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One of only handful of actually good video games.
2022
Sometimes you die and they send you back to your lil floaty turd light campfire and the time of day changed and all of a sudden the absolute brain boiling amount of beauty they managed to cram into this world will just hit you out of nowhere.
From Soft undefeated, nobody on their level anymore, it's not even close. Best to ever do it.
From Soft undefeated, nobody on their level anymore, it's not even close. Best to ever do it.
The dichotomy between balancing making the level completable for you so you can win but impossible for your friends is such a clever and bottomless little well of game design genius.
Also it's just fun to be a dick and put things in places everyone hates.
Also it's just fun to be a dick and put things in places everyone hates.
2019
Kinda hard rating a multiplayer game that I'm actively bad at but goddam this one does so many interesting things in so many interesting ways, it's impossible for me not to 5 it up.
2018
Everyone has noted that the webswinging is the real selling point here, though endemic to AAA, there's a sense that you can do some incredibly cool swinging but it never feels like you've earned that coolness. The swinging mechanics won't let you faceplant into a building or fall flat on your face, you always recover and always land on your feet which makes stringing spidey through some buildings like a needle through thread, not as satisfying.
The combat is barely there and the story is fine (though I would like to say that they put some real effort into character writing here and I really liked this version of Spidey) and it's got all the trinket/sidequest/mini-game malarkey you'd expect from a AAA open world game.
Still i liked it.
The combat is barely there and the story is fine (though I would like to say that they put some real effort into character writing here and I really liked this version of Spidey) and it's got all the trinket/sidequest/mini-game malarkey you'd expect from a AAA open world game.
Still i liked it.
The rate at which this game escalates is like a height curve for Mt Kiliminjaro.
Be Columbo on a boat with a time machine and see some fucked up Jules Verne shit! Come on board!
Be Columbo on a boat with a time machine and see some fucked up Jules Verne shit! Come on board!
They give you enough gimmes that even on "hardcore" mode I never really felt like I was being pushed to think that tacitically. I was usually able to just brute force it with the insanely over powered main character.
And the anime dating sim... well I was worried it would be all tropes and it kinda is but hey if that's what you're into, you'll be catered to. They got horny anime students for every type of sexual inclination here folks!
And the anime dating sim... well I was worried it would be all tropes and it kinda is but hey if that's what you're into, you'll be catered to. They got horny anime students for every type of sexual inclination here folks!
1987
Fucked up that this cool side scroller has interstials of running up and at the screen in some kind of Reinier Wolfcastle bullshit. Mindless fun otherwise.
2020
I feel like this probably whips in VR but otherwise it's just kind of a fun lil no-brain Star Fox game with the wrapping of that billion-dollar mouse franchise.
Goddam what a deliciously sloppy cocktail of horror, action and exploration. Just when your body can't take any more of the game's scares it does a great job of ramping your power up to boost your confidence. Expertly paced to a tee (more short games please!) and a joy throughout.
Also the level designers for this game deserve some kind of McArthur Genius grant cuz holy shit there are parts where you just want to stop and look at every single little detail crammed into the environment. It's truly amazing.
It's up there with 4 as their greatest work that's for sure.
Also the level designers for this game deserve some kind of McArthur Genius grant cuz holy shit there are parts where you just want to stop and look at every single little detail crammed into the environment. It's truly amazing.
It's up there with 4 as their greatest work that's for sure.
2017
I played 90 minutes and experienced pretty much what I feel safe assuming the rest'll be.
Perfectly competent co-op puzzler that probably sucks shit by yourself but is fun to be like "No move that there... no there... not there, there!" with your buds.
2016
An entire game desinged around the Blue Shell philosophy of game design. A damn good time, I just wish there was a break between rounds so I could sip my damn beer lol.
2019
Hey... this is one of the best games ever made I guess.
2018
Great game for kids! My son and I loved it. Only downside is there is a lot of text and he lost interest in the 'hipster slacker raccoon' story faster than I did and demand we skip it all.