What an absolutely phenomenal game. Santa Monica Studios have outdone themselves once again. God of War Ragnarök is easily one of the best games i’ve ever played. From the very moment this game was announced i was hyped, it quickly became one of my most anticipated games. Once the first trailer released last year, i became so interested in the story, and this was at a time where i hadn’t even finished God of War 2018, so i quickly picked that game back up and finished it right away. Once Ragnarök finally released, i couldn’t contain my excitement from the very first second of the game i was hooked, i didn’t want to put the game down, i played for hours and hours on end until i finally had to stop to do other things. The story was absolutely incredible, the character writing was top notch, characters like Kratos, Thor, Freya, and Odin all quickly became my favorites due to just how good their writing and actor’s performances were. So many of the boss battles in this game like both of the Thor fights, the Heimdall fight, and the Odin fight, are easily some of the best boss fights i’ve ever played. And where do i even begin with the visuals, this is without a doubt one of the best looking games i’ve ever played, same could be said about the combat and the music, i was blown away by just how good they both were, even if they were both very similar to the 2018 game. To put it short, Ragnarök is absolutely incredible, it was well worth the 4 year wait, and it may possibly be my most favorite PlayStation exclusive game of all time and easily my game of the year.

i’ve only played one round of this so far, but let me tell you all a story about how it all went.

before i got into the lobby, me and my friend spent about 6 minutes just trying to find a lobby that we could both get into (the queuing system isn’t very good) and once we found a lobby with enough space for both of us, i was bombarded by the screams of a 6 year old child, the entire pre-game lobby consisted of one player bullying said child into leaving and refused to start the game until he left. once the child finally left, (somehow i actually felt bad for the poor child.) the game finally started, and everything went fairly normal until the first emergency meeting. once we got to the meeting the player who i believe was the host was screaming the n-word over and over again and telling the person he found suspicious (haha funny among us word) to say the n-word and he won’t be voted out. we all called said player a loser by the way. unrelated, but i spent like 5 minutes of the game trying to do one single task in electrical, i couldn’t get that shit to work.

anyways fun game! among us as a concept works better as a vr game than it does as the original game imo.

11/27/22 update: new story, played this for about an hour straight with the same friend, this time we ran into a player who we started joking around with and quickly made an alliance with, at one point me and the guy we met both got imposter so we protected my friend and got rid of everyone else, we won that game and laughed way too hard. before we left the server we made sure to add him so we’d be able to talk again sometime.

1993’s DOOM is an incredible game, and i’m amazed by just how well it holds up, even by todays standards. I’m sure quite literally everyone knows that DOOM created the foundations for what most FPS games are like today, but i genuinely believe DOOM still manages to do it better than how most modern FPS games do it. The game is very punishing in the best ways, in most typical FPS games, one of the best strategies to stay alive is to get behind cover and take time in-between your shots, but not in DOOM. in DOOM you constantly have to be moving and shooting as much as you can in order to ensure that the demons won’t corner you, leaving you mostly defenseless until you die. The other parts about DOOM I found to be extremely unique are the weapons and the music. There is a wide variety of weapons in this game to be found, ranging from the ordinary pistol and shotgun, to the plasma rifle and the legendary, overpowered BFG9000. Every weapon in DOOM works insanely well in their own ways, including the chainsaw, which happens to be one of my favorite weapons in the game. Getting to run straight into my enemy and tear right through them without seconds was a great experience that you can’t get in most FPS games. I loved the music in this game so much, i always loved how it ranges from being epic and hardcore, to being eerie and at times frightening, entirely depending on the mission you were on.

Overall, the highly influential DOOM (1993) is easily an amazing game that i truly believe everyone should play at least once in their lifetime. Despite how old the game is, it still manages to provide a fantastic FPS experience that a good portion of shooter games can’t manage to provide to this day.

First game completed in 2023, what a way to start the year. High On Life is painfully just ok. When this game was announced a few years back i was beyond excited, “a fps made by the rick and morty creator? sign me up!” I said, unknowing that this would be one of the games that i’d have the hardest time finishing just due to the horrible writing. As an honest fan of the earlier seasons of Rick and Morty, i was expecting the humor to be right up my alley, but instead the jokes were just painful, similar to the most recent seasons of Rick and Morty, which i haven’t liked nearly as much. My favorite thing about High On Life however has got to be the gameplay. The gunplay is extremely fun and each gun (or gatlian, as they’re called in this game.) has its own special type of fire rate and special abilities which adds a lot of fun to the game. As mentioned before though, the writing is absolutely dreadful, even though i thought it got better toward the end of the game, the first half of the game was genuinely one of the most painful experiences i’ve ever had, with the jokes just being “haha poop” and a shit ton of stuttering (Will someone please tell Justin Roiland that stuttering 50 times in one sentence and making references all the time isn’t nearly as funny as he thinks it is?). The story was pretty alright, i wasn’t too invested in it but it was pretty interesting. I also thought the boss battles were pretty neat, i always love seeing boss battles in fps, i think it’s something more fps devs should try doing in their campaigns.

In short, My anticipation for High On Life may not have paid off, but i did find some enjoyment in the game due to its gameplay and some of its voice cast. Maybe if the humor is more up your alley than it is mine then this game is worth playing, especially if you have Xbox Game Pass like me. (Extra points for having Zach Hadel just about everywhere in this game, the Jack Black cameo, and LEZDUIT)