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Ladder Gilligan is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dead

I wish I could call this game good but its just unbelievably mediocre.

Pros -

The movements feels really smooth if you can string together routes and notice new paths

The first half of the game was amazing i had a lot of fun playing through the side missions and delivery missions (although dash was the only one with a leaderboard so the others dont really feel like i need to go back and plan out a faster run)

The hand to hand combat is better but i would have liked to be able to pick up k-sec weapons still. Most combat scenarios break down in to; start with a jump attack, look around for more things to bounce off, heavy attack heavy attack heavy attack.

The world does adapt to the story which I did like. K-sec becomes progressively more prevalent throughout the map eventually knowing faiths name by the end.

The cons -

First and foremost. Any game with a grappling hook should allow me to use it freely. The mag rope feels way too static. Its almost like the grappling hooks in lego games. Go to dot hold the button jump to location. I want to be able to look at the surrounding area and find something to land on and find something to grapple not just tell me where it is.

The story isnt too great. Generic big tech evil man which is a bummer but more servicable than other big tech stories. My issues come with; Icarus, Rebecca Thane, and the ending.

Icarus goes through no arc. The game starts with him not liking faith but by the end the game acts like you're supposed to trust each other with your lives but I don't understand why. Hes constantly playing this pissing contest with you until halfway through when he switches.

Rebecca Thane felt too underused. She gets introduced as a threat to Noah but not much comes of it. She just gives you a safehouse for a part of the story and tries to (unknowingly) kill your sister. She feels set up to be more of an antagonist than she is. She's just. There.

OH BOY THE ENDING. You climb to the top of a massive tower. Fight the same enemies you've fought all game and then its 5 minutes of cutscene ACTION. If it looks cool, I should be able to play it. I dont want to watch Faith beat on Kruger, get to chase my sister for 30 seconds then watch another fight scene. After all of that not a single thing changes. You "delay" the Evil Big Tech plan but the world just doesn't care. Noah Dying, Your sister Leaving, Not being able to kill kruger yourself. It just felt like a huge waste of time.

Rating
4/10 Could have done so much more. Hope to see a sequel at some point improving on this one since its a reboot, but unlikely :/

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