Recent reviews by 𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕐 𝔽𝕆𝕏™

So, it’s a little challenging to review a product that hasn’t been released fully, but I’ll try to comprehensively break down what I know thus far, as the word “pass” often invokes negative connotations in the minds of gamers. We WILL own the content, and that digital ownership doesn’t run out or expire at the end of the pass.


Pre-ordering the 2025 Content Pass before May 7th 2025 will provide you access to:


• Mages Guild Recall Customised Action (used when travelling to wayshrines)
• 10-Year Lion Guard Steed mount
• 10-Year Anniversary Mudcrab pet
• Shell-Tide Beach emote pack


If you already own all the previous expansions/chapters (Morrowind, Summerset, Elsweyr, Greymoor, Blackwood, High Isle, Necrom, and Gold Road), then you won’t need to purchase the 2025 Premium Edition; you can purchase the Standard Edition for £42.99/$49.99. If you’re missing a couple of expansions/chapters, it might be cheaper to purchase the ones you’re missing when they’re on sale, as they might come to less than the additional amount.

This might be slightly contradictory, seeing as I’ve put in 10,222 hours into ESO, but I would always recommend first-time Tamriel explorers to purchase the base game first to see how you find it before investing in every expansion/chapter, as the experience is very different and unique when compared to previous Elder Scrolls installments.

When it comes to the content released by Zenimax, traditionally, content has released quarterly with a dungeon DLC, a chapter, another dungeon DLC, & finally a zone DLC. From what I can tell, not a lot is changing:


Q1: has seen Fallen Banners dungeons (Lep Seclusa and Exiled Redoubt) arrive March 10th 2025 for all ESO+ subscribers.


Q2: We receive "Seasons of the Worm Cult: Part 1," which will release June 2nd, 2025, & we will unlock the island of Solstice (capital: Sunport, picture below) and a continuation of the main questline (which, according to the ESO datamine I was looking at, will have Altmer architecture south of Murkmire, so that is… different, lol).

https://exit.yueirsjskjl.cf/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3474028086


We will get a new 12-person PvE trial located on Solstice called "Ossein Cage" that will unlock an additional 4 new sets:


Perfected Dolorous Arena

(2 items) Adds 1206 Maximum Health.
(3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 1487 Armor
(5 items - Perfected) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(5 items) While bracing, create a distortion barrier around yourself. You gain 614 Armor and enemies within the distortion barrier have their Armor reduced by 1843 for 2 seconds. Both effects occur every 2 seconds and can each stack up to 3 times.


Perfected Harmony in Chaos

(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(5 items - Perfected) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage.
(5 items) While in combat, activating a synergy grants you a stack of Harmonized for 10 seconds, up to 5 stacks max. You can gain 1 stack every 0.5 seconds. Increase your Weapon and Spell Damage by 86 per stack of Harmonised.


Perfected Kazpian's Cruel Signet

(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(3 items) Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 1487 Offensive Penetration
(5 items - Perfected) Adds 129 Weapon and Spell Damage.
(5 items) On dealing area direct damage, place a Sword above one enemy. You cannot place a Sword on an enemy who already has one from you. After 6 seconds, the Sword falls, dealing 324 Physical Damage. This damage cannot critically strike and scales off the higher of your Weapon or Spell Damage. This effect deals an additional 33% damage for each additional Sword you have on other enemies.


Perfected Recovery Convergence

(2 items) Adds 4% Healing Done.
(3 items) Gain Minor Aegis at all times, reducing your damage taken from Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka.
(5 items - Perfected) Adds 4% Healing Done.
(5 items) While in combat, overhealing done is converted into stored energy on you for 20 seconds. After overhealing 100000 Health, your energy maxes out, granting you the Convergence Release synergy. When you activate this synergy, restore 6886 Stamina and Magicka to yourself and group members within 28 meters of you. After activating Convergence Release, you cannot store overhealing for 30 seconds.


Q3: Will unlock two additional dungeons, "Black Gem Foundry" and "Naj Caldeesh." Both dungeons are available with ESO+, as all the other dungeons are. When you purchase the content pass, you will own both dungeon DLCs and you WON'T need to purchase them separately from the Crown Store. Having said that, it is within the realms of probability that you’ll be able to purchase the content pass with crowns in around a year or so, as we have seen in the past.
We will also receive the new "Writhing Wall" community event that will see the ESO community join together (split into our respective servers, so EU and NA for our platforms) to bring down the writhing wall, a wall of souls that is separating eastern and western Solstice. Even those without the content pass will still be able to participate but are excluded from participating in the quests around Solstice. I am particularly excited about this event, as I enjoy community events significantly more; the unlocking rewards after hitting new milestones are more exciting than the standard in-game events such as the Jester's or New Life festivals.


Q4: Finally, we will receive "Seasons of the Worm Cult: Part 2" with the addition of some old faces from the previous main story questline that released 10 years ago. It is always nice to see a continuation of Elder Scrolls PvE lore. I decided NOT to Mace Windu, Mannimarco, and ultimately decided he wasn’t too dangerous to be kept alive, thus freeing him from Molag Bal’s torture, as Altmer blood and life are far too precious to be spilt or lost, especially at the hands of a fellow Altmer, so it will be exciting to see if that decision comes back to bite us, lol.


Subclassing (or hybridisation):


This feature will allow further customisation of our skills by allowing us to combine up to three skill lines and is a free, base game feature. The only downside is that it will cost TWO skill points as opposed to the standard one we normally see with native class skills.

For example, I predominantly only use healers; my main Templar healer (Prince Valion of Alinor) has access to Aedric Spear, Dawn’s Wrath & Restoring Light. He only uses the Restoring Light skill line, but now, in theory, he will have access to the Wardens “Green Balance” so he can equip Budding Seeds (skill), utilising the Wardens powerful AoE healing abilities.

This customisation, in addition to the new scribing skills we received with the Gold Road expansion (and soon to become a part of the base game), is truly an incredible addition and a prospect I am extremely excited to see added. This is account-wide, & you will need to level up each character's level to a minimum of 50 (that will also include the respective morphs as well), but if you’re like me and have all characters already levelled up in their respective classes (the seven different classes), you will be ready when the changes come into effect.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐈 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐌𝐆𝐒 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞... 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨 (𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨) 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.

𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐌𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐊 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐞 (𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲? 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, £𝟒.𝟗𝟗) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 (𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐥𝐨𝐥). 𝐈𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝.

𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 ‘𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞’ 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐓𝐀 𝟏 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.

𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈’𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐌𝐆𝐒 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐨𝐮𝐬 ‘𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭,’ ‘𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠’ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 ‘𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭’ 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐜 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐲, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞:

https://exit.yueirsjskjl.cf/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2751560178

“𝚂𝚗𝚊𝚔𝚎, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘… 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗’𝚝 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚎” – 𝙻𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚍 𝚂𝚗𝚊𝚔𝚎/𝙺𝚊𝚣𝚞𝚑𝚒𝚛𝚊 '𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛' 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲, 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭... 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐆𝐒, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟒.𝟓-𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧). 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞) 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝟒: 𝐆𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟑, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

𝐈𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐈 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐦𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞.

𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐊𝐨𝐣𝐢𝐦𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐳𝐮 𝐅𝐮𝐤𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘ō𝐣𝐢 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐰𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦. 𝐈𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 (𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭), 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝟗𝟎𝐬 (𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐋), 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐃, 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐆𝐒 𝟏 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞) 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲.

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 “𝐨𝐧𝐞” 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 “𝐨𝐧𝐞” 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞; 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝.

  
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝟓𝟕 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬:

⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝟽 𝙰𝙽𝙸𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝙰𝚅𝙰𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚂
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝟺 𝙰𝚅𝙰𝚃𝙰𝚁 𝙵𝚁𝙰𝙼𝙴𝚂
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝟷𝟷 𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙸-𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙴 𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳𝚂
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝟸𝟷 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙴 𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙺𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙽𝙳𝚂 (𝟷𝟶 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙲 & 𝟷𝟷 𝙰𝙽𝙸𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙴𝙳)
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝟺 𝙰𝙽𝙸𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙲𝙺𝙴𝚁𝚂
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝟷𝟶 𝙴𝙼𝙾𝚃𝙸𝙲𝙾𝙽𝚂

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡/𝐯𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐫/𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞.
𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 (𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲) 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦/𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨/𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 (𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐢𝐥) 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞. 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 ‘𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬’ 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰:

https://www.steamcardexchange.net/index.php?gamepage-appid-1239690

𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 (𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝟒𝟒) 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝.

⠀𝐔𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭:

⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝚂𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙴𝙽 𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙾𝙻𝚄𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝙸𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙴 𝚀𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙸𝚃𝚈
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝙵𝚄𝙻𝙻𝚂𝙲𝚁𝙴𝙴𝙽 𝙾𝚁 𝚆𝙸𝙽𝙳𝙾𝚆𝙴𝙳
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝚅𝚂𝚈𝙽𝙲 𝙾𝙽 𝙾𝚁 𝙾𝙵𝙵
⠀⠀•⠀⠀⠀𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙾𝚁 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚅𝙴 𝙶𝙰𝙼𝙴

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 ‘𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝟖𝟎𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐛𝐞’ 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟒𝟓 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧 ‘𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞’ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬. 𝐈 ‘𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭’ 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 ‘𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬’ 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 (𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧, 𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫).
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐢𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐬 (𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐇𝐒 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫) 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐲 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫’𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐈𝐗 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 – 𝟐𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐨… 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝, 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐲 (𝐈 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞), 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛. 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 (𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬). 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐈, 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝 (𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞, 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥, 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝.


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𝙾𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗'. 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚜 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗, 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗, 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗' 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚎, 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗' 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗. 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎, 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚊 𝚏𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗' 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗' 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚐𝚞𝚢𝚜, 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚋 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚋. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍. 𝙵𝚞𝚌𝚔, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚎: 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗', '𝚌𝚞𝚣 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗' 𝚊 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘...𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝙾𝙽𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁...
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- 𝙹𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚎 𝙴𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚘, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙸𝙸

The Walking Dead Review…

So… I might as well get this out of the way with first… I cried, I don’t give a sh*t if it isn’t ‘manly’ I don’t fu*king care, I cried more than once… Now that I’ve push my manly insecurities aside, I shall endeavour to continue the review lol.

As Steam no longer has the trailer in the store page, I will include a link below:


https://youtu.be/N40uY51s5Z0


Normally, I tend not to focus on the negatives first as I don’t want to give the wrong impression straight away and potentially taint a new buyers opinion but there was one… Kinda annoying? Issue? There seems to be a slight lag. I counted it every 3 seconds, so the gameplay would be fine for 3 seconds then you’ll experience a 0.5 second lag, which doesn’t sound terrible by any means, but it can be the difference between life and death. I’ve only ever noticed this lag with one other game which was ‘Dead Space 2’ which almost stopped me playing the game immediately, but I’d definitely recommend pushing through it was it doesn’t become as noticeable as you progress and become more engrossed in the story. I’m not sure if it’s the port or the fact that it’s a 9-year-old game but whatever. I did attempt to lower the graphics options but no dice, it could be because I was playing at 1080p and should have lowered the resolution some more? But I would play a game at any lower than 1080p anyway but if you can then it might fix the issue.

Camera angles during gameplay can be an issue too but you can definitely get past that I kind of reminded me of Resident Evil 1 for the first PlayStation, you’ll understand what I mean when you play it.
I will say your movement/walking speed is DEFINITELY problematic! You can’t run…at all. This doesn’t sound terrible but can piss you off when you know how to complete a puzzle, but you are literally taking a leisurely stroll lol.
I also got the feeling the choices I was making didn’t really matter all that much either as I went back a few times to change certain choices to change the outcome, but the conclusion was exactly the same. While this isn’t necessarily a problem, it does however, completely remove the replayability factor from the game (I’ve only played season 1 so this might not apply to the other seasons).

Now, on to the positives the game has to offer…

From what I can tell the game is heavily influenced by the Walking Dead comics and NOT the T.V show. You can definitely see that graphically as it looks a lot like the comics as opposed to the common ‘movie style’ graphics we so often see so keep that in mind if you’re expecting to play a TV version of the game.
The story is truly compelling and utterly gripping! The choices you are forced to make can really mess with your head, the fallout for some of your choices can be instantaneous or brought up later on in the game. It’s one of those games where difficult choices tend to pop up where you least expect it, like everything is cool then suddenly you have to make a choice on who to save and with the added ‘countdown’ you don’t get a lot of time to make your decision which is great because it shows the choices you would of made in a real life, split second decision instead of allowing you to weigh up your options and make your decision based on what you might perceive the long and short term effects of your choices to be. For me there were 3 specific scenes that really left me wide eyed and a lump in my throat, but I won’t spoil it for anyone regardless of how old the game is.

The voice acting from all the cast is absolutely incredible and the voice actor for Lee Everett (Dave Fennoy) does an incredible job breathing life into a character you’ll be emotionally invested in. I also found myself loving some personalities and hating others, I was completely loyal and honest to Kenny and his family but hated Lilly, especially her father Larry but every character was really well thought out and their respective personalities shine through with the incredible voice acting of each character. It was also a welcome change playing as a person of colour (being a person of colour myself) as I’m able to identify more easily with the character (for those that think it doesn’t matter, think about how many of us male gamers play games with a female protagonist?) so it’s awesome to have some representation in games.

I think the story of Clementine and Lee is a truly beautiful one and I often found myself making the same speech choices in game as I would to my 10-year-old in RL (if we were trying to survive a zombie apocalypse). You definitely become emotionally invested in Clementine and made the unconscious decision of calling Clem my daughter in game which had negative effects with one or two characters in particular. You make choices as a parent which I think adds to the immersion.

Apart from the few problems I specified at the start of this review I can honestly rate this game as one of my favourites and feel completely embarrassed to be 9 years late to the party lol. If you haven’t played it yet I highly recommend you pick a copy up, especially if you value an intriguing and exciting story over beautiful graphics.

*** WARNING… HUGELY UNPOPULAR OPINION BELOW ***


So I have seen numerous reviews with people absolutely SLATING Cyberpunk 2077 with ‘it’s the worse game I’ve ever played’ ‘the bugs and glitches are a joke’ & ‘CDPR sucks!’. I have also seen the recent statement put out by CD Projeck Red apologising, saying they will fix the bugs and glitches ect but more importantly ‘asking for a chance to put things right’. Fellow gamers… I feel it necessary to point a few things out… CDPR gave us, the gaming community an absolute cracker in the Witcher franchise. The Witcher 3 is arguably the greatest RPG ever released! CDPR isn’t a huge company like Bioware, Konami or even Bethesda… When 90% of other companies decided to include ‘microtransactions’ into the games we love, CDPR took a stand and instead of making tens of millions from microtransactions (which they absolutely could of just by adding that to the Witcher 3) and helping the companies accounts grow they decided to do the right thing and stand by their convictions and thus with us, the gaming community.

Now I am NOT saying ‘continue to play a game that is completely broken for you’. If the game is unplayable then sure, get a refund because £50 is a lot for a game you can’t play, hell, any amount other than free is a lot if you can physically play the game but instead writing terrible reviews, wait and see if CDPR is willing to stand by their statement and fix the issues. Remember, this is a company that decided to ‘give away SIXTEEN DLC’s’ for the Witcher 3! Why? Because and I’m quoting the co-founder and Joint CEO of CD PROJEKT RED Marcin Iwiński:

““We love games. We love collecting them, playing them, and everything connected to that experience. Every time we reach out for a new release, we expect to be taken care of. We expect support if we encounter any problems. With the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we have decided to do it differently. Cutting to the chase, everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform. You don’t have to pre-order, you don’t have to buy any special edition to get them — if you own a copy of Wild Hunt, they’re yours. This is our way of saying thank you for buying our game.”

If that doesn’t sound like a company dedicated to providing us with bespoke, authentic gaming experiences then I don’t know what does and before everyone gets on my case, no, CDPR haven’t paid me a penny! This is just my opinion as someone who has been an avid gamer for the past 30 years!


*** IMPORTANT POINT I WANT TO MAKE BEFORE MY ACTUAL REVIEW***

Firstly, and most importantly.... 'NVIDIA DRIVERS' You will want to 'Check for Updates' because although there was an update released by Nvidia on the 02/12/2020, another was released when Cyberpunk dropped 09/12/2020 and it's called "GeForce Game Ready Driver, Version: 460.79". It will help ensure that your game doesn't crash (mine did on three occasions without it). Not sure if anyone else experienced the same issue I did but since doing a clean installation of 460.79 I’ve had absolutely no issues whatsoever and it runs flawlessly!

In your first proper mission with ‘Jackie Welles’ I would strongly recommend you not only decide to run the ‘simulation exercise’ but all FOUR and don’t ‘Delta Out’ after two as they are invaluable to know and understand. I’m sure all four categories are:

1. Target Practice – First with static then moving targets using a gun, then enemies using a rifle.

2. Hacking – Learning how to distract enemies in order to take them down via stealth.

3. Stealth – Discovering how to tag and mark plus enemy and security camera’s FOV.

4. Melee – CQC (Close Quarters Combat) and training with a Samurai sword.

These are not particularly long and can be completed in a relatively short period of time but the experience and understanding you gain from completing them that early on (getting to grips with the basics) is invaluable.

So, for a game that released a little over five days ago I’ve managed to clock around 80 hours thus far, so it's fair to say I am little addicted for sure lol I've spent my time mainly doing side quests (NCPD, Search and Discover etc..) along with a few main missions (I’m currently up to Act 2) and the game touches on some really Heavy ♥♥♥♥… Like ‘organ harvesting’, ‘cyberware harvesting’, 'mental health challenges', 'sexual exploitation', 'human trafficking' & 'personal losses' to name but a few and it all gets dark, very quickly into the story. I will openly admit that I regularly save my game just to reload certain arcs in the story so I can replay them again they are that compelling and utterly thrilling!

One scene in particular that got me more than any other thus far was Jackie’s Death (I know we all saw it in the trailers but so early in the game was a shock) I swear someone was cutting onions or something because that was a moment! I was so busy celebrating what I thought was a successful heist that when that scene came to an end it was a 'WTF moment' (I am sure it wasn't just me that felt that way either!).

I will say that getting Eurodollar’s is easy, especially if you decide to exploit the vending machines. I haven’t personally tired that and am completely broke (Cyberware can get damn expensive trust me lol) but I have heard people mention that you can earn 100-200k per hour doing that lol. I am sure there will be YouTube uploads explaining how it's done but I won't be including a link in my review for two reasons... Firstly, because I don't know if that would get you banned or not and finally, because I'm too much of a chicken ♥♥♥♥ to try it LOL so if you want to know how it's done proceed at your own risk.

Another thing that pleasantly surprised me was the driving... It is something very few developers ever get right (even in some racing games) and the fact that CDPR have only ever created games that involved horses to get you around it is damn good! Sure, there are moments you feel as if you are 'floating' a little but as a company’s first attempt it has absolutely nailed it in my humble opinion! I was also a little on the fence about it being in first person as opposed to third as most of the RPG's I play tend to be in third, but you can change the POV when driving so that’s always a plus!

Combat is also a solid feature of the game. I'll admit I prefer to hack security cams, then hack TF out of enemies but there are plenty of options at your disposal. Personally, I prefer hacks and the use of throwing knives and a Katana blade for CQC (Close Quarter Combat) i.e. the Stealth approach instead of going in all guns blazing. It's more of a challenge but worth it, especially when lobbing the heads and arms off enemies... Not sure why but I get great satisfaction removing ones head from one’s body while watching a fountain of blood leave the neck hole (should probably tell my psychiatrist about that lol) but seriously, if you're a MGS fan and stealth is your thing, I definitely recommend you give it a shot over using rifles and guns. There are plenty of weapons for you to make use of from shotguns and sniper rifles to LMG's and SMG's plus you can add attachments to most weapons (namely uncommon upwards) also you can add certain mods that help customise your play style. I'm a huge fan of using 'Cyberhacks' myself and you have plenty of choice in that department too.


https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077




If 'Dues Ex: Mankind Divided' ‘Grand Theft Auto:5’ & 'Sleeping Dogs' decided to engage in a little sexy time, had a threesome, but didn’t know who the baby daddy was… The child from that (but incredible) union would be 'Cyberpunk 2077'.

I seriously LOVE his game.... It seems like now matter how long ago i last played FO4 I always come back for more....An endless classic!!!!

*I have decided to edit my initial review after spending 10,854 hours to incorporate some of the changes that have happened in the game, along with adding equivalents in terms of the hardware specifications as most people are not running hardware from thirteen years ago.


If you do decide to purchase this game, you will create an account on:


account.elderscrollsonline.com


You will have to do it in order to play the game. It's run through a third party, but it's simple enough. Just be aware that the “userid” you choose on the 3rd party site will be the “userid” displayed while you’re in the game. The @[Insert Name Here] others will see.


𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖

The game is truly beautiful; the colours are vibrant, stand out, and feel genuinely warm. The Elder Scrolls Online really does a fantastic job of making sure you feel completely immersed in the environment. For me, this is a huge plus! Personally, I want to feel like I’m actually running around Tamriel, taking in the sights, sounds, atmosphere and environment and ESO does a magnificent job creating that escape into a magical fantasy world.

I have, admittedly, been in deep contemplation about what game ESO is reminiscent of, and while I can appreciate I am showing my age a little here, it's like Fable 3 with Dragon Age: Inquisition overtones, with some of the grand designs of some of the buildings (Val Royeaux, the capital city of Orlais, looks very similar to Alinor) and the atmosphere, but again, this is strictly subjective and open to interpretation.

The NPCs really blend in well with the environment and are able to add to the unique atmosphere. Furthermore, the NPCs involved in the quests you partake in look amazing when you’re speaking to them. The body language feels genuine, and the words are actually synced with the movement of the NPC’s lips, and they appear to work and converse with one another, interacting with one another and the environment, which unequivocally adds to the immersion, especially when you overhear a random conversation between NPCs discussing your exploits across Tamriel.

One of my favourite things about not only this but every game or movie I play or watch is its soundtrack, and wow, ESO is on point once again in that regard. In my humble opinion, a great soundtrack can make or break a game. Just look at “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” as an example; an amazing soundtrack will often equal an amazing game. ESO’s soundtrack is really something special. I looked into the musical score, and they created it over a few years, and honestly, it truly is a masterpiece. Amazon’s review has it at 4.5/5 stars. It gives you this warm sense of nostalgia, as it contains music from both Skyrim and Morrowind, so if you're sentimental like I am, it can make all the difference.

Honestly, I am struggling to find anything negative about this game. Obviously, I am aware that there were significant challenges when the game was initially released back in 2014, especially with optimisation, but given the amount of time from then to now, I think it’s fair to say the patches and updates have done their intended job.

Another aspect I absolutely LOVE about this game is the “freedom of choice” and the “character customisation”. You are able to choose between TEN different races with the THREE factions as follows:


𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒 & 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒


𝙴𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚝 (𝙴𝙿) 𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜:

Argonian (Reptilian)

Dunmer (Dark Elves)

Nord (Human)

The Ebonheart Pact's capital is Mournhold, in the province of Deshaan.

The Ebonheart Pact are led by the Nord pretender Jorunn the Skald (voiced by actor Peter Stormare), with his incompetent son, Irnskar.


𝙰𝚕𝚍𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒 𝙳𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗 (𝙰𝙳) 𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜:

Altmer (High Elves)

Bosmer (Wood Elves)

Khajiit (Feline)

The Aldmeri Dominion capital is located in Elden Root, Grahtwood.

Our Aldmeri Dominion is led by her grace, Queen Ayrenn Arana Aldmeri (voiced by actress Kate Beckinsale), the rightful queen of Tamriel.


𝙳𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙲𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚝 (𝙳𝙲) 𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚜:

Breton (Human)

Orsimer (Orc/Corrupted Elves)

Redguard (Human)

Their capital is Wayrest, located in High Rock.

The Daggerfall Covenant is governed by the tyrannical Breton Emeric (voiced by actor Bill Nighy).

𝙾𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛:

Imperial (Human) can join any faction.


𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒

𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎:

𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭

𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞

𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐫

𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫

𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚝𝚘 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛:

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧: Automatically available with Morrowind.

𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫: Automatically available with Elsweyr.

𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭: Automatically available with Necrom.

For a more detailed, in-depth breakdown, please check out the link below:


https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Classes_(Online)


𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐒 & 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐄

Looking at the minimum requirements in comparison to today's equivalent, it ‘roughly’ translates as:

Graphics Cards: Nvidia GTX 460 (2010) = Nvidia GT 1030 (2017)

CPU: AMD FX 4350 (2013) = Ryzen 3 1200 (2017)

The recommended requirements equivalents:

Graphics Cards: Nvidia GTX 970 (2014) = Nvidia 1060 (2016)

CPU: See above.

As most are aware, results depend primarily on what graphics card you’re gaming with. If your budget allows it, I would strongly recommend you consider cranking the settings up to maximum, as you won’t be disappointed, but medium should generally be considered your baseline.
The difference between choosing the minimum settings in comparison to ultra is insane. The jump from minimum to medium is also significantly noticeable, with the textures, terrain, rendering, et cetera being all vastly superior in any setting above the minimum.

I've included a side-by-side comparison to highlight the differences between minimum, medium and high at 1080p resolution. If you're interested, please check out this video below but be advised, the video was uploaded over ten years ago:

https://youtu.be/rKRnY0YLLbc?si=jsExbKMB-i5JmRl9

For a more recent comparison between minimum and ultra, check out the video below that will further highlight the extreme differences between the two different settings:

https://youtu.be/7ifTej5dKHo?si=2nNgGXYDfrpTDxZU


𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 (𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐄)

One thing I will mention is this game can get REALLY expensive if you let it. Particularly if you're like myself and adore housing. To add some perspective, a typical "notable" house can cost upwards of 14,000 crowns; that roughly translates to £74.99. However, you can purchase the majority of homes for in-game gold, provided you have completed specific achievements for that area/zone. Full transparency, there is a market in the game that you will see in zone chat with people asking to purchase crowns with in-game currency, something akin to 1:2000 (one crown per 2,000 gold), but I wouldn't personally recommend that, especially with strangers, as you have the potential to lose a significant amount of gold or crowns from being scammed.

It is true, the crown store items are not pay to win in the conventional sense; it is mostly for cosmetic items, but you do get the feeling with how slowly you acquire gold, especially if you’re new to the game or not trading, that it would most definitely be easier to just buy crowns. Counting all of my purchase history, I have spent upwards of £7,500 over the past seven years, so you will have to search your own soul to determine whether or not it is worth it for you but you could play the game without ever needing to purchase crowns, especially with the endeavour system.

As of 25/11/2025, it is currently on sale now for £3.99 or £22.43 for every chapter and the base game.

The End.

Well where to begin with Vampyr?? I didn't wish to review this game to early thus ensuring i gave it the proper chance and in all honesty it was worth it. The story is quite confusing to grasp at the start and in all honesty i kept starting and stopping i.e an hour at first then went back a few days later. Then i got to the point where i was seduced by the story and thus felt like the game had finally become the immersive masterpiece i had been seeking.
If i could give one piece of advice for players just about to start...Don't take the life of your first victim outside the Penbrook hospital if you want to achieve the best ending as there is four different endings to this game. It has taken me around 70 hours to finally complete the game as I wanted to explore every avenue and story but i have heard or at least read about people completing the story in under 30. I strongly advise first time players against this strategy.
The beauty of this game is that it feels almost like you are "prepairing your meal before finally eating LOL (You will understand what i mean when you play it)".
I have read an awful lot of reviews of people disreguarding and pulling apart the combat ethics of the game which in my humble oppinion isn't warranted. The combat is just fine if you take the time to master it.
As a medic myself the formulas are rather accurate especially for the time Vampyr is set in also the use of latin in the game is a nice touch. You can see the dev's have put a fair amount of time researching certain aspects of the games story and dynamics, I especially like the 'Van Gough Painting and signed book from Bram Stoker" Fangtastic touch LOL.
Seriously ladies and gentlemen this game is definately one you'll want to play at least 2-3 playthroughs before putting it down and with the fact it does have 4 different ending suggests it does have a "more thab once " feel to the game. I know i certainly will as in my first playthrough i didn't take a life thus getting the best ending for me.
Ohh and one last thing...I noticed someone stipulated they had pirated the game as they, and i quote "didn't want to pay the currupted companies...". Ladies and gentlemen this isn't a game stuffed with microtransactions, DONTNOD and Focus are not big companies so please if you like the look of the game support them by purchasing a copy.
Thank You :)

You know when you play a game and instantly think how much your friends will enjoy that game?
The graphics are amazing in my opinion, i managed to play it in 4K and the world of Rome and Britian looks amazing. I didn't experience any lag while in game and RYSE does a great job of making you feel immersed in it's world.
The fighting feels very basic but is very easy to get the hang of which makes it easy to complete high levels of combination thus giving you loads of experience to upgrade your character. The upgrades really give you the opportunity to style your character on how you play the game. I love how the game depicts emperor Nero and his sons also the brutality and gore give this game extra points for me...Fu.ckin love that ♥♥♥♥!!
The game can be played with either KB/M or with a XBOX controller and personally for this game i would recommend sitting back in your chair and using a gamepad as it makes the game a lot more enjoyable.
The only real let down (if you can call it that) is the story. While the story feels relevant it does have the habit of making the gameplay feel slightly redundant and at times feels very cliché and unfortunately isn't long enough, if your like me and enjoy a game it's all you play till you complete it or fall asleep trying lol you can complete the game in under 5 hours which is a shame as it makes you want MORE of it.I have noticed a lot of my friends own this game and have given it very positive reviews also and rightly so. It really is graphically beautiful as I mentioned previously. I can't mention what the multiplayer version is like as I haven't yet played it but if I can get my brother hooked on it i may give it a bash and will edit my review when applicable. With a price at currently £14.99 it's not only cheap but it's cheap, worth it's price tag AND enjoyable.
Scores on the doors for RYSE: Son of Rome:
Graphics: 8.5/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Story: 6.5/10
Value of Money: 8/10 (Paid £9.99 on sale)