Recente recensies door Jellyghost

It's great! It doesn't outstay its welcome and stays pretty consistent with its design. It's not quite on the level of Hollow Knight, and there are definitely a few dips once every few hours, but the art design alone makes it worth playing through.

Sega said ACAB twice and then forgot these games existed. I think everybody should play it at least once.

It's dumb fun, but the stylization it sells itself on makes it worth playing as a secondary chaser to other, better classic shooters. I didn't feel compelled to finish it, but I still think highly of it!

It's ok, but pales in comparison to 90% of the other boomer shooters in every aspect, so I can't recommend it

It's a classic for a reason!

I think this is the perfect sequel, it takes every single element of its predecessor and ramps it up a notch. It's such a natural progression, down to the architecture and technology, and takes further strides with its mechanics to challenge the player in ways that feel totally fresh and fair. It's all the best parts of Thief, but more!
The immersive sim elements are taken a step further, and missions will provide more unique player-driven goals than the previous game's more linear "get object and leave" objectives. Within the first few missions in T2 we get an "escort" mission that plays surprisingly unintrusive, a "grab as much money as you can" sandbox with optional secret bonuses, and a heist that challenges you to ghost as much as possible, with penalties to knock-outs and kills. The level designs are better, the tech is interesting and is actively shown being integrated into the world, and the puzzles have a lot more variety.

I think it's diminutive to call a game good with the only citation being that it's "like Twin Peaks," whatever that means in the moment, but Paratopic mimics such a wonderful Lynchian disturbia that I can't help but give it the old comparison treatment, even if it's technically closer to the vibes of Lost Highway mixed with something more cryptic and conspiratorial.
Baseline, Paratopic is a great game. It's short, atmospheric, and I've thought about it a lot ever since I played it.

While it may be less accessible for a modern gaming crowd than its contemporaries, the impact of Thief's design is visible in every mechanical decision. It may take a little while to get used to, and the levels may be hit or miss (it gets much more fun once you're back in the town), but obviously it's hard to deny that this is one of the most important games ever made, and still holds up for the most part.
I miss when this worldbuilding was more commonplace, I absolutely love the dark steampunk soft fantasy atmosphere and the feeling that you never knew what could come at you next.

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Devs have been updating frequently and fixing a lot of the issues I had with the earlier versions. What really makes the game special is the atmosphere and art direction, it's a fantastically original world and an AMAZING follow-up to LH's previous game, The Night is Darkening!
I see a lot of comparisons to Dark Souls and Morrowind, but I think comparing this to any other game does it a disservice and sets up false expectations of it being bigger than it needs or intends to be. When I think of dark fantasy, this and Lunacid are exactly what I want out of the games industry.