This is very interesting looking game! Great review!

I like the last section about who might like/dislike the game!

Its one of the most misunderstood game all the time it's not a war game its not engine building game it's a resource management action compression race game, the player who reach 6 stars the fastest wins the game unless you were slow enough to let other player expand their territory or build an engine and beat you in points.

Making previously hard things being easy is really one of the best parts of them game and its a really good rewarding mechanic The roads are really making you more immersed vis a vis the whole "rebuilding American thing" A lot of aspects are hard in the game, you just have to find a way to get to them. If you are carrying a lot of cargo you can't really carry anything else as "weapons" and such. This really makes the game hard, because you have to often choose what you carry. BTs are meant to be sneaked easily past Holding the "two buttons" isn't really that OP as you advertise it; if you are carrying a bomb and Sam goes through rocky terrain he needs to train more stopping strength. A lot of mechanics I just don't use because they are often not needed Yet again online really helps immersion and its a really good rewarding mechanic when you help other people when you yourself build different roads, ziplines, ladders and such. Trying to avoid BT territory really makes the game harder as of the hard terrain most times. P.S. Please can someone tell me how can I transfer my save files to Death Stranding Director's cut on PS5 If i had previously played Death Stranding on PS5 :D

For my expirience playing on 9 and 10, this is not true. There are definitely times where you just have to wing it, and it can even be super effective. For example when 3 bile titans come out of a breach and your teams heavy armour duty stratagems are on cooldown, you have to kite them. Also, with max movement speed armour you can kite any enemies besides big stalkers indefinitely. Even titans, they will never get you, if you time your dives right. So why wouldn't you do this? Also when you complete an objective, and the next one is far away, you can loose any enemies that were chasing you if you break LOS, this can take care of hundreds of enemies, without killing a single one. Of course you cannot only run, there are gonna be too many enemies sooner or later, I found a middleway of fighting and running to be most effective. Basically, I only try to fight if the hordesize is managable, or if it's to protect teammates doing an objective, or the alerted enemies will follow to the objective. Anything far out from an objectivr it's usually the best idea to just outrun and break LOS. Holding can very easily get you in an endless cycle of breaches and patrols coming in.

Lmfao that part about dialing back the clifford section's difficulty is hilarious to me. On my fourth playthrough, i enjoyed fighting him using hit-and-run tactics. Makes me feel like snake once more. As for my current run, im going lethal weapons only, (The sticky gun doesnt count as a weapon in my mind, so thats good) As a challenge. Aside from grenades, im running with all lethal options, and in each BT fight i refuse to pick up the anti-bt weaponry except in mandatory fights. As for the l and r trigger usage, i mitigate that to a last resort (i.e. only using it for the antimatter bomb run) your list of challenges dont make me worry for anything other than your willingness to show off your gatekeep-y style of prclaiming there's a roght way to play a game in the first place.

I have not put more than maybe 10 hours in it. The main reason being that literally every path had been tread and prepped by other players. It was a walking simulator. I'm going to try it again, but completely offline

Great video and channel. Have you shared your Nemesis homebrew stuff anywhere? Very interested.

Been enjoying your reviews of Age of Wonders 4, they are helping me to decide if I will enjoy picking it up as I really enjoyed AoW 3. Subscribed...

and they said no more phoenix point 2. god, help us, why do everyy studio shutdown all my favorite game.?? what kind of torture is this??

Damn shame they're dropping content for this

Im over level 30 and i dont find all enemies easy. In fact there are plenty that i tend to avoid cause i dont want a dragged out fight at that time. I also hate games where enemies scale with you. Whats the point in having levels if you dont become stronger than enemies over time. I also do feel that the game does throw more at you. Sure an ogre that u struggled with early does become easier but like i said, thats the way it should be.

Can you play marvel dice throne against dice throne s1 and s2

Well, this was funny considering barely anyone talks about Phoenix Point since it's a hot pile of garbage made by lying hacks. Are you proud of yourself for saying any part of this is good? Does it make you happy playing this game knowing what they did, or do you simply not care, happily ready to stand on the hill you put up despite it burning around you? But hey, you're the one who chose it, right? It must be sad up there all alone, maybe think before you make something that makes you sound dumb. Feel happy about the engagement, though, and by that, I mean from this comment since it's clear this video didn't do you any goo, especially since the dislikes are higher.

I don't get it, the goal if the game is to over power your enemies and crush them by leveling up and upgrading weapons, once a player has achieved this he or she gets upset because of fast ttk 🤦. The game is perfect and well rounded, you want a over powered ridiculous enemy game, play lords of the fallen, you will start off the first 15 20 minutes going against a very high level boss while your start off with crap equipment.

This was very informative and actually made me appreciate learning about this game more. I'm addicted to Star Realms and it's great to introduce people to play it - but I think this is the next level :)

I love this game but hate the story, characters and the combat system, I Use it to kill time and do mindless deliveries, I got a trainer that disabled the enemey detection and therefore skipping all BT and MULE/ Terro encounters, just me and my BB and our cargo and music doing deliveries. Such a relaxingg experience.

Totally agree with you. I bought the base game 14 months ago. Since I was enjoying the game so much, 2 months latter I decided to add Branch and Claw, Feather and Flame, and Jagged Earth. To date I'm enjoying the game more than before, but 10 of my 24 spirits, plus many scenarios and a couple of adversaries I still have yet to try. I was considering adding Nature Incarnate, but each day I'm less inclined to do that. Thanks for your honest review.

Nothing from what you mentioned made the game less fun for me. I also played twice, the second time I also had rules: always avoid BT territories if possible (utilizing timefall shelters e.g. or alternative routes); use a different route when playing story missions than my first playthrough; reduce zip-line dependency and use trikes and vans more often (I built a full zip-line network in my first playthrough); always stealth clear a camp (which is kind of not optional because of Very Hard, I also cleared a camp only using catapults). The fun part of the game is planning the optimal routes and building structures as setups for orders, you don't have to turn into a masochist who needs to make walking miserable or rejects other people's structures to feel challenged.

this expansion was great for players who are looking to really connect with their spirits

- Most of the spirits in this expansion are a welcome addition. Some are awesome, some are good, some are uninteresting to me (just like the previous expansion). There are never enough spirits. - They didn't add more cards because it will delude the minor powers deck - they'll need to change the rules about Minor powers if they were to add more. - While adding Incarna to other spirits seems cool, some of the Incarna they added here are atrocious. (Looking at you Thunderspeaker. Lure Incarna isn't that good either). So I don't think that would be a good addition overall.

Spirit Island is my favorite game and has become my lifestyle game.

Yessss more spirit island

Another great review. Thanks!

This is a great review. When you're saying in your verdict that this entire expansion push towards more player interaction, to be more accurate, you mean a negative player interaction, right? Do you like a negative player interaction?

The only "correct way" to play any game is to have fun, whatever that means for you.

The maser gun works on mule trucks directly?!

Knight & Day games is selling this cheap right now.

A strange comment maybe: But try Increasing your video speed after you finish it to 1.25 then uploading it!! and see what happens. All the best.

Thanks for the review Gideon! Towing that line of accessible yet challenging was always at the core of Fabian's design :)

What's the music?

Thank you so much for the kind words, so glad you like my little game! :)

I just got into this game a week ago only to hear that it is dead...ouch

Keep up the good work

I played through twice. First on normal and again on very hard. I never used the canteen but this was not a conscious decision. I simply forgot about it because it never really mattered.

Actually quite like this game. The main progression comes from leveling the traits on the guns but is a bit of a grind. Ive dipped my toe into co-op with a friend and found that when he hosted his under leveled traits made the game noticeably harder. He also tended to play extremely carefully and slowly whereas I played fast almost never stopping movement. Interestingly, he's beaten the last boss while I have not. The mid-game twist blew my mind. Since I knew nothing about the game going in, I thought I was at the end of the game. One other thing to mention is that the haptic feedback on the controller feels amazing. You can save and exit now too.

Great review, short and to the point! I have to say my experience so far was very different, because we played 4-player with 2 absolute gaming noobs and it was basically impossible to complete more than one level/round in a row. It was just too difficult for the noobs. But personally I enjoyed what I played. And we only tried for a few hours, I think. Lesson learned: Look for friends that aren't noobs!

Hi, what would you suggest? Legendary Edition + Wasted Wilds or 2E Base + 2E Gothic Horrors?

Really good review. I wish for many more. Subscribed!

Has anybody ever told you you complain too much cuz you do

How about the ridiculous lack of inventory in xcom…🙄IMPOSSIBLE TO GO BACK TO with a straight face.

Its so funny when ppl complain... Seriously - I play this game on Insane difficulty and still find it a bit too easy at times.

Great review. I really enjoyed it and you speak about the game as someone who has played a lot. The Expansion, Gear of Corruption resolves the issues when playing with more people

This is a really great review, i wish there was more content on BB and that they still updated the game, on the plus side though the company os releasing 3 or 4 games this yesr and im going to buy all of them, the company is great.

I played on Difficulty 4, solo, and I tried to stand my ground. No running away. I stood my ground like nobody's business... for 15 minutes straight! So for me, the opposite is true. If I run away constantly, I will lose them. I played with a friend and the same thing happened. We were practically drowning in Terminid bodies. And the enemies won't come from a single direction during an alert. There is always at least one right behind you for some reason with no sound cues. Ninja Chargers are real! Whatever the reason is for this, it's obvious the game cheats hard.

Good review as always, keep it up.

This Game is So GOOD

The reason why it looks like a good idea is because it was a good idea, before they added a stealth change to make enemies run faster if you're not looking at them. (when they're off screen) Super realistic and fun, I know.

This game sadly was a crap show.

Thanks to this review; just ordered. Wasnt sure whether to get Legendary Edition or this. Will start here. Thanks for a great video.