Konamiįor all of these reasons, I fired up the game, used my beloved Manchester City against small Belgian side Cercle Brugge and oh dear god I lost 1-0. As for this game, I figured it would the perfect entry point into the series, and I was excited to try out the various bells and whistles with fresh eyes. That’s a conversation for a different time, though. There is a conversation to be had about whether this should be the model for all sports sims - it is so hard for companies to come up with new, innovative games every year, they can oftentimes grow really stale because of this, and perhaps it might be wise to adopt a monster season update every other year so a new game can legitimately be new. This year’s edition is a season update as opposed to a standalone, gigantic release, and Konami responded to this by putting together a full game for $29.99. Playing PES offered a chance to try something completely new, and for a person in my shoes, it’s something new at a discounted price. There are only so many opportunities in the world of sports games when you can go into something completely new and unaware of everything - every NBA 2K release is pretty similar to the last, every Madden features little tweaks here and there, every edition of MLB The Show follows the formula that has made it a juggernaut. It’s part of why I wanted to review eFootball PES 2021 Season Update. As such, I had literally never played PES, save for one demo of PES 2019 for about two minutes before I realized how bad I was and decided to go, I dunno, read a book or something. It was, to be clear, a brand loyalty thing: Like someone who wants a Google Pixel but has always had iPhones, I just never really felt the urge to try and learn a new soccer game when I’ve known the intricacies of another for such a long time. That’s, uh, the end of the story.Īs you can tell from that abrupt tale that also spans about 23 years of existence, playing PES was never really in the cards. From that point on, I played a whole lot of FIFA. I used France a ton because they had this guy named “Zinedine Zidane” and he was extremely good. My evolution as a soccer gamer goes something like this: When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I got a FIFA game for my Nintendo 64. The first thing I notice with PES is that I really, really suck.
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