Daniel Pereira
From a young age I've loved video games and the power they possess in bringing different kinds of people together. I have forged many good friendships through this medium that would not exist without it. I love experiencing a new genre for the first time and finding out it resonates with me. Also, Conker's Bad Fur Day is one of the greatest games of all time. Fight me.
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You have a laughable understanding of the backstage politics that allowed the large shift in tone and identity.
It isn’t a continuation, it’s glorified fanfic. You’re dumb for not seeing it.
Bro your whole article literally says you don’t even like the decision the story went in. I feel like the whole “Well your entitled to your own opinion and truth” logic is just a loose defense. I get your point that yes people are over exaggerating on the games story and to review such a fine tuned piece of game that literally excels in almost all aspects of video game tech is asinine.
But that doesn’t take away from the truth that the story direction is terrible. As a reviewer you have to be honest regardless of if you want to recognize that people worked really hard to make this product. Give credit where credit is due to the environment mappers, the battle designers, the sound architects etc but the writing from Neil Druckmann is just ridiculed with over zealous edgy shock value with a moral that feels entirely moot by the characters decisions. This is where we as gamers who have to endure this dreary mess of a game for 20 hours have the right to criticize what has been hailed as elite in terms of story telling for a video game franchise at least the first game.
Again I understand your posture and how you want to at least even the playing field but this ain’t it. We need big companies to know tacking on and playing into huge societal events such as LGBT equality and racial equality is not something to one just be a mere addition, it should be heavily considered in how the story is written and that community is upset about that. That aside we have overall plain bad story telling, and we need to accept that no matter how much money was poured into this game. And for all the reviewers who are just eating the dollars they paid up, shame on them.
I dont mind a slightly biased review but get this game out of the tier of legendary 10/10 games the first one surely deserves to be here because its a complete package but the story in this one can make this an easy 7/10 maybe high 7.5.
The intention of the article is to encourage others to experience the game for themselves before casting judgement. I actually enjoyed the story and feel like it does the first game justice as a continuation. If that wasn’t properly conveyed, then I will do a better job next time at properly articulating my stance.