game trash and the open world map that was so poorly designed that your EX soldier still can't jump or climb anywhere in 2024. So much so that he had to walk around the cliff to find a different route just to go to a tower that was literally a jump away for any normal human.

And whomever designed Gongaga Jungle needs to die in a fire.

What an embarrassing and lazy attempts at an open world when games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles exist.

@ShogunRok Thank you for the excellent review. Vanillaware never miss. The trailer intrigued me, the demo hooked me, and this review solidified my urge to play it day 1.

@ShogunRok I assume this is the live version review? do you get to explore the rest of the 4 other continents or the map is just limited to the first one like in the demo?

@ZhuckelDror Take the win.

I joined this site in 2014 but this is actually the first time I posted here due to how ridiculous this article is.

Honestly, if you're struggling to justify purchasing these OPTIONAL DLC pack, you're not the target market.

I love Persona games and these are the series I tend to spend an upward of 200 hours with. A digital deluxe edition cost me about $140 CAD after taxes, which works out for about 70c per hour. I'm fortunate enough to make way more than that and the entertainment value ratio I'm getting for this pack still significantly better than my daily coffee I purchased for work. And yes, I will absolutely double dip if they ever remake FES in P5 engine.

It's the same reason I didn't bat an eye purchasing the Digital Deluxe version of Infinite Wealth and the Digital Deluxe version of Granblue Fantasy.

Again, if you're struggling or whining about these OPTIONAL DLC pack, you're not the target market and SEGA knows it.