After getting about 80% of the way through the game, i ran out of steam. There are some resources that take ages to forge/smelt/craft and it becomes a very repetitive task that is not at all idle.

Game looks nice and is simple, but by the time I reached copper/crystal I could see where the game was going and I just don't have the patience to persist with it. As it is now without any idle resource generation involved, I can't recommend the game unless you need something to disassociate for a while.

Pros:
- Looting is fun
- Gunfights with ARCs is fun
- Quests are fun
- Free Loadouts take a lot of tilting potential from the game, so you can die sometimes and it's fine.

Cons:
- Raiders were always diplomatic and generally pacifist when the game released. Now they are all PVP. The toxicity of the game is increasing (more slurs and bullying in team voice chat) and it will push new players out if this doesn't change.

The fix is to be able to drop into maps with PVE only. Hopefully they add it soon, it's a great game otherwise.

Not a dull moment the entire game. Not as deep in difficulty as Hollow Knight but does a better job of introducing new skills to your character. It's probably the best part of the game, how it doesn't at any point make you feel stupid or frustrated. No real replayability but It's how I prefer my games.

Art is solid, gameplay is some of the most fluid and comfortable platforming i've ever seen in a video game. Story is short but carries a powerful message that pulls at the heart a bit.

It's a single player MMORPG, which isn't a good thing. It's also very much unoptimized for PCs. I'm running this on a 1050ti and it's dropping from 60 to 30 constantly, which is pretty awful considering it's a 14 year old game with improved textures. I get a better framerate and resolution from GTA5.

The story is probably the most uninteresting one in the entire series, and the game even admits that your protagonist has no actual bearing on the events of the game. There's nothing at stake to motivate you to see how your party saves the world. The voices are also heavily compressed so it sounds really out of place in the moments where the game actually looks good for a moment.

I got as far as getting Balthier into your party, and I can't even understand why a 2 minute unlikable side character that your main character doesn't trust, is now part of your party for the rest of the game.

The game just has not aged well and It's a shame.

GRIS is an incredibly pretty game.

All of it's elements (watercolour art, platformer style, orchestrated music) intertwine with eachother to deliver a polished experience that feels like a brief but emotionally driven platformer. While the game is up to your interpretation, the game has a concrete story, and not every person's intepretation will be correct. I was one of those people and it took me further thought after completing the story to take ALL of the concepts/pieces and come to the correct conclusion. For the sake of not ruining it for you, I won't explain it.

But once you see what it all means; why your character (Gris) is walking through a field of blood red winds, illuminating her path with yellow lights, befriending a little blue guy who eats apples. Why throughout the game, these introductions of colour are unlocked one by one, you start to see it's association with the crux of the story and why our world can feel lacking of colour, or a rainbow of hope. By the end, the GRIS world is a vibrant symphony of how the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.

GRIS is a story about a girl who loses the colour in her world, and her journey to find them. If you ever had an experience or event where the colour in your life went missing for a while, this game will relate with you on a deep level.