Tromatojuice

Another indie that kicks AAA asses. Sure, the visual bit is not as sleek, but cleverly compensated with a great DA and some interesting puzzle. The main issue I had with this game is that it was a little bit longer than I would have liked.

The console port suffers a little bit: using the gamepad is not always pleasant. On top of that, some connection from one room to another are sometimes really hard to spot. Other than that, this is a good old school survival adventure game, if you don't mind the trappings of the genre.

If you're not interested in interactive narration, this one is a pass. If you love great stories, **** Science Fiction, sick DA and don't mind the lack of liberty, you'll have a blast.

An interesting RPG with a fairly well-written narrative and a great world building. It gets a little confusing and overly rich at time perhaps, losing some potency in trivial side quests. And the combat loop lacks depth and variation.

Good nostalgia kick, but the gameplay loop has seriously aged, and the fact that you can get to the ending and get stuck because you didn't pick up specific items during your run is a little mind boggling. An interesting product of a very different gaming era. Worth checking out when on sale.

I came here for the nostalgia, but I stayed for the add-ons. First it took me an hour or two to remap the control to my liking. Then a few more to accept that maybe I should downgrade the difficulty level. Once that set, I had a blast in the main campaign. Finished all episodes and was pretty happy about it. Then out of curiosity I checked the add-on. Marrow is a masterpiece, that is a lot better than a lot of current gen FPS. The level design is amazing, the ambiance is sick... in a nutshell, this alone justifies paying full price for this refreshed supply.

The gameplay loop might not be the most original I've seen, and that's perfectly OK. The story, including lore and background, though... it's amazing. It touches on topics rarely handled by games and does so in a clever and gentle way. One of my favorite game of the year.

Oh boy! Is this game punishing or what?! While the remaster is visually amazing and feels right at home, the old school mechanics (i.e. you'd better pay attention to your environment, or you'll be doing a loooot of back and forth) might feel excessively hardcore. Once again, thank you so much to Nightdive studios. Y'all rule!

It somewhat scratched a hitch for old shooter. However, I did not finish it because the progression is sluggish and the narration... not compelling to say the least. The structure in small zones where you're pummeled with wave after waves of enemies felt tedious after a few hours. After 11 hours I quit. The difficulty spikes with the repetitive encounter just got the best of me.

Loved the story. It's basically a visual novel. Still, I wish the game offered some voice acting to make it even more immersive.

Loved the story. It's basically a visual novel. Still, I wish the game offered some voice acting to make it even more immersive.

I remember trying to play the original on the family PC as a teen... but the game barely ran on it and kept crashing. 30 years later, I can finally play the cult classic in all it's glorious remastered beauty. While some of the mapping is a little frustrating on a console, it's still good enough to spoil the game. What I found the most interesting was how the whole gameplay and play flow is dated. Not in the "outdated" sense, but in the sense that the game has some mechanics that have almost entirely disappeared from recent games (e.g. even in "normal" setting, the game is extremely punitive, there is no quest markers and sometimes not even clear instruction). So I got frustrated, used walkthrough, still got even more frustrated. Was it worth it? Hell yeah. Will I ever play it again? Hell no. Regardless, I can't thank Nightdive studio enough for bringing cult games back to us.

I can't remember how this game ended in my backlog. Maybe from aKickstarter? Anyway, after months I decided to give it a shot. First attempt: gave up after 15minutes. Second attempt, spent +2h and decided it was not for me. I enjoyed the pixel art, what I understood from the story seemed a little overcomplicated but **** gameplay loop is what got me. It's mostly moving forward while whacking buttons with not much subtlety. The RPG aspect is only about increasing weapons skills - but that doesn't really change the loop. So this gets boring pretty fast

Still plays OK after all these years, but I found the colonialist - the-empire-is-always-right agenda of the solo campaign quite hard to swallow. And the B movie flair doesn't help at all, it just makes it more obvious and painful.

I'll be short. If you've searched around forums and discussion board, you may have heard about this infamous car chase scene. After spending 25 very enjoyable hours with the game, I was served with a long a tedious fight (takes about 10 to 15 minutes to go through) that ends... with the dread car chase scene. One of these shooter scenes that was popular in games a decade ago - god knows why, because they seem to only be frustrating. In this case, the shooter sequence is beyond frustrating, punishing to a fault, and may make you vomit as the camera keeps swinging to make things harder. I gave it a good try (10 attempts or so) but eventually, I gave up. No game is good enough to be worth going through such a pile of crap. Oh and did I mention you can't save at any point? So if you quit, you'll start the whole chapter from the beginning (the 15 minutes fight included). Dreadful and insulting.

If you walk into this game with the right expectations, you're in for a treat. The game sports some beautiful pixel art, a tight story, and some cool music. But the gameplay itself is somewhere between a visual novel and side scrolling point & click. You also won't be challenged much. Now if these are not deal breakers to you, treat yourself to this amazing interactive story.

This hasn't aged well. The concept merely being run forward, blast everything that comes your way, and try to survive the nuisance that are thrown your way for variation (too many enemies, platform sections that are as painful as can be, dark room where you can't see enemies, etc.). I'm a **** for FPS but this is just plain bad. I've played the first two episodes so far, and gave up each one after a couple of hours. It's just frustrating : the difficulty is all over the place with close to no learning curve. So even if you overcome a hairy section of the level, you might not think "oh yeah, I was good!" but rather "hugh, what other stupid challenge comes next?"

A really fun and exotic FPS. If you're looking from something that doesn't involve butchering zombies or demon with a 60 weapon arsenal, then this might be for you. Exploration of beautiful biomes, crazy creatures and a lot of humor make this game perfect if you need to change your mind. Let's say you're locked down home due to a worldwide pandemics, or something. Can't go anywhere? Then why not spend a few hours with this light hearted game? You wont regret.

Amazing art direction is all I can say. From the music to the visuals, from the story to the characters who inhabit it, everything spells "awesome". I finished it, and immediately went for a second run of the game. Now, can we get all the other games from SuperGiant on Xbox please?

More bugs and collision errors than I can count. The controls are clunky and annoying. The characters do weird repositioning routines to perform most actions... And yet, it's quite endearing. Probably because it doesn't take itself too seriously.

Playing the "nostalgy" card loud and clear, Pumpkin Jack fails to hide its many flows: - highly repetitive - recipe type of game (every single environment is split the exact same way systematically offering two annoying "races" and "head" minigames, then a boss with 3 layers to it.) - slipery controls - not original one bit The only thing that saves it is it's artistic direction that will appeal to those who enjoyed platformers in the late 90s.

I've reached the final level ("Boss") and here's what I think of the game. The visual are cute and compelling, there's definitely been a lot of work made by the art department. The storytelling is wonderful, emotions are nicely conveyed. The puzzles are "meh", which for a puzzle game is a little disappointing. I would have liked puzzles to be more complicated and more involving. But this is where it really stings: somehow, platformer phases were worked in the game, and those are frustrating. And once you get to the final boss, you'd better have nerves of steel or you might send the pad out the window. It's not hard, it's not punitive, it's just plain madness. The gameplay doesn't work for the platformer phases and gets you out of the story.

A terribly fun game, and so far the second best game of the year IMO. Don't expect too much of the RPG part, you'll just level up and max out pretty quickly. The fights are somehow tedious, but you get the hang of it pretty quickly, as long as you don't bother trying to lock on enemies. The real strength of the game is in the over the top ridiculous story and visuals, the tongue in cheek tone and its environmental comment. I had so much fun, I wish it was longer, and the RPG part a little more involved.

The amazing art and story telling makes it only more painful that the game controls are so random. The fights are multiple and don't require much skills. You just do your best and try to not get too frustrated at the randomness of things. Such a beautiful and interesting game, it could have been a masterpiece if only the gameplay had been licked a little.