AaronWho
2002
I'm sorry. I wish I loved this game. I know its significance. But I just don't. I just think it's fine.
I understand its context given the time it came out, but damn, the controls are frustrating, the puzzles baffling, and the setting a little uncompelling for me.
I don't hate it. Not at all. I'm glad I played it. It IS a classic. I just can't understand why the early Silent Hill games clicked instantly and this didn't. Maybe I'll return some day and love it.
I understand its context given the time it came out, but damn, the controls are frustrating, the puzzles baffling, and the setting a little uncompelling for me.
I don't hate it. Not at all. I'm glad I played it. It IS a classic. I just can't understand why the early Silent Hill games clicked instantly and this didn't. Maybe I'll return some day and love it.
2020
This is a fantastic sequel. It almost fixes absolutely everything wrong with the original while tripling down on what made it great in the first place. This game goes in directions I genuinely didn't expect and I loved every minute.
We need Hylics 3.
We need Hylics 3.
2019
A cute little game with a really cool concept
2023
This is amazing
2015
Despite consistently kicking my ass, I always come back to give it another shot. Really solid.
A really solid game with plenty of uniquely dark themes and quests that I really love. These quests are some of the best in the entire series, and the atmosphere is unmatched to this day. Unfortunately, I just could not get into some of these dungeons, and while I get the thematic purpose, redoing entire sections begins to feel incredibly tedious during lengthy sections or overly obscure sequences of events.
A really, really average horror game that unfortunately is too focused on replicating the ideas of its inspirations that it doesn't give itself enough room to create something truly unique. There are undoubtedly positives, but unfortunately the game begins to drag its feet rather quickly.
I wanna adore this game. I want more than anything to say it's a perfect, once in a lifetime experience.
But it just never reached the heights I was hoping for. That's not to say it didn't try, and that's definitely not to say it didn't get close, but there was never a point that I became so enamored and fascinated with this world, feeling fully drawn in and locked into the game and its ideas and giving myself to it.
I just simply enjoyed it. Nothing more. Nothing less.
The combat was incredible once it clicked, the world looks phenomenal, and some of the boss fights are genuinely amazing.
But it just didn't hit as hard for me compared to some of FromSoft's other efforts which feels so weirdly disappointing and leaves a bittersweet taste. Perhaps I'm just too spoiled.
Either way, the game is still incredible regardless of all that. I loved playing it and hopefully I'll love it with all my heart properly one day.
But it just never reached the heights I was hoping for. That's not to say it didn't try, and that's definitely not to say it didn't get close, but there was never a point that I became so enamored and fascinated with this world, feeling fully drawn in and locked into the game and its ideas and giving myself to it.
I just simply enjoyed it. Nothing more. Nothing less.
The combat was incredible once it clicked, the world looks phenomenal, and some of the boss fights are genuinely amazing.
But it just didn't hit as hard for me compared to some of FromSoft's other efforts which feels so weirdly disappointing and leaves a bittersweet taste. Perhaps I'm just too spoiled.
Either way, the game is still incredible regardless of all that. I loved playing it and hopefully I'll love it with all my heart properly one day.
2016
This is where Dark Souls truly shines. In mood, gameplay, design, direction, and theme, this is it. This is really it. There's a sense of finality and respect. The last few embers.
WOW. It's hard to explain the rhythm and almost addictive nature of this game but it hooked me so strongly. The aesthetic, music, gameplay. All of it is the perfect evolution of Castlevania from where it was before and it still genuinely holds up today.
It's been said a million times before, but it's true: this is simply just Rondo of Blood but much, much worse.
An outright terrible game that doesnt even try to work with its own limitations
2001
What else can be said? An extremely strong example of the potential for video games to be considered art. Flaws and all, a masterpiece
I had little to no expectations going in but wow. This is the pinnacle of Classicvania design in every way. I'm a little sad to be done with this style of Castlevania but I'm glad this is the game they ended with
1990
Graphics are weirdly really charming. at the end of the day, its just a fun stupid little parody game