4/5 ★ – Deenyl's review of DEATHLOOP.

Deathloop wasn't my favorite Arkane game but it was still a ton of fun. I think the dynamic between Colt and Julianna was great. I enjoyed listening to them antagonize each other at the start of every level. It was a nice change of pace from the other Arkane games that have stories that take themselves pretty seriously for the most part. Speaking of Julianna, they made a Dark Souls type of invasion system where another player can come in and fuck up your world as Julianna. Which I think is cool. Even if you turn online off or don't have PS+ you'll just have a bot invade your game randomly which I thought was a nice touch because there's no way to avoid her and you don't know when or if she's coming. It can throw a wrench in your plans and can force you to play the map a bit differently than you normally would. While there is a lot to love in this game there were a couple of things that kept me from giving it the last star. The first being the AI in this game is not great. Not even in the bad oblivious stealth game AI type of way, while that was also present. It was more in the way of being alerted by me even though I'm crouch walking on the roof and they are floors below me. There would be times when I would go to kill Aleksis at the party via the meatgrinder while trying to get the "Ghost of the Feast" trophy and stealthily killing one of the guards on the roof would trigger the whole room full of people as if I killed somebody right next to them. This was the area where I experienced this issue the most which are unfortunate because to get that trophy I had to enter the party, kill the 3 Visionaries, and leave the map without alerting anyone. So needless to say I had to continuously reload the level because it kept fucking me over. At the time of writing this review, I still don't have the trophy either. It's a real colossal ass ache. For a shooter that allows you to play guns blazing or stealth, there aren't a lot of stealth options as far as weapons go. The only guns I came across were a super shitty nail gun that you might as well just fucking toss and a fantastic suppressed pistol that I used my entire playthrough. Only two guns are even used for stealth. The pistol isn't even in the base game I don't think. I had it because I bought the deluxe edition and it came with two guns one of which was the pistol. Just wish there were more stealth options because I found myself just playing the same way the entire game constantly using Nexus + suppressed pistol on a group of enemies. Even go so far as to snipe people from across entire areas with the pistol. Give me a bow, crossbow, or suppressed sniper, please. All in all, it's a really fun shooter. Which is just about what I expected from Arkane. They know how to make fucking bangers over there.