DVince89
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Just a guy named David who loves video games probably too much. Admittedly not a good writer but loves talking about games.
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5= Masterpiece.
4.5= Excellent.
4= Great.
3.5= Very Good.
3= Good.
2.5= Solid.
2=Decent.
1.5= Poor.
1= Bad
.5= Trash
Just a guy named David who loves video games probably too much. Admittedly not a good writer but loves talking about games.
Ratings
5= Masterpiece.
4.5= Excellent.
4= Great.
3.5= Very Good.
3= Good.
2.5= Solid.
2=Decent.
1.5= Poor.
1= Bad
.5= Trash
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Hell Divers 2 blew up for reason. The game is action packed, hilarious, immensely fun, 3rd person shooter, PvE, and a game you absolutely owe it to yourself to play with some friends. As someone who finds the shooter genre just very ok I can not recommend this game enough.
It has been since Overwatch (before it sucked) originally came out that me and my friends had a game that we regularly get on every other night and just have a great time together with. For two months me, @Chordata3 and @TSampys25 have regularly got on and just joked, laughed, and had a great time killing robots, bugs, and spreading democracy.
The gameplay loop is great. There are many different missions, across 9 different difficulties, against (at the time of this review) two seperate factions. The first race you are at war with is the alien bug like creatures known as the Termanids. The bugs are aggressive and can overwhelm you with their numbers quickly. The second race is the robot cyborg Automatons. This race while less likely to swarm you and less chaotice are more tactical which makes them in my opinion a scarier threat. With an aresonal of tanks, rocket launchers, grenades, and a whole lot of guns your going to want to seek shelter and be more stealthy in you approach against them. Going from one race to the other almost feels like a separate game. Luckily the game gives you many different weapons you can unlock as some weapons are great against the Termanids but awful against the Automatons and vica versa.
This game can be played alone but I highly recommend playing with friends. Once you get to a high enough level to unlock all the weapons playing on the highest difficulty with some buddies is one of the most fun and rewarding times you can have playing video games.
I will always be thankful @TSampys25 on a whim asked if me and @chordata3 wanted to buy and play Hell Divers 2 together. We had no idea what it even was at the time and its been some of my favorite gaming memories I have with them now.
Now back to spreading liberty, freedom, and democracy.
It has been since Overwatch (before it sucked) originally came out that me and my friends had a game that we regularly get on every other night and just have a great time together with. For two months me, @Chordata3 and @TSampys25 have regularly got on and just joked, laughed, and had a great time killing robots, bugs, and spreading democracy.
The gameplay loop is great. There are many different missions, across 9 different difficulties, against (at the time of this review) two seperate factions. The first race you are at war with is the alien bug like creatures known as the Termanids. The bugs are aggressive and can overwhelm you with their numbers quickly. The second race is the robot cyborg Automatons. This race while less likely to swarm you and less chaotice are more tactical which makes them in my opinion a scarier threat. With an aresonal of tanks, rocket launchers, grenades, and a whole lot of guns your going to want to seek shelter and be more stealthy in you approach against them. Going from one race to the other almost feels like a separate game. Luckily the game gives you many different weapons you can unlock as some weapons are great against the Termanids but awful against the Automatons and vica versa.
This game can be played alone but I highly recommend playing with friends. Once you get to a high enough level to unlock all the weapons playing on the highest difficulty with some buddies is one of the most fun and rewarding times you can have playing video games.
I will always be thankful @TSampys25 on a whim asked if me and @chordata3 wanted to buy and play Hell Divers 2 together. We had no idea what it even was at the time and its been some of my favorite gaming memories I have with them now.
Now back to spreading liberty, freedom, and democracy.
Minit is one of the most average games I’ve ever played but with a phenomenal gimmick. I love the idea of you have one minute to figure out what you need to do and then speed to get it done. However the game only lasts about an hour and once you know what to do it really kills the replay-ability imo. The puzzles were good enough. Nothing to ridiculous but not so easy that you can walk through the game without thinking. The minimal visuals and simplistic gameplay were a nice change of pace. Overall a solid good game, again, mostly because of its awesome gimmick. If you want something quick and easy to play I would definitely recommend it.
This review contains spoilers
I am thankful that this game was a free monthly game through PlayStation as I had never heard of this game and assuming I had heard of it, I would never have paid money for it. I’m not the biggest roguelike fan so I almost didn’t play this even though it was free. The only roguelike I’ve ever loved was Hades and outside of that I liked Dead Cells and Enter the Gungeon. I needed something to play after finishing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Personal 3 back to back and as much as I absolutely loved those games I needed a game that wouldn’t take me 70-100 hours to beat. So the timing of this being a free game was perfect. I just randomly said “whatever it’s free I’ll try it out” and I’m so glad I did.
This game is more wonderful than I ever dreamed it could have been. The gameplay is simple but the difficulty is demanding making the game addictive and leaving you wanting one more run because you know you can do better. The moment it clicks and you go from a dying scrub to an unstoppable force is so satisfying as you continually get slightly better each run. With around 100 different skulls (playable character types) the game play never gets dull even though it doesn’t massively change between skulls. It’s so fun to try completely different builds once you get comfortable enough with the gameplay loop. You can tell they took a lot of ideas from Dead Cells in the levels and leveling of your character as well as from Hollow Knight in the boss department. You can tell they love video games as there are so many Easter Eggs to other games and pop culture. For instance the warrior skull looks like Kratos, the prisoner/king is Dead Cells main character, Biker is Ghost Rider, Genie is the Genie for Aladdin, one’s boss screams Leeroy Jenkins when charging to attack you, the Nun bosses when healing says Hero’s never die from Overwatch, and there are many more instances of these sorts of things that I appreciated.
The story is surprisingly decent as well though I would hardly call it great. Much like the gameplay I would say it’s at the base level simple, but has layers. The pixel art is pretty good and easy on the eyes. The music has some pretty good tracks throughout the game.
I’m so glad I randomly decided to give this great game a try and I strongly recommend you give it a shot as well. Even after beating it now I just want to compete it with all the skulls. This will be a game I play for a long time.
My 2024 game rankings:
https://www.backloggd.com/u/DVince89/list/games-i-played-in-2024-ranked-1/
It barely snuck in to my top 100
https://www.backloggd.com/u/DVince89/list/my-favorite-100-video-game-of-all-time/
This game is more wonderful than I ever dreamed it could have been. The gameplay is simple but the difficulty is demanding making the game addictive and leaving you wanting one more run because you know you can do better. The moment it clicks and you go from a dying scrub to an unstoppable force is so satisfying as you continually get slightly better each run. With around 100 different skulls (playable character types) the game play never gets dull even though it doesn’t massively change between skulls. It’s so fun to try completely different builds once you get comfortable enough with the gameplay loop. You can tell they took a lot of ideas from Dead Cells in the levels and leveling of your character as well as from Hollow Knight in the boss department. You can tell they love video games as there are so many Easter Eggs to other games and pop culture. For instance the warrior skull looks like Kratos, the prisoner/king is Dead Cells main character, Biker is Ghost Rider, Genie is the Genie for Aladdin, one’s boss screams Leeroy Jenkins when charging to attack you, the Nun bosses when healing says Hero’s never die from Overwatch, and there are many more instances of these sorts of things that I appreciated.
The story is surprisingly decent as well though I would hardly call it great. Much like the gameplay I would say it’s at the base level simple, but has layers. The pixel art is pretty good and easy on the eyes. The music has some pretty good tracks throughout the game.
I’m so glad I randomly decided to give this great game a try and I strongly recommend you give it a shot as well. Even after beating it now I just want to compete it with all the skulls. This will be a game I play for a long time.
My 2024 game rankings:
https://www.backloggd.com/u/DVince89/list/games-i-played-in-2024-ranked-1/
It barely snuck in to my top 100
https://www.backloggd.com/u/DVince89/list/my-favorite-100-video-game-of-all-time/