I don't usually play Early Access single-player games, but I've been waiting a really long time for this one, so I just had to try it out immediately. I went through the tutorial case with all waypoints and such turned off, which took me nearly 8 incredible hours. There's a lot of meat to this experience already, and it's one of the most engaging things I've played in a long time. As expected, there are many bugs and optimization issues at the moment, so I'm going to wait until it hits 1.0 to truly dig into it and form my full opinion, but I think if they can iron that stuff out, Shadows of Doubt could be a legitimate game of the generation contender.

Not going to rate this because I only played it for like 30 seconds. I was excited to check out the new episodes and the improved level layouts for Duke It Out In DC, but first I decided to refresh my memory of Duke3D by trying out Episode 1 with one of the new characters.

This is like a parody of modern shooters. I drop into Hollywood Holocaust and am immediately greeted by friendly NPCs running around screaming, giant enemy health bars and a bizarre Halo-esque radar taking up 1/3 of the screen, coins dropping from enemies to use in the in-game cash shop???? I just can't.

Come for the impressively bad performance on powerful machines and poorly thought out camera angles, stay for the Source Filmmaker cutscenes and miserable gameplay. I can't even be offended by The Medium's portrayals of pedophilia and mental illness because that would ascribe more intention to its writing than I believe Bloober Team is capable of - this game does not have themes, characters, or plot in the way a genuine narrative would and simply isn't worth engaging with on any level. I don't think the creators gave a second thought toward what it would mean by presenting Humbert Humbert's internal excuse for why he wants to fuck kids as a literal, tragic event - right down to quoting Lolita's opening line verbatim - nor do I think they understood the potential implications of Lily's... "arc" is probably too strong of a word. At least some of the environments and music are good?