Recent reviews by manik.incr

Quantum Break is a pretty awesome game, specially in terms of gameplay. It nails ! really
It has a good pacing, a very interesting world, but the problem comes with the complexity of this game.

Story & its issues:
Quantum Break is basically a hard to understand in terms of story, halfway through the story.. and you really won't get what's going on, even though its a cool story & they literally have a tv show integrated with the game, but still they fail in making the story clear enough. Sometimes you don't get why and what happened in the cutscene.
And the live-action, first few episodes are also completely confusing and you don't get the relevance of the characters in the episodes until the very end, worst part is you don't see any of the main characters in the tv show much, there's barely any screen-time for jack, beth etc.
It's not that the main overall plot is confusing, its pretty straightforward & clear in general, but the thing is you don't get the details , like what the hell are the characters talking about. You don't get a lot of sub-plots and concepts in the story, I was always confused about the martin hatch angle and his intentions till the end.

- Secondly , I also think the game fails to deliver a deep emotion, I don't feel anything for the characters , and we don't even see any civilians during the gameplay, what's their situation, what's happening in the city overall..
So we don't feel the stake that world is actually in danger or people will suffer. It feels like only the monarch and team jack are in the danger of this time fracture and nothing else exists in this world other than monarch.
Also, till the end jack is just fighting and running around & we don't even see him having substantial meaningful conversations with any characters. It's only during the end, where we have some instances where he properly connects with beth.
It really feels like they could have done wayyyyyy better in terms of storytelling considering the fact that they really had an awesome opportunity this TV SHOW+GAME this game thing, but they failed it miserably in using that well and making it heartfelt like god of war or uncharted games.

- Gameplay : I Have to say its aweesome, really cool for most of the part,
It's great that the game let's you focus on the main gamplay without any distracting collectibles or RPG mechanics.
The action is awesome, one of its kind SUPERHERO stuff . It's actually one of the best superhero game mechanics i've come across ever. and really you never get bored untill the end!
and that makes my next point which is that even though the action is super fun and awesome, but the problem comes with it being repetitive by the end of the game. Game stops introducing any new enemy types, or ways of fighting by the second half.
It's mostly run & gun game and same type of enemy spawning at all times. Bosses are the worst, they have boring asss* shoot in the back method for winning the bosses. But I expected that too see something new by the end , but it doesnt happen. Instead the last fight becomes so repetitive that you hate it
And yes the last fight ! its ♥♥♥♥
worst bosss ever in a video game, its soo unfair, like its not clear why am i dying until you look for a youtube video to tell you that beware of the red glitch and this and that. The boss being difficult is another thing but the problem is that its such a lazy design choice, that you're just doing what you have been doing, but the game is forcing you to get killed for no reason at all. it's like luck dependent boss fight. Although as you go through over the fight, there we have the most boring death sequence. And they couldn't put a single quick time event to make it satisfying.

Now graphics : Super COol! Awesome for a 2016 game and even today!

Only issue is the glitchy visuals when they start confusing you during boss fights, i know its the theme and stule, but sometimes the glitches break my gameplay badly.
Still one of the best games visually and vfx wise.
The only thing the lacked was using that well, we don't see much wide visual showcases specially during the realtime gameplay. Why they couldn't just have QTEs or Realtime Gameplay set peices.

Yes there were some awesome visual + gameplay stuff like traversing through containers during time stutters happening and I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Loved it. But it should have had more stuff like that specially during the ending.

The game is really good in breaking the immersion between cutscenes and gameplay to be honest, the cuts are so confusing.

Sound : awesome!

Concluding :
Good Game ! but f*ck you designers for making that sh**y boss fight 😭. But I love you guys for making this awesome & different kind of game but it felt like the game's development got rushed by the end impacting the gameplay and bosses.