Recent reviews by Jackie Brown

Been playing this for a week now after I bought it on discount for the wintersale. Here's my review:

Pros:
- Very interesting story. I tend to get bored fast with most games but this is one of the few games that actually keeps me interested. Well done.
- Good graphics.
- Large world, lots of quests/possibilitites
- Cool combat features
- Gwent is nice
- Moddable
- Affordable, I bought the full pack for 20€, in hindsight I wouldn't have minded to pay even some more
- No major/blocking bugs so far

Cons:
- Non-intuitive: Interface has a hard learning curve
- Witcher 2 reference when starting a new game, some explanation would be nice. Throughout the game you get more of these situations where some explanation would also be useful
- Controls are sometimes not responsive
- Some minor bugs, e.g. randomly disabled controls which require reload
- Failed quests: Sometimes quests can fail even though there is no warning or whatsoever, for instance just by straying too far from a certain area. This is pretty annoying for those who'd like to complete all quests or just want to collect their reward but find themselves with empty hands because they didn't know that doing another quest first somehow blocks the other (e.g. following the thread at the end).

Overall:
I am not very happy with this non-intuitiveness where as mentioned the players are sometimes left clueless and they impact the story or fail quests without having been able to know. Other than that, this game is really amazing and is probably one of the best singleplayer RPG games I've ever played together with Skyrim.

8.5/10

General: This game is quite addictive, which makes it good in my opinion. I used to love POC, so I was happy to find this game which seemed to be an upgraded POC. It turns out it's worth the money for sure.

Pros:
- Interesting campaigns with variety of duelists and decks.
- Challenging AI, although they always use the same deck.
- Thousands of cards available to create your own fully-customized deck.
- Good shop system, rare cards are indeed rare.

Cons:
- I never really understood this battlepack mode, it's a bit weird and not really self-explanatory.
- A couple of cards seem to be a bit buggy. (eg. Backfire, inferno reckless summon)
- Some cards are overpowered, whereas some innocent cards are restricted.
- Xyz, synchro and pendelum monsters kill the game for those who prefer oldschool yugioh. These cards can be summoned to the field way too easily and are way too overpowered with all kinds of effects to which you can barely defend yourself.
- No drawing if you are first to go. Wtf?
- Multiplayer could be improved a lot:
++ Players use too many overpowered cards (There are some restrictions, but funny enough raigeki is allowed)
++ Small player base
++ No punishment on forfeiting (and no win for the remainer either)
++ Your rank is based on the amount of wins only. Why not also record losses and introduce a rating system?
++ Add an option to fight without xyz, synchro and pendulum
++ Lobby system: Why not just add a queue that automatically finds you an opponent and sets up a duel for you? Saves waiting in a lobby with afk players.
- DLCs: Seem too expensive to buy them all

Pros:
- This was one of my favorite games in my childhood and I'm glad it's available on Steam
- Campaigns are interesting and somewhat challenging

Cons:
- For normal games, the AI is quite weak and poses little challenge, even on the highest difficulty
- No multiplayer (I know it said single player, but why not add multiplayer?)
- No other modes like Stratego 4

There used to be a different version of Stratego made by Hasbro (not on Steam) which I consider superior to this game with more modes and better graphics. Therefore I have to say I may be slightly disappointed with this game but it's still worth to get it if it's on discount.

Nice little story about a young woman looking for her sister in their own house.

Pros:
- Good graphics
- Interesting story
- Nice exploration opportunities with various clues
- Spooky atmosphere for those who like horror

Cons:
- Short, maybe too short (like 2 - 5 hours gameplay approx.)
- Price: 20€ is too much. I got this on discount for 5€, but still unsure whether it was actually worth it
- There is a bug that the mouse may not always be centered and this can cause hassle if you want to interact with objects. This may subsequently cause motion sickness
- Linear story
- One can get a bit lost while playing, figuring out what to do next but as soon as you get the hang of it it'll be self-explanatory

Summarized: I will leave a positive recommendation, but it's not worth the 20€. Get it for 5€ or lower if it's on sale, and I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy your time.

One more thing: This is not like Slender. Despite a spooky atmosphere you will not come across ghosts or any scary/nasty surprises. So don't worry.

Great game, good graphics, gameplay, particularly combat is well done. I like fast travel too. Few points of (slight) criticism though:

- Horse riding can do with a small tweak, make it slightly more ergonomical (-1)
- Followers sometimes get lost randomly and with some script you gotta find them back, there goes half of your inventory sometimes. Can also be organised slightly better (-2)
- Controls and functions aren't very clear, there could be slightly more done about explaining how things work and what you can actually do ingame. Like took me long to find out that you first had to crouch before the pickpocket option would show up...
- Most important is that I miss the challenge once all quests have been done, there's little more you can achieve and little more to do whilst in a game world like Skyrim you'd sure want to stick in after you're "done" with the business.

Multiplayer mode in a Skyrim-like world would be cool, but that requires a lot of thinking as the game is definitely singleplayer based (love the pause-so-you-can-use-potion-and-switch-weapons).

Lovely game, great play and amazing concept. Only disadvantage is that the community is immature, flaming and calling you things like noob, feeder, "this person does clearly not know how to play X" if you die once and that is quite disturbing. Also if you want to play on a European server there's a big chance that you play with Russians that don't know English (and often neither know how to play the game or fail to play as a team). 8/10

It's a nice game, with lots of awesome gamemodes, good graphics, interesting tactical teamplay, but only one thing that really bothers me is the way of aiming. It does sometimes happen that if you shoot an entire clip at someone standing 10 meters away of you that you die and you don't even hit him. So people that are used to playing other fps games might experience some trouble getting used to this weird way of aiming. Anyway if you like action it's a nice game to spend your time with. 7.5/10