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Haunted Houses
2022
[Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Reimagined]
Haunted House is the fourth Reimagined Atari game from the 50th Anniversary collection. This is honestly a pretty decent remake of the original, though personally, I find it extremely boring but I do appreciate the art style a lot. It overall reminds me of the NES 3D classic on 3ds where they could go from 2D to 3D, other than the art style they made the game actually playable because in the original Haunted House I couldn't understand a damn thing so congrats to them for making this classic actually playable, though it doesn't make the game any more interesting to play.
Haunted House is the fourth Reimagined Atari game from the 50th Anniversary collection. This is honestly a pretty decent remake of the original, though personally, I find it extremely boring but I do appreciate the art style a lot. It overall reminds me of the NES 3D classic on 3ds where they could go from 2D to 3D, other than the art style they made the game actually playable because in the original Haunted House I couldn't understand a damn thing so congrats to them for making this classic actually playable, though it doesn't make the game any more interesting to play.
VCTR-SCTR
2022
[Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Reimagined]
VCTR-SCTR is the third game in the Reimagined collection and oh my god, they did it, they turned an old Atari game fun- Wait not just one, but four different games into a single one. This game is a combination of Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Tempest, and Battlezone with seamless transitions in between each game phase, it reminds me of Wario Ware with how you just play short bursts of each of these four games with a cool transition in between, it's honestly just an awesome little title and definitely one of the highlights of this entire collection.
VCTR-SCTR is the third game in the Reimagined collection and oh my god, they did it, they turned an old Atari game fun- Wait not just one, but four different games into a single one. This game is a combination of Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Tempest, and Battlezone with seamless transitions in between each game phase, it reminds me of Wario Ware with how you just play short bursts of each of these four games with a cool transition in between, it's honestly just an awesome little title and definitely one of the highlights of this entire collection.
Neo Breakout
2022
[Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Reimagined]
Neo Breakout is the second Reimagined game from the 50th Anniversary collection and holy fuck, I'm so bad at Breakout...
This game is pretty much just Breakout but with an art style similar to the bit trip games, the main standout of this game is it's versus mode which is a mix between breakout and pong and I hate it because I'm terrible at it, not bad though.
Neo Breakout is the second Reimagined game from the 50th Anniversary collection and holy fuck, I'm so bad at Breakout...
This game is pretty much just Breakout but with an art style similar to the bit trip games, the main standout of this game is it's versus mode which is a mix between breakout and pong and I hate it because I'm terrible at it, not bad though.
Quadratank
2022
[Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Reimagined]
Quadratank is a reimagined version of the game "Tank" originally made by Kee Games, it is the first game in the reimagined lineup made exclusively for the Atari 50th Anniversary Celebration and it's such a fun idea to remake these really old titles, the only issue is that even with this modern coat of paint it's still not fun to play. I wasn't expecting an insane remake or anything but it just proves how old Atari games didn't age well and I doubt any of the coming Reimagined titles will be anything to write home about, though I would love them to surprise me with a decent game.
About Quadratank the game is pretty similar to its original version, the main difference lies in the graphics since they gave the game some simple 3D models to replace the 2D sprites and the other would be about the gameplay since they added a bunch of powerups and game settings to add to the replay value, unfortunately for me, I hate how the game controls, I know it was made on purpose to mess with the player and have fun with friends or something but if you are the type of friend who forces 3 people to play Quadratank with you, you are the devil.
Quadratank is a reimagined version of the game "Tank" originally made by Kee Games, it is the first game in the reimagined lineup made exclusively for the Atari 50th Anniversary Celebration and it's such a fun idea to remake these really old titles, the only issue is that even with this modern coat of paint it's still not fun to play. I wasn't expecting an insane remake or anything but it just proves how old Atari games didn't age well and I doubt any of the coming Reimagined titles will be anything to write home about, though I would love them to surprise me with a decent game.
About Quadratank the game is pretty similar to its original version, the main difference lies in the graphics since they gave the game some simple 3D models to replace the 2D sprites and the other would be about the gameplay since they added a bunch of powerups and game settings to add to the replay value, unfortunately for me, I hate how the game controls, I know it was made on purpose to mess with the player and have fun with friends or something but if you are the type of friend who forces 3 people to play Quadratank with you, you are the devil.
Fairune 2
2016
I hope Fairune 3 will play like Virtual Hydlide.
Fairune 2 is a sequel that only serves as an upgrade to its predecessor where it doesn't try to switch things around but only try to be more of what we previously had, on paper this sounds great but at the end of the day it only ended up adding more backtracking and confusing cryptic puzzles which got me really bored halfway through the game. My favorite part of Fairune 1 was the fact that it was extremely short, you can beat it in under two hours on your first playthrough, but Fairune 2 took me 6 god damn hours to finish, the simple gameplay of Fairune is fine for 2 hours but not 6!
I don't have much else to say about this game other than I honestly prefer the original, it's not any better gameplay wise it's just a simpler game and more fun to go through, the backtracking of Fairune 2 just really killed it for me.
Fairune 2 is a sequel that only serves as an upgrade to its predecessor where it doesn't try to switch things around but only try to be more of what we previously had, on paper this sounds great but at the end of the day it only ended up adding more backtracking and confusing cryptic puzzles which got me really bored halfway through the game. My favorite part of Fairune 1 was the fact that it was extremely short, you can beat it in under two hours on your first playthrough, but Fairune 2 took me 6 god damn hours to finish, the simple gameplay of Fairune is fine for 2 hours but not 6!
I don't have much else to say about this game other than I honestly prefer the original, it's not any better gameplay wise it's just a simpler game and more fun to go through, the backtracking of Fairune 2 just really killed it for me.
Fairune
2013
[Reviewing the version from the Fairune collection]
Can't believe they made Hydlide good.
Fairune is an extremely short RPG that plays like Hydlide or the original Legend of Zelda on the NES, the game is really straightforward as there's barely any input required, the enemies are automatically defeated and automatically drain one or two HP for you and fill your XP bar which when leveled up you get to kill new enemies and get more HP. The only actions you can do in this game are to walk and use an item you found via the inventory and that's all, you don't need much for a basic puzzle-action game, some may find this a bit too basic but I really enjoyed figuring out the puzzles and not having to worry much about the combat is somewhat nice, though after a while you'll have to grind a specific type of enemy to unlock another so you can advance onward and it can be a bit annoying if they didn't wanted us to combat why force grinding then?
Other than the unnecessary grinding this game is well made and it's hard to fuck up a 2-hour long game. I do recommend this game for anyone who likes old-school RPG or something more modern like 3D Dot Game Heroes.
Can't believe they made Hydlide good.
Fairune is an extremely short RPG that plays like Hydlide or the original Legend of Zelda on the NES, the game is really straightforward as there's barely any input required, the enemies are automatically defeated and automatically drain one or two HP for you and fill your XP bar which when leveled up you get to kill new enemies and get more HP. The only actions you can do in this game are to walk and use an item you found via the inventory and that's all, you don't need much for a basic puzzle-action game, some may find this a bit too basic but I really enjoyed figuring out the puzzles and not having to worry much about the combat is somewhat nice, though after a while you'll have to grind a specific type of enemy to unlock another so you can advance onward and it can be a bit annoying if they didn't wanted us to combat why force grinding then?
Other than the unnecessary grinding this game is well made and it's hard to fuck up a 2-hour long game. I do recommend this game for anyone who likes old-school RPG or something more modern like 3D Dot Game Heroes.
Deadbolt
2016
This game is like Undertale 2
Deadbolt is a game where you play as the reaper on a quest to kill evil drug dealers in the realm of the dead. This game parodies cops who raid Druglord but gives this lighthearted tone with unique devilish creatures like zombies, vampires, skeletons, and demons to avoid being too realistic and controversial.
The goal is pretty simple, the goal is usually to just kill all undead in the building you are raiding, it can go from being pretty easy to be a challenging puzzle that will use every neuron in your brain to do everything right under the right timing, it's in the same veins as a game like Super Meat Boy where you just die and retry till you can get it right.
The game is pretty short and you can easily do it in under 5 hours which is a perfect length for this kind of game. This game always has been a personal favorite of mine ever since it was released, and also one of the oldest games I've played but never fully beaten and it was finally time to get this out of my backlog, after 7 years...
Deadbolt is a game where you play as the reaper on a quest to kill evil drug dealers in the realm of the dead. This game parodies cops who raid Druglord but gives this lighthearted tone with unique devilish creatures like zombies, vampires, skeletons, and demons to avoid being too realistic and controversial.
The goal is pretty simple, the goal is usually to just kill all undead in the building you are raiding, it can go from being pretty easy to be a challenging puzzle that will use every neuron in your brain to do everything right under the right timing, it's in the same veins as a game like Super Meat Boy where you just die and retry till you can get it right.
The game is pretty short and you can easily do it in under 5 hours which is a perfect length for this kind of game. This game always has been a personal favorite of mine ever since it was released, and also one of the oldest games I've played but never fully beaten and it was finally time to get this out of my backlog, after 7 years...
JFK Reloaded
2004
I wonder if they bundled this game with Clone High DVDs...
JFK Reloaded isn't a remake of a game called JFK mind you, it's a unique game where you play as the person who assassinated our beloved John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
This isn't much of a game, to be honest, it's more of a tech demo that tried to be as offensive as possible and I can't really defend this game much. Comparing it to a game like Postal 2 which tries to be controversial but it's all crafted in a comical way where it's more of a satire like a playable satire movie or a political comic, JFK Reloaded is just a simulation of the assassination of JFK and to the game credit, it's extremely well made.
As previously mentioned, the goal is to reenact the murder of JFK and you need to do it in the most historically accurate way possible because if you fail a single thing your score will lower. At the end of each run, you get a scoreboard showing the things you've done properly and the things you've missed or done in the wrong way, and the game is extremely picky so you better be one hell of a hitman.
It's a bit hard to rate this game as it's just a tech demo but as a tech demo it's really impressive and realistic for 2004, as a game it's fun to try once or twice but after that, you'll just get bored.
Should you try this "game"? Up to you whether you find this offensive or not, it's worth a try if you are curious or just like games where you play as a Sniper.
JFK Reloaded isn't a remake of a game called JFK mind you, it's a unique game where you play as the person who assassinated our beloved John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
This isn't much of a game, to be honest, it's more of a tech demo that tried to be as offensive as possible and I can't really defend this game much. Comparing it to a game like Postal 2 which tries to be controversial but it's all crafted in a comical way where it's more of a satire like a playable satire movie or a political comic, JFK Reloaded is just a simulation of the assassination of JFK and to the game credit, it's extremely well made.
As previously mentioned, the goal is to reenact the murder of JFK and you need to do it in the most historically accurate way possible because if you fail a single thing your score will lower. At the end of each run, you get a scoreboard showing the things you've done properly and the things you've missed or done in the wrong way, and the game is extremely picky so you better be one hell of a hitman.
It's a bit hard to rate this game as it's just a tech demo but as a tech demo it's really impressive and realistic for 2004, as a game it's fun to try once or twice but after that, you'll just get bored.
Should you try this "game"? Up to you whether you find this offensive or not, it's worth a try if you are curious or just like games where you play as a Sniper.
Mr.President!
2016
I feel like this game is in the same timeline as FJK Reloaded.
Mr.President! is a "3D platformer" with the goal of saving Trump by either takin the bullet for him or getting him out of the way, each stage is structured in a way where you need to reach the end while avoiding the obstacle or else you'll fall into a ragdoll animation similar to how goat simulator plays.
As dumb as this game sounds it's a ton of fun for the most part, it's mostly good because the idea is silly and it's fun to die and retry but some stages are just straight up badly designed and really makes you wish you had the ability to skip that stage, it doesn't feel like Super Meat Boy for example where you always feel like it's your fault for not being able to complete a stage, Mr.President! relies a bit too much on the ragdoll randomness to complete certain stage and it can be really frustrating, and yes I'm talking about the Putin stages they are terrible.
Other than that this game features two wrestling side modes which one of them makes you play as Trump and your goal is to put all of the immigrants out of the ring, and in the second one you play as the body guard and you have to do some takedown wrestling moves to trump, I don't know anything about wrestling so call that however you want. Trump's game mode isn't particularly fun but I had a lot of fun with the Bodyguard's one.
You probably already noticed that the humor of this game is particularly dated and pretty much only made sense in 2016, nobody really talks about Trump anymore and that's probably why nobody talks about this game anymore, it was just a silly viral game and we pretty much all enjoyed our time either playing it or watching our favourite youtubers playing it because back then everyone played it!
Should you play this game? For sure, it's a ton of fun and nobody cares about dated political jokes, if the game is fun then it's worth a playthrough.
Mr.President! is a "3D platformer" with the goal of saving Trump by either takin the bullet for him or getting him out of the way, each stage is structured in a way where you need to reach the end while avoiding the obstacle or else you'll fall into a ragdoll animation similar to how goat simulator plays.
As dumb as this game sounds it's a ton of fun for the most part, it's mostly good because the idea is silly and it's fun to die and retry but some stages are just straight up badly designed and really makes you wish you had the ability to skip that stage, it doesn't feel like Super Meat Boy for example where you always feel like it's your fault for not being able to complete a stage, Mr.President! relies a bit too much on the ragdoll randomness to complete certain stage and it can be really frustrating, and yes I'm talking about the Putin stages they are terrible.
Other than that this game features two wrestling side modes which one of them makes you play as Trump and your goal is to put all of the immigrants out of the ring, and in the second one you play as the body guard and you have to do some takedown wrestling moves to trump, I don't know anything about wrestling so call that however you want. Trump's game mode isn't particularly fun but I had a lot of fun with the Bodyguard's one.
You probably already noticed that the humor of this game is particularly dated and pretty much only made sense in 2016, nobody really talks about Trump anymore and that's probably why nobody talks about this game anymore, it was just a silly viral game and we pretty much all enjoyed our time either playing it or watching our favourite youtubers playing it because back then everyone played it!
Should you play this game? For sure, it's a ton of fun and nobody cares about dated political jokes, if the game is fun then it's worth a playthrough.
This game reminds me of the on-rail minigame in Rayman raving rabbids.
Gal*Gun is an on-rail shooter franchise that just doesn't really do anything unique in its gameplay but it's definitely not something you can say about the presentation and plot. The plot of the game is pretty straightforward, you play as a boy who got hit by a powerful love angel arrow and now every woman loves you, your goal is to find your true love before the end of the day to live the rest of your life with her.
With this plot, you are now tasked to travel the whole school while hitting women with your pheromone shots which are used as the gun system for this game. The overall gameplay is really basic as something you'd expect from an on-rail shooter, you just hit the girls like you'd hit a zombie in House of the Dead, and you hit the girl's weak spots just like you'd do in any other on-rail shooters.
The game is extremely short like most on-rail shooters but here you have some replay value as there are different endings based on choices you make during cutscenes or based on your overall love score which is done by playing minigames placed in-between missions and these honestly suck, some are easy and some can but straight up broken, they ruin the pace of the game and they take ages to go through, I don't like them.
I personally only went for one ending and I don't need much else to be honest, one playthrough is good enough and I don't want to replay the same stage over and over with those stupid minigames and a bunch of stages are just variations of old ones so it feels really repetitive at time.
Should you play it? Yeah, it's silly so why not. This one is probably most people's pick for their first rodeo with gal gun since it's really cheap on steam and it seems to be the first game of the franchise because gal gun 2 exists and it's actually the third game, gal gun double peace being the sequel to gal gun which was an Xbox 360 game that received a remake recently but it's too expensive so I just picked Double peace.
Gal*Gun is an on-rail shooter franchise that just doesn't really do anything unique in its gameplay but it's definitely not something you can say about the presentation and plot. The plot of the game is pretty straightforward, you play as a boy who got hit by a powerful love angel arrow and now every woman loves you, your goal is to find your true love before the end of the day to live the rest of your life with her.
With this plot, you are now tasked to travel the whole school while hitting women with your pheromone shots which are used as the gun system for this game. The overall gameplay is really basic as something you'd expect from an on-rail shooter, you just hit the girls like you'd hit a zombie in House of the Dead, and you hit the girl's weak spots just like you'd do in any other on-rail shooters.
The game is extremely short like most on-rail shooters but here you have some replay value as there are different endings based on choices you make during cutscenes or based on your overall love score which is done by playing minigames placed in-between missions and these honestly suck, some are easy and some can but straight up broken, they ruin the pace of the game and they take ages to go through, I don't like them.
I personally only went for one ending and I don't need much else to be honest, one playthrough is good enough and I don't want to replay the same stage over and over with those stupid minigames and a bunch of stages are just variations of old ones so it feels really repetitive at time.
Should you play it? Yeah, it's silly so why not. This one is probably most people's pick for their first rodeo with gal gun since it's really cheap on steam and it seems to be the first game of the franchise because gal gun 2 exists and it's actually the third game, gal gun double peace being the sequel to gal gun which was an Xbox 360 game that received a remake recently but it's too expensive so I just picked Double peace.