Bread’s Game Journal 01/10/22: Gardeners Of The Galaxy

I’m not new or revolutionary in posting about how much I’m enjoying the 2021 Guardians of the Galaxy game, but try and stop me! I get the sense I wasn’t alone in my worry of how this game would come out, right? The Avengers game out of Square and Crystal Dynamics was, favorably, a massively flawed attempt and, unfavorably, bad. Guardians didn’t exactly show off well during it’s E3 related appearances, nor did it bode well that it seemed to have gone completely unknown for as long as it did prior to announcement.

But then, all of that was crap, because it’s a fantastic video game. the issues I had watching the combat system in video form vanished when I realized how it actually felt to play. My worry that only playing as Star Lord would grow stale, fell apart as soon as I realized the game has an extremely high degree of control over your team and the ways in which you all work together to fight enemies. Hell, even my worries about the games lackluster looking performance were dismissed when it became clear this game runs rock solid on aging PC hardware.

It’s also just astounding to take in the sheer amount of writing this game has in it. I’m not sure I’ve played one section of the game where one of the characters isn’t talking. Whether it be just to fill time while you explore an environment. Point something out, or even as a part of the games surprisingly robust Mass Effect style conversation option system. The team is always talking to each other, and I’d say about 70% of the time the writing is fantastic. I don’t meant to sound like a backhanded compliment either, for the amount of writing in this, the fact 70% of it is as good as it is, is an astounding ratio.

Again, I am not the first person to write this. Hell, just about every review of this game is a far better articulated version of this post. I wanted to talk about it anyway, and nobody is going to stop me but me. Or a depressive funk, but thankfully, despite the internet’s best attempts, that’s not the case right now!