Recent reviews by Serious Cacodemon

This game got released back in the 90s for 3DO and Playstation, but never got a PC release (there were plans for one, but were cancelled), until this year. Feels really good moving around with keyboard + mouse controls in this, though using a controller works really well too :)

It's a fun good time jetpacking and blasting through the environments, and I've gotten a lot of hours of enjoyment out of it.

Dorke and Ymp is a formerly unreleased game for the SNES brought back from the dead courtesy of Piko Interactive.

Getting around is reasonably alright, though the controls cannot be configured ingame, so you have to rely on rebinding the controls emulator-side. I set running to X (default is Y, despite ingame saying it's X. The game goes off of SNES button layout) to make running around much easier.

There's some places where careful usage of items and currency are needed, as there are points where getting stuck can be a thing (and requires restarting the level, if not using save states). The start is very forgiving with the starting amount of lives, starting you off with 50, even with using passwords to skip to the later worlds.

The largest problem with this game is that it still feels unfinished in places, even if it's possible to reach the end. The final normal level of the dwarven mines before the boss is missing a bunch of tiles and is impossible to backtrack for missing items if they were skipped. Sky levels have wind tunnels that are messed up (the one near the end of the first sky level is least troublesome, but the ones in the second to last level are messed up and will never carry you back to the top), and finally, reaching the exit of the final sky level before it's boss is out of reach by normal means. For the latter two situations, an exploit with the flutter (grab button) is needed that takes a long time with timely presses (and savestates) in order to get back up.

This would have turned out to be a great game if it weren't for the incomplete feeling in certain parts of the game. Reason for the large amount of playtime is because I played all the way through offstream and again all the way through onstream on an April Fools day. I can't really recommend this one :(

Well, I can safely say that this greatly improves over the original, even though the original was pretty fantastic itself. If you enjoyed the first one, you'll enjoy this one too.

Very fun FPS! Levels overall are very good, and of course the weaponry and enemies are done pretty well. I give this a big recommend.

A very fun and great looking game. Easy to get started playing but also pretty challenging, there's plenty to do in the game (the main story, the sidequests and such). Very much worth the amount of time I spent playing it (and the extra amount of hours I will spend playing it in the future). Also Lea is so smug and lovable!

Still a blast even after all these years. Also plenty of usermade maps available on the internet to keep on going :D

As someone who had played this game years back on the original Xbox, this is certainly a missing gem for me. This one does have a couple of issues, notably when setting items to quickbinds with a controller (easily gotten around by using the 1,2,3, and 4 keys to set quickbinds on items. Yes I'm glad this game lets you use both Keyboard + Mouse and Controller at the same time), and the game crashing sometimes (happened a couple times but it very rarely happens for me).

Two words to describe this game: Absolutely Beautiful.

This game is a blast to go through. Graphics are nice, the music is outstanding, and the gameplay can be quite addicting. The game is rather short if you just want to get to the ending with both characters, but is much longer if you're going for the highest rank in each Dream (including the Christmas Dreams levels), and also to top your own scores each time. I highly recommend this game to anyone.

Interesting new weapons, and a great final boss, but what prevents from being completely recommended is the position of some of the turrets, especially in the later units, which lead me to nicknaming this one "Turret Hell". This is certainly not as easy as the base Quake II game is, but I still prefer the Reckoning more over this one.