TGIF Open Thread!

Goood morning Destructoid! It's that wonderful time of the week! It's Friday!

This week was going pretty damn good! Up until yesterday that is. I made the awful, terrible, rookie mistake of stretching at the age of 33 and I pulled something. That's right, I stretched and my neck and upper back was having none of it. I was immediately stunned in pain and couldn't move my neck at all. Every tiny move of any part of my body was very painful. It was good stuff really lol Luckily, I've been slowly stretching it out and today I have a little more mobility with a bit less pain. I'll be fine in a few days. Just honestly an annoying wtf injury haha.

That ridiculous bs aside, the week was good and I'm very much looking forward to a quiet, relaxing, gaming filled weekend. The gf has a bunch of stuff planned with her friends so I'll be home alone with the pets and a controller in my hand. I've been playing Atomic Heart and it's a fun, and frustratingly flawed game. Like holy shit, I think this is the most annoying game loaded with wtf design choices I've played in years and the fact that I'm actually enjoying it makes it that much more annoying. The combat is really damn fun. The shooting at least. Melee combat is honestly Skyrim levels of basic but still, when you're facing a decent amount of enemies, the enemy designs and attack patterns are mostly fun to go up against. The boss fights are actually really fun. You know, most of them. The presentation and overall story ideas are actually really cool too. There's honestly a lot to like here.

That said, there's a whole lot to hate too. The map is absolutely useless and only works like less then half the time. The open world is pretty, but so poorly designed that it is easily the least enjoyable and most frustrating to explore I've ever encountered in any open world game ever. Enemies are legit everywhere. There's no end to them and if you're spotted by a camera, and you will because they're scattered every 10 feet, more robots get summoned to come fuck up your day. I've started to just say to hell with it an sprint past all enemies to my next main destination. It's that bad! The inside portions in the labs and whatnot are actually really enjoyable! Which makes it so damn annoying that they messed up so damn bad. This game should have been linear and you go from one inside location to the next with a few, small outside portions with like half the enemies taken out from scouting. I want to rate the game 7/10 so far but I'm leaning towards 6/10 for the very poor game design choices and that's still very generous.

That's enough of that rant! How was your week Dtoid! Any fun weekend plans? Watch, play or read anything new worth sharing? Let us know down in the comments and as always, happy gaming!

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