It doesn’t help that the menus bring quirks that don't just hinder, but hurt the user experience. Yes, the songs that play in the background are now a little less ear-offending than before, yet place PES next to FIFA 20’s predictably slick, Sky Sports-aping presentation and this really is a ‘Champions League vs Johnstone Paint Trophy’ scenario. Even after a facelift, the menus are pretty bad a forlorn love letter to an era of awful PS2 menu music and cluttered formation screens. If you put a lot of stock in an alluring user experience, you’ll probably have a few gripes with PES 2020 (which I refuse to stop calling it, Konami).
