Recent reviews by Moona Pemin

It took me 13 hours to finish the final room in the Path of Pain. I am sore. I am sweaty. I want a nap and a hug.

10/10

The auto aiming is a nightmare for any character that needs to precisely target enemies. I wasn't having any fun on my witch because minions seem to be absolute garbage at the moment, and I switched to playing a monk. The basis of my build is gaining power charges by killing enemies with Killing Palm. Killing Palm will teleport you to the enemy selected and cull them if they are below a certain health range, giving you a power charge when they are culled. This is currently the only way to get power charges in act 1 unless you're a freak and hard grind for hours. During most boss fights this strategy isn't very effective since most bosses don't summon minions to gain power charges off of. That's really not a big deal since I was still having fun for the most part.

This takes me to the boss of act 1. During the fight he does summon minions, and so I would love to gain some power charges. I get the minions in a culling range, then specifically target them with Killing Palm. Despite the minion having a red outline, potentially indicating that it's targeted, and my mouse being on it (in the complete opposite direction from the boss), my monk turns 180 and teleports to the boss. The boss of course is mid attack animation that would have missed before my teleport, but hits me the moment I tp in, killing me. This is just the worst example, not the only example. I have been targeting the wrong enemy for the majority of my play time, and it really just seems like luck if I use Killing Palm on the correct enemy or not.

The targeting system is just a misery to play with for any character that needs to be specific with what it needs to hit. The game decides that you want to target something at complete random instead of giving you any control at all. It would make sense if it were having a hard time while a huge pack of enemies are trampling over one another, but it happens so often with only like 2 or 3 enemies on screen and in completely different directions from the player. I've put hundreds of hours into PoE1 and never ran into a similar problem with any play style. I just can't wrap my head around the decision to make targeting so bad.

I can't recommend this game until they fix the awful targeting. I know it's early access, I'm not surprised there are issues, but this one is just too big in my opinion. I feel like the rest of the game is incredibly polished and very fun. I know this issue will eventually be fixed and I will change my review at that time.

Thanks for attending my TED talk.

Can't play because I don't have a dumb playstation account. I don't own a damn playstation, why do I need or want this account just to play one game? ♥♥♥♥ off.

I like PoE

I wish there was less open world stuff and more stuff like Stormveil castle. The open world and the terrible optional dungeons don't feel as though they have the same care put into them that larger legacy dungeons do. For such a "large" game, it seems to have the same amount of content in it as Dark Souls 3, just spread out a lot further.

Hopefully more updates and DLCs come that round the game out and make things feel more complete. I can't really recommend it until that point.

Better than Pokemon isn't a hard thing to achieve. Still hoping for a good Pokemon-like game to come out someday. This isn't it.

Bug fixes came out today. The game just crashed 4 times in a single match. Thank god the bugs are fixed.

I've easily put upwards of 1000 hours into both this series and The Dark Souls series and I can without a doubt say this game does neither of them very well. I Haven't gotten very far yet, and I will give it another try, but I am pretty sure I won't finish this game. The voice acting is pretty not great, the combat is confused, and the dark souls elements are shoehorned and are not fleshed out very well.

If you like this game, good for you. Absolutely go right ahead and play it all day every day. I'm not saying you're wrong for like it. I just don't, and anyone who likes the first 2 games will probably feel similarly.

Pretty fun, get's a little repetitive and if you know the story twist beforehand it's hard to play the game feeling like it's worth it.

Overall if it's on sale get it.

The only negative is that sometimes you'll have people AFK in matchmaking for progression instead of actually playing the game. That's really lame, but I have only really seen it in infection and grifball. There's been talk from 343 about cracking down on that and I hope it works.

Otherwise I've only had a good time with this game.