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Tamarin is small and cute, it has a very particular charm to it. Even though the environments look nice and relaxing the game won't let you walk away without a bit of a challenge. The game is an interconnected world split into jet force gemini and banjo kazzioe styles of gameplay. The music is great, and the game fun to play, overall well worth your time, give it a shot if you are in the mood for a classic 3d platformer/shooter from the n64 rare days

Tamarin is small and cute, it has a very particular charm to it. Even though the environments look nice and relaxing the game won't let you walk away without a bit of a challenge. The game is an interconnected world split into jet force gemini and banjo kazzioe styles of gameplay. The music is great, and the game fun to play, overall well worth your time, give it a shot if you are in the mood for a classic 3d platformer/shooter from the n64 rare days

Mankind Divided is excellent but felt disappointing and left a bad aftertaste. Instead of delivering an enjoyable ride with a dynamic and rich story, the game focused on promoting it's unpublished sequels by stalling the main quest with filler and cliff hangers. For a game with a universe that has a magnitude that rivals the one of Half-Life, to deliver a the same amount of story of Doom 2016, left me feeling robed of the main reason I bought the game. As for every other aspect of the game it's excellence incarnated, but very hard to enjoy.

The new Doom has a lot of legacy to live up to. My two first hours of the game were checking if everything was in place. The gameplay feels amazing, it the old 90's power trip were you get to discharge all of your adrenaline by shooting monsters with awesome weapons. There are plenty of secrets and Easter eggs and massive maps to explore. The graphics are breathtaking, and immersive. Even living up to it's "outaded" legacy Doom is a 2016 title that holds on it's own.

People are just too harsh these days, I feel that LoS2 is being a victim of media guided mass conformity lashing out on a game that is really fun to play, just because the stealth system could be better and critics don’t seem to like vampire and robot fantasies mixed up. This game is a solid 8.5 up to a 9.7. Allow me to elaborate, (a lot) LoS2 picks up flawlessly from its predecessor’s cliff-hanger where we see a self loathing vampire Gabriel Belmont being thrown away from a cathedral on a modern day world setting. The game starts grand with the epic fight of the paladin mech that gets us in to the fighting mood straight away. The story is as good as it can possibly get, the amount of plot holes and character awkwardness has been reduced to a minimum. Castlevania titles have been coming out since 1986, this is 28 years of ethos mutation that still manages to retain the concept of "player kills Werewolf, Frankenstein Monster, Medusa and Vampire in a journey to Dracula's castle. Having in mind the vamp trends I've been witnessing during the past decade, this story is actually pretty tasteful. The graphics are sublime the concept art is awe inspiring and the game plays wonderfully. The game animations are clear enough to know when to parry or dodge an attack. A vast and comprehensive move set is available to us to engage in fun and exciting battles either you are button masher or technical player. Having said this I feel that the game falls short on the stealth sections, LoS2 would have absolutely nailed the game play if they had stealth like Dishonored. The upgrade system is cleverly designed and the platform sections are really great fun. When you die you don't have to go throw a 10 second death animation instead you are immediately teleported to the last checkpoint with a health reduction as a slap in the hand. The Zelda open world approach is a welcomed addition although I miss the linearity of LoS1 where we could jump from anywhere from the story line and play from there. But alas some elements have to leave to give room to others. So in conclusion: Great graphics, great combat system, great platform level design, great game play apart of an "incomplete" stealth system. The modern day city setting was the selling point of LoS1 ending and let’s face it most of us endured worse vampire plots on daytime tv for the sake of sub par mature content. Vampires are a fantasy and sometimes your own might not be the same that the designers had in mind. So don't let this and shallow stealth system ruin a great game that can result in countless hours of fun. The game took in a lot and delivered.