CarnivalKing
2022
1994
Eh, tried it for around 7-8 hours, but it never really hooked me. Sure there were some good moments when playing as both the family and the victims, but they were spliced up between moments of monotony and annoyance at how hard it is to get a map of the land. And for 40 bucks, I find it hard to give it a glowing recommendation. Better to try it on the Game Pass or wait for a half-off sale.
2023
As someone who has never gotten the craze behind F-Zero, I can safely say I still don't get it. It's probably the most fun I ever had with an F-Zero game (I played the N64, SNES, GBA, and Gamecube ones, but never really got into it), but I don't think this series is for me. Sorry that this game disappointed so many F-Zero fans still waiting for an actual game that isn't Fortnite, but hopefully if enough people download it there will be enough interest shown for a proper release.
2023
Someone dared to ask what if we made Cuphead bad and low effort, and forgot just what made it a good game. The game has barely anything going for it. The one thing saving it for a 1/10 is that the art style sometimes changes to match the location. The witch fight has an art style shift that turns the characters into a weird gothic Invader Zim-esque look, the final boss gives the characters a more anime look, and the computer world has the characters covered in glitchy code. That's it. If they focused more on making each level or world have its own unique aesthetic and music, I think that would have done wonders for this game and made it more than just a Cuphead clone. As it is now, it's a terrible, unfairly hard, and frustrating time that could be beaten in 2 hours.
2017
Completed it a long time ago, but now, after playing it for a couple worlds, yeah it can definitely be a 10+ hour-long slog that I probably wouldn't want to do again and would rather just focus on my backlog, but it's still fun, and the Pikmin cutscenes were pretty cute to look at (that you can skip after seeing them the first time), alongside the description for treasure being just as grand as always. I say it's worth at least one try.
2023
2013
It’s a mobile game that requires you to buy it only to make you buy even more stuff in order to get the full game, with you only unlocking one minigame at a time each session, making it drag on and get tedious. It’s not even like Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball which is honest about it; it hides the fact that the full game isn’t that full, and if you want to buy all the DLC packs, it’s over twice as much as the actual game! It genuinely feels insulting.