From the makers of the acclaimed hit game Destiny, comes the much-anticipated sequel. An action shooter that takes you on an epic journey across the solar system.Humanity~s last safe city has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force, led by Ghaul, the imposing commander of the brutal Red Legion. He has stripped the city~s Guardians of their power, and forced the survivors to flee. You will venture to mysterious, unexplored worlds of our solar system to discover an arsenal of weapons and devastating new combat abilities. To defeat the Red Legion and confront Ghaul, you must reunite humanity~s scattered heroes, stand together, and fight back to reclaim our home.
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This game is not bad. It's just not good either. It uses nearly ALL the same assets, and world pieces from the first Destiny, including all the same enemies (The good designs, and bad ones. I'm looking at you taken). It's less like a sequel, and more like an apologetic retry, at 60$ a copy.
The story is trite, and major plot points are either glossed over, or completely undone within minutes. Lose your light! Your human now! 5 minutes later, you get your light back. That was so intense!
The gameplay is good. Which is understandable since the gameplay in the first game was good, and it's basically the same game.
Again, controls are good. It's kind of hard to screw up standard FPS controls now a days with so many games that all use the same control scheme.
The music is good-ish. I mean, it's good music, but whoever was the musical director apparently didn't know where or when to put the music into the game. So situations where there is nothing going on(no enemies, no battle), have these huge orchestral musical moments. And then there are times where your in an intense firefight and there is no music to be found. Just really inconsistent and somewhat distracting.
There definitely is a lack of things to do in game though. After you complete the story missions (an average time of around 10 hours or so) all you have left are the strikes and raids and unless your like doing the same 6 strikes over and over, and the 1 raid your pretty much done.
I realize I haven't touched on the pvp aspect of the game, and that's simply because I don't play it. I find most competition pointless. I play games to have fun, and I don't find that aspect fun, so I don't do it.
Over all, the game is good, but not great. It reuses WAY too much of the original Destiny, and honestly I walk away feeling less like I bought a new game, and more like I got an expansion. If your looking to buy, either wait for a price drop (30-40$ seems about right to me) or when the inevitable 'Game of the Year' edition comes out with all DLC pick it up. Odds are you'll have 3-4 new strikes and 1-2 more raids. The content will justify a 60$ price tag, it just doesn't justify it right now.
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Hack and slash your way through Nioh for the PlayStation 4. Immerse yourself in a world of ninja-style fighting and demon-slaying action in this dark fantasy role playing game. Nioh has an exciting campaign mode and a facelift for the PS4 that includes enhanced difficulty and new monsters and weapons for engaging game play for beginners and enthusiasts alike.
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Nioh is akin to Dark Souls in difficulty, creativity, and combat style. But that is about where the comparisons end.
Nioh has a fantastic combat system, with skills for each weapon type (5 weapon types in total). Each weapons handle fairly differently from the others, giving interesting and unique play styles. There is also a Ninjutsu, and Onmyo. While Ninjutsu is fairly standard items to use (Kunai, Shurikens, poisons, and paralytics), Onmyo, which is basically Niohs version of Magic, has many different charms and effect from enchanting your weapons with certain elements (fire, water, earth, lightning, wind) to cursing enemies to be slower, weaker, or have less defense.
As opposed to a large open world, the game is broken down in missions, each sector of Japan has multiple missions, main quest and side quests to take on.
Weapons and armor are random, similar to a diablo style loot system. White (common), yellow (uncommon), blue (rare), purple (exotic), and green(divine) item will drop as you play. Each will have a variety of buffs on them, again randomly generated.
NG+ mode triggers after you finish the final stage, but allows your current world with all stages beaten to be accessible. Loot grinding for better gear makes the game highly replayable.
Add into all that a brutal (but fair) difficulty and over the top bosses for a fantastic game.
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