Ubisoft Immortals Fenyx Rising By Author’s Name

Really cool game. I don’t think it got much publicity to it but really need if you like Greek mythology and mythology in general.

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First, the reason I decked a star – the game will force you to create a Ubisoft account every time you start it unless you disable the network connection on the console. There is no option to skip, opt out or select an offline mode. At this point, your choices are to force the game to close or proceed to account creation. This is clearly a ploy to get you to use the built-in microtransaction store. Strike two.

I was furious, almost uninstalled the game and was about to put it on EBay without even playing it, but then I decided to try disabling the WiFi. This removed the mandatory account creation prompt and let me play.

Once in, I was hooked – the world is beautiful with graphics that were clearly inspired by Zelda Breath of the Wild, and so is the gameplay. It’s an open world game that let’s you climb up on almost anything and glide through the sky, or ride on different collectible mounts, which is a ton of fun. There’s also a fast travel system for places you’ve visited.

You progress through the game by collecting upgrades, clearing puzzles, finding and opening chests and killing monsters, including unique bosses inspired by Greek mythology. It looks like a huge game. At 20 hours in, I’m only in the first region after the island where you start, and though this looks like the biggest region from the map, there are 4 more that are also quite sizeable.

The story doesn’t take itself seriously and is a parody of Greek mythology. There are no long-winded cutscenes or dialogues that break up the gameplay. Instead, you continue doing your thing with the narration popping up from time to time when you reach certain places or complete objectives, often providing comic relief, which is great.

If you’ve played Zelda, the puzzles will be familiar, and can range from plain easy to harder to at times frustrating. I can already see the combat becoming repetitive, but fortunately, you can avoid many encounters, or kill things in different ways (use your godly powers, throw rocks and boulders, or just cut them down with a sword or axe). The combat is fluid, complete with a dodge and parry, and many skill and power upgrades.

There’s also a stealth mechanic, which doesn’t work very well until you get an upgrade that gives you ironclad invisibility at the cost of stamina while sneaking. This fixes the mechanic, and adds some strategy to it, since your stamina will quickly run out if you go invisible too soon.

You can also collect weapon and armor sets that provide different boosts, and freely apply the visual appearance of those you like to those with the boosts you want.

Overall, I love the game so far and I’m having a lot of fun. It’s a shame corporate greed has yet again creeped in, with the issues I described above, with content likely cut only to be offered as a preorder bonus for a season pass for 3 upcoming DLCs with a price tag of $40 (almost as much as I paid for the base game).

I love this game it’s so retro

This game is awesome, I can’t believe how cheap it is too! Honestly I didn’t have many expectations from this game since it was under $8.00 usd but I was blown away with the quality of the game. This is extremely similar to the switch Zelda games with a Greek god mix. Definitely recommend!

I’m really enjoying Immortals Fenyx Rising! The gameplay is fun an exciting, I never been a person that likes puzzles but this game makes me like them, they are not overly complex. I also enjoy the commentary from prometheus and Zeus it’s entertaining the voice acting is done well. I played the the game for hours it was hard to put down the controller there is so much exploration to be done in the world an of course a lot of treasure to be found. I picked this game up for 35 dollars well worth the price, I would have liked if I purchased this before assassins creed Valhalla, that game was a disappointment. But like I said this game is a great buy!

[Time played – 116 hours]

*Sighs* I was so, so, so excited about this game, mainly because the AC Odyssey team was behind it. In fact, I loved Odyssey so much that I was 100% sure that Immortals Fenyx Rising would be a hit with me. However, this game didn’t exhibit any of the traits that made Odyssey so great.

[Combat]I enjoyed the combat — At first. It felt fluid, and the default layout for melee attacks was R1/R2, and that’s always a winner. It started to go downhill for me when I realized how easy the game was (more on that later). I really wished they would have approached the combat like they did in Odyssey. Odyssey used a traditional light/heavy attack method that’s found in many action games. IFR decided to go with mapping weak attacks to a sword, and heavy attacks to an axe. That’s problematic because the sword does minimal damage and was really a waste of time. I ended up doing mostly heavy attacks or moves that incorporated the heavy attack. On the defensive side of things, there’s a standard dodge and parry system. Like most modern action games, you’ll be able to unlock a perfect dodge that contributes to making the game very easy. I’m not a parry guy at all – AT ALL! However, I was able to easily parry attacks whenever I wanted, and that tells me there are very generous parry windows.

[Weaponry]Like I mentioned earlier; there are two main weapons in the game, and that’s a missed opportunity. I’m all about player agency, so please allow me to pick from a selection of weapons (thankfully, we can select from different pieces of gear). If I’m being transparent; if I had a selection to choose from, I probably would have gone with a spear or a staff. There’s a bow and arrow for ranged combat, but I barely touched it. Throughout your journey, you’ll unlock various skills that you can map to the face buttons. If you want a challenge, I’d suggest not using the skills because they also contribute to making the game very easy…

[Enemies]Yet another disappointment. The game is based on Greek mythology, so can’t they come up with more than a handful of enemy types?? There’s nothing more boring than encountering the same enemies over and over again. Encountering the same enemies means we don’t have to worry about learning new attack patterns. I initially thought the boss battles were good, until I realized they were merely larger versions of an enemy type I’ve already seen! Same can be said for the legendary encounters: They’re bigger, stronger versions of something I’ve already fought a zillion times. Granted, I was a couple missions away from completing the campaign, but I’m fairly certain I wasn’t going to see any new enemies, with the exception of the final boss.

[Miscellaneous]The vaults are by far the worst part of the game. Because of how annoying they are, the word “vault” is now a trigger for me. I love the Olympics, and one of my favorite things to watch are the women’s gymnastics because those little ladies put on a show! However, when they started the vault routine, I changed the channel because I can’t do it. The mere mention of the word “vault” sends me on a downward spiral. The puzzles aren’t much better because there’s far too many of them! I’ll solve a very complicated puzzle just to unlock a chest of — materials. Really, Ubisoft??? I love the graphics though, as I’ll always be a fan of that cartoony style of art. Although the story was generic, it had its funny moments. If you’re a fan of Greek mythology, you’ll probably enjoy it.

I know I didn’t finish the game, but I played it long enough to know it was a disappointment. I hear so many folks saying it’s a “different” game, and how they’d like to see Ubisoft make more games like this. I disagree. Their next game needs to have more challenging combat, better enemy variety, more weapons to choose from, less puzzles, and zero vaults. If that happens, sign me up!!! Mass Effect Legendary edition; you’re up next!!!