Recent reviews by Luenkun

👾 Bayonetta (🇯🇵 2009)

With Bayonetta, Hideki Kamiya took the concept he started with Devil May Cry during his Capcom days, and applied it to a universe filled with witches and creatures from Christian mythology delivering a top tier action game with plenty of humor and a charismatic lead.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 👼👼👼👼👼

👾 Metro: Last Light (🇺🇦/🇲🇹 2013)

Second installment based on the science fiction book series Metro 2033. This one is more focused in action than in narrative, making it more challenging. It’s a good experience to wander in this dystopian world though.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: ☢️☢️☢️🚇▫️

👾 Spiritfarer (🇨🇦 2020)

A game about accepting death and learning to say goodbye. A beautiful, emotive and transformative experience disguised as a resource manager and farm simulator.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Batman: Arkham Origins. Cold, Cold Heart (🇨🇦 2014)

Extra campaign for Arkham Origins focused on the origins of Mr. Freeze. The beginning and the ending were compelling but you have to go through the usual repetitive gameplay between those bits. It’s short though.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🥶🥶🥶▫️▫️

👾 Gibbon: Beyond the Trees (🇦🇹 2022)

Game that raises awereness of the endangered species of simians and the human exploitation of the rainforest. Gameplay wise is too simple and risks making us falling into boredom, luckily it manages to raise interest with minor plot devices.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🐵🐵🐵▫️▫️

👾 Life is Strange: Before the Storm (🇺🇸 2017/2022)

Prequel that puts us in the shoes of a beloved character from the first entry of the LiS series. Despite being in hands of a different studio, it maintains the spirit of the kickstarter of the saga. However, the story is not as compelling, being the three episodes of “Before the Storm” an emo sorrow fest not suitable for all moods .

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🎭▫️

👾 Batman: Arkham Origins (🇨🇦 2013)
Sets the beginning of the timeline of an already stablished saga trying to milk it by applying the gameplay formula, quite repetitive at that point, to a decaf story. Overall is ok-ish.
🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🦇🦇🦇▫️▫️

👾 The Artful Escape (🇦🇺 2021)

Minimum gameplay but a compelling story wrapped in the most gorgeous psychedelic science fiction I’ve ever seen in a game. A story about acepting oneself identity instead of what the others expect from you.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🎸🎸🎸🎸▫️

👾 Four Last Things (🇬🇧 2017)

Genius point and click adventure heavily influenced by Monty Python. Clever use of copyright free material to introduce us in a wacky renaissance world. Only negative thing is that it’s very short.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🍎🍎🍎🍎▫️

👾 Metro 2033 (🇺🇦/🇲🇹 2010,2014)

Adaptation of the first book of the Russian sci-fi saga. Although it follows the plot, the story is too diluted by action segments and you can tell the story is moving forward abruptly. Nevertheless the post apocalyptic world is compelling and has memorable moments.

🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 💡💡💡🐀▫️