Idk if I'd call it a dud but Metaphor Refantazio. I still give the game an 8/10 but the first half of the game was so strong that it had a 10/10 written all over it but it really hurt itself in dungeon design and fored content that wasn't very interesting with no way to skip time and a difficulty pacing issue that persists right up til the last boss, easy, hard, easy .... super hard with no warning and out of nowhere. It drags things out that's perhaps what disappointed me the most. Still a great game though, it's not a dud just needed to be refined and they should know when to cut the fat cause padding for length is worse than padding for scope on my book.
Playing Stellar Blade and I'm like 7 hours in, again I wouldn't say dud but it's not living up to the gameplay I watched online at release. Perhaps this will change as I invest in the skill trees and this ship will turn itself around. It doesn't feel as refined, fast and fluid to play as it looks and ends up somewhere between souls and Devil May Cry which isn't a bad thing it just feels AA and while AA games can still reach a 10 for me I'm not seeing that possibility with this game so far. Hopefully things will change.
I wanna buy Dragons Dogma 2 because of how emergent the gameplay seems and it's on sale now but yeah, I'm not expecting a winner or masterpiece so my expectations are very tempered.
