User Impressions/Reviews Thread - Retro & Other Gaming Forum - Page 161

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@oliverp Glad you enjoyed Crysis 2, an underrated game imo.
I did see the trilogy on sale the other week for £10 on PSN and I was really tempted as I wish to play the trilogy again but i really want the physical version which is still (comparatively) expensive.

@CaptD Yeah so I would also say that the Crysis games are pretty immersive experience as well. Not sure if maybe the nice graphics is something that contributes to that. Maybe also the semi realistic feeling in the games hehe.

My review of Banishers.

My TL;DR here is: Banishers is another title on my ever growing list of open or semi open world titles where I feel like if you shaved like 20 hours off of the running time and made it linear, it would be instantly a better game, even if you changed nothing else. Banishers makes this argument harder than ever too, as navigating its semi open world and completing its various world activities are by far the worst parts about this and bloat the package unnecessarily.

And if you wanna strap in cause we going long, here is my full review:

Set in the late 1600s/early 1700s a group of mostly British settlers have been trying to set up communities in a New England area called New Eden. However, a schoolteacher named Deborah ends up murdered in a sham of a witch trial and not long after, the land of New Eden becomes cursed. The locals may not want to see the connection, because they were all in on it in some shape or form. You are the Banishers who are called in to sort out this curse, however, events quickly alter what your ultimate goal ends up being. A Banisher, for the record, being a sort of private detective who investigates any case involving a haunting should the silver be on offer to do so, and is also expected to fight and defeat the ghost if it comes to that.

As such, much of the game will see you travelling around New Eden, going from settlement to settlement, discovering personal stories which involve a haunting of some kind (literal, and more abstract). You