Best for menu usability
Absolum
5.0 feature score
Highest scored product for this feature based on supporting review evidence.
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Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
5.0 feature score
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
9 supporting reviews
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Hades II
4.5 overall score
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Menu usability received positive support for sleek, easy navigation.
Pros: mission design, world interactivity
Cons: quest design, endgame content
Menu usability is praised through the clean, easy-to-navigate interface that removes friction around fast travel and play.
Pros: graphics quality, environmental detail
Cons: bug frequency, dialogue quality
Menus and navigation are praised for being awesome and easier to use than prior collection workflows.
Pros: emotional impact, sound design
Cons: cross-play support, boss design
Menu usability receives positive evidence from reviewers who liked quick hub/loadout feedback and minimal menu friction.
Pros: bug frequency, user interface design
Cons: HUD clarity, mission design
Menu usability was praised as simple and easy to navigate.
Pros: atmosphere, voice acting
Cons: world interactivity, camera behavior
Menu usability is praised for cleaner maps and easy vehicle sorting.
Pros: open-world design, replay value
Cons: dialogue quality, writing quality
Menu usability is improved overall, especially radial menus and reworked menus, though some still found systems fiddly or clunky.
Pros: animation quality, facial animations
Cons: quest design, AI behavior
Menu usability is generally positive for clean systems, though character switching through menus was a noted friction point.
Pros: environmental detail, cross-save support
Cons: writing quality, enemy variety
Menu usability improved post-launch through better relic filtering options.
Pros: emotional impact, visual effects quality
Cons: crash stability, cross-play support
Menu usability has limited positive evidence around in-world shops, which one reviewer preferred over buying from a grid.
Pros: pacing, core gameplay loop
Cons: companion AI, map and navigation design
Menu usability was generally positive thanks to quality-of-life tools, though some reviewers found navigation old or menu-jumping cumbersome.
Pros: controls responsiveness, onboarding experience
Cons: crash stability, grind level
Menu usability improves through camo shortcuts, radial menus, and snappier access, though some reviews still criticize healing or control-menu friction.
Pros: world interactivity, sandbox freedom
Cons: crash stability, learning curve
Menu usability was mixed, with praise for tracking but complaints about Arts/menu friction and inaccurate or issue-prone menus.
Pros: protagonist appeal, art direction
Cons: camera behavior, tutorial quality
Menu and inventory usability was mixed, with praise for loot filters but criticism of the small inventory and missing gem bag.
Pros: lore depth, art direction
Cons: mission variety, protagonist appeal
Menu usability is mixed, balancing an intuitive car collection display against bloated menus.
Pros: controls responsiveness, movement feel
Cons: tutorial quality, animation quality
Menu usability improved in many places but still drew complaints for cumbersome navigation or small/hard-to-read text.
Pros: emotional impact, polish
Cons: bug frequency, crash stability
Menu usability has a small caveat: one reviewer struggled to locate item sub-menus, though it did not meaningfully hurt the experience.
Pros: skill tree depth, dialogue quality
Cons: emotional impact, economy and resource balance
Menu usability was a major tradeoff, with streamlining praised but DigiFarm/evolution menu separation and training menuing often criticized.
Pros: atmosphere, world-building
Cons: HUD clarity, fast travel convenience
Menu usability was mixed, with some finding the mental map useful but several calling it fiddly, finicky, cluttered, or disorganized.
Pros: world-building, world interactivity
Cons: enemy variety, stealth mechanics
Menu usability is mixed: one loot process is streamlined, but other reviewers find respec and gear menus annoying or time-consuming.
Pros: core gameplay loop, controls responsiveness
Cons: mission design, learning curve
Menu usability was mixed, with one reviewer criticizing melee switching and another wanting clearer difficulty-slider explanations.
Pros: environmental detail, polish
Cons: camera behavior, value for money
Menu usability is mixed to negative because the lobby hub often replaces a straightforward menu and makes simple mode selection feel cumbersome.
Pros: movement feel, world-building
Cons: save system reliability, mission variety
Menu usability has a notable complaint around the lack of saveable loadouts for equipment and Materia setups.
Pros: world-building, art direction
Cons: mission design, stealth mechanics
Menu usability had a quality-of-life concern around the inability to skip repeated intros and cutscenes in alpha.
Pros: immersion, frame rate stability
Cons: user interface design, bug frequency
Menu usability had limited negative evidence, focused on hidden information and unclear equipment-screen navigation.
Pros: value for money, fun factor
Cons: map and navigation design, side character depth
Menus and stash handling were one of the most common frustrations, especially on console and between raids.
Pros: frame rate stability, platform-specific feature support
Cons: voice acting, writing quality
Menu usability had some friction, especially around settings, friends, and navigation.
Pros: movement feel, art direction
Cons: platforming precision, writing quality
Menu usability was a repeated drawback, especially when managing long Picto and Lumina lists.
Pros: monetization fairness, microtransaction impact
Cons: platforming precision, menu usability
Menu usability was mixed to negative, with some praise for navigation but others calling the menu system dire or frustrating.
Pros: soundtrack quality, fun factor
Cons: checkpoint system, family friendliness
Menu usability has a specific criticism around a hard-to-see reticule and low-contrast text.
Pros: movement feel, environmental detail
Cons: puzzle design, age appropriateness
Menu usability was a recurring complaint on controller and Switch, with reviewers criticizing cursor-based menus, small text, and lack of button navigation; one PC-focused review found the menu effective.
Pros: accessibility options, protagonist appeal
Cons: frame rate stability, polish
Menu usability was one of the weaker areas, with repeated complaints about confusing, buried, or hard-to-use menus.
Pros: art direction, cross-play support
Cons: dialogue quality, monetization fairness
Reviewer evidence is negative or mixed: menu usability was often criticized, even where some reviewers found redeeming moments across 6 review(s).
Pros: level design, replay value
Cons: stealth mechanics, save system reliability
Menu usability is one of the clearest weak spots, especially online room menus and organization.
Pros: emotional impact, animation quality
Cons: enemy variety, server reliability
Menu usability was criticized, especially bloated or annoying character and costume selection screens.
Pros: animation quality, sound design
Cons: difficulty balance, AI behavior
Menu usability was a recurring complaint, especially around messy inventory management, tiny icons, and awkward item handling.
Pros: voice acting, emotional impact
Cons: family friendliness, menu usability
Menu usability had a clear complaint from one reviewer who found the selected main-menu option hard to distinguish.
Pros: writing quality, checkpoint system
Cons: menu usability, user interface design