Recent reviews by Annabelle Kirumei

Do not give money to the scummy company that bought the rights this otherwise amazing game.

So, let's get this out of the way.

1. I am not selecting recommended to say I disagree with the people review-bombing wilds for the performance and graphical issues. I do agree that the state the game is in as far as performance goes is quite sad, however I digress for now.

2. I LOVE this game. I love the monsters, I love the locales, I love Arkveld, the story is okay, but the difficulty is mediocre at best, and that should also be addressed.

So we will start with the difficulty. I have played this game for 135 hours as of writing this. It has been 16 days since I bought the game, and I only struggle with Tempered Gore Magala, Tempered Jin Dahaad, and the post-game Zoh Shia quests. If you compare that to world (On my xbox) I have over 700 hours and had just made it to Ruiner Nergigante when my PC parts got here.

Now, that comparison is not fair because World is a much older game, with loads of title updates, event quests, and a full G-Rank (Or master rank for the uneducated fivers or newcomers) expansion with new monsters, new challenges, and several title updates of its own.

A lot of people complaining about the difficulty as well are either fifth gens or veterans of the series who know the weapons well. And while I admit, I picked up bow and can stomp most monsters with it. The game is slightly harder if you don't know the weapon combos or don't bother to learn them. But people also forget that a game being difficult doesn't mean it's fun. Sure a game being too easy is boring, but people forget there is a balance to be struck. If every fatalis attack in Iceborne was an instakill, very few hunters would even try. But if fatalis was able to be killed with one shot to the face with a greatsword, most hunters would still not even try to hunt it.

Wilds is certainly on the easier side of that balance, much like Rise was. But wilds also isn't trying to be a difficult game. It is trying to be too many things at once and that makes the balance tip too far towards easy. The game is huge, with two fully open-world maps containing three and two maps respectively, each smaller map having a full ecosystem that is affected by the three seasons causing different endemic life, monsters, and resources to appear. Capcom put a lot of effort and passion into this, and it shows. And naturally they wanted the player to see all of this, so the best way to do that was to make the game easier. But that's just a theory of mine for why wilds is so much easier than world.

Anyways. As for the graphical and performance issues. I personally designed my rig around being able to play wilds at ultra settings with 60 FPS minimum. And I did get that until I entered the oilwell basin, where I had to turn my graphics settings down to high (An utter travesty, I know). And now fully into the endgame, my game stutters in the windward plains when I use specific environmental traps. Now, I could turn on framegen and be able to play at 60 FPS on Ultra... Just like I could steal children and thrown them into volcanoes for fun. I am capable of it, but my morals prevent it. And before AI bros start white knighting in the comment section. I fully support the use of AI for responsible entertainment purposes. Specifically, making actors in big RPGs be able to better follow a player-defined story as opposed to the set-in-stone main story and sidequests. I raise Skyrim as the perfect example. But cramming AI into places it doesn't need to is not okay. I do not need AI making frames in my video games. The original way of rendering ♥♥♥♥ worked just fine and didn't give artifacts and ghosting constantly.

Now, I will say, if 60 FPS was the baseline without framegen and framegen could be used to bring the game up to 90 or 120 FPS, I might have given it a shot. But I will settle for lower fidelity and resolution than use capcom's excuse for not optimizing the game.

And if anyone at capcom reads this post. I love you. Your games are amazing, World/Iceborne and Wilds fills me with so much joy. But it needs to be better optimized if you want a lot of day one sales for Wilds G-ranks expansion. People are likely not going to buy the DLC if they can't play it. And people are not going to use framegen the way you want for the reasons stated above. Wilds had the Hype going for it when it released. Rise was lackluster to say the least and Sunbreak was okay. But the hype has died and it's time to face the facts. Wilds doesn't run well. And wilds doesn't have a lot of soil yourself challenges. Those issues need to be addressed and fixed before G-rank.

Good game, great soundtrack. Received it as a gift from a friend and have been enjoying it since. A more detailed review will come in the future once I am able to properly coagulate my thoughts on it.

If you have not already bought this game, do not buy it. This predatory company (Bethesda) had since proven they do not care about the customer. The anniversary bundle for Skyrim became a joke as soon as paid mods became a thing, and now Bethesda is setting up to do the same thing with Fallout 4, except the anniversary edition for F4 doesn't even give you all of the creation club content that has been released thus far. Do not buy this game.

If you have not already, let me tell you. Do not buy Fallout 3,4 or 76. Do not buy Starfield. Do not even by Skyrim or Oblivion. Until Bethesda can get their heads out of their rears and start appreciating their customers again. Microtransactions are already egregious enough, but the microtransactions for Fallout 4 aren't even good, and Bethesda didn't even do the bare minimum of adding them to the Anniversary upgrade like they did for Skyrim.

Usually I like to write really nice and long-winded reviews for games, but this game is dead.
The developer killed it.
It's a good game but it's not receiving updates, multiplayer doesn't work well, and the content will get stale eventually.
And honestly sometimes that scares me knowing that Starbound, a sort of sister game to EOS, is only kept alive by the modding community, and were that community to fail the game would quickly die, especially with veterans of it like me... I know that's not related to this game really but I needed to vent it somewhere and I figure nobody will see this.

Anyways, if this game was to be updated enough I would recommend it, but as it's not, I don't. Simple as that.

So, I started playing world on Xbox, I found it through the gamepass and after playing Epic's rip-off Dauntless (Please forgive me for sin of playing any Epic-made game...) was in the mood for some Monster Hunting Action... What I got however... Was so much more... World is such an amazing game with an absolute butt-load of diversity, most of which you can't even see until you've played a bit, and that's saying something considering there's, what 25 weapon types? A little less? Regardless there is a lot. The ability to complete the game solo (Granted with enough skill and tenacity to do so.) or play it with friends (The likes of which I don't have to play this game with. I'll accept friend requests from people who want to play with me.) was absolutely wonderful for me, being an antisocial smol bean and all...

I definitely recommend this game to anyone who thinks they're up to the challenge. Because it can be a challenge...

Nothing compared to the old games though... Or so I hear...

Addendum: This game can be frustrating at times, and hard to learn, but the rush of joy when you defeat a difficult monster is often well worth it.

I have played Astroneer for 188 hours as of writing this review and every second has been filled with either hilarious or game-breaking bugs and CTD's and a burn on my leg that I will live with for the rest of my life because I play on a gaming laptop. But as you see I recommend this game, so now that we've got the negative bit out of the way, this game...
Is fun. Hours upon Hours spent in a world gathering bytes to get better technology to power up these strange gateway things...
It's genuinely fun.
The developers have added a bunch of fun things to the game (Though they should focus on the Multiplayer aspects... Terrain respawn is annoying as heck... Connections can be buggy as hell but I'm not going to focus on those just yet.)
There is a plethora of skins, suits, visors, and gestures, not to mention:
It's cute.

So, at this point my review won't matter too much anyways because literally every gamer who's ever lived has either played Oldrim or SSE or both by now and as such you understand how amazing the game and modding community is, but I'm still going to write this, mainly because I like writing, it's fun for me.

Skyrim is a huge game, and that hugeness adds to it's replayability, the base game itself is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MASSIVE, and with the availability of mods it surpasses all the other games I've played, minus Starbound, although my opinion on that game has changed quite a bit over the years, with me absolutely hating it at one point, however Skyrim and I have not had that complicated relationship.

So, how did I find this game you may be asking yourself (I don't care if you think you didn't you 100% did.) Well, my father happens to be a huge Elder Scrolls Nerd, and so he told me that I should check it out, so, while I was using a laptop so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that it could overheat on the unlock screen at the time I bought the Xbox 1 version of TES V: Skyrim Special Edition, and I played through it for a bit, and I fell in love. Then, when I finally got a PC that could actually handle some ♥♥♥♥, I bought it for that, now, I was pretty familiar with Nexusmods at the time from my getting mods for Stardew Valley (Which is one of the few games I could play with a decent FPS although 15-20 FPS isn't really decent.) so when I bought Skyrim for PC I was immediately pulled into the land of Skyrim Modding and found out that it could be an even greater game than it already was which is awesome. And now, as you could guess, I have quite a lot of love for the Elder Scrolls Series.

Terraria. One of those games you manage to find on almost everyone's games list. And... A good flippin' time.

Terraria is one of those games that brought me into the gaming world. And more importantly the game that I met most of my friends on.

If you don't already own it I assume you're new to Steam in general, if so go ahead and add me. I try to be a friendly person and have a good bit of experience with the 2-D survival Genre.

initially i was AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW CRAP I GOTTA START FROM SCRATCH but now seen as it is hiughly optimized for potato computer (like mine) i can actually play when my bpotato is glitching :D i loved this game before getting the paid for version and i love it even more good job ninja kiwi a liove you guys :DDD

(EDIT#1) THIS GAME SHOULD COME WITH A FRICKING WARNING LABLE READING: WARNING THIS GAME IS VERY GOOD AND HIGHLY ADDICTIVE SO IF YOU WANT TO FIND SOMETHING TO HATE ABOUT IT GOOD LUCK CAUSE YOU CANT

(EDIT#2) i have found that sometimes when joining multiplayer maps the game will forget to load the maps now i dont want to say this is (SPARTA) game breaking but it kinda is as you are unable to play on that map and have to quit the match

(EDIT#3) nice troll ninja kiwi XD i wont spoil it for others