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The game follows the protagonist of choice who has been called by his family on a navigational quest to uncover secrets from his past on the island of Gemea and destroy the ancient darkness that terrorizes the region.

Terrifying is nothing to say about this game, because the most you'll get out of it is the intense need to farm and build in order to fulfill various objectives. The game begins with the typical cliché of a character who has too many items and ends up losing them in an “unexpected” storm (apparently you can choose the genre of the character, but in the end of the game it has a feel that the developer has let slip on the script).

Centered around 8 different regions with changing climates and seasons where you can build 6 farms and collect different pets based on their biomes. As well as planting tree seedlings and horticulture. The better you manage your farm, the higher its quality percentage will become. This also applies to each of the 8 regions, where you will have various options to turn them from bad to exceptional. These options include planting trees, carrying out quests, clearing the darkness, finding spirits and improving your farm.

Yonder The Cloud Catcher is a game that doesn't permeate the idea of surviving and dying trying, because from start to finish your immortal journey is focused more on building, resorting, destroying, creating and discovering (apart from the Altair case or Tommy Vercetti Water Syndrome). If you like lush, paradisiacal landscapes with a distinctive cute nature and a focus on building and exploring, this game is for you, as you'll spend a lot of time collecting many, many items to achieve and build.

!Note:! If you want to platinum this game, I recommend that you focus on the fish collection achievement as soon as you get the fishhook, as it is by far the most difficult, and once you have passed it, you are already on the path to peace and quiet.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair follows on from its first game in different formats and dimensions where we must once again defeat the fearsome Captain B. At this point we have the option of saving the 48 bees lost in the 20 chapters plus the open world outside them to serve as a shield during this long and arduous battle or going it alone with the determination that despite there being no save points or tonics to save you, you will persist until the end. More challenging than its predecessor, but still nostalgic for the old games like Donkey Kong that have held our hands so much in the past. And yes, Laylee is still as annoying as in the first game (someone should change this character's voice actor...)

Zombie Shooter is a short isometric sc fi zombie based where you have to stop an infection that has spread through a scientific base. It's as if Serious Sam and Dead Rising were insectivated by the tangle of creatures that will come at you. Hordes and hordes of exploding blood and weapons to love and kill in this short zombilistic ride.

Synopsis: The protagonist is a cricket who, after losing his guinea pig antenna, or brother, from the clutches of a terrible bird, must travel through different worlds to destroy its cursed eggs and save his brother.

Collectibles:
*Eggs - as a necessary part to complet the level, each one will have 6 eggs to collect.
*Lives - in various secret locations or outside in the arcade levels, you'll have various life items to collect. In all, you can have 99.
*Fireflies - The game has 100 optional fireflies in each of the 18 levels in the 6 worlds of 4 parts each where you have to go around and collect them in various secret places and for every 100 fireflies collected you will enter a zen bonus phase where you must collect the 100 coins and receive a shield hat to protect yourself. Also, when you collect all the fireflies in the three parts of each world, a fourth challenge arcade-style stage will be available where you must acquire all 100 fireflies in the allotted time distinguished by the last world where you will have time to collect the fireflies but with a separate bombastic and challenging challenge.

Composers John Guscott Matt Black Gerard Gourley Andrew Morris and the orchestrated atmosphere enhanced their style in several early and final levels. Some compositions were merely forced, such as the train stage where I seemed to hear the killing in the name of with every unnecessary tcha tcha tcha on the vocal.

Zapper One Wicked Cricket is a platform game released in the early 2000s based on the classic games in the Frogger saga, with the camera positioned at an angle as you navigate obstacles and collect objects. If you're a fan of the famous crash saga or the adjacent early classics, you'll be nostalgic for this one too!

!Note! : given the period when this game was released on steam, there was no remastering or improvement made to it, bringing the same effect with very low resolution, no support for controls and the commands automated by the arrow keys without any decent changes made and making it a bit challenging for those who expect an improved and enhanced similarity to today's times.

Zodiacats is a puzzle with the function of assembling the different signs of the zodiac in the shape of cats with a single cosmic and relaxing song when assembling each one. For lovers of cats and astrology, it's a cute, cozy and meditative way to pass the time.

The game is set in New Orleans/Bayou at the time of great slavery where the assassin Aveline must rescue the force of liberation for those in need but on this journey she will have to decide between the divided paths that are in her life.

Aveline, a Gemini, is divided into different personalities. In this game you can be a lady, a slave or an assassin. Both have different submission options and certain story missions.

The collectibles range from the famous chests, coins, vodoo dolls, Mayan statues and the sacred 10 pocket watches which can only be bought at a high cost and to get them the tip is to travel with various naval fleets in the interesting financing system.

The game features a special mission that crosses the timeline with Conor in New York where in one of the memories you can play with him. You can also visit Mexico at Chichen Itza in two sequences where the ancient temples of the ancients await and apparently the only interesting part of the whole game.

The travel systems don't work in this one, where you have to walk from place to place in order to continue your journey, which makes it much more tedious.

The game has an interesting financing system (which you'll desperately need if you want to platinum the game) where you have a map that can send certain ships and products to different locations.

The atmosphere of the game has never been so welcomingly impoverishing where, while crossing the branches of the Bayou, you find yourself stuck in simple bushes. The composition is decent and makes a mark on the culture.

The game that ended up changing the aesthetic of characters outside the animus and with more than one ending to be acquired, Assassins Creed Liberation without the hd and sense of the old games. A television soap opera story where you're more likely to squint your eyes in boredom than feel cozy.

*I've tried playing the game now in 2024 again and I've had problems starting up and with the initial controls.
If you have the same problem, give it a try:
-On the disk where the game is stored on your computer, go to ac3lhd_32 and in its properties followed by the compatibility tab. Select:
! Run this program in compatibility mode (Windows 8/7);
! Disable full-screen optimizations
! Run this program as administrator

- If the controls don't work when you start the game, try using steam and ubisoft in administrator mode.

I hope I've helped. Given the circumstances of a new remaster over there, this and assassins creed lll tend to be on the brink of doom for the saga and require an acceptable patch to work.

Assassins Creed lll Remaster... it's something that the definition doesn't quite match. Being able to hold out until the third act of Conor and its welcome story is fine, but seeing the same disagreement with Liberation's weak atmospheric development, the same bugsofts and its tedious novelistic story again, is the final point for not taking it seriously.
I recommend getting it on sale and just trying it for the little cow lick that ubisoft has clarified in its not-so-clarified Conor saga, but otherwise, pass!

*Note: this review is based on the gameplay of assassins creed lll remaster. Any changes that have been made have not been assimilated or differentiated for diagnosis.

Synopsis: The sequel to Revelations takes Desmond Miles to the final depths of an underground temple where once again the ancients call him to the ultimate end of the world and the salvation of another of his ancestors, Conor, in a guerrilla battle in the bowels of the American Revolution.

Locations - Outside the animus
Desmond will find himself in an underground temple where his mission is to find a key to his ancestors and in this underground environment he will also need key pieces from the story mode to open the main door. To get these key pieces Desmond will go to certain regions of the world as part of the story to try and retrieve them from the hands of the Templars. Desmond will also be able to read emails and talk to Shaw, Rebecca, his father, William and the ancient Juno who will bring back stories from the ancients.

Locations - Inside the Animus
The game will be divided into three regions of old America: Boston, the Frontiers and New York. Homestead will be your separate assassin base and there will be certain naval missions that will be outside the regions.

Homestead the happy farm - after a few sequences, Conor will find himself on the property of the ancient assassin Achilles who will teach him and forge him to be the true assassin of that time. Here Conor will be able to store his armor and weapons, as well as send convoys to different regions and create various farm products. These products will only be available when Conor calls on certain members in the regions that have this accessibility and who will be part of the farm. These are Blacksmith, Doctor, Farmers, Inn, Hunter, Miner, Tailor, Lumber and Woodwork. Gradually, once you have the members in the region, more submissions will be made to improve each member's level and make more products available for forging, such as equipment for Conor, sending convoys and Franklin's famous inventions.
This is also where the precious ship Aquila will be kept, where Conor will be able to repair the ship's parts at a certain price, make his naval contracts and find the lost treasures of the former pirate Kidd.
In Homestead and other areas of the region you will also find different types of mini games that those with a cool head and patience will accept under the best of conditions. These are Fanorona, Morris and Bowls (you'll only find these in Homestead as part of the free farm-growing submissions next to the Inn).

The Frontier - the home of the hunt - apparently the most atmospheric and lively place in the game, it will be the most damaging and consumable for killing a variety of sacred species such as rabbits, elk, wolves, bears and foxes. Home of our protagonist where Conor comes from a home where indigenous people hunted to show off their warrior pride, survival and that standard touch of “to be a man” of that time. The adorable thing is that when Conor kills each of these adorable animals, you'll see him (at certain moments that his killing mood finds enjoyable) thanking nature for having offered such a bounty. Well, the items offered, from skins to pieces of the species, can be sold in various stores to get money, in certain submissions to exchange items or to craft certain items available in the homestead.

Collectibles:
*Feathers - found only in the frontiers region and you can buy a map to locate them in any of the stores in the regions;
*Chests - found in all three regions and you can buy a map in the stores to see which ones are missing. There are also chests in Captain Kidd's treasure submissions, but there is no map to view them.
*Almanac Pages - there will be scattered pages in the Boston and New York areas where you can capture them as they fly by and will soon be available as a homestead invention;
*Peg Leg pieces - To discover Captain Kidd's treasures, you'll have to deliver rewards to the old pirate who knew the legend and can give you the information you need. These Peg Leg rewards can be found in the three regions where you can buy the map to find them.

Submissions:
* Frontiersmen's Club, brawlers, hunts and robberies - just like in the old games, there will be options to complete in the appropriate clubs if you want to buy the full synchronization.
*New York and Boston Tunnels - not necessarily a submission but as an exploratory part, where both regions have 10 of 11 entrances hidden in an underground labyrinth with some puzzles to select and unlock them as a way of fast travel later on;
*Recruit and contracts of assassins - at a certain point in the story there will be submissions to liberate the New York and Boston regions from the Templars and as soon as they are released the appropriate assassins will be available to be recruited with a total of 84 submissions on the brotherhood map to be carried out to improve your assassins and earn a certain amount of money.
*Assassination contracts, messengers and item requests - in all three regions there will be individuals needing a request to assassinate certain individuals in the area, deliver certain messages or obtain certain items such as hunted animals or pieces that can only be crafted in Homestead;
*Naval contracts - with around 12 contracts with a separate one as a story form of 4 missions where Conor will compete in certain naval battles and risk the storms of the turbulent seas;
*Captain Kidd's hidden treasures - as well as the naval contracts will be available on the aquila map as soon as you get the appropriate Peg Legs where there will be certain regions to explore;
*Homestead missions - in order to improve your farm/members and recruit the right members in the right sequences, they will be available in the right regions.

Dlc - The Tyranny of George Washignton
An alternative story from the sequel's story mode where Conor finds himself in an alternative universe of the three regions where George Washignton is actually taken over by the power of the fruit.
The dlc is divided into three episodes where you can explore small parts of the three regions and there are certain chests to acquire equipment and items, but not as collectibles.
Certain submissions to help the citizens will be available in each episode and can be found repeatedly in the same place if you want to complete all the synchronization.
There will also be memory fragments where Conor can visualize part of his self in memories of his past.

Atmosphere and composition - uniquely the frontiers and homestead was the place that captivated me the most with its greenery of walking through the branches, waterfalls and streams and appreciating the life of nature and the settler members in their daily lives. Lorne Balfe didn't detract from Jesper Kyd, as he used his essence in certain moments, but it wasn't all that enjoyable, but the homestead theme summoned up the nostalgia of the countryside.

Conclusion: Assassins Creed lll is one of the most underrated games in the saga due to its comfort with archaic bugs and crashes that certain lazy developers without a biopic's eye have managed to improve. Apart from these deregulations, the game enchants with its magnificent story and Conor's developed personality and indigenous culture. Charles Lee was undoubtedly one of those villains who made me loathe him from the start, and he made his mark with his words and arbitrary actions. The idea of playing a Templar at the beginning gave a sense of understanding the other side and why he was on it, and Haytham captivates with his blunt ideology.
The naval battles raised a level of adrenaline to the saga as well and that was to take a well-deserved improvement in its sequel.
All in all, this game offers a perfect crescendo to its predecessor and that it was to bring the end of an arc in opening up various possibilities in the maddening creation of the fictional history of this saga.

Alba is going to visit her grandparents in Secarral, Spain, for a week for a festival that will take place, but which will ultimately lead her and her best friend Ines on an adventure to save the island and its sacred species from the corrupt hands of the masked elitists in our society.

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The whole game takes place on the island and on a nearby islet where it will be up to our protagonist Alba to rebuild the island from environmental imbalances such as recycling, renewing the environmental heritage, caring for the local fauna and, most wonderfully, photographing the 62 species that will instigate her instinct to protect and guard this sacred island.

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It's a game that without a shadow of a doubt took me into a total immersion that I haven't felt in a long time. It reminded me of the time I traveled to my grandmother's country house, where what enriched my mind the most were not the cell phones or technologies of today, but the exploration and experience of nature. I recommend it to all children and for adults to recommend it to their children because it radiates an essence of purity into the eyes of our children in the future.

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Aladin & the Enchanted Lamp reincarnates the famous tale of a thousand and one nights in a short point and click with hidden objects and its sacred relics in the arabias of the starry night.

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