I went out and casually bought this game. I wanted something for my dusty (game system that is not the 360) and Valkyria Chronicles was not available, so I'm stuck with this game. Let me just start off by saying - Holy moly, this game is pretty awful. I'm not sure if I've been spoiled by the likes of Bioshock, COD4, Gears (the original, I haven't played the new one), or Halo, but how did they get this game so wrong? I haven't touched the multiplayer outside of the fairly enjoyable multiplayer beta, so just consider my comments on the campaign. My first fairly large gripe is that there is an invisible enemy that sneaks up on you (and this has become fairly common so far) and leaps at you for a one hit kill. The only way you can kill these guys is on their death charge into your face. Whomever thought this was the greatest idea of all time and this should definitely be in the game, please think twice the next time.
I've een playing on normal and have been dying incredibly regularly to just stupifying short-sightedness on the game-maker's end. Why is there no cover, or EXPLODING cover when I fight these staged minibosses? Why do I take so much damage on normal so that when I poke out to kill an enemy, I must return to cover and wait 15 or so seconds to regenerate EVERY TIME I KILL SOMETHING? Why are there so many of those one hit kill invisible guys? Why is the story so disjointed and I never know what is going on? Why do the enemies mindlessly rush at me only to easily evade my comrades' AI fire and kill me oh so easily? GAH!
This game fills me with frustration. Well, I'm going to go and try to get through this checkpoint again where I have encountered 4 of the invisible one-hit-kill guys. The last one always kills me and I just need to narrow down where he keeps coming from so I can kill him and HOPEFULLY there will not be another one after him.
DO NOT BUY. (for the singleplayer)
I've een playing on normal and have been dying incredibly regularly to just stupifying short-sightedness on the game-maker's end. Why is there no cover, or EXPLODING cover when I fight these staged minibosses? Why do I take so much damage on normal so that when I poke out to kill an enemy, I must return to cover and wait 15 or so seconds to regenerate EVERY TIME I KILL SOMETHING? Why are there so many of those one hit kill invisible guys? Why is the story so disjointed and I never know what is going on? Why do the enemies mindlessly rush at me only to easily evade my comrades' AI fire and kill me oh so easily? GAH!
This game fills me with frustration. Well, I'm going to go and try to get through this checkpoint again where I have encountered 4 of the invisible one-hit-kill guys. The last one always kills me and I just need to narrow down where he keeps coming from so I can kill him and HOPEFULLY there will not be another one after him.
DO NOT BUY. (for the singleplayer)
