Welcome to Backlog Conquering. This is a series were i play a game from my backlog that i may or may not have played before. the goal isn't necessarily to finish the game, the goal is to play it. that way, i can have an opinion about it.
Our new game is the PlayStation 4 version of Anthem. i have previously played around 5 hours of this game back in 2019, but i stopped playing once EA announced they weren't going to update the game. The main reason for picking up Anthem now is that the game servers are going to be turned off on January 12th 2026. I started recording these videos before the servers were taken down so from Part 5 onwards, these will go live on YouTube AFTER the servers have been shut down. You can't play Anthem anymore as the game doesn't have an off-line mode, it was online only.
I had hoped that the game's stopping our progress in the story was over, but unfortunately it happened again in Part 9. to progress the story this time, a new character was introduced and we had to do tasks for her. it was obvious that she wasn't telling us the whole truth so when things went south it wasn't much of a surprise. By the end i was invested in what was happening and then it's dropped by the game. i wanted to know where they had been, how long it had been for them, what happened that day, and yet the game says thanks for saving them, gives us the item we need, and moves us along. i ended this part going shopping and still needing some items to continue the games story. at the very least, this pause in the story was handled and integrated into the main story better than what happened in parts 7 and 8.
Check out previous parts:
Part 1 - https://youtu.be/A9yTrycU5gk
Part 2 - https://youtu.be/e8-wLS1CmN8
Part 3 - https://youtu.be/n-V3VDh_cJQ
Part 4 - https://youtu.be/kgWj3TeJWXg
Part 5 - https://youtu.be/ujvrBZeRZOI
Part 6 - https://youtu.be/OaOLQf336ZQ
Part 7 - https://youtu.be/ivTkSJ9nJGg
Part 8 - https://youtu.be/CV1P3tc7pOs
