Останні рецензії користувача ZekeDMS

Despite my best efforts to avoid spoilers, I still fell victim to some. I went in knowing more about the game than I wanted to, but decided to just go in anyway.

Turns out I didn't know jack about crap despite having had so much thrown at me, and even if I did the way the story unfolds is extremely worth it.

I don't know if I'd call it scary necessarily - but Slay the Princess is an exceptionally written and performed tale that is profoundly uncomfortable, unsettling, and unknown full of hate, fear, rage, and love. It's rare I enjoy a visual novel, but this absolutely hit the spot.

My only complaint is that the controller support is very much lacking, and I hope that's fixed at some point so the experience is more easily shared on a TV with loved ones I want to distress.

I think I'm fundamentally different as a person after finishing this game.

I think I might be one of two people who doesn't actually enjoy the game. It's good, really! If you want a simple zone out game it's probably the best there is. I wanted something more akin to Smash TV or Crimsonland. Did I expect the wrong thing? Yes. Did I get bored after a level ran for 15 minutes on my fifth playthrough? Extremely. It's a well made, well supported game and I hated it.

If you're a normal person this is great, if you're the kind of lunatic to beat Insanity mode on the original Mass Effect, move on.

Do you like gorgeous dark comic art with heavy gothic influences? Gritty narrators and memorable dialogue? Turn based strategy but mixed with the sort of suffering you see in X-Com and Dark Souls? Then this is perfect for you.

Atom Zombie Smasher is easy to pick up, occasionally absurdly difficult, and always keeps you on your feet. While the destination is always the same, the journey is different every time and easily customized to your liking.

A simple interface and quick action makes it a great choice for a bit of real time strategy in bursts or marathons.

Remember how good Serious Sam was? How tense the comabt was, how frantic, how perfectly paced the whole experience was between tension and "OH HELL YES" with occasional "OH NO" moments?

That's not what you get in Serious Sam 2.

I've never been able to explain it, and I still can't, but Serious Sam 2 just doesn't work. Where Sam was fast and furious, 2 is cheesy and repetitive. The enemies rarely feel unique and they never feel threatening; just powerless rehashes of what you loved before. The game's town is goofy in a distinctly unfun way that fails to match the tone of the original, and the humor felt out of date and even uncomfortably racist even in 2005 (in that classic European "ha ha! Africans and Asians are so weird looking" way).

Vehicle sections and turret sections don't help, nor does the lives system. In reality, they sum up that the game just doesn't work as well as its predecessor, creating an alternative to just having a startlingly well balanced FPS where players can take on absurd enemies with just a revolver. It seems like rather than focus on fixing the weapons and flaws with enemies to make them memorable and fun, the solution was just "add more to the arena. No, wait, that's too many. Put a vehicle in. Okay, it's too easy now, add something huge that you'd previously fight on foot but now we have to balance it to fight a vehicle with 500 HP and the capacity to kill normal enemies in one shot."

It's not that it's a bad game, honestly, it's just good - espeicially as a sequel to a genuine throwback FPS masterpiece.

It's goofy in line with Twisted Pixel's sensibilities, it's an okay button masher with a bit of dodging and QTE, and it crashes damn near every time it writes to the hard drive. Checkpoint? Crash. Upgrade? Crash. Trip to the options menu? Crash.

I was starting to find some fun with it, but after my fourth crash - minimum - in under 30 minutes, I'm done.

I heard some bad jokes, made some friends, made some enemies, made some enemies into friends, sent a dog to college, discovered horrible truths about the world, cried a lot.

Prepare your feelings for devastation - even if you get it all right.

Also prepare your arrow-key fingers because holy hell some of those attack/defense sequences can be tough, but it's all very worth it.

I really was hesitant about Proteus, as I've a...less than stellar opinion with many "art" games. Particularly those in the vein of Dear Esther and The Path. The "look and listen, but never interact. See things that don't really mean anything" sort. The graphical style, another "8-bit" game left me worried as well. Yet another pretentious faux throwback?

Well, as much as one could call Proteus that, it ends up on an entirely new level of beautiful. The music your journey creates is remarkable, and the pixels really do fall away into something greater.

After some time wandering around, not quite getting it, I happened upon an animal. It made some sounds, it reacted to me. I laughed a little, and looked for more. More flowers. More creatures. More trees. More things.

As I started to understand what was happening, I began to appreciate it and really get into it - and then the game threw little surprises at me still.

This game is completetly about the experience. The sounds, the sights, the little moments of recognition/understanding.

It's a wonderful experience, if you'll take the ride. Far more than I'd have expected.

At a bit under an hour, it's not a long or even complex experience - but it's a good one.

Boring as hell shooter with an IAP shop. Pass.