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  • Deadend [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Don't forget the War crimes and casual murder of people begging for their lives. It's the flippant disregard for life from Borderlands/Bulletstorm but the plot is "this is all that is left of Humanity, this small valley that is at War over ????, weirdly the only character who seems to matter says the war is stupid and doesn't matter because everyone will die. The word "Insurgent" is tossed around a lot.

    The game to put it as nicely as possible has a bad case of tonal whiplash like every dialog scene was written completely detached from every other cutscene. The game's writing is so bad that the 'neat' combat can't make up for it, as also the encounters are mostly uninteresting and the enemy types aren't that interesting to fight, these are not Destiny 2 enemies that have their own rhythm and reaction. Just hold the trigger over the heads until they die, roll out of the way if they are the heavies who drop grenades on death.

    • Deadend [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Oh, we also forgot to talk about the cutscene where a old guy gets shot in the head, you then kill the assassin after he says "look, I was just trying to get paid" then you accidentally rescue a woman before |

      spoiler

      she gets raped|

      and the game treats it like a joke. It would almost be funny, it's delivered like humor, but the weird way the player character seems to randomly value lives makes the whole thing feel weird and terrible.