2016

Not as great as Flower or Journey. While the game has the wonderful atmosphere, story, vagueness, music, and beauty, the fumbles on one aspect that previous games similar devs worked on, movement. The pace of movement and overall enjoyment of moving around from Flower and Journey is replaced with extremely slow swimming. While you can latch on to animals, it still feels awkward and varies on how useful each is.

A game that is exhilarating all the way through to the end of a short yet fun as hell game! It’s what every 2D platformer should strive to be going forward!

Returnal presents us with one of the most addicting, revolutionary, fun, immersive, and intriguing AAA games in the modern era. In an industry of Ubisoft open worlds and multiplayer battle pass games, Returnal brings rogue like elements and combines it with adrenaline third person shooter gameplay that I just could not put down at all. Not only that, but we are served with a story with a ton of twist and turns that make us question Selene’s backstory and her fate on this alien infested planet. This game is a HIGHLY difficult game that is addicting and a hard suggested play for any PS5 player or Steam player.

The last hour is one of the most spectacular moments in any game I have ever played!

Best Kirby game, hands down. The Kirby franchise has been stagnant fir the last few years, as they have been pushing a lot of spinoffs and playing it rather safe, but Forgotten Land brings a fresh new take on Kirby, as it finally sends him into the third dimension, giving him a cool new setting, and having gameplay that is new and fresh in many ways.

A simple yet beautiful game about bringing beauty and color to the world around us in a very unique and fun way. To many, people will criticize the games length being short, but I believe the length is perfect, as the gameplay loop doesn’t overstay its welcome. The one thing I agree with is that the controls are a bit hard to get used to, as it entirely motion based, with no button or stick use (aside from going forward), but I got used to it after a while.

As someone who has only played the 2016 “remake” / movie tie-in, I was a bit skeptical on jumping right on into the latest addition to the Ratchet & Clank series. However, the new thought pops into my head after playing and completing the game in a 10 hour playtime is how will I enjoy the rest of the series when the bar is so high now!? This game gives you some of the most fun platformer combat, challenges, stories, visuals, and fun in the entire platformer genre. Even as someone relatively new to the franchise, I can still recommend this game to anyone.

Flawless in almost every way. This game not only gives us a satisfying story to the Norse duology of games, but gives us a perfect finale for the entire series, if Santa Monica Studios wishes to end it there. The pacing is damn perfect, letting players spend the perfect amount of time in a shit ton of unique areas with unique enemies, puzzles, visuals, and characters to interact with, but these areas provide some of the most thought out puzzles I’ve played in years, as well as some of the most engaging fights and bosses in any God of War game, with the series’s most satisfy and in-depth combat to date. It’s simply a masterpiece!

A fun hack and slash that gets a bit too repetitive with being in Pandora’s Tower for too long, as well as some powers just straight being OP, but the combat and puzzles were fun, and while not many bosses, they were very fun to play overall. It’s a great stepping stone for a franchise to start with!

This game is probably the game that has ever crashed and soft locked on me in existence. I counted the game crashing 4 times, and many soft locks throughout my dungeon experiences due to enemies glitching out of bound. Not only that, but I also experienced a lot of small visual glitches in my cult area, with objects moving around, camera acting weird, and other things. And lastly, the game on PS4 has a very inconsistent frame rate, where the screen pauses for like half a second at times.

BUT I ADORE THIS GAME!!! This game is so addicting in both of the main aspects of building my cult, and going dungeon delving. I absolutely loved this loop, and I never got tired of it. The cult allows you to grow your cult, name followers, build many helpful structures, create rules to benefit you or the cult, and perform rituals. It also made me care for every member of my cult, as I would be sad whenever someone would die of old age. And the dungeons are so fun, with many aspects that push you to become stronger, like the cards, or get cool material to trade or use for side quests or upgrades. The bosses are fine. While they feel a little repetitive, they were tough and fun.

I would adore this game so much more once those glitches, crashes, and other various problems are solved, but now, I still love this game!

An N64 launch title that feels like a launch game and a tech demo at the same time to show different gameplay varieties, graphical outputs, and other aspects the system can produce. There are some short comings where the game is very short with boring optional content, but the main campaign is mostly fun. I wasn’t a huge fan of the hang glider, but I enjoyed the jet pack and gyro copter. It’s a fun short game to play once and probably never again.

Masterful in every way. This game has some of the most addicting combat, captivating story telling, amazing graphics still to this day, amazing score, and is just a game that is hard to put down. While I haven’t played the other God of War games so I don’t get much of the franchise’s roots or love, but I adored this game from beginning to end.

A one hell of a Kirby game that I can totally agree with fans on this being the best in the series! Not only is the level design fantastic, with how each level gives the player amazing uses of the copy abilities, mechs, and puzzle design, the game also has an amazing soundtrack that is full of great remixes of classic Kirby songs, but many refreshing new ones as well. Also, these are some of the best graphics on the 3DS, hands down. And the side mini games are an absolute blast as well! This is just a superb Kirby game!

Many consider, or have considered, this to be the best game of all time. While I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite of all time, nor is it even in my Top 3 Zelda games, this game is an amazing game, especially for its time. I absolutely love the story they tell in the game, and the game utilizes time travel in effective ways through puzzles and gameplay. While the game is held back at sometimes with a world and areas that feel like a developer’s first 3D game, I still fall in love with the areas I explore like Gerudo Valley and Death Mountain. The game also boasts some of Zelda’s most memorable dungeons, like Spirit Temple, Forest Temple, Shadow Temple, and other various ones as well. The game is overall very solid, and while some other aspects have aged, like aiming arrows in first person and the camera, it’s still an adventure everyone should play!

A masterful sequel that expands on everything from the original. New worlds, new characters, better visuals, and online. Literally the definition of a perfect sequel on top of the already engaging and “one more try” gameplay.