So you guys know how BAD & FL is the peak of VN H games. Basically nothing can touch them? Well Third Crisis is that but for adventure/tactical RPGs H games (or H games that have actual gameplay in them instead of being pure VNs). While also being the best goddamn thot sim/corruption game in the market. The Plot is great, branching is fantastic, the artstyle is to die for, the MC is bhad af, OST is solid & good animations with variety. The title makes it seem like it is part of something bigger "Third" Crisis but this is the first game in the series despite there being 3 Crises in the lore/universe of this series. You play as Jenna "Vibe" Wright a hero from the second crisis that gets thrown into the midst of the third crisis. I won't go into too many specifics so that you guys can enjoy the story for itself but the game has about 7 main endings with 4 of them being obtained via outside the main quest and the other 3 being options for the main ending of the game. So there is variety and it does come down to how you play the game.

You can choose to be a thot rocket supreme, super pure or anything in between. All of the endings are related to the former while you must remain pure for the true ending. The gameplay is pretty straight forward like any typical rpg (there is no leveling or skills though) its purely based off of stats & gear. Combat is very simple its basically you can hit enemies and you usually have a skill or two. Its turned based and while its very simple a lot of the combat encounters especially late game can be extremely challenging thankfully there is a skip mode in the settings. Man I wish I knew that. Some of those fights were a bitch. You are alone for a large portion of the game but eventually do get a party going much later filled with a colorful cast. There are also mini games and for the most part they are simple and not annoying with only a few of them being tedious I'm assuming they too are skippable.

The animations and sounds are on point. Very hot, very raunchy, lewd and have lots of variety when it comes to kinks. I only wish every situation was fully animated as some scenes are simply photos or the classic back and forth bounce back to sim movement. But at least there is a lot of animations and they are sprinkled throughout the entire game. There are a few specific kinks I wish they gave us more of but they still basically gave us all the goats in good supply.

What makes this game really standout is how rich it is in the lore. You can talk to the NPCs and pick up breadcrumbs about the world. We also get journal entries (during one small section of the game we even get voiced audio logs that are so dope) all over the game that give us small information about the universe. We get lots of teasing about how the world is and used to be. It makes it feel a lot more alive and established compared to so many other titles in this genre. Like its crazy that I actually want to read up on lore for this series. I want to know more about the other crises. I want more on Jenna, she's a legendary hero so she clearly has had some crazy escapades. I'm hoping we get a full blown series out of these covering the previous two crises and future events as well that fleshes this out even further (a prequel is in the works!)

The cast of characters involved is great too not just the main crew but the support characters can be very funny, or super douches. You really dislike the villains and just want to take them down. Speaking of villains this game has one of the dopest plot twists I've seen in a long ass time. Really caught me off guard. What's also really dope is how organized they keep the gallery content. Its separated by location/events for the scenes, pinups, animations, and characters also have their own sections. Its just seamless and easy to get to for whenever you want to watch a specific moment.

Despite all this praise I'm giving the game it does have it flaws and I'll break it down. Performance/bugs is the first thing. It usually CTD's on exiting. This game has loading screens between cells. Honestly for what this game is those loading screens should be a second at most if not instantaneous. But some of them can be a little long and you will be bouncing cells often bethesda style. Then there's the Lag/frame drops. Again a game like this should not have these problems at all! But they occasionally will occur. I've noticed towards the end of the game it's more prominent. Glitching is another thing. Menus sometimes get a little buggy and you need to play around for it to work or you need to reload a save sometimes if the combat gets a little buggy. Nothing game breaking but it exists and it happens. The game did just leave EA so I'm certain with time it will get better but I had to mention these things as they do occur. It also seems the Peitho/townhall path/ending is currently incomplete which kinda sucks since the game is officially out now. They should have finished that. Here's hoping they do and its not dropped. Speaking of endings it does feel like the 4 side endings are a bit rushed and come out of left field when they do wrap up I wish they didn't end so abruptly and were a bit more fleshed out. And of course VA would have been nice but that's already very rare with these types of games so it's just wishful thinking tbh.

In terms of ending enjoyment I actually enjoyed all the endings even if some of them were very sad (or in the case of some of the side endings kinda were left field) If I had to list them in order of best to worse it would go like

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1. True Ending: Honestly to me its really the only "good" ending from the main 3 endings. I am a bit miffed you can only get it by being pure (no thottery) which does make sense from a narrative standpoint but it be cool if you could also trigger the ending by being such a thot to the point where your powers make a resurgence. Either way it melts my heart and I was very glad that this ending even exists as the other two endings are extremely bittersweet. I'm assuming this is the canon ending and will be used for any games that take place after Third Crisis.

2. Good ending & Bad ending?: I put a question mark as its a little debatable on which is which but either way your taking a goddamn L with these endings. You either lose the love of your life and now have to live with a gaping hole in your heart forever while Jewel tries to hold you down but you save the world (good ending?) or You let everyone die/remained enslaved in the tower while you escape with Karen. It sucks because yeah you saved her but at the cost of the world + your friends and now you too will be fugitives forever and the road to recovery on that relationship is that much harder (bad ending?) I really feel like your shafted either way and most people are going to get one or the other since lets be real most of us are playing this game for the H lol.

3. Pornstar ending: So this path was very enjoyable in terms of content and the ending was pretty much an alt "happy ending" but again I feel like it does ends rapidly and lacks a satisfying epilogue.

4. Bar ending: Again very enjoyable path lots of good content. At least it wasn't a super abrupt ending but it is annoying to get the pop up to start the ending everytime you talk to the bartender once you meet requirements. Wish it was a little longer too.

5. Streetwhore/Alley/Leidryn Path Ending: So this would be considered one of the bad ends. I'll be honest I actually enjoyed the content of this path a lot even though towards the ending the narrative sort of lost its way out of nowhere but its really solid for a bad end and has some of more darker content in the game.

6. Peitho/Townhall Path Ending: Another bad end that I really enjoyed the content for. I would put it equal to the previous ending but its currently unfinished. Very interesting considering this route is actively against the main story (similarly to the previous ending but even further.)



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All in all I recommend this to anyone who enjoys H titles. Even if you don't it may warrant a run since you could always do a pure path. Really solid gem and I am very hyped and looking forward to Third Crisis: Neon Nights. Which is a prequel to this that takes place during the 5 year gap. It already looks so good and will most likely surpass this title tenfold! This is one for the books!

Jenna is wifey.

Honestly game got a lot of unwarranted hate. Gameplay is fun, the characters control different from each other. The story hits and most importantly. This game shits on GK. Thank God it isn't complete trash like that title. I will admit the endgame is a problem but lets talk our way there. So The gameplay loop is satisfying. The combat/killing feels rewarding and I love how different everyone feels. I bounce between all four characters but I main Harley and King Shark the most.

I know a lot of people complain about the UI being all over the place but tbh it doesn't bother me too much considering you can turn most of it off & the gameplay is so crazy and chaotic the UI doesn't really phase me. I'm too busy trying to stay alive and kill everything with the amount of shit happening. As for the performance? I can get 60 fps on native 4k with mostly high settings I do have to turn 1-2 settings to medium. However the thermals are up there. So not a well optimized game but in this day and age unfortunately that's very common and at least I am able to actually hit target frames without the use of DLSS or dynamic resolution.

As a long time arkham fan its crazy for me to admit it but the story is not bad at all. I actually liked the plot a lot with exception to a certain boss fight that should have been handled different even if they did that since the boss in question would body the Suicide squad on a straight up fight. Nonetheless I felt some type of way being forced to put down my beloved heroes one by one because that was the only way to save the day. Bats himself wouldn't have had it any other way. I know people wanted a JL game but we can still get one. They can always do prequels that lead up to this moment and possibly flashpoint it later in order to restore the TL. However that's the end of my praise for this game and its story as the endgame is terrible. It consists of literally grinding the same 5 missions over & over again for better loot (terrible rng btw) and to raise your mastery enough to get better rewards. It seems this repeats with each episode. That alongside forcing live service is the fatal flaw of this game as it did take away from the game significantly, introduced an abysmal grind, ruining endgame and resulted in things like a goddamn battlepass in a SP title.

So excluding the endgame I will recommend this title (on a sale) with the endgame included I would not unless you aren't planning to go too deep into it. As another reviewer once said "This game is kinda like DCUO but as a single player/co op experience instead of a mmo" They really hit the nail on the head and its probably why I do enjoy this game as I am a DCUO fan.

Holy shit they added an unlimited turns button. This is pretty huge considering a lot of the difficulty from the match-3 puzzles come from having to complete them in a certain amount of turns. Essentially making all puzzles solvable without grind! (There are times you may still need a tool to complete) This is a HUGE step in the right direction and helps reduce grind. They even reduced the difficulty of the puzzles for the most part. While this is all great it still doesn't fix that the puzzles are still mandatory, and can still take a long time to complete. It's a band-aid to the problem. They need to make the story mode available from the get go.

Now lets talk animations. So easily the best animations in the series (at least when you are getting full blown scenes not exactly happy how some final scenes were literally just the characters holding each other) and while they did bring back the multiple scenes per branch from the first game not every branch gets this treatment (heck Stuffing The Box still has one scene per branch.) Switch Off was the only one to really have a decent amount per branch with most of it unfortunately being teasing. And while some did have maybe 2 per path with how long they make these routes honestly it feels too disproportionate. If your going to make the routes longer you should be adding more scenes per branch. The first game did it best especially since the routes were way shorter. They did add a bit more VA work but it is still sparingly voiced.

Story wise there is 5 short stories and tbh they are all pretty good when it comes to how hot the scenes were and the plots were all pretty solid for once. Hopefully there will be more variety with the scenes/kinks in the future. It is also nice to see certain characters return and continue to get short stories like Elliot & Isabella. Overall there is massive improvements compared to the previous titles with certain exceptions. However I still think there's a lot that needs to be done before I could recommend this title. Hopefully the fourth game will get it down.

Who's ready for yet another Match-3 rant? So if you've read my previous review on the first game pretty much everything still stands but even worse now. They have made the match-3's even more difficult now which is absurd. The first game was already difficult enough especially the bonus sections. Now they made the base game just as hard with these new mechanics that are really just a kick to the nuts considering you are always at the mercy of the RnG. You essentially need the items to complete certain puzzles. its not optional anymore like in the base game of 1. And the puzzle that basically gives you the best money grind is locked nice and deep in Hot Deck. It's like the devs are getting off to the fact that they are wasting your time.

Lets move on to some of the other aspects in the meantime. Basically everything is a downgrade in this game over the first. They really went quantity over quality in this one. While the animations are better drawn and more fluid with a superior artstyle there is now only one major animation/scene per route instead of how in the first game you had them sprinkled throughout a route with different positions before the wrap up. The best scenes & plots lie within Sigma Epsilon Xi - party, Lusty Dragonian Maid, Mixed Martial Arts, & Exceptional Date. The rest is extremely mehh. Now each path now has one count it again just one scene. That's fucking abysmal especially considering they lengthened the routes too so now more puzzles (which are even more difficult) and more branching which gives us less scenes. So basically more work for less payout. That right there is the biggest problem of this game other then yet again locking the content behind match-3s.

So based on achievement unlocks once again we have main 5 short stories with an additional 4 bonus stories with only 50 shades of valentines being worth any effort as the other 3 are once again just artwork unlocks. And once again the bonus stories have an increased difficulty that is just ridiculous especially since the main game has a massive difficulty boost already from the previous game due to the new shitty stipulations implemented. If you thought my warning to avoid the first game was already heavy handed nah this is even more cooked. Seriously screw this game's puzzles and how lazy the devs got on this one. Not worth the trouble considering the plots for the most part suck and the single animation per route is just a slap to the face with the increased difficulty. Can 3 get any worse?

Fetish locator at one point was the king of H games. Then Being A Dik came out of nowhere and bumped it right off the throne. Now even though I still think BAD is the better title week 3 certainly helps close the gap. Its tough to say if week 2 or 3 is better considering they both have really fire H scenes (week 2 also has another fire party and the whole attempt to klap 20.) But week 3 is def still pretty good. In terms of endings ending 6 and ending 10 are peak (at least for the current completed endings). Which brings me to my really only major issue missing endings. Most of the endings need to be finished with half of them being labled as free dlc and others being labeled dlc.
I think thats a little unfair considering the price of the product and length of the game. If the pricing for the paid endings are low and its bundled I won't be too upset but if its cooked im changing this to a negative review idc. Regardless This continues to stay up in the top 5 for H games and honestly Im hyped for not just the rest of the endings but for that new series ViNovella is making and the spin off from one of the endings. And Im sure I don't have to say this but if you have fetishes if it isn super obscure it'll be in this series.

Edit: So the first dlc ending pack wasn't bad. Ending 12, 17 & 4 are the best ones with 14 & 11 being decent & 7 just being completely trash (even for people into that it was kinda cooked.) As of right now we still have quite a few left that need to be finished with the paid dlc they were talking about. Hopefully thats on the way and we get steam cards soon.

Honestly in terms of H games this is certainly up there. I wouldn't call it BAD or FL tier and its mainly for two big reasons. One its pretty linear it doesn't branch at all which is not terrible for these types of games but I can't exactly put it above a game like BAD when it does branching so damn well you need like 4-7 optimized runs to experience everything. The other issue is teasing/frequency of scenes. The scenes are very spread apart and a lot of them are mainly teases. However within the last two chapters they have made more explicit scenes that are a lot better from the earlier ones. The game is currently up to v 0.7 and ended on a massive cliffhanger as we wait for 0.8 so maybe wait if thats a deal breaker. The plot is great, the girls are amazing (Nancy, Alex, & Penelope are not only competing for best scenes but also best girl) and the MC is decent. Certainly an interesting plot line despite it taking a lot of inspiration from lots of other popular media and making it its own thing.

Yeah if your going to put in a match 3 into your game would it kill you to not require to grind money for power ups because the stipulations to unlock the next section are ridiculous. "The story mode" you guys add once you complete a section should be the base game if you guys were going to make the puzzles this annoying & tedious due to the dogshit RNG. Blatantly obvious that this was done to pad the length of the game because otherwise this would be 1-2-3 which frankly I would take over getting screwed with the RNG. Makes the match 3 in Being A Dik look like a cakewalk. Lets talk about the actual content now that I'm done with the 3 match grind/difficulty rant.

So the animations are pretty fire despite them being very short (and having to work like crazy for them seriously its bad.) They have sound and light VA work. The only downside is climaxing is not fully animated and is mainly just drawn. Still when it comes to drawn games to even have animations at all is a blessing since most H games that are drawn are still images or do the flip book frame style. So huge thumbs up on that front. When it comes to variety of the scenes its actually pretty solid. They hit most of the standard kinks. Pretty hot scenes for the most part. Some of them were mehh but the ones that stood out in terms of best scenes in the game were easily Boutique Visit & Glory-ous Night.

As for the story the game doesn't have a real narrative its just a bunch of small scenario/short stories that have a small backdrop and lead right into some klap. Just like how they had the best scenes & animations, Boutique Visit & Glory-ous Night also happen to have the best plotlines. Especially since some like Out and About were just all over the place.

In terms of overall content you have the 5 standard short stories which overall were decent I suppose. And then it seems Home Alone, Beach Episode and the Christmas Surprise are considered extra stories or dlc kinda? As you get the achievement for completing all stories after Out and About.

And boy do I have lots of roasting for that content. As if the "base game" wasn't already difficult enough those 3 sections are even more ridiculous with the difficulty. Like you need to rely on all the tools available in order to progress. Which means grind time because those tools aren't cheap and you'll need a lot. Home Alone is the only one worth considering playing in terms of content as you still get some scenes. The other two do not give you animations/scenes. You just get artwork so don't even bother unless you hate yourself enough to go for that platinum.

At the end of it all I would avoid the hell out of this title unless you are a furry (I'm not even one at all I got the series since the animations look well done. Which they are pretty good but are ruined with the gameplay) or really like match 3's because the amount of grinding needed for such a small payout is really just abysmal. Save yourself the trouble and go play BAD, FL or Eternum please.

I don't know how this game came to be. These guys made Arkham Origins ffs one of the best super hero games ever. Somehow someway they dropped the ball and they did it hard. I can say nothing positive about this game. From performance, to story, to gameplay its just all shit. Terrible game not even worth 20 dollars. If you buy this game I wouldn't pay more than 5 dollars and even then you will still probably feel ripped off. Even the art direction for most of the drip is ass. But at least Barbara is still hot I guess and we get to see red hood again. I cannot fathom how people rode this game.

CDPR once again has outdone themselves. I did not expect them to top Witcher 3. But they did it !!! Yeah the game has bugs but so long as they aren't game breaking and frequent I can overlook them as they will be patched eventually or modded out. The story and atmosphere is ELECTRIC. This is easily the GOTY for me despite it coming out so late in the year. I do wish it was a little longer but none the less still a very solid experience
Johnny Silverhands is so legendary Ill go ahead and say it. He beats Neo in terms of Keanu's best role hands down. I had such a rough time In deciding who got V's body even knowing the outcomes they were both fantastic characters and I just wish there was a way to save both of em. The only thing I kinda didn't like from the endings is there was no good ending. No matter what V cannot win and that really got to me. Oh and the character creator colors should of been like a drop down menu. If you are a fan of a great story, great characters, CDPR, amazing graphics, sick gameplay you already know what to do.

"SO Wake the fuck up, Samurai. We have a city to burn."

Morrowind is a special game. Despite it's age it handles this series in a manner that was never replicated again. Now I will say it does have it's issues however the pros outweigh the cons. And a large amount of those cons can now be modded out as vanilla morrowind is extremely rough. Nonetheless despite being overshadowed by the bethemoth that bioware dropped that same year this was the blueprint, the progenitor, the first generation of what we know as modern bethesda games. This is essentially the GTA III of high fantasy, 3D, open world, sandbox, third/first person western RPGs! It may not hold your hand, it will most likely chew and spit you out, but it is worth it. Anyone who is a bethesda fan and/or a western rpg fan should run this game to the end at least once.

And if you are trying to modern up this game up and gussy it up for the ball I got you with a modular modding guide (only sections 1-3 are mandatory.)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3014486063

This is one of those gems that maybe you've heard a lot of people talk about but you never actually sat down to play. Or maybe you did play it but its been years since. Nonetheless this is a fantastic title in the TES series and while it has its caveats its is still worth running in today's age. It may not have skyrim's more robust dialogue system but the main & side quests are very rich and the world building is certainly up to bethesda's par. For many this was beth's magnum opus for quite some time and while I don't agree with it I can understand why people view it as so. As an older bethesda title it can be a little difficult to mod but hey thats why I got yall with a modular modding guide (only sections 1-3 are mandatory.)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009367763

I should not have to rely on DLSS to have a playable framerate with a 3090. This game is extremely poorly optimized and my thermals are through the roof when I do play. Yes its a visually impressive game but at the very least I should be able to get 60 fps on native. Even with the DLSS I still get occasional stutters and fps drops. That is unacceptable and there is no solution. No mods.

Moving past the performance of this game it's a solid remake in the sense that it kept basically everything kosher and improved nearly on everything. The atmosphere is not as daunting and intimidating and that vibe just isn't the same. I will say I do wish they kept Isaac's silence or just really restrict his speaking as I like that it took a whole game for him to finally speak. Also wished they kept his design from the original games and just made him look younger instead of drastically changing his appearance.

Overall its not a bad game but the poor optimization really held back my ability to enjoy this title. Get on a deep sale and play during the winter because boy does it burn hott. Not the worse remake but not the best very far from it. Go play the original at some point if you haven't

So i'll go ahead and break the reality of the situation. Everyone is giving it negative reviews because the mp was cooked day 1. But that was it after day 1 the mp worked fine. I do not think it deserves the mostly negative as the game works as intended. I have never crashed playing this game meanwhile I have had crashes playing the originals. This now has proper 4K UI support and controller support. Those two things are worth their weight in gold to me so that alone makes this re release worth my time. Because that's what this is a re release it is not a remaster. You can easily argue go get the originals but you can get this for fairly cheap iykyk. I also think the dark forces remaster is a bigger cash grab then this considering its only the first title but you don't see them getting blasted.

Here's what I will ♥♥♥♥ on. The file size certain is absurd should not be this big & that currently legendary medals are bugged so you don't get them at the beginning of a match like you should. The platinum trophy was also not popping for me (recently its been patched so you can get the plat now). Day 1 also had ending cutscenes for rise of the empire missing but this was patched within that same weekend. Otherwise I never had any issues and I played my heart out on IA some GC and the campaign modes as I did not get this for MP and frankly everyone whos flipping out on MP needs to remember most people were not capable of playing this online during that era. This is obviously a blatant smear campaign against aspyr due to long time fans feeling scorn against their more recent porting and SW games in general just being trash with casuals jumping in on the bandwagon. Just remember Aspyr were the ones that fixed up KOTOR II for modern PCs.