I flarking love this game! Best game I have played this year. Or maybe even the last couple of years. The visuals(graphics and environments) are just absolutely stunning. The story is phenomenal, it's funny, downright hilarious in parts, all the while also being serious and emotional. Its very engaging and kept me interest my whole playthrough. The voice acting is top tier, and the facial animations are incredible, some of if not the best facial animations I've seen in a video game. The sound design is great, though can be buggy in spots. i.e. dialog cutting out because you enter a scripted dialog scene or occasionally the sound is coming from the opposite direction of where the character speaking is. The combat is fine, nothing too crazy, Star Lord's guns are absolutely useless until you upgrade them and unlock their elemental shots. It does help you get accustomed to using your teammates and actually using strategy to win fights. Some of the enemies are very bullet spongey. Funnily enough rocket also calls the enemies bullet sponges in combat in one fight so that made me chuckle a bit. There are Easter eggs galore in this game from what you can see in the collectors emporium to the criminal files stored on the nova corps computers, and also the miscellaneous holo journals you find lying around. The outfits are cool, although can sometimes be very easily missed. Performance wise the game ran fantastic for me, granted I am running an i9-9900k, 32gb ram, and RTX 3090 in my rig. Playing on max settings with Ray Tracing on ultra and DLSS off at 1440p I don't think I even dropped below 100fps and it was overall very smooth. I had two hard crashes one where the game crashed and exited to desktop, and another where I left it on the main menu and went to grab a drink, when I got back it had froze completely and I had to restart my whole PC. This game also has its fair share of bugs, nothing too crazy just your average stuff like model clipping, an instance where draw fell through the map and could not be revived, and a few more minor things. I had two game breaking bugs on my playthrough, an instance where the game decided not to recognize my keyboard and mouse and I had to force close it. And another where you go onto a ledge to cross a gap to get some materials for upgrades and an outfit box, this ledge just auto puts you into the animation so you get stuck in a loop of walking back and forth across the ledge not able to get out unless you try really hard and get lucky, it was very flarking frustrating. As far as anything else goes I may edit this review once I wake up and reread it in a non sleep deprived state. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

I flarking love this game! Best game I have played this year. Or maybe even the last couple of years. The visuals(graphics and environments) are just absolutely stunning. The story is phenomenal, it's funny, downright hilarious in parts, all the while also being serious and emotional. Its very engaging and kept me interest my whole playthrough. The voice acting is top tier, and the facial animations are incredible, some of if not the best facial animations I've seen in a video game. The sound design is great, though can be buggy in spots. i.e. dialog cutting out because you enter a scripted dialog scene or occasionally the sound is coming from the opposite direction of where the character speaking is. The combat is fine, nothing too crazy, Star Lord's guns are absolutely useless until you upgrade them and unlock their elemental shots. It does help you get accustomed to using your teammates and actually using strategy to win fights. Some of the enemies are very bullet spongey. Funnily enough rocket also calls the enemies bullet sponges in combat in one fight so that made me chuckle a bit. There are Easter eggs galore in this game from what you can see in the collectors emporium to the criminal files stored on the nova corps computers, and also the miscellaneous holo journals you find lying around. The outfits are cool, although can sometimes be very easily missed. Performance wise the game ran fantastic for me, granted I am running an i9-9900k, 32gb ram, and RTX 3090 in my rig. Playing on max settings with Ray Tracing on ultra and DLSS off at 1440p I don't think I even dropped below 100fps and it was overall very smooth. I had two hard crashes one where the game crashed and exited to desktop, and another where I left it on the main menu and went to grab a drink, when I got back it had froze completely and I had to restart my whole PC. This game also has its fair share of bugs, nothing too crazy just your average stuff like model clipping, an instance where draw fell through the map and could not be revived, and a few more minor things. I had two game breaking bugs on my playthrough, an instance where the game decided not to recognize my keyboard and mouse and I had to force close it. And another where you go onto a ledge to cross a gap to get some materials for upgrades and an outfit box, this ledge just auto puts you into the animation so you get stuck in a loop of walking back and forth across the ledge not able to get out unless you try really hard and get lucky, it was very flarking frustrating. As far as anything else goes I may edit this review once I wake up and reread it in a non sleep deprived state. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.