Reviewing Ghost of Yotei is interesting to me because I loved Ghost of Tsushima. Furthermore, Ghost of Tsushima had some initial issues for me that were later fixed, and Yotei comes with those changes right out of the gate. Yet, I’m still not as warm on Ghost of Yotei as I was expecting to be.
I purchased No Man’s Sky when it released back in 2016, and it’s one of the few games I’ve ever refunded. It’s not that it was bad, it’s that it felt non-existent, even with your controller in hand, there simply wasn’t a game in there to actually play.
Over the years, No Man’s Sky has redeemed itself in a way I don’t think any other game has. It has received numerous updates that have essentially overhauled the entire game more than once, and have added a ton of new gameplay systems to its core identity.
I think my biggest worry going into Death Stranding 2 was the fear that it would stray too far from the original. That fear was unfounded as Death Stranding 2 is still a weird game about making deliveries amid a world filled with beached ghosts, pod babies, and Troy Baker having an absolute blast playing one of the strangest roles ever cast.
This is not how I would normally stage a review. However, Dragon’s Dogma 2 is utterly broken thanks to its scaling system, or rather, lack thereof. I find it impossible to talk about any other part of the game in isolation because the scaling issue impacts literally all of it.