Any review that says pistols are useless did not play the game, did not level up EVER, is a bad player, etc. Pistols RULE the game. Chain shot is probably the single most powerful skill in the game. Final bosses ... couple of chain shots and done.
Stealth - again, they did not invest in it, thus I wonder if they EVER leveled up?? What could they possibly have put points in?? Toughness and tech skill and . . . Martial arts maybe? Then tried to play as a shooter with no skills in any weapons?
Granted it would be VERY hard to never kill, etc. in the game, but as for stealth being useless?? I can't see that, I used it all the time and rarely ever had an alarm go off in a mission.
So once I see that I just disregard the entire review.
Agree with you. I think the majority of reviewers didn't finish the first mission and wrote a lot of nonsense review only to bash AP.