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The Ascent Review

 

Take if for what it is: 4.5/5

The Ascent is a top down twin stick shooter. The cyberpunk theme is top notch, more akin to the dark and gritty Blade Runner theme than the more colorful Cyberpunk 2077 style. This game is freaking awesome though. The controls are tight, the story is good, and the guns are awesome.

The main gripe is the voice acting. Before the AI voice patch they had actors speak alien gibberish and you read subtitles. and I actually preferred that over the new AI all English voice acting. The main voice actors are good, but the new AI voice acting just sounds weird and not as immersive as before the patch when they did the new voice overs (they basically took one of the main voice actors and used AI to alter his voice for over a dozen other characters, it is just meh). I know not all people liked reading subtitles, but the original voice alien gibberish and subtitles just made it more immersive and was better than using AI to try and emulate over a dozen other voices. This is just my opinion, but AI is just a tool and using it for more creative talent pieces it just sucks overall compared to real talent. Again, just my two cents, you get mad at that statement, go work in the AI world and build a better one.

The only other thing that is not bad, but would have been nice is enemy variety. Overall I was happy but some are just reskins and different names. Again, this really is just being picky and being a snob but I still loved all the enemies you encountered.

Besides the new voice over patch (if they would just give me the ability to use the original alien voices, that would have been awesome), this game is a highly recommended title that I truly enjoyed. If the gameplay looks interesting to you, I definitely recommend picking it up.

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