Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Просто хорошо!

Сюжет и все квесты топовые, ради них рекомендовал бы проходить всем для кого сюжет и персонажи стоят выше чем геймплей. Не скажу что геймплей прямо таки плох, но очень посредственен. Наверное, рекомендовал бы бегать сугубо по заданиям, не отвлекаясь на развилки и доп. активности, только если не хватает на апгрейд, можно погриндить, а так, быстро надоест. Сделали бы они карту проценто на 40 меньше, что бы было меньше беготни бесполезной или хотя бы систему телепортов получше, игра б ощущалась получше. Но в целом, игру можно рекомендовать, даже несмотря на присутствие повесточки (иногда прямо через чур).

Like Vampyr, a flawed but overall fun game.

TOLLE TIEFE , gute Handlung ...gerne eine Fortsetzung ..

Setting a game in 19th century USA and then completely ignoring slavery feels like a choice. Also there's like only 3 characters of colour in the entire game, not counting Antea. And while all of them were written well, it left a sour taste in my mouth. On top of that, the game completely ignores colonization aspect of it all. Don't get me wrong I didn't expect it to give us a lecture but I expected at least some commentary. As is obvious from the trailer, Antea dies in prologue and Red is expected to either send her back or resurrect her by the end. But to resurrect her, she literally needs to consume sous which is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. At the beginning of the game Red gives an oath to her about which ending he'd bring. He can change his mind around mid--point in the game but that's it. The game goes out of its way to tell us that if Red breaks his oath it's basically game over. And honestly I found very little reason to go for the bad ending besides achievement hunting. And that's one of my issues with the game; there's no point to choose bad options besides achievement hunting most of the time. Not the way it works is Red and Antea solve Haunting cases around the area. At the end the player is given three options: blame the living aka eat their soul, ascend the ghost aka send it on its way and banish the ghost aka kick it back. The difference between Ascension and Banishment is intentionally left unclear until the 70% mark of the game or so, so I won't spoil it. When the case is complete, regardless of the outcome Antea gets 1 skill point. Now, there absolutely are people here who deserve blaming and worse but most of them don't. And some of these people want to die. Which is I guess a point of moral choice. I personally believe if you're making a moral choice in the game, there should be equally convincing reasons to choose both options. Because it's boring if the only reason someone would pick bad option is achievement hunting. I did like the open world though. There's a lot of stuff to do and it never gets repetitive. I finished every single side quest and Haunting case and loved all of them. Especially loved how the story develops based on your actions. I also loved how different activities give you different resources you need to upgrade you gear. I personally found gear system a bit too convoluted tbh. After halfway point there's no point in getting new gear as it's gonna be way worse than what you have. Also each piece of gear has like 5 different stats and I couldn't be bothered comparing the two. Also the game is very easy and combat is pretty repetitive so at the second half I could literally sleep on the controller and still win. Loved how progressing through the story gives Antea new abilities which you then could use to unlock new higher level areas. Overall, I am surprised I liked the game.

Do you like crawling through crevices, walking over huge empty areas, and talking... so much talking? Because that's the game.

Best game ever <3