Foreign media Push Square has expressed great dissatisfaction with the game "The Fall of Babylon" and made a considerable degree of ridicule. "The Fall of Babylon" has been in the range of bad reviews due to the quality of the game, and players and the media have expressed dissatisfaction with it. The PS5 version received ratings from 29 media outlets on the Metacritic website, with a total score of 42 points, making it the lowest rating for PS5 games this year.
Among the 300 PS5 games given by openCritic, "Babylon's Fall" ranked 299th, second only to Konami's "eFootball 2022", which can be described as a real "fall".
The Metacritic user ratings for Babylon's Fall are also frighteningly low: as of 14:00 Beijing time on March 16, the game has received 136 user reviews, with a score of only 2 points (a total of 10 points). How did Platinum Studios, which once produced Angel Hunter Witch and Neil: Age of Machinery, turn over this time?
Babylon's Fall is a multiplayer co-op ARPG that allows players to team up single-player or four-player teams to challenge the Golden Tower. Every time a new mission is started, the game will team up with strangers by default, and during the challenge, players can upgrade their equipment and play dungeons, which is basically a "brush brush" game similar to the "Destiny" series. The game feels more like anthem, but far less so.
Game media Kotaku believes that "The Fall of Babylon" is very bad, its UI is like a copy of the ancient MMORPG, the picture is not good, it is said that the producer deliberately adopted the "medieval oil painting" style, but it feels like a shoddy imitation of a half-pulled.
The overall graphics are not even as good as the PS4 version of Cyberpunk 2077, which was launched more than a year ago, and its performance, except for Hiroshi Yamaguchi's music, is really lackluster, even like a remake of a PS2 game.
The combat part of Babylon Falls falls far short of Platinum Studios' previous works, with slow sprints, clumsy jumps, and pull-outs, most of the time the player can only defeat enemies by quickly alternating attacks and dodges, and soon falls into boredom and fatigue.
The only innovation in the combat section is that the player's character carries a special device called the "Machine Coffin" on his back, which can collect energy while fighting and manipulate other additional weapons with his mind. For example, the player can first use the bow and arrow to deal with the enemy, then roll to the near place and stab with the sword, and finally end up with a two-handed hammer to play a set of combos. However, from the current situation, this system is still too chaotic to make up for the other shortcomings of the game.
The game's plot also seems to be somewhat perfunctory due to the care of the live broadcast, with players playing as warriors named "Sentinels" who are forced to enlist in the army to fight the enemy in the huge ruins known as the "Golden Tower". Guarded by zombies, the ruins are filled with narrow, sun-drenched corridors, and the description of the scenes is too dull to feel like you're playing an image adventure game.
In the IGN review, The Fall of Babylon can be completed in 15 hours. However, after a boring and long 15 hours, the new modes and abilities unlocked after completing the level "did not do much to change the actual game experience", and it seems that the SE side also found the game's performance poor and invited players to make suggestions on how to fix it.
You know, The Fall of Babylon is not a free-to-play game, and its price is as high as HK$468. Not only that, but there are also season passes and micro-trading elements that need to be paid separately and cost a lot of money, including clothing and XP, reminiscent of SE's recent "Chocobo Racing", which is a bit ugly.
So if you didn't buy the game, then congratulations, if you have already bought it, then it is recommended to refund or just throw it in the trash to avoid disgusting yourself.