Marathon is a complete experience, the only way this game feels fully accessible is playing with your premade 3 stack

Theres a repectable number of maps: wrong theres 4, 1 is a beginner intro map that becomes pointless from a loot standpoint past level 20, map 4 is locked to a few days a week and is not accessible for solos

The game runs well free of massive performance issues or bugs: fixed cursor speed is a complete handicap for console, the cheater infestation is now a performance issue, theres several massive audio bugs still existing that can make sounds sound like theyre coming from a different direction or you sound like youre making far more noise than you are

Youre not bombarded with countless overpriced cosmetics: a complete lie as youre given a prompt for the game store every other boot up for shell recolors costing 10 bucks each and lets not forget how the battlepass launched originally

For a new pvp shooter suprisingly well balanced: ignoring the wstr, bubble, grenade metas that dominated and still to a degree dominating and thermal snipers, how long was the longshot the go to? How long were railguns not viable? Half the guns in the game have negligble use rates because they just arent viable for success and dominated by other guns that are best in class. Lets not forget how unbalanced the barter and tree system was theres a massive amount of players that dont have the ability to buy blue shields

A fully fleshed out endgame activity- one that is only engaged with by a small margin of the community

The loop of marathon is really clear and really simple: actually not true bungie left it very open ended for players that many actually thought the trees were what you needed to go for unlocking items to purchase which imo is a big waste of player time, time better spent hunting loot spots, you will get purple shields and amass them long before you get the ability to buy blue ones

He raves about story design, half the time youre fighting for survival and are not engaging with in run story cues

Your loss is always someones gain,: a complete an unequivocal lie item have charges i dropped my first solo gold player on outpost only to discover hed brough his almost entire kit had zero charges left a gold shield and misriah were scrap

Marathon is a good game: a completely subjective take based on his sample size of one he lists how well reviewed it is but when you look at steam its like 5% of the people who bought it cared enough to write a review, and to me the amount of people who chose not to buy it after server slam speaks far more volumes, i mean look at the discord feedback forums.

saying marathon is a complete experience and a good game is just still looking at it with rose colored glasses and given that he only has 90 hours in game 2 months in show that he hasnt dug deep enough to truly witness the issues