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Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 feels like a great PS2 game given modern day budget + server nightmares you would expect out of a live service game. A third person shooter love letter to starship troopers where you fight bugs, robots, and who else knows as you fling your body away from harm in vain.
It honestly reminds me of my time with Lethal Company in which terror, excitement, and looney toons tier shenanigans collide with the right group of people.
It honestly reminds me of my time with Lethal Company in which terror, excitement, and looney toons tier shenanigans collide with the right group of people.
1 day ago
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Another Crab's Treasure
A little crab who just wants to live alone in the tide pools gets his shell stolen by a loan shark and finds himself searching for his shell and perhaps a new reason to live in a polluted ocean filled with aggressive sea creatures corrupted by the overwhelming gunk.
Clearly inspired by From Software's medieval masochist, this is a game where you can get easily killed by a nasty fish and can only persevere by leveling up your character and figuring out when to block, parry, or attack your way through each battle.
I like the game's humor and in a general sense how it plays, but by the second half of the game, I think the game started to lose me a bit, in part due to the glitchy nature as of this review interfering with fights and traversal. This is a smaller indie team and not a 70 dollar game, so I do cut them some more slack on this compared to larger studios, but at least they gave me an option to give this little crab a gun to get through the late game sections as I was starting to consider dropping it.
It's a decent game well worth its price, but it might be a good idea to wait for some bugs to get patched before rushing out to get it.
Clearly inspired by From Software's medieval masochist, this is a game where you can get easily killed by a nasty fish and can only persevere by leveling up your character and figuring out when to block, parry, or attack your way through each battle.
I like the game's humor and in a general sense how it plays, but by the second half of the game, I think the game started to lose me a bit, in part due to the glitchy nature as of this review interfering with fights and traversal. This is a smaller indie team and not a 70 dollar game, so I do cut them some more slack on this compared to larger studios, but at least they gave me an option to give this little crab a gun to get through the late game sections as I was starting to consider dropping it.
It's a decent game well worth its price, but it might be a good idea to wait for some bugs to get patched before rushing out to get it.
1 day ago
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The Pony Factory
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Buckshot Roulette
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Beastwatch: Meat & Mayhem
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
I took a three year break half way through this game, but I finally returned to it this month and saw the game through!
A major turning point for the series for not only changing the cast, but changing the style of combat from action to turn based. While not every aspect of the new turn based system felt fully realized in how the characters respond to the environment and enemies around them as they move, I’d still take this over the floaty input delay mess that was Yakuza 6 and some of the other Dragon Engine games before Gaiden finally cleaned things up.
While I don’t think the main story landed with me, I really was won over by Ichiban Kasuga. The guy is just such a delusional loser, but I couldn’t help but root for him all the way through.
A major turning point for the series for not only changing the cast, but changing the style of combat from action to turn based. While not every aspect of the new turn based system felt fully realized in how the characters respond to the environment and enemies around them as they move, I’d still take this over the floaty input delay mess that was Yakuza 6 and some of the other Dragon Engine games before Gaiden finally cleaned things up.
While I don’t think the main story landed with me, I really was won over by Ichiban Kasuga. The guy is just such a delusional loser, but I couldn’t help but root for him all the way through.
12 days ago