Recent reviews by Ruebenhood

Had a lot of fun in the beta and early on, but now... not so much.

Long story short:
The developers decided to make skillshots and lock on abilities equal in terms of value. What's the point of aiming when you could hit the funny button that 100% guarantees that your ability lands? I understand the the melee characters need some of that love but there are ranged characters that don't need to be good at aiming consistently.

Conclusion:
It is simply another development team that doesn't understand the concept of competitive game balance (in my opinion of course).

When you balance the game to be easier to play, the veterans will abuse the easier mechanics. Just look at Overwatch 2

Tip:
If you turn off the raw mouse input setting and limit frames to 100fps, it's perfectly playable. Also, have a little patience and let the shaders load up before starting the game, the game even suggests that you let the shaders load (it's shown on the bottom left of the screen). It does kinda suck that I had to look up how to fix a game I paid for.
Review:
I've known about this game for a while but never played it until now and I gotta say, it's basically a movie with solid game elements. The story is beautiful, it manages to be heartbreaking and heartwarming. This isn't a simple zombie shoot em up game, this isn't just a game to throw on when you're feeling a little bored. This is a game that you play when you want to experience the story and environment again.
DLC:
It's not very long but it's cute, it shows more backstory for Ellie. Just be warned, you are playing as a 14 year old girl rather than a Grizzled Apocalypse Veteran so your strengths and weaknesses are a little different.

Time to conquer

I do recommend this game to some people!! But that group of people is quite small.
It\'s fun.. If you want to turn the game into a science of precise timing that requires hours of practice. At first the game was awesome, it was a game of accurate swings and feinting and large amount of people would turn this game into a medieval movie. Buuut nowadays a large amount of the playerbase uses this method called dragging, allowing the player to swing their weapon incredibly slow yet still dealing full damage.

Sure, dragging requires alot of skill, and I\'m sure their proud of themselves in their own special way. But In my eyes it created a far steeper learning curve that I\'d rather not devote my game time to. But the absolute worst part of it is that dragging and some of those related techniques completely destroy the immersion of this game(in my opinion).

At the start of this game(shortly after it was released), charging the other team with 10+ teammates was exhilirating! You had to stab, slash and swing to get to the objective. Blocking, feinting, kicking and dodging were extra mechanics that could give you the edge in the fight. If you wanted to test your skills in a more private setting, then you could hop on a duel to fight someone solo.

Nowadays, since dragging was embraced by the developers and was even given as a hint to players on loading screens, things definitely changed. When you join a populated server, instead of people jumping at you, in the hopes of removing your head; you will get people waddling around like drunk crabs slowly twirling their weapons slowly with a pile of dead bodies around them. When you jump into a duel, instead of a head to head clash of positioning and accurate strikes from a bloodthirsty warrior; you still get something similar to those skills but instead of a warrior, you get some contorting wierdo that hits you with a flurry of deccelerated and accelerated swings that makes me think \"How does this make sense?\". Sure you could learn to counter them, but it is stupidly annoying nevertheless.

To sum it all up: If you want this game, then you are going to have to enter the world of dragging or else you will rarely see a positive KD ratio. Just look it up on youtube and ask yourself \"Do I want to do this?\".

In conclusion, you are looking for an immersive medieval experience that will engross you on your free time? DON\'T CLICK THAT PURCHASE BUTTON!
Are you looking for a game the requires hours and hours of practice to annoy/beat people to death and break the laws of physics at the same time? Then look no further, this vortex of laughing crab knights slowly flailing their swords around is waiting to suck you in.

5-23-2016
Yeah, I'm gonna wait until this is on sale. I don't want to buy this on impulse.
5-25-2016
Uhhhhh What the hell happened? Where did my 60$ go?