Too much fail is all it deserves really. I was a fan of TSW, more or less, but this is just horrible. It is very story focused now, with stupid shitty voice actors speaking stupid shitty lines at me constantly, it never ends... They start you in a tutorial that is like something out of the 1980s. There is some shitty generic combat pressing 111111111 and occasional left mouse. Then there are some puzzles that are EXACTLY the same as Skyrim. You get 3 symbols above the locked door, and you have to click some glowing boxes to light up the same symbols. Then you appear in a train station for some reason and NPCs join you and act like a group used to function in the original game. They run around saying stupid action movie shit, spamming heals and doing some basic shit while you run around doing the same, and waves of mobs run at you like that shitty Valve zombie game, and you press 11111111111 and watch them all explode. And then there is another huge boring terrible cutscene. And you are teleported somewhere else. And you can't pause any of this even though it is a single player instance. The cutscenes are crap but also jarring because they teleport you around constantly. The whole thing is supposed to take place in a dream.... original eh? So one minute you are fighting a huge monster in Toyko and it roars and everyone falls over, and now suddenly I am somewhere completely different and there is some other shitty story happening.
The combat seems worse than it was before. I played as the mage with pure magic, and nothing has any impact at all, and doesn't even feel real time or connected to what I press. I press left mouse and he kind of throws some little zap, and you can't hold the left mouse so you have to mash it constantly to do this auto attack replacement. People are going to kill their mouse playing this shit. And then I have a few crap spells on my hotbar, a fire which again he throws and it makes no impact, or a frost blast all around me which you only get to use every few minutes or something and is supposed to cool down the fire but I never need to use it. And a bit later I got some Chaos thing which talked about singularities or some shit appearing all around me but made no sense and looks crap. You also can't target stuff now so you have to play it like a FPS and constantly whip the mouse around to look at all the zombies running at you at all angles, and if you don't aim at them with your cursor, the spells don't fire.
And it is pay to win as well. You do all this shit for slow skill points, or you can just buy them with real cash.
The way my chaos magic works is to spam an ability that gives you a random number of combo points from 2-4. And there are circles on the ui and once you fill up those circles with combo points, it triggers a random effect. So there is no skill or brainpower required, just spam shit as zombie shit runs at you. Also even fighting bosses 1 on 1, my health hasn't dropped below 90% yet. I don't even bother to dodge anymore.
The graphics have no improvement at all, anyone who says otherwise is lying.
It is more linear too, you have a series of quests that you have to do in order, unlike TSW where I could just go to that huge outdoor zone and run around doing whatever I could find.
Not a good start.
