Recent reviews by Nipde

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is an awkward lovenote to the fans of series full of story and exploration just like the earlier titles even if it has gotten a bit of a rocky launch for more than understandable circumstances.

There is weird bugs here and there that community lovingly calls "Anomalies" and I agree on the sentiment, tho there are few a bit worse ones than earlier titles making it frustrating at times, devs have stated they will fix these issues in future patches so nothing to worry.

Game does suffer from bad optimization but I personally have not ran into most of the stated issues and the ones I have, I can easily blame on my old CPU.

Pros:
- Feels like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game

Cons:
- Feels like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game

Okay forced joke aside, it is good game, I have enjoyed it greatly and I do recommend playing it once all bigger issues have been patched out

Do you like metroidvanias and possibly Touhou? even if you said no to the latter, I would still say this is a great pick, if you have some gravings for metroidvania

This "Remaster" does bring new lighting engine which in the start looks pretty good actually, as well as the remastered textures.
But what hits me is that it looks like they lost interest of making remake halfway as some textures have been left like that.

The game seems to run pretty smoothly with 60fps, but I took a note on heavy lagspikes after I got outside of the Asylum area, still not sure what caused it.

What comes to gameplay it is all the same as the original Dark Souls, with all the massive flaws it had, and this is what aggrovates me here, nothing is fixed and even the graphical side has been done somewhat lazily. The level of quality with this product, if we look at the original Dark Souls game for comparison, is the same as a Work In Progress Mod for the game that someone left behind due the lack of interest.

The multiplayer stills seems to have the hacking as an issue at large like always and nothing seems to be done to fix it in any matter, I myself got cursed, Egghead status, broken gear and possibly a softban after one hit from a hacker and my save file is now ruined.

Also the price tag is way too high for this game at this state making it look like a quick and shameless cash-grab.

So TL;DR:
Just get Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition and install DSfix and several anticheat tools into it and do not give money to this piece of junk.