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it feels like the game has developed to a point where its design is hostile to cavalry.

1. It’s still buggy as hell. The horse will get stuck on the skinniest treee and the smallest rock on the road. The new maps that came out haven’t made this problem any easier. Not to mention how hard it is to melee anyone—especially is the ping is bad.

2. A single bullet to the horse brings it to a grinding halt and everyone’s already gunning for cavalry anyway. Plus, I swear it’s just easier to get head shots on horse riders due to the amount of times I got killed from around forty meters away. To make this even worse, there are more carpenters available now. So that means you have a high chance of just running face first into a blunderbuss shot out of nowhere.

I feel like the game punishes you more for playing cavalry than any other class, so why is it even here anymore?

It’s an okay movie. Seven out of ten at best, but ‘Masterpiece’?? Are you kidding me???

Pros:

The fights were entertaining.

Some powerful scenes.

The first three minutes of the Cyclops was cool.

I liked Nolan’s overall message about how the invasion of troy led to the fall of Bronze Age. Messaging was poignant.

Cons:

The Acting: The dialogue failed to immerse me into the era of Ancient Greece. Every actor on screen was just larping as a Greek person. Jon Bernthal was probably the most egregious example of this.
I don’t hate Zendaya, but anyone who says she put any effort into her role as Athena is fucking lying. All she did was sit there and keep a single straight face until the end. Tom Holland was just Greek Peter Parker.

Robert Pattinson did kill it as a smarmy asshole though.

Matt Damon’s performance was also ‘good’ but not his best.

The Pacing: Three hours is way too long for this movie and I can FEEL the bloat. And yet, it cuts constantly between two time periods and so many perspectives that it’s jarring to me.

Nolan’s Batman movies are pretty chunky movies each, and yet they don’t feel as rushed as the Odyssey was.

One scene that sticks out to me is the conversation between Odysseus and Circe. The camera cuts every single time they finish speaking a line and it drove me nuts when I first saw it.

Misc. stuff I didn’t like:
Agamemnon’s screen time and actions feel wasted. Nolan went out of his way to make this character seem extremely significant due to his role in the Trojan war, but he didn’t earn the Villain Aura on screen.

In the poem, there’s a part where Odysseus tries all sorts of tricks to stay out of the war. We should’ve had a scene where Agamemnon actually coerces Odysseus into participating.

I hate the scene with the armored giants. The movie provided no context about it whatsoever and it feels the most like filler.

The part where Menelaus watches his father comfort Argos in the dog’s final moments. And then he straight up goes to him and says ‘you’re Odysseus.’
This shit was the most fanfic moment I’ve ever scene in Hollywood.

Again, the movie is good. It’s entertaining, but I’d never wanna sit through three hours of it again. And reading all these reviews about how it’s a 10/10 masterpiece boggles my mind because it just ISN’T.

To go from an announcement, to one trailer, and then straight to network test in a couple months is BOLD. Fromsoft might as well shadow drop the game and take it from there.

We know next to nothing about this game besides a couple of articles describing the premise. Even Nightreign had more trailers that gave hints about how gameplay would look (although I think it got more coverage thanks to Bandai)

Did Miyazaki be like “I’ve cooked such a good game that it doesn’t need marketing. Once they play, they’ll understand.”

If it really is like that with Duskbloods, I kinda respect it. Maybe it is cope, but FromSoft hasn’t let me down. I’m putting my faith in the process. ✌️