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Cube 2: Sauerbraten
2004
middle school computer lab gaming with the boys!!!!
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
2004
The team instagib mode single-handedly makes this the best and fastest-paced first person shooter I've ever played.
Astro's Playroom
2020
A great introduction into the DuelSense controller and PS5 as a whole. It's definitely one of the better pack-in games I've played in quite some time.
I don't think this game is as bad as some people make it look, but it's not great either. It has some fun locations and events, but navigating through the game is unnecessarily annoying.
I'll try to explain. There are 12h of in-game time, each hour you must choose one of the many locations of the game to travel or keep in the location you are currently at. Some events will immediately end the hour, or the hour can simply end by taking too much time exploring. It's nowhere as bad as something like Mizzurna Falls and you can save at the start of every hour and even go back in time while keeping items so getting the good ending shouldn't be hard at all, however the system gets annoying very fast, finding out where you need to be at the right time is pure trial and error and since everything is timed, you never feel fully comfortable to explore.
It's worth to play once if you are into weird 90s point & click, but if you want to see everything that the game has to offer you will need A LOT of patience.
I'll try to explain. There are 12h of in-game time, each hour you must choose one of the many locations of the game to travel or keep in the location you are currently at. Some events will immediately end the hour, or the hour can simply end by taking too much time exploring. It's nowhere as bad as something like Mizzurna Falls and you can save at the start of every hour and even go back in time while keeping items so getting the good ending shouldn't be hard at all, however the system gets annoying very fast, finding out where you need to be at the right time is pure trial and error and since everything is timed, you never feel fully comfortable to explore.
It's worth to play once if you are into weird 90s point & click, but if you want to see everything that the game has to offer you will need A LOT of patience.
I really wish I liked this game. I love Devo, I love inScape's other games, but it's so frustrating. The timer is way too aggressive, leading to you constantly restarting the game, and the puzzles aren't interesting either. There's some fun world design and the music is great of course but that's about it.
Kid Pix Deluxe 3
2000
they had me in the computer lab
Kid Pix Deluxe 3
2000
When I was in kindergarten, our computer lab instructor never actually taught us anything. Instead, she just let us play Kid Pix all day. One day, she disappeared and was replaced by someone else. Years later, I found out that she got arrested for embezzling money from the school. Anyways, Kid Pix is great.
Kid Pix Deluxe 3
2000
"after you finish your typing exercises, you can play kid pix until class is over."
Kid Pix Deluxe 3
2000
Adobe out here making people pay 12$ for Photoshop and like 100$+ for everything else a month and not even ONE of their suite of programs has a Dynamite Button
wasn't as into this one. dips a bit too far into being a creative tool for designing towns rather than a game where you live in one. There's not quite enough resistance between yourself and the world to make accomplishing your goals as satisfying as it was in New Leaf. I was excited for this, especially by all of the freedom the game seemed primed to give me, but I ended up being disappointed by how easily it all came
God of War
2018
If the flaw’s wasn’t as strong as they are this would be a masterpiece. All the little details like how there isn’t an edit or crazy long load times, it’s just a long story. Every mob is fun besides the witches. The conversations between characters are also incredible.
Starting off my 2023 gaming journey in the weirdest way possible.
Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game does not need to be analyzed to understand why it's not a good game. Based off of a movie no one likes (except for 3-5 year old me) it lifts the digitization of actual actors from the movie (and no doubt inspired by Mortal Kombat) and manages to be fundamentally worse than just about everything that came before or after it. It's pretty baffling to me that Capcom put out a game in the mid-90s that feels so stiff and so unintuitive.
Since the game is based off of the movie, it's inherently campy and oddly charming, the only reason I gave this 1.5 stars instead of 1. I got a bit of a nostalgic kick seeing footage of the movie in the game, and if only the game was remotely fun, I could've seen myself playing through the "movie mode" just to see it through.
I'm glad this exists because every once in a while it makes me laugh, but in the future I'll just laugh at it from a distance instead of playing it.
Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game does not need to be analyzed to understand why it's not a good game. Based off of a movie no one likes (except for 3-5 year old me) it lifts the digitization of actual actors from the movie (and no doubt inspired by Mortal Kombat) and manages to be fundamentally worse than just about everything that came before or after it. It's pretty baffling to me that Capcom put out a game in the mid-90s that feels so stiff and so unintuitive.
Since the game is based off of the movie, it's inherently campy and oddly charming, the only reason I gave this 1.5 stars instead of 1. I got a bit of a nostalgic kick seeing footage of the movie in the game, and if only the game was remotely fun, I could've seen myself playing through the "movie mode" just to see it through.
I'm glad this exists because every once in a while it makes me laugh, but in the future I'll just laugh at it from a distance instead of playing it.
Definitely an upgrade over the abysmal arcade release.
This one was actually made by Capcom, and it shows. Pretty much just a weirder clunkier version of SFII, it plays much like what you'd expect from that description.
The interactive story mode was a neat touch, and was at least a better advertisement for the movie than whatever the hell the arcade version was supposed to be.
This one was actually made by Capcom, and it shows. Pretty much just a weirder clunkier version of SFII, it plays much like what you'd expect from that description.
The interactive story mode was a neat touch, and was at least a better advertisement for the movie than whatever the hell the arcade version was supposed to be.
Chorus
2021
The game starts, a voice pipes up, subtitle reads "Nara: I'm Nara", and I do a little laugh and point at the screen like "that's Nara".
In this game, you play as Nara. Except Nara is actually on the sofa next to you, nudging you in the ribs with whispered hints, following up every piece of dialogue with whispered speculation about what's really going on, whisperingly pointing out things you might have missed. It's like if someone made a game about themselves, then sat with you and whispered at you as you played it to make sure you enjoyed it. It's a special edition blu-ray of a pseudo-intellectual space blockbuster, with a mandatory in-character whispered commentary track. I just paused a cutscene to mutter "please shut the fuck up" at the TV and figured I might as well stop there and write here instead.
Space combat is fine, though dogfighting usually devolves into playing chicken with the enemy as they fly towards you, guns blazing. I hear it gets a bit more interesting, but let's face it: Star Fox Zero is still king.
Think the main issue is it's all just a bit boring. Blank, empty, space.
Also the text is way too small! Should the guy with the $600 TV not be able to read the menus? COME ON!
In this game, you play as Nara. Except Nara is actually on the sofa next to you, nudging you in the ribs with whispered hints, following up every piece of dialogue with whispered speculation about what's really going on, whisperingly pointing out things you might have missed. It's like if someone made a game about themselves, then sat with you and whispered at you as you played it to make sure you enjoyed it. It's a special edition blu-ray of a pseudo-intellectual space blockbuster, with a mandatory in-character whispered commentary track. I just paused a cutscene to mutter "please shut the fuck up" at the TV and figured I might as well stop there and write here instead.
Space combat is fine, though dogfighting usually devolves into playing chicken with the enemy as they fly towards you, guns blazing. I hear it gets a bit more interesting, but let's face it: Star Fox Zero is still king.
Think the main issue is it's all just a bit boring. Blank, empty, space.
Also the text is way too small! Should the guy with the $600 TV not be able to read the menus? COME ON!
Chorus
2021
This is a fun premise that is sadly wasted.
The story is told in such an uninteresting and badly constructed way - through random dialogue while you fly around in your ship, talking to faceless holograms or other ships. This makes it incredibly difficult to actually connect with or care about anything going on in this game. It doesn't help that everything story-related is just info-dumped onto you from the get-go, with no real build-up or any sort of emotional connection.
The gameplay is also very uninteresting and honestly just doesn't feel good to play. You're put in a big playground that has very little to actually do in it besides fly from point to point and talk to people that you don't give a single fuck about.
Honestly very disappointed by this one.
The story is told in such an uninteresting and badly constructed way - through random dialogue while you fly around in your ship, talking to faceless holograms or other ships. This makes it incredibly difficult to actually connect with or care about anything going on in this game. It doesn't help that everything story-related is just info-dumped onto you from the get-go, with no real build-up or any sort of emotional connection.
The gameplay is also very uninteresting and honestly just doesn't feel good to play. You're put in a big playground that has very little to actually do in it besides fly from point to point and talk to people that you don't give a single fuck about.
Honestly very disappointed by this one.