Recent reviews by Undercover Arsonist

I first found out about this game by pure chance, google chrome sometimes recommends me articles I'll begrudgingly click on when I'm on my phone. I saw the art of Mara and Lily on the ferry from the intro in the thumbnail of the article, that hooked me pretty hard so I decided to see if the game was worth a look, I didn't need to get far into the steam page nor the article to know that I would love this game. I'm not really a huge PnC game fan, I've played the Sam and Max series and a little bit of leisure suit larry, beyond that its really nothing much else, but this game sorta ascends past that status of being a love letter to older point and click games pretty quickly. The writing is witty and sharp, the story is emotionally charged and more often than not I found myself relating to Mara in such a way I didn't expect to upon first go. I've been recommending it to all my friends and despite the game being typically about 5 hours long, I drank in as much dialogue and stuff to do from the game as I could, and over two playthroughs (one getting the worst(?)/not the best ending and the other getting the best(?)/good ending) I can safely say this is up there in my top 10 games of all time. While some solutions to progress can be a bit of a thinker, I feel this is perfect for people new to the genre just as much as it is for older fans of it.

Another work by the creator (Meredeth Gran,) is Octopus Pie, and I feel it goes without saying to try to experience both these as individual pieces. While Octopus Pie is *GENUINELY SO GOOD* and a great thing to get into if you loved Perfect Tides, it's also something that stands on it's own so easily and should be viewed as such. Vice versa to Perfect Tides. If you've got the cash and the time, do yourself a favor and PLAY PERFECT TIDES.

I've just finished the game, and I could very easily return it and get my 49 cents back. But I wont. Truth be told I'm a little surprised this interesting little foray turned out to be so captivating. The music and the art were an eye catcher for sure but the story itself kept me invested. I gotta say, I almost feel guilty paying only 49 cents when the experience is well worth the full price. It's on sale until march 13th as of writing this and without spoiling it, I can safely say it will be slightly unnerving, and very very interesting. But it's not for everyone, I can tell the graphics and music may be a bit garrish for some people so watch a bit of the video trailers on the store page before diving in to see if you really wanna sink your teeth into this bad boy.
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Chill game, good fun platforming and just screwing around with some pretty good graphics that are very eye pleasing. Game gets consistent 60fps on my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Radeon 2gb chip, and the music is pretty bumping. Can't recommend however cause the game can be 100% and squeezed dry of any content with no replayability in about 4ish hours or less. Normally this isn't an issue but for a 15 dollar game??? Bit much, even for a two man passion project if thats the case. Sorry but this game is worth 7 bucks maybe, maybe a little less. Anything above is kinda pushing it for the content available. Sucks that I can't get a refund since I got it full price. Was fun and i'd say it was worth the time but that price tag is *really* hurting any chance of me recommending it. Hard pass if you dont like vibing about for 4 hours tagging a garbage landscape with bumping tunes for a hefty 15 dollar usd tag. If it interests you I implore you to pick it up on sale. Much more worth the time with a lower cost. Also this *WAS* free on epic already so, eh.

A Ridiculously charming romp through a beautifully drawn world with witty dialogue and classic 2D point and click fun through a simple but comical story. I don't have many words to describe this game but it's probably one of my top 10 favourite games of all time, its so cute and now that I've seen all it has to offer, I can sufficiently say it's well worth the 18 dollar price tag and then some.

Don't get me wrong I actually wanted to like this and I did enjoy it for the first couple of chambers. My no in the recommendation is merely to fans of Portal 2 looking for an interesting spin on the formula valve nearly perfected. Maybe I'm just too smoothbrained for some of the puzzles, but I have my doubts, I only took a walkthrough for 3 chambers that really stumped me, and one of them was because I was at the very end and my patience was at *it's* very end as well. This mod walks a dangerous border that Portal Stories: Mel had, getting too far into the difficulty to become what many dub 'romhack difficulty'. Its a pain because the concept here is super neat and executed well sometimes, but there's too many a chamber that the solution was so convoluted and bizarre with trial and error becoming an increasingly painful task what with the time travel rules the game plays with. This issue is glaring as can possibly be in the very last chamber, where sometimes I had to practically start from square one because the cube in the present would ruin the placement I had of the cube in the future or I would be too late on a timed part of the puzzle and accidentally let the physics fumble the cube far enough out of the way that I would need to go down and fix it, resulting in an effective reboot of the chamber without the loading screen. Look up the last chamber if you will.

I'm not vehemently against people playing this mod as much as it absolutely tortured and frustrated me at times, and as much as I honestly consider it kinda a terrible mod (it takes almost no notes from Valve's skill of making chambers, I don't expect them to duplicate all the good from the original campaign of the portal series, but I do expect a mod creator to at least try to capture that same genius puzzle crafting) but I'm getting off track. If you want a *very* challenging portal mod, this is absolutely a 100% hard recommendation. You NEED to play this.
If you enjoyed Portal 1, 2, or most of Stories Mel, then hard pass on this. It's not worth the effort. I wasted 9 hours to get both endings and suffer through most of the shockingly paltry 25 chambers. It felt like double that amount.

EDIT: I've played almost 300 hours, several different runs and I still kinda hate DS3 its not amazing but its definitely a peak in the souls series imo. Sekiro is great and arguably better but it plays by different rules so that's apples to oranges. Maybe my views will change when I try Elden Ring


The very peak of the garbage pile any soulsborne game fromsoft has made is here. Imo, only good things about it is fashionsouls, some bosses can be fun but are usually gimmicks (looking at you Yhorm), and lastly the co-op can be fun if your friends dont mind suffering.

Nameless King is still and always will be Fromsoft essentially firing their entire QA team to instead hire a group of monkeys for the job. Who the hell let this get released with visible camera issues, its like im playing an n64 game with how badly I gotta wrestle the thing in order to fight his first phase.

I guess the most baffling question is why i have played 4 different runs, several NG+ iterations, and a total of 200+ hours of this shlock. I guess its a sort of comfortable piece of garbage?? but its also a kinda stockholme syndrome thing.

Try not to cry in public simulator.

Gifted this by a friend, entire reasoning was to ♥♥♥♥ around in TruckersMP and have fun because simpleflips made it look like a blast.
I have made 13 hours in the game literally just playing singleplayer because it's that addicting, idk whats so soothing and engaging about doing nothing but menial tasks for fake game money but im in love.

Criken giving this game a spotlight was a double edged sword.
The community is probably the most cancerous ♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen like holy god wow.
But the game is alive, and it's a good game at heart.
Just please for the love of christ, remove voice chat. It's one of the best ways to improve so many of the issues (i.e. CHUDs screaming at max volume on their mics and blasting max volume music.) It's just so bad.

I don't know what to think about how long this game will last but who knows, it could become a very highly played, active game out of nowhere, or it's elite mass of sputtering gibbons main playerbase could drive away every new player so that they may feast upon it's fettering remains, leaving it a rotting carcass of a good game.

On a scale of 1 - 10, this game is an 11, and it'll give itself a 12.

Furi is one of the most insane games I've played in recent memory. It's a very very difficult game, but it never really feels unfairly difficult, more like a challenge that keeps telling you how to beat it, and expects you to take that to heart and adapt to it. It's pretty great. I don't oft enjoy bullet hell games but somehow this one felt perfect, and with the sprinkling of close combat thrown in it was generally a finely crafted experience that I can't recommend enough to people. The music is great, each track fitting the fight it's featured in, and the visuals go perfectly with it too. I really wish we had a sequel to this game or something of the sort because everything just feels perfect, the devs are absolutely on point.

In it's essence, Furi is a string of boss fights, you have 3 tries per phase attempt, and every time you lose a 'try' at that phase the boss is on, passing to it's next phase can regenerate a 'try' as well as all your hp. It's a good rewarding system for playing well and learning the ins and outs of combat. I really only had complaints about one boss, and that was The Burst, she was kinda a pain in her later phases and took me easily the most time to learn. Every other boss in my opinion (Yes, even The Edge, a FANTASTIC fight.) was very well put together and felt like a steady difficulty curve that rose up without making the player feel like they were suddenly hit with a brick wall.

I hear thunder, pitter patter.