HIGH That moment when rare gear drops into existence is as pleasing as ever.
LOW There’s way too much repetition in the enemy encounters, designs and events.
WTF The real money skins cost an absolute fortune for things players will barely be able to see.
HIGH The Thoroughly Modern Circe.
LOW The hive queens feel a little OP.
WTF The rhyming pigman!
HIGH The reveal of what’s going on with the villains.
LOW Trying to fight anything but the lowest-level monsters with a sword.
WTF There are two different monsters, both called “Rippers”.
HIGH Getting a weapon strong enough to one-shot the skinless hunters.
LOW A few quests have confusingly-worded instructions.
WTF The ancient ancestors left behind… sokoban puzzles?
HIGH The main villain’s style is beyond compare.
LOW The lack of danger indicators makes boss fights a slog.
WTF “In this game, we’re ninjas instead of videogame goddesses!”
With its eerily familiar locations, its plot about freeing an island from brutal dictator, and a casually-murderous villain from the TV show Better Call Saul, Ubisoft’s upcoming Far Cry 6 immediately feels like a knowing throwback to the genre-redefining Far Cry 3. The crucial difference between them, however, lies in the point of view. Where FC3 wanted players to feel baffled and intrigued by the strange new world they were exploring, FC6 puts them in the role of a citizen of Yara, the fictional Carribean island on which the game is set.
HIGH Fighting a winged serpent.
LOW A needlessly bleak boss fight.
WTF A glitch forced me into first-person.
HIGH Building pits full of werewolves.
LOW Dealing with a garbage-packed inventory after every mission.
WTF Those chaos beasts are… something else.
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