A Brutally Honest Review of Immortals Fenyx Rising

I'm disappointed in Ubisoft's new "action adventure" game

Immortals Fenyx Rising Review
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[DownwardThrust]

*Additional Review Write Up:*
-All footage shown is 2560x1440 on ultra settings, rendered at 1080p for Youtube.
-If you think I'm exaggerating on the amount of puzzles in this game, just consider the fact that Ubi sent me a 7 hour puzzle walkthrough video guide alongside my review copy (didn't use it out of sheer pride, wish I did). I've never been sent a walkthrough for anything with a game review.
-The game has a great draw distance, however the performance is surprisingly unstable. With a GTX 1080ti & an OC i7 7700k (not the newest PC on the block but should be able to handle this game easily) I was getting plenty of frame drops in outdoor environments, sometimes below 60. Average FPS - 65 (for reference my average fps on Assassin's Creed Valhalla was way over 100 on a 165hz monitor).
-I was pretty excited for this game based off a pre-release demo I played, but it looks like a lot of changes were made up until the launch. The two biggest are that they shrunk the game areas from 8 to 4 and they increased the price of the game from $40 to $60. I was unpleasantly surprised to discover the former as there is a distinct lack of environmental diversity in this game as a result. Mostly because the 2 eastern areas are similar in look (one is green, one is greenish blue) and the two western regions are similar in look (one is orange, one is orangish red). There is a lot more that could have been done with the mythology they pulled into this game, but as it turns out the story quests through these zones are pretty bog standard and fairly uninteresting. For the increased price of $60 there just isn't enough interesting content, variety or compelling gameplay.
-Is this a bad game? No, definitely not. But is this the next *"Breath of the Wild"* game that everyone is hyping it up to be? *Absolutely not.* This is a mid-tier spammy action puzzler that would fit right in around the $25 mark.
-The game lacks interesting side content, all of which is based around finding treasures or resources and is not related to the story. At best, I found 2... maybe 3 side quests... at best? I can't remember anymore, and those quests were very short.
-However, 1 on 1 fights in this game are pretty fun, albeit not very complicated or intricate.
-The introduction of the game is slow, long and tedious... essentially your "classic" main character gets washed upon the shore with no weapons or armor and has it spend an hour learning basic moves. Pretty meh.
-The early portion of the game (hours 1-5) are the worst gameplay speaking because the game requires you to buy all Fenyx's abilities yourself... which takes some time. As such, the *ramp up phase in this game is slow.*
-The gear system is average. You find new weapons and armor which you can upgrade with the resources you find by completing... you guessed it... puzzles. I recommend spending all points on upgrading your weapons since the game is pretty easy and you won't need increased defenses. If you mainly play the story like I did you'll have limited resources to spend, and it kind of reminded me of the upgrade system in Zelda 2 where you kinda favored offense or defense/health/magic. However if you do all the side puzzles (which again I stress are pretty bleh) you'll likely be able to get everything.
-The wings Fenyx uses are the highlight of the game and look beautiful. You can get around 10+ wing sets from defeating legendary monsters (the best gameplay aspect to this game as I mentioned in the video) and they all have really cool animations when you glide.
-*I recommend playing this game on hard difficulty*

Thanks for watching.

[Timothymukansi]

Downward Thrust lives to oppose SkillUp lmao

[djzwenz]

Thanks for this honest review. I like it. It must be hard, not to mention "Breath of the Wild"... 😂

[harryrichardson]

I note all your comments, but, of course, these are subjective views. I find the game very good, it held my attention and I found the puzzle solving interesting. Sorry to disagree with you.

[project_al]

Finally some good honest review. Knowing that this game is puzzle heavy is so much helpful since I always hate puzzles in an action game.

[kevskikane]

Every reviewer has as different opinion. Reviewers are saying they love the story and the gameplay is meh. Some are saying the story is meh and gameplay is great. Play it and make up your own mind.

[ognjenrad]

"This video is spoiler free"
-spoils how to archive the end Boss after one Minute. maybe you thought it was unimportant, but for me it is a spoiler

[MrCamel]

All i hear in this review is "I really don't like puzzles and i had to play this puzzle game, woe me." And i honestly don't get your complaint about them mislabeling the game. They have been very clear about it being heavily inspired by Zelda. It is heavily inspired by Zelda. Zelda has mandatory puzzle solving to complete the game, so why are you surprised about that?

[THE_BEAR_JEW]

This is one where I'm glad I didn't listen to Downward Thrust. I'm now 30 hours in and Fenyx Rising is honestly one of the most enjoyable games I've played in a long time.

While there are many puzzles, I do think you're exaggerating on the severity of the issue. There's a certain rhythm to the game, and the puzzles all abide by rules established by the game. The puzzles are actually fun to solve because the physics are spot on, the puzzles are generally short and optional, and there's plenty of combat and exploration to break up the puzzling. You almost made it sound like it's the Witness, which it's not. Thing is, this game does a brilliant job at making the puzzles just challenging enough to where you have to think, but it never makes them frustrating. I've progressed through 4/7 areas now and there's a lot of vaults I haven't done, lots of puzzles still unsolved, and yet I've had enough resources to properly upgrade my character. So it's certainly not something that you have to do aside from some story portions of the game and even then, they puzzling never kills the pace of the game. These longer story puzzles are more similar to temples in Zelda games or even certain portions of the God of War games where you enter a massive structure and you have to work your way through it.

I also disagree in that there's not a combat to puzzle balance. There's a lot of chests and vaults that are surrounded by enemies. Lots of mini bosses and bosses too. I've never really felt like there's a lack of combat and I jumped to Fenyx Rising after my last two games were Ghost of Tsushima and God of War (2018).

This game's world is just fun to traverse and explore, which is more than I can say for most open world games. The combat is highly responsive, the abilities are all useful. The writing is also consistently hilarious, especially if you know anything about Greek mythology. It has a surprising amount of adult humor, I'm talking real adult humor. Especially from Zeus, Ares, and Aphrodite.

[oliverrrrrrrrrr]

The next time I see "Brutally honest" I'm going to Brutally kms

[Serevarno]

Why would you compare the combat to Bayonetta/DMC?

That’s be like saying “I didn’t like this watermelon because it didn’t taste like an orange”.

[bernytails]

Sounds like the puzzle issue where instead of figuring out how to solve the puzzle, you're just trying to figure out what the puzzle even is.

[Mgranadosv]

We wanted Ubisoft to change their formula and I guess they did.

[m.digidy]

Well....the reviewers that I trust more than you loved this game.

[Husky-kffi]

Just saved me $60 thank you.Too bad the game could not have been better.

[inabearsuit]

i really wish people would stop calling every cell shaded game a breath of the wild clone. plenty of games used it long before and will use it after. its a pleasing asthetic . this reviewer seems a little upset he had to think while playing. explains why his channel hasnt grown in some time

[chumpyman]

Wasn't this called god and monsters?

[paradox]

Bitter much? Not a perfect game .. but far far from how you make it sound. I'm personally loving my time on the golden isles

[joonaspenttila]

Damn this game seems perfect for me ive been looking for some simple brawler to just shut my brain off and i love puzzles in any game and platformers are my fav genre so mixing all that seems fun and the compleins you had are probably valid but seemed like just nitpicking but 60 dollars for any game is way too much imma wait for a sale

[blubbntroet]

I‘m kinda shocked 😮 it looked and sounded very promising in basically every preview 😯 how did that happen? 😳