Is For Honor Worth Playing Now? A Re-review

For Honor is a rebel, the black sheep among the action-fighting games today. Breaking off from the side-scrolling template into a third person arena is hard, but For Honor's distinct gameplay rises above the evolution threshold of gaming. It is historical, mature, realistic, a melee of violence with aesthetic gores and decapitations.

I dub thee, executed

Is For Honor Worth Playing?

The game's competitive idiosyncrasy and technical mechanics promises immersiveness despite its former flaws and the current state of its players sportsmanship. The game will break your gaming peripherals, ready to ledge your defeated psyche, chain your mix ups and gladiator-up on its arena.

"Beautiful game, but difficult to tame, just like the girl you always wanted." as per our review on Steam. The game itself is beautiful, heroes and weapons are unique, levels and the world are well designed as expected from the Havoc game engine used like the recent Assassins Creed Origins and upcoming Odyssey. When the game is played in 4K, it comes alive in Blu-Ray like vividness and in full of colors.

The game was nominated as Best Ongoing Game from Game Critics Award last June despite of being less famous than its winner Fortnite, it is gaining traction since. For Honor made heaps of changes, polishes, updates and embraced its community of vocal players and creative memes. The game has a weekly content for its player base delivered by a fun charismatic mid-week livestream on Twitch and YouTube, the Warrior's Den.

The game continues its notoriety as among the fighting games difficult to play until the release of a new arcade-like tutorial mode early this year to teach newcomers and veterans alike. The Apprentice Trials covers the basic moves using the Samurai's Kensei and advance skills in Warrior Trials using Vikings' Berserker and Valkyrie. A helpful training arena is also present to further study all heroes, their moves, skills, executions and more.
Tip: You can duel against a stationary AI, fight the bot ranging from levels 1 to 3 and create your own combos.

We don't consider ourselves experts at this game but we published a personal lengthy review of this game on Steam nonetheless, and it goes like this. We played the beta, ran with an old Alienware rig that can barely handle low graphics settings.

The game was absolutely beautiful then and brutal as expected but the game's mechanics was abhorrent, played and finished Dark Souls PTDE, AC Origins in nightmare mode, but here in this game it felt like you are a dog learning rocket science.

The controls are slightly different, comparing to Injustice or Street Fighter or Assassins Creed or any Ubisoft title. The stance mechanic made console's analog controls and PC mouse movements a critical part of combat. The game will easily shorten the lifespan and early demise of your gamepads and gaming mice. Early on, after the beta, the potential of the game can't surpass the game's difficulty and early bugs, it felt like the game is gated for hardcore players. In over a year, the game had a persistent weekly update and fixes.

The game's strength is its uniqueness, it is unlike any game out there. Maybe that is why you will hate it, it’s different, but similar with other multiplayer games, repetitiveness and the competition. Rewards in the multiplayer mode is continuous and gives players a sense of progress, loot and steel (game's main currency) after a match is tolerable enough that you can buy most of everything.
Tip: The grind is there, grabbing the champion status is a worthy investment.

Season five, Age of Wolves, bought the game and took the gold edition. This game is revolutionary in the sense that it is truly a different fighting game. If you love the brutal medieval violence in the Assassin's Creed games or the savagery of Vikings or Game of Thrones on TV, they are here. The iconic Mortal Kombat's "finish him" moment is also here called Executions. For Honor keeps on adding new executions every season. Love wuxia films? Or old Japanese movies? The samurai faction in For Honor delivers swift fatalities we see on those movies.

Tip: Stay tuned to the weekly Warrior's Den livestream on Twitch or YouTube to be informed and meet your fellow players on chat or comments, see them lose their sh*t over something.

With the upcoming Marching Fire, its wuxia all the way. As a player you get to use all these brutal moves and skills against intelligent AI bots or human players on multiplayer matches. Every hero is unique, has their own thing going, well designed and play differently despite some similarity to its counterparts.

Tip: Seasonal sale of executions, emotes, outfits and gears are unpredictable takes a long time for the next one, spend those steel before its over.

The game's changes a lot, from reworks to nerfs much to the dismay of players. Your once favourite hero can be weaker in the next rework and the least appealing to you can suddenly be your main. Updates and patches influence the influx of shifts of heroes being played in PvP. For example, the once broken Centurion became everyone's main and then next time all are playing Orochi or Highlander.

Matchmaking has improved, but sometimes you will be match-up against a Rep 40 while you are still in Rep 10, you will die in seconds or in agonizing minutes while your opponent is dodging and parrying all your mastered unblockable combos.

Tip: If you are lazy or slow to change stance, block or parry or dislikes 1v1, practice PvAI or work with your team to gank, flank and play dishonorably, you will win, but it will be against the game's titular pun "For Honor".

Don't be alarmed when you see "banishing foes", PvP matches have that once you got past rep 1, players who disconnect just before they die, are outnumbered or outscored. It is just a game, but some of us take losing statistics to heart, maybe it's a street cred sans the street, or wounded pride getting owned by a 12 year old, reasons.

Tip: Most events have exclusive loot, it has a time frame though, it is worth playing then and opening your crates or scavenge, but be moderate.

The world's most common condiment was redefined by this game due to the pains caused by rivalry. Taking your chat privacy available to all, opens your world to a jungle of nastiness. If you are thin-skinned, have a heart condition, sensitive to trash talks of a regular bully, mute your chat and set your privacy to yourself only or just your team.
Tip: Familiarize the in-game communication presets like Sorry, Thanks, or press LB for help or revives.

Some matters of contest can hurt feelings or sometimes breed ill will, but it also teaches you to learn and be better at taking criticisms in real life. Once you experienced being ridiculed, group-ganked controlling a zone, or be emote-mocked by a level 1 AI bot, you will realize For Honor is an actually great game where you can say "I got this" or Not.

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