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[FunkMiller]

Hey, this is excellent. Not a game I’m likely to play as it’s not really my thing, but really happy that such a small dev can turn out such a high quality project. Strong couple of weeks for Sony titles.

 

[Warnen]

Funny watching the ACG I said to myself this looks like a graphically enhanced Beyond good and evil and he mentions that. Not really my thing, haven’t even finished a Zelda game so don’t have much interest in this type of game.

gives me hope some one can do a Legacy of Kain Soul reaver reboot (one of the only Zelda likes I ever enjoyed).

 

[Kenpachii]

Watching some guy play it, and dam it looks nice.

 

[Captain Toad]

Returnal is a Sony 1st party game funded by Sony.

Kena is not funded by Sony. Its a 3rd party indie game.

Returnal wasn't a first-party Sony game until after it was made.

 

[Ogbert]

The rain and lighting effects are incredible.

 

[HotPocket69]

WHERE THE OT AT

 

[Fbh]

Those score are better than I expected. Game looks really nice, it's definitely going on my "play once I have a Ps5" list.
Hopefully this is the beginning of great future for Ember Labs. We need more indies that can make these shorter high quality games with nice visuals.

 

[Bragr]

To anyone who's playing it, does it play like the old-school action platformers? reminds me of Star Fox Adventures.

 

[ethomaz]

Ohhhhh... good scores.

 

[ethomaz]

Returnal wasn't a first-party Sony game until after it was made.

I inclined to say Returnal was Sony's IP even before the aquisition.
I remember Resogun being first-party IP too.

It was just like the IPs Insommiac developed before... all Sony's first-party being developed by a 3rd-party developer.

 

[DonF]

Y'all need to learn the difference between Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks and so on. yes it triggers me

This game has reached Sony pictures animation level.

 

[SilentUser]

Great looking game, interesting story and I think the gameplay will be nice. Will buy, but not today since I barely have free time to play lately

 

[BlackTron]

I really want to play this on my PS4 Pro but no 60FPS option My PC won't run this at 60FPS either without lowering all the settings.

Who would have thought THIS would be the game to make me want a new game console lol.

 

[dd492941]

This game piqued my interest quickly and with the good reviews, now just a debate on how to purchase. I normally don't like digital media at full price but I'm off work today and damn it looks fun. Physical being months away is not cool either plus that's more expensive. Hmmm. Crossroads.

 

[kyliethicc]

Returnal wasn't a first-party Sony game until after it was made.

1st party = published by Sony.

 

[Kokoloko85]

Gameinformer 9/10
Polygon din't like it

Polygon have always not liked stuff. I remember the days they use to give bad scores to MGS games and stuff lol

 

[Hustler]

I put in 2 hours of gameplay last night, the game is gorgeous and smooth. Love the world building so far and the characters are adorable, Pixar like. The fact that this game is being compared to Pixar movies makes sense, but we all know it's not equal to current Pixar movies (not possible given hardware limitations).

I have a few minor gripes so far, does anyone else find it a bit jarring going from 60fps gameplay into the 30fps cutscenes? Takes me out of the experience a bit, I wish they would've just stuck with in game cutscenes, but I understand that's not possible on the PS4 version. Not the biggest fan of the double jump animation, I know it does the job but in my mind I feel like the motion gives me a sense of I'm going to fall short on most double jump attempts.

Can't wait to play more of it later tonight. Sony has another hit on their hands, I wish they would market this game more heavily.

 

[Insane Metal]

I'm surprised, thought it'd get smashed in reviews.

 

[Captain Toad]

1st party = published by Sony.

What? Sony has published games that were released on Xbox under a different publisher. That isn't a Sony first-party game.

 

[Dibils2k]

played around 30mins during lunch, obviously this is very early impressions but visuals are awesome and gameplay felt nice

looking forward to digging into this

 

[DenchDeckard]

You had me at beyond good and evil!

 

[dorkimoe]

Been waiting for this game since it was first shown. Didn’t pre order due to them holding off reviews. Looking good so grabbing this today. *blows dust off ps5*

 

[Superayate]

Reminds me a lot of Horizon Zero Dawn which also had laughably bad jumping animation. Erm, in my opinion!

Agree 1000% about that, I've decided to finish HZD (was near the end), and the jump animation (+ other things) annoy me and gave me sometime the impression that Alloy is "outside" of the screen, don't know how to explain that. And watching some video of Kena give me sometime the same feeling.

 

[kyliethicc]

What? Sony has published games that were released on Xbox under a different publisher. That isn't a Sony first-party game.

Platform & publisher are the same = 1st party.
All Sony published games on PlayStation are 1st party PlayStation games.
All Microsoft published games on Xbox are 1st party Xbox games.

From Sony's point of view, Minecraft and Deathloop are 3rd party games, while to Microsoft they're 1st party games.
From Sony's point of view, MLB The Show is a 1st party game, while to Microsoft it is a 3rd party game.

All just depends on the platform holder (PlayStation/Xbox) and publisher (PlayStation/Xbox/other).

 

[Moses85]

No physical release, no buy..

 

[kyliethicc]

No physical release, no buy..

Out in November

MaximumGames

Maximum Games is a top 20 global publisher specializing in physical and digital distribution of games.

store.maximumgames.com

 

[Little Mac]

Where there's smoke there's dumpster fire. 6/10 confirmed.

 

[Gordon Freeman]

Are we making an OT for this?

Downloading now! Very excited.

 

[GymWolf]

So i'm the only one who got jak and dexter 1 vibe from the locations and animations...

 

[GymWolf]

I put in 2 hours of gameplay last night, the game is gorgeous and smooth. Love the world building so far and the characters are adorable, Pixar like. The fact that this game is being compared to Pixar movies makes sense, but we all know it's not equal to current Pixar movies (not possible given hardware limitations).

I have a few minor gripes so far, does anyone else find it a bit jarring going from 60fps gameplay into the 30fps cutscenes? Takes me out of the experience a bit, I wish they would've just stuck with in game cutscenes, but I understand that's not possible on the PS4 version. Not the biggest fan of the double jump animation, I know it does the job but in my mind I feel like the motion gives me a sense of I'm going to fall short on most double jump attempts.

Can't wait to play more of it later tonight. Sony has another hit on their hands, I wish they would market this game more heavily.

Yeah the double jump animation is rather peculiar, even from the videos it look like they are about to miss half the jumps

 

[Ogbert]

To anyone who's playing it, does it play like the old-school action platformers? reminds me of Star Fox Adventures.

Yes.

The gameplay is fine, but it’s undeniably dated. You’ve played this game countless times on PS2, 3 and 4. The upgrades are all very standard fare.

But the world is wonderful and worth spending time in.

 

[Mabdia]

Gameinformer 9/10
Polygon din't like it

You know that a game is good when Polygon and Kotako does not like it.


To me the game always looked nice. Can't wait to play it.

 

[leo-j]

I am loving the game so far. A platformer with some fight to it. Hoping it gets more interesting as we go. Def need more games like this, hopefully it sells well.

 

[Gamerguy84]

Damnt I csnt play for a couple days.

Congrats to Ember Labs. Hope this team is sitting around drinking wine and beer all day enjoying all the praise coming their way.

 

[Ogbert]

Gameinformer 9/10
Polygon din't like it

I presume Polygon didn’t like the representation of indigenous furries.

 

[Sosokrates]

Only 19 reviews on metacritic and 29 on opencritic, opencritic is at 83 now.

I expected high 70s, looks like it will settle on low 80s. Great result for such a small team.

 

[John Wick]

Have you seen the 15 minutes credits from Demon’s Souls? It’s not only Bluepoint it’s all the outsourcing and other Sony studios helping. I think around 300 people worked on that remake. Add to that a 100+ orchestra.

What's that got to do with anything? Blueprint is a small studio. Doesn't matter what Sony paid for the outsourcing etc.
So do you think Bluepoint have that 100+ orchestra on their payroll?

 

[Strider Highwind]

I love the music too I. This game. Real moody, bangs in at the right time and so on. This is an excellent game so far

 

[RoadHazard]

I inclined to say Returnal was Sony's IP even before the aquisition.
I remember Resogun being first-party IP too.

It was just like the IPs Insommiac developed before... all Sony's first-party being developed by a 3rd-party developer.

And Bloodborne.

 

[XXL]

Yo...this game is really fucking good.

 

[Mossybrew]

Looks like this is going to be worth picking up after all, once I'm done with Deathloop I'll probably grab it, looks chill.

 

[Punished Miku]

Seems like a pretty game with functional, unambitious gameplay. Definitely will pick up when its on sale.

 

[Stuart360]

Just played an hour on PC. The game is ok, a bit easy but decent enough.

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

Just played an hour on PC. The game is ok, a bit easy but decent enough.

it gets way harder

 

[El Pistolero]

Returnal wasn't a first-party Sony game until after it was made.

What? They own the IP and funded the game from A to Z.

 

[KyoZz]

This game is looking really good, and so far I'm liking what I played:

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Gameinformer 9/10
Polygon din't like it

Polygon is not to be taken seriously.

 

[HotPocket69]

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Lots of Xboners are eating some crow today with these reviews

Id tag you all but there's too many

 

[Fredrik]

Where are the performance tests?

PC: 3800x, 3070Ti, 24” 1080p, gsync, no-HDR, 2.1 sound, desk and chair

PS5: 65” 4K, no-VRR, HDR, 7.1 Atmos sound, couch

Where do I play this?