VALORANT

Valorant? Tried it out, hoping for a fresh shooter experience, and what did I get? An unholy cocktail of characters ripped from rejected superhero comics. Here’s a game trying so hard to be edgy and cool, it ends up tripping over its own shoelaces. The characters? A bland parade of stereotypes with as much depth as a orc's philosophy class. Gameplay? You spend more time staring at loading screens and lobby countdowns than actually playing. And when you do get into a game, it's like a hide-and-seek contest with guns - if hide-and-seek was played by overcaffeinated goblins. Oh joy, a symphony of keyboard warriors and microphone screamers. Valorant: where they mashed together every popular FPS, hoping for a masterpiece but ended up with a Frankenstein monster of mediocrity.