FrickingNick
2024
A masterfully crafted game that nudges you to the precipice of discovery and then backs off and lets you make the discoveries yourself and pat yourself on the back for having such a big fkn brain. My brain compartmentalizes it along with games like Return of the Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds where you learn the language the game is speaking to you and the skill caps are mostly knowledge-based. Also it’s fun so that’s good too.
A very interesting narrative, gorgeous world, fantastic performances, and chilling sound design are all bogged down by one big flaw: it just isn’t fun.
I get that “fun” doesn’t always have to be the end-all, be-all for game design so it could be that I wasn’t in the right headspace for Hellblade, but I just wasn’t feeling it.
I get that “fun” doesn’t always have to be the end-all, be-all for game design so it could be that I wasn’t in the right headspace for Hellblade, but I just wasn’t feeling it.
There’s so many good things to say about Another Crab’s Treasure. The humor, the bright colors, fun soundtrack, the leaning into the platforming while still being a tough game, and the fact that it’s a soulslike but comes with enough accessibility options to allow the player to engage with it on their own terms. It also has such a heartfelt and earnest story about a little crab who learns about capitalism and hates everything about it ❤️🦀
Plot synopsis/analysis: https://youtu.be/WPYuFzeq6C0
Plot synopsis/analysis: https://youtu.be/WPYuFzeq6C0
2024
I had a Joker that gave me 4x multiplier per diamond, turned about 2/3 of my cards into diamonds, then unga bunga'd my way through by doing only flushes. I am very good at this game.
2023
“What if we took the best part of Inscryption but made it Russian Roulette instead of Yu-Gi-Oh” is a helluva premise and it works really well.
This tickled my fancy in all the right ways and I just need a PvP mode so I can punish my non statistics-brained friends.
Review/Analysis: https://youtu.be/k51WEocX8QY
This tickled my fancy in all the right ways and I just need a PvP mode so I can punish my non statistics-brained friends.
Review/Analysis: https://youtu.be/k51WEocX8QY
2024
The story is delivered in visceral, hyperactive short cutscenes that stand in stark contrast to the game’s slower, methodical gameplay. It’s a great puzzle shooter with a lot of style and a heartbreaking narrative. A great short game with a lot of replay value!
2001
Oh so the internet was entirely fkn wrong about all those theories I read and watched. Ok.
Hauntingly beautiful game. Atmospheric and distressing to its core. Gonna stick with me for a long time.
Hauntingly beautiful game. Atmospheric and distressing to its core. Gonna stick with me for a long time.
1999
This game does some insane cinematic camera work that just isn’t done in games anymore and it adds to the unsettling, otherworldly vibe of it all and that’s what video games are all about, baby.
2023
Take God of War-esque combat but make it VR so you’re physically yeeting your axe around and then add the blandest story imaginable. I love getting into brawls with monsters and deflects and parries feel super clean when you do them with your own movements, but I am 0% invested in any of these characters.
2015
One of the better fan-made Pokemon games. everyone is gay and suicidal and super edgy.
One of the first missions involves throwing The President’s carcass into a furnace. There’s a lady named Fragile who always makes a point to tell you she isn’t fragile, a dude named Heartman who goes into cardiac arrest every 20 minutes, and Guillermo del Toro plays a Frankenstein’s Monster. The dialogue is super hokey, and there is no shortage of goofiness. And it all birthed from the ashes a scrapped Kojima Silent Hill game.
I’m glad that there are people like Hideo Kojima in the industry who not only have the creativity and resources to make weird big budget protects, but also surround themselves with brilliant and creative people to help them bring those ideas to life. Death Stranding is such a unique game about connectivity in a world that wants to be separated and defying the very forces of the universe to survive.
Great game.
I’m glad that there are people like Hideo Kojima in the industry who not only have the creativity and resources to make weird big budget protects, but also surround themselves with brilliant and creative people to help them bring those ideas to life. Death Stranding is such a unique game about connectivity in a world that wants to be separated and defying the very forces of the universe to survive.
Great game.
2023
I’m sure this rating is inflated because if I’m gonna play a game while my toddler watches it’s either gonna be this or My Friend Peppa Pig and at least this uses more than one button. Buggy as hell tho.
2024
I get the appeal of the “‘Murica” type of lifestyle now.
Every mission is an intense, goofy, cinematic experience with this chaotic ebb and flow of going from having your back against the wall to overcoming and steamrolling your enemies within a matter of seconds. It’s probably miserable in solo queue tho but that’s why I have friends.
Every mission is an intense, goofy, cinematic experience with this chaotic ebb and flow of going from having your back against the wall to overcoming and steamrolling your enemies within a matter of seconds. It’s probably miserable in solo queue tho but that’s why I have friends.
2020
It just goes to show that if you get the license of a ttrpg with great lore already pre-written, give it to one of the best western RPG developers in the world, coax out a near-career-best performance from Keanu Reeves, trash your reputation by pushing a release way too early, then do three years of fixes, you can get Best Ongoing game at the Game Awards and some guy can give you 5 stars on Backloggd.
A very flashy game with a deep sense of melancholy lying just beneath the surface. I’m glad I let this sit on the backlog until the 2.0 came out though because I’m sure the earlier iteration would have warped my perception of this game.
A very flashy game with a deep sense of melancholy lying just beneath the surface. I’m glad I let this sit on the backlog until the 2.0 came out though because I’m sure the earlier iteration would have warped my perception of this game.
Love that just in the middle of their “f*ck the corpos” adventure V takes the time to get involved in a political spy thriller epic.