Amazing graphics and incredible gameplay whether you play with the CPP or not.
Game has really good atmosphere, even though I use the 3DS built-in speakers (which are actually a lot better than people give them credit for - they actually have some kind of surround sound crammed in there!).
It seems like a fairly lengthy game (I'm about 3 hours in at chapter 3, and I think it has 12 chapters?), and raid mode and the achievements make it seem like it's packing a LOT of content.
I also found the game pretty hard, the first boss managed to rip my asshole open a few times, and on the attempt that I actually killed it I was eventually running around trying to shank him because I was completely out of ammo in all weapons, and this is just on normal difficulty. If I play this through on hell, I think I'll have to scavenge a lot more ammo before I try that again.
The music is great, too, but the cutscenes are notably low res and kind of muddy (so far most notable in a scene where a helicopter flies over some water, but the cutscene showing a city on the other hand still managed to look very impressive simply from the art itself).
About the complaints that reviewers like to bring up about this game:
1.) The episodic format? You have to remember this is a handheld game, and it has to be broken up in chunks. Even if the system can go into sleep mode at any time, I think most people who use their handhelds don't like shutting their handheld right in the middle of an intense segment. The recaps help if you, like me, don't pick up your system and play every day or play through the entire game in one sitting. I think they are skippable too? Honestly, they're so short that even when I did start a new chapter right after finishing one I just sat through it to get a better grip on the situation.
2.) "The controls are bad" and "It should have been on a home console": The controls are good, even with only one stick. How anyone could have problems with these controls is beyond me. As for home consoles? There's really not much to say about that. I don't think it's fair to reduce a review score because the game is on the "wrong platform". I honestly don't even understand what that means. The game was designed for the platform, how can it be the wrong one?
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