From GameWatcher: "Ghostwire: Tokyo’s mechanics aren’t fleshed out enough to support its open-world gameplay, failing to come together and form a cohesive experience. It has a premise that could easily hook you but doesn’t do anything to capitalize on its eerie rendition of the Japanese city.
Its combat encounters become bland by the time you reach its halfway point while side quests never evolve past simplistic busywork. Small visual flourishes, subtle melodies during its more subdued moments, and the initial rush to discover new attacks and enemies give you the impression that there’s something great waiting further down the line, when there’s really only boredom mixed with occasional frustration to look forward to.
Ghostwire: Tokyo isn’t bad or broken. It’s just a game that’s not particularly ambitious and almost feels at odds with itself, leaving it with a lot of wasted potential. It might yield a couple of interesting online searches if you’re uninitiated in Japanese folklore, and you can pet lots of dogs and cats, but there are ways to go about doing those things without sitting through Akito’s snoozefest of a tale."
Halloween is here and the Epic Games Store has something special for this day.
All playable November 5.
i didn't even know there was a death Note game Looks like its a day one game coming on PS Plus.
Yeah, the game was just randomly announced today alongside the PS+ listings for next month.
Ghostwire Tokyo will be free on EPIC from this Thursday until November 5. No subscription is required, and you can keep the game permanently.
yes it will be available for free on the Epic Store this Thursday till November 5th
Ghotewire Tokyo is actually really underated. This is a great get for Plus and the Epic Store.
Ghostwire Tokyo has actually been free on EPIC before, I was actually contemplating playing it soon, great for people on PC who haven't picked it up yet though.
I would say This is a pretty good month 😃
Always wanted to try ghost wire.
Death note looks interesting
Don’t care for hot wheels though
Heck yeah, Ghost Wire is an awesome game - I really enjoyed it from beginning to end!
Hot Wheels for the win. The others I’ll add them to my library but not really interested.
The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush studio has closed its doors.
Ninja theory. Others will follow as well. The smaller studios MS owns should all be worried. Maybe MS will try and release some of their games day and date on ps5 to save some of these studios.
I can see Ninja Theory. At least Tango made a game that was reviewed well. Ninja Theory spent a lot of years to release a tech demo that didn’t do well at all.
I get it that Hellblade 2 is a boring game, but I hope they are not the next to be closed.
@repssahj
Ninja Theory is likely on the chopping block too. They released Bleeding Edge which bombed, took 4 years to release Hellbalde 2 which doesn’t seem to be doing well, and still have Project Mara in limbo. They’re high on the chopping block.
MS was likely expecting their God of War / Uncharted quality game from NT based on Heavenly Sword, Enslaved, DmC, and to an extent Hellblade 1, but NT hasn’t delivered since Hellblade 1 which was 7 years ago.
3 trillion MS is worth, yet they do this, well Phil the shit bag did. No studio needed to be let go, when you are worth this much.
Sad, but I see characters and posters of either less than average or barely average games.
Have to disagree here duder, with respect. Evil Within was a good game and the sequel was fantastic, as was HiFi Rush. I'd concede Ghostwire was pretty average but regardless, shuttering a studio which just put out MS best game in donkeys years was complete shithousery on XBox' part.
Microsoft paid 8B to buy Zenimax then fired well over 1000 people from Zenimax between the time they closed the deal and they announced these shut downs.
People talk about the 1900 they fired most recently, but that was only one wave of three sets of layoffs from their gaming division so far this generation totalling around 5000 people this generation. Not counting the dozen plus studios they canned last gen including Lionhead the original Fable developers.
By every real metric HiFi was an average game. I don't see an Evil within poster in the thumb, which is a shame, because if they threw their weight behind that IP, they might have still been around.
I don't understand how you can say it was average in every metric when it garnered the reviews it did?
