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Unknown 9: Awakening
Developer Reflector Entertainment Ltd.
Unknown 9: Awakening is a 2024 action-adventure game developed by Canadian studio Reflector Entertainment and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in India in the early 20th century, the game focuses on a woman with magical powers fighting against a mysterious organization that killed her mentor. British actress Anya Chalotra portrays the main character through both body-scanning and motion capture. It was… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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355 of 950 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 73 · most liked firstI truly tried to give this game a chance but yeah... This game feels like it should have come out in 2008. No innovation, no engaging storyline and the graphics that are about what came out around then. Gameplay *always* beats out graphics but this game has neither... Don't waste your cash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not just avoid, but point and laugh at it. No wonder this was lumped in the AMD bundle, this game has nothing going for it to justify the official price tag if you were to get it outright -- or any price, for that matter. In actuality, the developers should be paying me, and anyone else for wasting all of our time. To call it mediocre is generous, it felt like a waste of time to play it. To start off, the combat is sluggish, and when compared to any other action-adventure game, it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this game with the purchase of an amd gpu. Even for free it is a very very bad game. Just ignore it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No wonder this game was free with an AMD CPU. Controls are sh*tty. Gameplay and the mechanics are buggy (spent my whole playtime with a bugged tutorial because the enemy was stuck in a place I cant reach even with restarting/new savegame). Graphics are well...not great and optimization is almost non existent Overall game gets a rating of 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just finished this game. I don't know if the developers played video games and I would be surprised if they did.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The combat is boring and repetitive. It's an easy game until the last bosses, when it becomes stupidly difficult and there is no way to change the difficulty. It's as if the people who made this have never played a video game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So many things wrong with this game: bugs with sprinting or inability to do so because of dialogue, saves are horrible (not at the point of where you are and neither at the checkpoints), frames drop leads to game not responding to combat, bugged achievements, bugged perk to see collectables, bad writing, combat in general, controls, I can go on. Would not have played it if I hadn't had gotten it for free.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this game for free for buying either my gpu or cpu idk It's boring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A diamond buried by its publisher, from someone who actually finished it I played this game from start to finish, and I'm frustrated. Not at the game, but at how it was handled and how it's been reviewed by people who clearly didn't give it a fair chance. The gameplay is not repetitive I keep seeing this complaint and I don't understand it. This is a combat-focused action-adventure game with progression. You unlock new skills, pull off better combinations, and grow stronger as you go. How is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First game of the year done: Unknown 9 Awakening. Lore is by far its strongest element. Combat, graphics and overall game design leave much to be desired. Unique abilities don't reach their full potential, but at least I had a modicum of fun with them. Things can only get better from here.
unlabelledView post →I purchased this game during the winter sale, as it looked interesting and I wanted a "newer" game to test my new PC. This game looks bad, the way unreal engine handles light and skin is disgraceful in this day and age. I wanted to give this game a chance, it's very buggy, the controls are sluggish at best, and overall the game play is just not fun. overall would not recommend
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm so happy this frustrating dodge simulator is over! Why make the game so hard? No wonder only 8% players actually finished it. And why is the walk so stupidly slow? And why make the protagonist such an arrogant unlikable impolite piece of sh*t?! Are you OK? If I had a list of games I'll 100% never play again, this would be near the top.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recently built a new PC for the first time in years, and Unknown 9 Awakening came as a bundle deal with my new graphics card. Watching the trailers, the game looked quite compelling, so I was looking forward to trying it out. Reviews are quite mixed, both from critics and players alike, and I can understand a number of reasons why. Having just completed the game I thought I'd write a few thoughts. I've only been a casual gamer for a long time, and as previously mentioned, I built a whole…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this ♥♥♥♥ look like poop on a butt
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fine, it's not great, its not bad, it's fine. The negativity surrounding it is crazy. It features unique combat, though the movement can be a little janky at times. It's a solid AA title with gorgeous art direction and environments. You can tell it's a "European"game, if you played enough of them in the past, so there is some jank. However, I enjoyed playing this as it was something different. Listen, buy it on sale when it's less than $15-$20 and stop listening to all the noise.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For Digital Trends—as my first review on the site I reviewed Unknown 9: Awakening! I was one of the extremely few South Asian game journalists that reviewed this game, and I worked extremely hard to finally nab a place! Worked tremendously hard on this review! Please, repost/read the review!
unlabelledView post →I'll give this a recommend with the caveat that you don't pay more than 20 euros for it. It's a game somewhere between 'Good' and 'Just Ok', and it also has a short <15h runtime. It's simply not as good to justify the game's initial 50 euro price tag - that was a crazy decision by the publisher. This is certainly not the worst game of the year as some people hyperbolically called it. There's really nothing wrong with it. Most of its systems are not very deep and aren't too interesting to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This one is tough. Is the game bad? No. Will I suggest anyone play it? Also no. Basically plays like a budget Uncharted minus the shooting and minus the spectacle. The game starts well enough, bad guys don't take too long to fight and there aren't that many. By the end you're fighting dozens of dude's at a time and they all have a million hit points. You can control them, so you should be able to have them hurt each other, but instead while they can hit you for 90% of your health, they only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will be uninstalling. Game got stuck during the stealth part of the tutorial. I knew the game was bad beforehand but gave it a shot for myself. DO NOT BUY!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a lot of things I love, and a few things I can appreciate why people get frustrated at, but I didn't understand why a larger publisher would let this game completely drop instead of giving it a proper chance. So my investigation lead me down a rabbit hole.... of two things. The first thing I would point to is there seemed to be a group of people actively looking to say it's a terrible game - and I don't mean people formed an opinion of it and disliked it, I mean people being so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wish I could get my 1.5 hours back
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not fun repetitive and runs horrible even though my PC is way over the recommended specs
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My attention was drawn to this game because of the wider shared world that they have been developing over the past few years, specifically it was the two seasons of the scripted podcast "Unknown 9: Out of Sight" that really got me hooked on the world, if your a fan of paranormal investigation stories, totally check it out. I have just finished this game, and my honest impressions, its fine. Its a fine game. Not amazing, but far from the worst game I have played and an interesting new part of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In a world full low budget Dark Souls clones it gave me joy to play one game that is instead cloning The Tomb Raider Trilogy with it's seemingly low budget. But there are still traces of Dark Souls that were enough to make this game annoying to play, The Boss fights. Luckily unlike Souls likes this game has a checkpoint system so it's not as annoying as it would have been if the devs went full Dark Souls fanboy with it's development. The game was a commercial flop that, unsurprisingly, once…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If there was a ''Mixed'' Button instead of Yes or No that'd be my option. The thing is, if this game was released in 2015 on PS3, i'd say it's a great game, but it's not. The gameplay is alright, fighting tends to be more on the fun side towards the end but its very clunky. You need to hold a button to do strong attacks and 2 times out of 3 it just won't register properly. I often get glitched in spaces where i need to spam every button to get out of. It kind of reminds me of Star Wars: The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not sure what this was. i was stuck 15 mins, no idea what to do
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unknown 9: Awakening is an ambitious debut from Reflector Entertainment—with a promising magical-lore setup, occasionally striking locales, and a handful of novel ideas—but it’s weighed down by flat, clunky combat, technical issues, repetitive encounters, and thin characters, leaving it feeling less like an awakening and more like it hit the snooze button.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is mediocre at best. Graphics are mid, performance is atrocious, story is so-so and combat becomes repetitive. Overall, I do not recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy before it's sold less than 10 €.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would refund this game but I attempted to deal with the numerous issues of game play and went past the 2 hr limit. Do not waste your time on this game. The story seems fine and all but the mechanics are terrible target locking is useless and the forced camera moves make gameplay a frustrating experience more so than any Souls game just due to the fact the targeting and camera mechanics are terrible enough you cant even play effectively. Seems like a terrible remake of FF or Shadow of Mordor.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →64 actual play minutes, zero movement. this thing appears to only use, maybe, some kind of controller. keyboard inputs it suggests do zero. Junk and not even remotely good experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Temu TombRaider in every sense of the word.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been making more progress on #Unknown9Awakening. Rough around the edges, it's a perfectly valid AA game. Not every release can be Baldur's Gate 3.
unlabelledView post →Characters: 9/10 The MC changes a lot throughout the course of the story, a growth that felt natural and made me smile. Each of the characters she came to trust were well written and fun. I think this was a very well written cast that felt natural in the world of the game. Story: 8/10 This is a story focused game, and while not everything flowed perfectly I found myself hooked from start to finish. My reasons for caring grew alongside the MC's reasons for caring and this is one of the rare…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unknown 9: Awakening is a painfully average game - held up mostly by the story, but let down by everything else. "It would've made for a good book” I thought, and after a little research found that this game is just one story in the Unknown 9 universe. There's actually a [url=https://www.bandainamcoent.com/games/unknown9/en/products/novels/genesis/] well-written trilogy out there that comes highly recommended. Next is the poor and low amount of review scores - why are most of them from an AMD…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unknown 9 franchise cancelled as developer admits game "didn't come near" expectations, series "didn't warrant any further exploration" www.eurogamer.net/unknown-9-fr...
unlabelledView post →did ubisoft make this?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like 90% of people in the reviews I got this for free when i bought a gpu. The hate for this game is justified, now I usually make detailed reviews on games, but I was falling asleep while playing it. Nothing about this game is fun or engaging its the most boring game i have ever played
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never hated a game this much. There's nothing good or even fun about this. Combat is so poorly balanced and broken and lacks any impact or oomph, the story makes no sense, the performance is horrible, the puzzles are atrocious, the level designs are boring, the bugs and glitches are nonstop, and the amount of soft locks there's no excuse for. This game is everything wrong with AAA gaming. There's no reasons this should ever have been released. Let alone for the price they're charging. Got…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game stinks worse than the geographic location it's set in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to imagine a great portion of the development/overall budget went to the trailer, and Miss Chalotra's salary (Yennifer ILY); the game play and graphics are tepid (hot is too harsh) garbage. Free, and maybe then it'd be a 3.7/10.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Embracing my inner Trash Goblin with a lovely game of the same name! Then more weird time dimension spirit adventures in UNKNOWN 9: Awakening <3 twitch.tv/lomadiah
unlabelledView post →A piece of garbage. Please don't waste your money. Don't take my word for it. Just read all the reviews which are mostly negative. The controls are awful and don't work. The 1st boss fight, it you doge that means you slow down time so you have time to thrown in punches but guess what....sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. Oh I almost forgot the 1st boss fight she has a pistol, drops like a dozens mine that explodes and if you get near hear you lose health. WOW good job developers.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unknown 9: Awakening is a bold attempt at merging mysticism, world-spanning adventure, and action-heavy gameplay into a cohesive narrative-driven experience. Developed by Reflector Entertainment and published by Bandai Namco, the game follows Haroona, a gifted young woman from Kolkata who possesses mysterious powers tied to a shadow dimension known as the Fold. With its unique premise and globally inspired setting, the game sets out to carve a distinctive identity in the action-adventure genre.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I definitely gave the game a chance, but it is not very good. The story might be interesting to some and there are some interesting ideas in the gameplay. Unfortunately, they are not well realized. Combat is very frustrating and seems to push you towards stealth. Especially frustrating are enemies with ranged attacks that track you, which I found practically impossible to avoid. The most irritating thing for me, though, was the nagging system. Most of the time, you will be accompanied by an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After doing my best to enjoy this game I was thoroughly disappointed at not only the lack a story but how much this game tries to rely on what they have conceived to be one. This game has all the modern graphics from from 2006 and its fight mechanics are complete garbage. The key-binds are locked on a weird set of mixed controls making the combat annoying. To compensate for this the combat is extraordinarily easy until they randomly hit you with a extraordinarily hard boss fight. I received…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, the game is alright. Lot of reviews were very rough on this game. The patch released gave me a smooth game-play. Play time is about 8-10 hours. Unknown 9 reminds me of a PS3 game that has PS4 graphics (i.e Horizon Zero Dawn) but the Story is very linear; you have no side quests. A lot of unnecessary tasks, cut scenes, and breaks. There are collectibles but i have no clue what they are used for. You can collect easily 90% of them without trying too hard. If there was a market to get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Truly dreadful game. Awful combat, repetitive everything else. Game breaking bugs everywhere. Had to play the section after the final boss 4 times to get it to trigger the cut scene. got into the jungle again and have to jump between rock platforms and the jump button stops working and the woman was stuck in the way. Normally I can find something to redeem a game, but there just isnt anything here, whether its the mediocre story, the meh acting, the average graphics or appalling frame time…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Generic third person action from ps4 era with all the best hits including (and pretty much limited to!) climbing vertical walls that are of a different color than normal, jumping between helpfully painted beams, squeezing through tight holes for no substantial (in the era of ssds) reason, hiding in tall grass, and covering distances with a grappling hook. That, is not the biggest problem. The problem is that, unlike many great games using largely the same formula, this one has nothing to offer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I picked this up for $13USD and the first hour and half (tutorial-ish) walks you through the setting and motif the game is aiming for. It's set in the early 1900s with hints to secret societies that have risen and fallen and new ones that took their place. I've had fun with it so far as long as your not walking in with the hopes that every game has to be a 10/10. This is a SOLID 6/10 that is trying to punch up but unfortunately seems to be marred by a few technical issues like shuddering in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unknown 9: Awakening is a below average action-adventure game that fails in nearly every aspect. The good things about the game are its beautiful graphics and its linear structure. I'm glad it isn't an open world game because this sh*t wouldn't be tolerable otherwise. Now, let's talk about the negatives. Constant handholding. This is one of those games where the developers were too afraid to leave the player alone and let them explore. You constantly have one whiny f*ck following you around…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely not. The janky controls on MnK are just horrible, response is slow, mouse randomly popping on screen and staying unless you go into menu and back to the game, just what?? On top of that, either by my incompetence or just the horrid controls, even on lowest difficulty it was rather difficult? I'd like to say I hope the devs will fix the stuff up, but I honestly doubt it seeing the last update was in December... For now, just a waste of money, sadly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Low effort console port. Decades old gameplay. Utterly boring story. Clearly targeted at 'modern audiences'. I suppose it looks nice, but who cares.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanna speak with people who think that this game could had success. I bought it with 50% discount, but game don't deserve even this, i really regret about money and time that i lost. Game bad at all aspects, facial animation spetialy bad. P.s. The MC character is just a piece of ♥♥♥♥.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would prefer to give this a neutral rating, but since that's not an option, I enjoyed the game more than I disliked it and I think people should give it a chance. I get the impression that one of the main things driving down ratings is the association with Sweet Baby Inc., which fair enough I guess, though unlike many of such titles that involve nonsensical diversity-for-the-sake-of-diversity, this game does actually have an excuse. The Leap Year Society is (from the lore) a worldwide…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall I enjoyed the game. I received it free after purchasing an AMD CPU and played enough to get every achievement. I think where the game stands out more is in the quality of the script, dialogue and voice acting. I very much liked the story, the dialogue and text allude to a wider world that seems very well thought out and unique. It felt very much in line with an action/adventure game like the Uncharted series but with a deep lore that connects pretty well with the events in the game.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Play through edition. May never finish. +Story +Music +Collecibles and upgrade points +/- Some characters are kind of interesting -Pretty much no patch support anymore. Useless publisher. -Have to use full screen mode so you don't have a desktop mouse icon showing all the time with borderless mode. Which as you may have guessed, is very stupid and annoying. -Companion(s) can be very useless in combat -Main character can't use any weapons whatsoever outside of magic AM powers -Gearhead enemies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before I begin I would just like to say that I got this game for free when I bought my GPU and that I have completed the full game. This game has decent/good graphics depending on the type of person you are however the character models are pretty terrible. The combat is really repetitive however has its own aspects that are unique to this game. The best part about this game is the story. It is one of the better story games I have played and if you could find this game on sale or as part of a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to give this a Yes, but the first boss fight made me stop playing. Basically, i liked the game, even though it was to linear for my tastes. But the Boss fight was not only tedious, but glitched every single time, so i could not progress.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does deliver an engaging action adventure, but it curtails its potential at every turn, literally. It's death from a thousand paper cuts. The story and world-building are basically strong but they are riddled with gaps. You are expected to care about the characters but are given virtually no reason to feel anything at all about them. Even the protagonist's motivations are unclear. The game is brutally linear. On the one hand it encourages you to explore and find the collectibles,…
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