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Was really enjoying the initial vibes of this game. A really enjoyable style and mood for the first zone, and immediately after I'm bored and hardly care. I do understand the dichotomy theyre going for, the contrast between the soft, bright colors of the protagonist and her memories of her childhood home, but everything afterwards is obnoxiously stereotypical. Spikey purple bad guys. A dark, indistinguishable cityscape. A decent roguelike, but only worth consideration if you've already milked the fun out of half a dozen better ones.

Not entirely sure what the fanfare for these Two Point games is for, my best guess is this is what happens when fans of The Sims play something else. The only aspect of the game I find myself enjoying is the art style, which is cartoonish and bright, which really makes this game stand out from its life sim counterparts. Very average in all other aspects however, does about everything you could want a college simulation to do, minus all the unpleasant interactions with frat boys or melodramatic egirls.

A decent little way to spend an afternoon. In the grand scheme of simulation games, this one feels a bit simple and reductive. It strips down and simplifies the art of game development as a means of streamlining the experience, but in doing so, it cuts out a lot of the replayability and the players ability to create their own success stories, due to the fact that what is or isn't successful is determined by a set of hard and fast rules discovered by doing sales reports on prior titles. If you buy it on sale, you'll have a fun couple hours naming your games nasty sex puns or something, but I don't find too much entertainment value beyond that.

A fun way to spend a few hours, especially with friends or partners. The entertainment value seems to come from the entertaining ways you can fail, but it seems to be a bit disappointing that if you want to take the game seriously, the interconnection of things and the ways in which certain choices will effect certain parties are somewhat vague and nonsensical. The game is sincerely just raising and lowering number values, and ultimately, there's only so much entertainment value held within that mechanic.

A classic from my childhood, this game does not hold up that well honestly. The story is an exception due to the fact it takes risks and even in the current catalog of Call of Duty games, sticks out as one of the most inventive and different ideas for a story. The execution however, is where the faults begin to stick out. Perhaps it's just the PC port, but this game is not exceptionally good at telegraphing when an enemy is down for the count, or when he's just injured. Not only that, but several of the animations the enemies take when injured seem to temporarily negate any damage, as maybe a dozen instances, I watched bullets pass through the enemy as they stumbled about after being shot. It really breaks the immersion, but as I said, perhaps that's due to the port I was playing. The zombies mode also did not seem to hold up as well as I'd hoped, Kino der Toten was my favorite when I was younger, and going back to it did not have the magical reunion I was hoping for. A tragically underwhelming reunion overall, hoped the game had held up as well as I'd remembered.

I get the feeling that this game has been unfairly discounted by a majority of people, due to the fact this games release seemed to fly under most peoples radar, mine included. The game does have a number of disappointing flaws, from the repetition of the late game to the disjointed and flimsy story, but overall this was one of the most dense and interesting open worlds I've explored in a long time. Due to the nature of its crowded streets, it's not an exaggeration to say I was discovering something visually striking at nearly every corner I turned. Not only did they make Tokyo an interesting city to explore, but they settled on a modern yokai influence to the game, and created a combat flow revolving around switching between a small pool of magical finger guns to best approach the enemies. While the repetition does eventual drain the game of it's entertainment value, I think this is a really great game for a certain group of people, specifically, anyone that owns any type of anime girl merchandise.

This game was made solely for a very select group of people who grew up in the midwest from 1990-1997. This game was oddly personal to me in ways that is hard to explain. The story is dumb and convoluted in the most entertaining ways, something that feels exactly like it was made by an edgy 15 year old as a means of coping with the mundanity of his environment. It feels like stories I myself would have made ten years ago, and that coupled with the fact that the game never treats these self-insert power fantasies as embarrassing and instead embraces the type of teenage loner that would dream something like this up shows a lot of respect and reverence for a type of childhood fantasy that seems to have evaporated more than two decades ago.

The first quarter of the game really invests you with its mystery and world-building, as well as the meshing of first person shooter and rouge-like elements. Unfortunately, the potential falls flat on it's face after it's discovered very early on you can save weapons and skills from being reset for relatively little cost, and the puzzle of assassinating all targets within a single day becomes embarrassingly easy to solve. Stealth quickly proves itself to be useless and at that point, most of the levels turn into shooting galleries. The ending answers perhaps one or two of the biggest questions the player will have at the end, but most questions regarding anything regarding the timeloop are forgotten during an ending that lacks any sort of satisfying resolution. A charismatic lead, the world design, and a slightly interesting twist keep this game above mediocre long enough to make me disappointed the rest of the game couldn't live up to it's potential.

If you ever played Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal and wanted the diet version of that, this game is that all the way. The only aspects which this game might be able to stack up to those is that it does have a very good soundtrack. The game unfortunately pales in comparison to its peers, as the combat is made much worse by its rhythm based gameplay. I have to admit, this does seem as though this game was tailor made for a certain demographic, and as far as the type of game they made for the person who would want this, I have to admit they did very well, but I can't discount my personal taste, which made this a game very lacking in the departments that would leave it a memorable experience to me.

Overall, possibly the best of the current iteration of Shadow Warrior. That is due in part, however, to the fact it's nearly identical to Doom Eternal gameplay-wise. Picture Doom Eternal made on a budget and written by a team that thinks its funny to say things like **** or to reference Fast and the Furious. Yeah, it's humor is still bad, but at this point, it almost becomes part of it's charm. The gameplay as mentioned is doing everything it can to emulate Doom Eternal, but it's still fun regardless. I won't complain about playing dozens of Doom Eternal clones, that gameplay loop activates my ape brain in satisfying ways. Buy on sale, and skip the cutscenes.

An entertaining and high-speed shooter marred by some rather egregious and unnecessary looter elements. These elements drag the game down to a crawl at times, limit the utility of an expansive weapon list, and turn most of the late game into a a slog. The story and side content does nothing to help this offering either, as nearly every quest is an uninteresting cycle of going somewhere and shooting something. Genuinely the only thing elevating the game is its enjoyable combat, which does all of the heavy lifting and makes this remotely playable. The repetition of going somewhere uninteresting to shoot at something uninteresting is passable since the act of shooting that thing is overall satisfying.

A shooter lives and dies on it's ability to entertain, and this game does a fair job of that once it gets into the meat of the game. Some of the early levels are very slow and don't do much to show off the entertaining gunplay that will come later. There are some issues however, and that is that overall the game does not present anything whatsoever that will stick with anyone after the credits roll. There won't be any desire to go back for subsequent playthroughs as nearly everything worth experiencing is done in that first playthrough. Everything this game attempts to do, about ten other games do much better. There is also an unfortunate lack of anything worth noting or remembering the game for. No standout bosses, no memorable fights, arenas, or levels, and a story that at the end of the day, is just about as uninteresting and generic as it could have been. Amateurish, but shows promise, and I think that this studio can do much better in the near future.

A worse and overall more tedious addition to Dead Island. It reaches credits in about half the time, but wears out its welcome before it hits 5 hours in. I attribute that to the fact it's opening is not nearly as strong as the opening for the first entry was. The difficulty gets to be way more aggrivating much early as enemies will overwhelm you with numbers you don't have skills to sufficiently manage, with movement and defensive measures being about the same, with the addition of a few extra attack options and a few new weapon types. A few interesting missions do stand out, but otherwise, it's not as worthy as revisiting as it's predecessor.

The opening of this game absolutely hits, even over a decade later I still think this opening is really solid. It surprisingly manages to get the player invested, and the visuals of a tropical paradise torn apart by zombies is very striking. However, the later half of the game is trash. The difficulty is raised significantly by the fact that your character has no defensive capabilities despite the fact 80 percent of the game is focused on melee. Even the 'dodge' seems to be less of an actual mechanic and more of an unintentionally exaggerated backwards jump. This game goes from fun to being a chore incredibly quickly, and it never manages to pick the levels of enjoyment back up.

A shooter that barely rises above being completely mediocre because of it's self-aware and campy vibes and its buckets of blood. Don't even attempt however if you have no patience for annoying, unfunny comedy because this game heavily dates itself with references to memes and jokes that were long out of date, even when the game was released.

I didn't have much hope for this game from the beginning, as I don't personally get excited about certain studios releasing games, I get more excited about concepts than pedigree, and the lower amount of hype I had for this release probably kept me from rating it lower. To be clear, this is not a good game. At all. The visuals are miserably bland, the combat is frustratingly simple, the world is empty and boring, practically in all aspects a game can excel, this one stumbles. I would be lying however, if I said that it was awful. It's just not good, which is something people can't seem to understand these days. Also, 90 percent of the people reviewing this are getting it from gamepass, so they're definitely just being a bunch of babies.

A very mediocre shooter that time seems to have forgotten. The repeated reuse of assets, very bland and uninteresting locations and levels, and the disjointed story make this a bit of a relic, but if you're into cowboy shooters, this has plenty of blood and fun campy aspects to satisfy.

An intensely fun game, even to this day. The missions are not as varied or as memorable, but the game set the standard for all of the sequels after, by making it entertaining through its animations, audio, and addictive gameplay loop. Its intensely fun to snipe, explode, and mow down patches of enemies, and the combination of loud, powerful sounding weapons and reactive enemy wounding and killing animations make it a short but sweet experience.

My wife and I revisit this game frequently for a few hours at a time. Its rare she likes any game at all, so in the off chance I do find something she likes to play, I have to give it credit for drawing her in when she typically hates games

Tempted to rate it lower because I just felt like I couldnt stand to play anymore, but I can see how this would appeal to some. Dark Souls crossed with Dynasty Warriors, but it has the worst parts of both. Mountains of useless items that have their effectiveness determined by arbitrary item levels, mindless combat, braindead enemy ai, and horrible voice acting. This game could possibly be very fun for those who like the gameplay of both Dark Souls and Dynasty Warriors, but in the five hours I played, I found myself looking forward to playing less and less, until ultimately, I decided to drop it.

A retro inspired fps that has only a few noteworthy aspects. Decent level design, one or two interesting weapons, and fair but challenging enemy count and placement. The weapon variety, however, is slim, and most magical items are just things like Ye Olde Rocket Launcher or shotgun. Like, if youre doing an fps based on magic use, it feels like took the most boring route with it. Levels can also turn into slogs that will just drag. The game last just a little longer than my patience did, but I was still able to complete it before the experience turned into a chore.

Wasnt expecting Portal to hold up as well as everyone says it does, but this is genuinely a very fun time with some very well designed mechanics. This first entry does feel like a bit of a demo, with only the last chapter having any sort of challenge or interesting story beats, but its a very long chapter as well, and takes up what feels like 25 percent of the game compartively.

By no means is this a groundbreaking or genre defining game. This is Payday without all the wasted time, and while it doesnt have the depth either, it strips out all the worst parts that come with a deep and confusing meta and replace it with a repeatable rougelike, in which you learn that as frustrating as your mistakes are, very few of them will be detrimental enough to end a run.

A very good game, but I don't think its the masterpiece many claim it to be. There are some minor technical issues, which I encountered none of, but they cant be ignored. I dont like the addition of the crafting system and I think the addition of knife durability was a lame decision, as knife combat wasnt exactly OP enough to nerf in the OG, but I digress. I had a lot of fun playing this remake, and I think its well worth the asking price, which I dont say for many modern games.

A game I was really interested in playing because I constantly heard of its disturbing nature, but the disturbing content seems to be the surface level edgy content omocat became famous from. Oh man what if a cute little anime girl was throwing up slugs and bleeding from her eyes! Put that on a t shirt and charge 60 dollars for it. The perfect game for indie youtube channels to talk up like its the darkest and most **** up thing ever.

A quick summary of the three games included with this entry: Uncharted 1: Absolutely boring and generic third person shooter. Could have been saved if it had been a little more campy but it didn't embrace it's camp factor enough to be endearing. Uncharted 2: Shooting and movement get a huge improvement, but I have similar issues with the games story. The small hints of camp were not enough to save the story from being completely forgettable. If it weren't for the improvements in gameplay, I feel safe saying the series would have imploded. Uncharted 3: Genuinely great shooting and movement, finally feel like saying one of these games is worth playing because of it. The story does not fare any better than the first two, but at this point I'm not really expecting anything interesting to emerge from the soup of cliches and contrivances that this story is built out of.

A genuinely unnerving experience that uses the medium of visual novels in a way that's equal parts relatable and isolating. A short but sweet gem that ends just before the novelty of it begins to wear thin.

Absolutely, no questions asked, the best of the genre. Horde shooters are a dime a dozen in this day and age, all of them hoping to obtain even a fraction of the notoriety that this game holds. Some will temporarily come close, but all eventually crumble as they ham-fistedly force in live service mechanics and cosmetics. There's a reason this game has inspired so many imitators, do yourself a favor and play this and find out why.

Came for the premise, stayed for the stories. The gameplay of this game isn't exactly my typical bread and butter, but the artstyle and ideas conveyed hooked me. While I have to admit that the game doesn't exactly hold the stressful decision making that the first few hours demands of you, the stories this game tells are gripping and emotional, well worth the time spent investing into them. The stress of decision making is somewhat damped once you realize that all possible stories are available to approach at any time you see fit, the worry that you have to rush to complete these quests in a timely manner fades to the background. Certain quests require you to complete them in a certain amount of time, but these are very rare. Overall, an incredibly satisfying sci-fi adventure, packed with heart and emotion. Well worth the play.

A shooter this old should not hold up as well as Goldeneye does, but this game is still incredibly satisfying to play, even more entertaining than most modern shooters on the current market. I think it accomplishes this due to the diversity of locations and objectives, sound design, and npc animations. While a few segments don't live up to the legendary status of this game, the highs it offers even to this day are incredibly commendable.

I'm going to admit to several things that may make enemies for me, but I have to say it: An amazing premise and soundtrack have been tragically placed into one of the most mechanically barren and offputtingly designed game i've ever played. This game almost certainly appeals to someone, but that someone is a very specific someone. Someone whos favorite music is vaporwave, disliked the action segments in LA Noire, and loves JoJos Bizarre Adventure.

As someone who was a huge fan of the original games on the Playstation 2, I would have thought that this would have been an immediate must play, but unfortunately, this modern day rendition does not have the same magic as the early games. I thought this was due to the rose-tinted goggles of childhood, but I went back to Lego Star Wars 2, and still consider it to be a terrific entry level game for people of all ages. Was only able to make it through a few early missions before the unnecessary inclusion of open world-esque gameplay and congested menus convinced me to drop the title.

A huge step up from the last entry, Battlefield 3 is a game that stays fun to play from beginning to end. The story isnt exactly new or mind blowing, but thats not what people play these games for.

I have tried to get into this game so many times, and I just can't, I really can't. I have gotten feeling of discomfort and anxiety while playing this I don't think I will ever get from another video game ever, but I just can't invest myself in the story enough to care enough to keep playing.

A really tragic follow up to what was a really fun little parody game. How do you take the match-3 gameplay and turn it into an abysmal chore? It doesn't help that the goofy little dating sim mechanic of the first is turned into some nasty incels wet dream, turning all of the characters into glorified sex objects. Understandably, the first wasn't exactly innocent of this, but it had a more grounded approach to characterizing the female partners. Hunipop 2 is like 'this girl likes to drink milk cuz it looks like cum! Hur hur!'. Absolute cringe fest, the fact that this is a parody doesn't protect you from the need to have interesting characters.

Sometimes I worry that my tastes in games are a little too typical, but every now and then I find myself staring down the barrel **** that's critically adored, and I just can't gather enough enthusiasm to reach that level of appreciation. Hotline Miami is a game that does just that. This is a really tight and pulse pounding game, but ultimately, I don't really understand the hype the title garnered. To me, this is a title that could have easily been a free flash game ten years ago, I don't really understand the ways this has grabbed people.

A damn near perfect game that nails both the gameplay and cinematic aspects. It's both one of the most addicting and enjoyable combat loops of recent memory, and it presents a story that drew me in and kept me invested. An easy recommendation to anyone who enjoys gaming.

An incredible entry into the survival-horror genre, especially when considering this was a game made by only two people. Immerses the player in a mind-bending and horrific world in which you play as a robot setting out to keep her promise. I'll say no more than that, I'd recommend this game to anyone, even those not fans of the genre.

Kind of fascinating how this game will get you addicted for about three days, before you forget you even have it installed. Has a genuinely exciting gameplay loop for about five hours or so, and its sense of humor is honestly pretty funny. While it won't be something you'll come back to after getting about five of the endings or so, learn to rig the in-game stock market, and buy the largest storage compartment, it is a unique premise worth spending a few hours on.

An interesting way to tell a story, and one that feels as though it could only be done in this way. While I will admit that simply placing objects around a house doesn't exactly make me think award-winning gameplay, it is much more interesting than it has any right to be. If arranging household goods sounds like it interests you, you've probably already bought this game, and if it doesn't, I think you know this isn't a good match for you.

A genuinely engaging story that hooks you from beginning to end. It lacks a couple features I find would be necessary to make this a truly exceptional game, namely, the lack of any true 'gameplay' makes the game feel somewhat surface level. Regardless, I played through the entirety in one consecutive sitting, something that as a working adult I've come to appreciate. One could say it's simply an interactive movie, but sometimes, that's enough for me. Good story, interesting characters, and a mystery/tragedy that begs to be uncovered.

Yeah, it's cute I guess. I have no nostalgia for Mario, so I was hoping this game would be what made me see what all the Nintendo fanboys saw, the way that BotW made me accept that Zelda could be interesting, but to me, it's just a typical platformer. I get that they hardly make platformers anymore, but that's because a game about jumping challenges just doesn't capture the markets interest anymore. Give Mario a gun, then we'll talk.

Genuinely don't like this game. I have no tried to play it three different times and each time have given up within just an hour or two. This game is tedious as **** imagine a survival game that (at least in the early game) requires you to play exclusively in ten second bursts. That's what the oxygen system does to this game. Breaking up resource collection by forcing you to the surface constantly is such an annoying gameplay mechanic. I understand eventually you get bigger oxygen tanks, I understand that the hostile environment is meant to be punishing, but I'm unwilling to waste my limited time incrementally building some bigger tanks so I can spend more time underwater scanning stupid crap.

A game that kept me playing until the end, but doesn't hook me enough to drive for an 100 percent completion (which as someone with OCD is rare). Most everything just feels surface level, in the way that the moment-to-moment gameplay is amazing, but there isn't any teeth to really grab me past that.

I usually love World War 2 games, but something about this one just felt really hallow. I know that's not really the case, the semi-open world gives you so many ways to approach an objective, but that doesn't change the fact that the best tactic is to sit somewhere far away and one shot kill everyone. The AI doesn't seem good enough to engage the player at a distance, and the environments are made specifically with sniping in mind, so most of the time it just feels like a low-stakes shooting range.

Played this game every night for like two weeks with my wife, and she loved the **** out of it. It was a lot of fun, and I love couch coop games for the way they get my wife to take part in my favorite hobby with me.

I have desperately got to stop playing Fortnite. I love the style, I love the designs, I love the building, but god, it's just a time sink, I know this. I have got to stop playing Fortnite.

A really fun shooter that balances it's difficulty and power fantasy. Its early levels will be a breeze and you'll feel like a badass, but the difficulties in the later levels will be a genuine test of skill. A whole lot of fun that will keep you coming back every update.

One of like the three games my wife will actually play. It genuinely is a load of fun, so long as you don't play it a crazy amount. Once you've beaten every cup, the repetition can get grating if you let it.

A very addicting game when you're doing the 100% grind and logging on every day, but the minute you take a step back and realize how pointless the things you're doing and how long it will take you, it becomes pretty disheartening. A cute game, but plenty of games are cute. Animal Crossing is just a time sink, plain and simple.