To be fair to Ari I think most of his articles are fairly positive. I think you might be getting confused with just about every other writer on the internet at the moment -- where they critique how bad the game is while also saying how good the gameplay is. 

I love that I can play 30 hours of a single player game and still remember a 3 minute location of the story super bloody clearly. I immediately knew what setting that last image was from -- even in this abstract state.. The art team did such an amazing job with this game.

Dude tell me about it! Nothing civil about that subreddit. It’s. fucking. terrible. Nothing constructive about it — just one big meme empire at this point. They’ve outright condemned any outside notion that the game might be okay. 

Ash have you played Red Dead 2? It sounds like the game you described was read dead 2. Horse, open world, and beautiful scenery.

Anyone who might have qualms about the gameplay would do themselves justice by playing this game on Hard. The tense moments are amplified when you have one shotgun bullet and that’s it. Finding supplies actually matters and running sometimes really is the best option. You know.. Like a good survival horror game.

I agree with you — mostly. The story has it’s problems, but I did enjoy it for what it was.

The gameplay though.. I feel really strongly that anyone playing it on normal difficulty is going to have a snore fest. Play this on Hard or Crushing or whatever. When supplies are low and characters can actually see you when…

I honestly really really really liked the drifting in this game and have been dying to try something similar since then.

This is super cynical. But I would want to be a strategist at COD headquarters. If I could take up your entire harddrive so you couldn’t play anything else at the drop of a hat I would. Why wouldn’t I? There isn’t an incentive to make the file size small. I would be lying if I said it wasn’t stopping me from…

I know we’re all making Memes about the size of Call of Duty Modern Warefare at the moment -- but has Activision said anything about this? It’s so bloody huge. I’m honestly really surprised they weren’t able to do more of the textures procedurally based on their track record of optimization and their need to hit their…

Whole dozens. Ever fuckin’ play pit droids?

..Underrated? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone refer to these games as underrated. There are dozens of underrated star wars games but this one is not one of them. 

I am so unbelievably bummed about this. I had my bday the weekend this came out. And since I was still in a tent I got a birthday cake in the mail and that was it. I was so sad to see people getting real birthday party’s that next week. I mean. Yes. Have a good birthday. Very happy for you. But dammit I wanted to get…

I joke but I honestly would have liked to see more of this kind of thing in Death Stranding. Same idea — a game more about how you get to your destination rather than in game conversations and set pieces being a river rather than a huge spooky/comedic boss.

Why isn’t this coming to Apple Arcade? This would be perfect..

I’m honestly really into this and I think it’s a good idea. Good job Atari.

Oh yes! How cool is that!? I can’t share Switch games with my wife much less share other mobile games. 

I love this comment because it’s basically ‘people will complain because it’s the internet’ and you’re not wrong and I agree and we’re on the same page. <3

Every person here saying they’d pay $5 for this game don’t understand that if this was released for $5 on the store it would be littered with micro-transactions. It would also be ‘probably’ largely successful. Of course I would pay $60 for marvel puzzle quest on the phone if they were able to remove the pay to win…

In context the context of Death Stranding -- 500 likes really isn’t that much as a heads up.