The level design does you no favors either. While practice definitely made this happen less, just simplifying things a bit would have gone a long way. With so many moves and options here, though, far too frequently, I found myself grappling when I meant to slow time or jumping on a wall I didnвЂ™t mean to. Most games with this little margin for error keep things simple, letting the main challenge become your reaction speed. Some of these combat rooms quickly grew boring as I knew what to do, but in the heat of the moment and with so much going on, itвЂ™s easy to hit the wrong thing.

These deaths are rarely that punishing, with frequent checkpoints and the SSD allowing you to load back up super fast. Often I didnвЂ™t even see the guy who killed me until I was dead. While that does end up being useful at times, more often, your troubles are coming from rooms filled with spread out enemies who can all shoot at you from a distance. These moves can let you kill from farther away or take out groups. That leaves you with next to no margin for error, and while the platforming gives you that dash ability to help mitigate any issues, the closest analog to that in combat are special moves that donвЂ™t really do the trick. While most enemies die in a single hit, so do you. Ghostrunner quickly becomes an incredibly difficult game. As Ghostrunner goes on, youвЂ™ll gain various additional options, such as the ability to grapple set points in levels and speed up when time slows down at set points.ДЄt times though, it feels like thereвЂ™s just too much going on. The ability to slow time and then dash forward when you let time return to normal can get you out of a few sticky situations too. IвЂ™d certainly miss a jump here and there, but it generally felt like my fault and not that of the game. Ghostrunner is a first-person platformer where you have to run up walls, grapple through the air, dash from area to area, and also kill anyone who gets in your way. Ideally played at breakneck speeds, when things go right, you can feel like a badass ninja ready to bring death and destruction to all who stand against you. That could all be forgiven if Ghostrunner played great.

I just couldnвЂ™t connect with them, though. A stellar voice cast and some terrific music helped set the mood and at least gave me the vibe I was looking for, but it would have been nice to care about any of these people. None of the characters are particularly interesting, and while the cyberpunk world looks fantastic, especially on PS5, thereвЂ™s nothing original about any of it. The story of Ghostrunner never really hits. YouвЂ™ll have a new mechanical arm to help along the way and a few allies to help you along. Destroy the Keymaster and take back control. After a failed attempt to assassinate Mara the Keymaster, a dictator who has taken over the only remaining remnants of humanity, youвЂ™re reawakened with a purpose. YouвЂ™re the Ghostrunner, or Jack as some come to call him. Ghostrunner feels fantastic when everything is going right. I just wish that so many of the deaths I was taking didnвЂ™t feel like they came about due to confusing decisions made by the developer. For a game where youвЂ™re going to be dying a lot, the fast loading times provided by its SSD can feel like a miracle. In some ways, a game like Ghostrunner is a perfect fit on the PS5.

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