Recent reviews by Sayuri

I haven't felt this kind of childlike whimsy for a game in decades, this isn't any ordinarily good game.

This game does everything Nintendo is either too afraid or too stubborn to do. This game made its way past 8 million sales and is going for PUBG's record for most players at one time. Nintendo's complacency and arrogance has cost them this spot. But their loss is your gain.

Is this game for you? Yes, that's the genius of the design. There is something for everyone. All of the gameplay elements are so different, yet converge neatly into one compelling gameplay loop. None of them feel as though they drag the game experience down, the survival mechanics are simplified and easy to get a handle on even if you hate open world survival games.. the crafting isn't too complicated and can be automated.. despite the map being huge and still in development, its fun to explore.. you can play solo, multiplayer, or even solo within multiplayer if you're that kind of player.. it's perfection.

Make no mistake, this game being this good is entirely by chance. The director just happened to have the right combination of people, the entirely pragmatic attitude of just including whatever he thought people wanted to play, and just at the right time. But this is a team unburdened by industry practices and motivated on simply creating the most fun game possible. Their first action after becoming popular was to patch the bugs as fast as they can. This tiny team that barely knew what they were doing have just put most of the AAA releases of last year to shame. I hope we see more studios like Pocket Pair and Larian appear and give us more games we can finally enjoy again.

The only negative thing I can say about the game, and this part is really holding back the game, is the pathing AI. Pals will constantly get stuck, sometimes on absolutely nothing and they'll just stand there and get hungry. You'll be shoving them in and out of the pal box to respawn them every so often. The team is aware this is the main issue, but fixing it will not be easy. The game is cheap, but if you want to wait anyways I would wait for them to fix the AI pathfinding.

I don't really care about frame rate in a sim game, you'll be fine, the buttons still respond. That's not the issue here..

Got to Minmus and managed to still land after discovering the crossfeed bug had used up all the fuel in the other stages. This didn't matter, once I clicked the EVA button the whole landing craft did a backflip onto its head. I reloaded the save I made when I landed and while I was able to get out the second time all the fuel in the lander had disappeared.

Early Access is supposed to be playable enough for people to want to play long enough to provide you with the feedback you need to improve the game, this by contrast is almost complete pandemonium.

I recommend waiting about a year or two for it to be playable, because what I saw a glimpse of is still promising.

It's a fun run and worth playing, but its no Fallout: New Vegas.

What you get feels more like a slightly better version of Bioshock, especially with how basic all the guns, loot and objectives are. It starts out with a nice RPG experience and the promise of exploration across multiple planets, but what you get in the end are a couple of tiny maps with 3~4 buildings in them. There's a lot of interesting world building, but its all cosmetic and you don't get to interact with it much outside guns n' dialog. It's a shooter talkie! The perks lack character and feel lazily designed when compared to the traits and perks of New Vegas, they don't make your character feel more unique. At least the dialog makes a return, there's plenty of skill checks and some of the trees feel like actual conversation at points, just like it did in New Vegas.

But when it comes down to it, I still had fun. Its unfair that everyone was expecting another New Vegas (even me!) when the game feels clearly designed to be RPG Bioshock, but its kind of hard not to. The game is very short, but it ended right when it probably should have. Not sure I'm going to do a replay anytime soon, though.

The gameplay is simply the best of the series, everything polished, the guns and equipment are all interesting, the action is solid, the enemies are interesting and will challenge you to figure out ways around each type..

..While the story is simply terrible. Borderlands 2 had charm and one of the best villains in a video game ever, but this game has too many moments where it really thinks its funny but the writing and the timing of the comedy is just cringe. In Borderlands 2 you could really feel the menace of Handsome Jack from the moment you began the game, and the ever present Helios station in the sky constantly reinforced this, especially when it could moonshot reinforcements at any time. The game was goofy but the plot remembered to keep itself together and stay just serious enough to have an emotional impact.

In Borderlands 3 the villains are not more than annoying talking heads in your echo device, they are ahead of you at every turn only because the plot needs them to be. None of the lead protagonists deserve anything they get, good or bad. You don't feel like a lead protagonist, you're just sort of there to shoot the game's plot forward. Aurelia was kind of good though, why couldn't she have been the main villain? She was the only antagonist in this whole game I was actually intimidated by.

No, the game is still awesome and you'll get a chuckle here and there. If you weren't too too invested in Borderlands 2 / Pre Sequel's story to begin with, you can easily? ignore the annoying characters and have fun with the gameplay. If you did care deeply, you'll feel like everything you accomplish in the game is pointless. Maybe bring some friends with you so you can riff on the bad writing.

I'm normally bored by point-and-click games, but this one is a bit different. Think more in the vein of Papers Please meets a late 90s Internet complete with rotating GIF animations, obnoxious fonts, and auto playing music. Unlike Papers Please, you will actually spend most of your time solving mysteries and figuring out backstories and relationships through web browsing. Also unlike a lot of point-and-click games, the solutions to things aren't that obtuse. They're quite satisfying. Most of the things you can discover are optional, so the game will take as long as you want it to.

I really only had one issue with the game, but you can avoid it. As to not reveal spoilers, all you have to remember is when you're tasked with finding and reporting illegal music downloads, do those last.

You really do need to save up for the HTC Vive for this to be any fun, but it is pretty fun when you do. This is the closest thing to a "killer app" VR has which really shows that its best for non-game experiences.

On the negative side, this game is pretty unstable and broken. You'll be crashing, disconnecting, lagging and glitching a lot. If you don't mind having to reboot VRChat every now and then, its still worth it. They also got rid of the Japan Shrine map which was the best map for being a sunny, calm quiet outdoor map with excellent ambient sound effects, there isn't a map as good as it currently.

There's so much fundamentally wrong with this game, and yet it was the most fun I've had in a long time. EDF!! EDF!!

If you're just in the mood to kill nazis, this game doesn't disappoint.

The actual gameplay where you run around shooting nazis is solid and fast paced. The game is good for a long sitting, and is honestly just as long as it should be. There's just enough variation in the level design to keep it from getting repetitive, although there were moments when it began to drag. However, some of the way the controls work are a bit awkward, but possible to get used to.

The game also falls short with some of the actual weapons themselves. While you can find some awesome upgrades, there's a lack of impact in the controls and sound design that you never feel like you're putting the hurt on your enemies. The guns are too quiet, maybe they wanted you to hear the dialog, voices and environment more? Even the game's version of the BFG is way too impractical to actually use against anyone. It makes you so slow and has a very long charge time for each shot that you can't even fire from behind cover before all the enemies immediately flank you. Just focus on the couple or so weapons you find the easiest to use and you'll have fun.

This game presents itself as story-driven, and the developers made it a point of focus. But the story itself lacks focus and cannot decide if it wants to be juvenile or to be taken seriously. Emotional scenes are punctuated with out-of-place immature humor causing many sudden jerks in tone. I think it was trying to go for the distinct charm often seen in Quentin Tarantino films, and falls very short. While the storyline doesn't work, thankfully the background lore you'll discover expressed in collectables, interesting level design, and the minor interactions NPCs have with each other give enough reason to explore the world. I also got a chuckle out of the silly one-liners that come out of Billy as you play.

Why do I still recommend this game? The game gets the classic FPS style running really fast and destroying everything right. It was easy enough to ignore the pointless stealth mechanics.

This game is a lot more fun than I remember it being.

If you don't mind a more mindless shoot-em-up set in a post-apocalyptic world rather than a more in-depth Fallout RPG experience, I would recommend this game (with only partial sarcasm!). If you can ignore the streamlined shallow RPG experience, its pretty fun.

With that being said, this is a Fallout game where you actually want to scavenge all the spare parts and objects you can to improve your weapons and build things. I've never felt like doing that in any of the previous Fallout games before. If you aren't too picky about how faithful a Fallout game this is not, you'll still have a lot of fun.