it's actually real rare that I get to do
a review of a video game because I
typically just play video games for fun
and don't really you know put them on
the YouTube channel and I wrote about a
3000w uh script going over just why this
game's so great and why I wanted to you
know break the rules and make a video
about it and then I realized the chances
that I get around to you know reading
the script and then editing all the
footage and everything together I
probably wouldn't record the video and
that would would be a shame because I
thoroughly want to recommend this game
to pretty much everybody uh because it's
just such a great game uh which I didn't
really think I'd be saying going into it
so over the Christmas period uh I
decided you know I want to try and find
a co-op game to play with a couple of my
friends my brother and we stumbled upon
a few you know we were playing the the
hits at the time you know phasmophobia
and lethal company stuff like that which
were all real fun and then I said you
know let's try Remnant 2 it's free on
Game Pass it's only been on there for a
couple months they've just released a
new big DLC let's give that a go and man
I wasn't expecting to still be playing
it a few weeks later with over a 100
hours in the game and being just
thoroughly impressed with pretty much
everything that I experienced so first
off what is Remnant 2 well if you like
Souls games if you like shooter games
then you're probably going to like it
because it kind of plays like a shooting
uh Souls game only with a whole bunch of
flare and twists within there so
basically you're rolling around you're
dodging attacks you're killing bosses
you're attacking enemies it has one of
the most satisfying fun shooting systems
in a game that I've played in a real
long time the hit boxes in the game are
absolutely Immaculate it's just a joy to
play from start to end and speaking of
start to end this game doesn't really
have a very clear end until you know 100
plus hours in because there's just so
much stuff to do in fact the biggest
problem with the game in my opinion is
as soon as you go into into the game uh
you don't really know how much there is
and you might quit quite early on just
not knowing what there is uh within
there waiting for you when I first
started playing the game I was like oh
this is cool and it was one of those
where it crept on me where hour after
hour I was saying to myself oh that's
really awesome that's fantastic that's
great until the point where I was like
okay this is a game I'm going to be
playing a whole bunch and also a
developer I'm going to be watching for a
real long time to see if they continue
doing this because it's just that good
of a game now the beginning is kind of a
little bit offputting just because the
intro to the game is slow it's
unnecessary in my opinion it introduces
you to the story which wasn't a big
selling point for me on the game the
game world is really cool and the
setting but the story just didn't really
do anything for me I felt like it wasn't
really necessary but I guess I know why
they included it and then unfortunately
you have to play probably about 30
minutes until you can actually start
doing Co-op which is a big selling point
of the game and that's when I run into
my my first problem which is
unfortunately at least on Game Pass and
I know if you Google this people on
Steam have this issue too the game has
some unfortunate optimization issues in
terms of the game crashes quite a bit I
think it's improved recently in the last
like month or so since they released
another patch but the game was crashing
for us fairly frequently to the point
where my brother who was going to play
in the three-man co-op with us because
it is one to three players decided he
wasn't going to play cuz it was just
crashing so often which is a shame but
as soon as you actually get into the
game and get playing what it is is a
class-based shooter uh where basically
you choose your difficulty of the game
world and it generates a seed which has
essentially a whole bunch of maps that
are stitched together uh going Zone by
Zone with a loading screen in between
there's multiple worlds which are all
varied the enemy diversity is is
fantastic to be honest there's multiple
bosses sub bosses per map and there's
events and then the biggest selling
point of the game is that obviously you
build your character in in the way you
would in arpg you know you getting
things that do plus poison damage plus
bleed damage and there's there's
hundreds of these and it's in the way of
rings amulets and then overall you have
your armor then you can put mutations on
your weapons and things like that and
you can upgrade it all as you go along
the way that you find these things is
why I say when you first start the game
you might be a little bit you know offut
by how little stuff you're actually
gaining and that's because this game has
one of the best secret systems in in a
modern game that I've played it really
is amazing you can go through and play
this game and I've completed the
campaign I think like nine times at this
stage all the way through on the highest
difficulty every time you run it it will
be slightly different because of the way
that they see the map and how they
Stitch the maps together but not only
that there's going to be stuff you miss
every single time unless you're looking
up a guide for every map that you walk
into and even if you're doing a guide
for every map you walk into there's
going to be stuff that you can only get
when you have a certain seed of the
world stitched in the right way together
which might sound annoying but because
the minutes minute gameplay and the
variety of the builds and the classes
and things like that it's not because
every time you're going in you're
testing a new build you're doing things
more efficiently and the actual minute
to- minute gameplay is so fun that you
don't care you're actually having a good
time just running the world again
obviously I don't want to get too
spoilery with how you find some things
but there's stuff like you get a
necklace from doing like a combination
of quests together in a very specific
way that would be maybe counterintuitive
to how you'd normally do it and then if
you walk past the statue wearing this
necklace the statue will open a hole in
the ground and there'll be a special
item within there and there's literally
hundreds of these secrets throughout the
game it can be as easy as going off the
beaten path and finding a chest that you
otherwise wouldn't have seen or it can
be as specific as forming a map for a
real long time repeatedly running it
over and over again to get coins to then
bribe a boss who will then give you
items and then in that same save maybe
you can go and kill another boss and
then come back to it later and that boss
that you bribed would be there and he'd
reward you for for for basically helping
him Ascend to the throne is that too
spoilery maybe who knows but it's hard
to describe just how good and how
in-depth the system is and how fun it is
to discover things or even look them up
and be like wow that's cool design so
the game obviously has difficulty levels
so you can choose whether you want to
play it on real easy or you know real
hard and I figured this would just
bullet sponge the enemies right and the
bosses in the game were really welld
designed and there's some really
difficult Encounters in there and I
thought oh you know more difficulty is
just going to make things hit harder and
it's going to take longer to kill things
but there's actually new abilities and
and changed abilities on the bosses as
you go through the game and rank up that
difficulty which was a really
interesting thing that I've not seen one
of these games do before and it's just
really satisfying how you can play
through the game and feel like oh I
don't know anything and this boss is
kicking my ass and then later on you're
doing it again and you're like oh you
know I've done this I'm going to be good
at it and then does new stuff and you're
like oh [ __ ] and then eventually when
you fulfill that you'll come back to the
bus later on on that that same
difficulty and you'll feel that
meaningful progression of not only your
gear and your understanding of your
character but also the understanding of
the boss I honestly have almost nothing
bad to say about this game which is
really rare the only two negatives I
have is that the the there seem to be a
memory leak and there was a bunch of
crashing especially in multiplayer and
that on the Xbox app which obviously you
Us in the game pass so maybe on Steam
this isn't a problem inviting people on
Xbox app just sucks [ __ ] knows how that
company is so rich and has one of the
worst multiplayer systems for inviting
people into games and having it just
work uh but there we go on Game Pass you
can only play the base game and you have
to buy the DLC additionally uh which I
think is completely fair and fine
because honestly after playing this game
for a few hours you probably will
eventually want to buy the DLC if you
Vibe with it at all because legit I
couldn't put this game down and it's
just a a fantastic uh experience from
beginning to end I think the developers
planning a couple more dlc's and I
sincerely hope that if they make Remnant
3 which I really hope that they do that
the game is just this but expanded
because honestly they've got a formula
here that you can tell the devs really
love this game and and if they continue
to build upon that this is clearly going
to be one of my favorite franchises uh
ever in gaming because it is honestly
just that fun of an experience I
typically don't Replay Games I'm not
that kind of person once I finished the
game I'm putting the game down and I'm
moving on to something else Remnant I
had to legit stop myself from playing
the game because I'd unlocked basically
everything I was chasing SE like a
couple last secret items and then season
of discoveries just come out on Wow and
I have an obligation to play with my
friends and raid and things like that so
I'm like I have to level I have to stop
playing Remnant 2 but it's one I'll
definitely be coming back to as soon as
they release that next DLC or another
version of the game Remnant 3 or
whatever uh yeah definitely be right
back there so yeah I think that'll do it
uh there's only so much I can wax
lyrical about it because people
typically don't like watching reviews
where you're really positive about a
game you really enjoyed that's
fantastically good because they'll say
oh you were paid for that video and
you're Shilling or whatever but honestly
just give it a go it's free if you you
have Game Pass obviously Game Pass is
like a $10 whatever month subscription
and this is in my opinion one of the
most fun games on there and probably uh
I'd say one of the most fun games I've
played in recent years honestly it's
just it's just a treat to play from the
very barebone mechanics of what you see
what you feel when you're playing it's
just a treat and uh when you get more
into the game it's one of those where
there's just every layer you peel of
this onion there's just more and more
depth more flavor and it's is just
overall great hopefully they fix the
optimization and the crashing issues and
hopefully they release more content so I
can buy it and support this developer
cuz godamn is it a good game so thanks
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