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I wound up really enjoying Mafia: Definitive Edition. It’s easily among the best remakes I’ve had the pleasure of playing so far. It’s gorgeous, its gunplay is a ton of fun, and its story is superb. It’s a great game all around and I happily recommend giving it a shot.
2022
I wound up really enjoying Beacon Pines and experiencing the full mystery was an excellent experience. If you’re in the market for an adventure game with some great characters, a deep, and often emotional, mystery, with a really pretty storybook-like art style, then I can’t recommend Beacon Pines enough.
1996
Despite Quake’s age, it honestly holds up really well, especially now that it has an enhanced edition. The level design is excellent, and its gameplay is a blast, both literally and figuratively. I never got to play Quake back when it originally released, so I don’t have the nostalgia tied to a lot of players of the game but as a new player I can definitely say that I had a ton of fun with the game.
2022
Citizen Sleeper is easily one of the best games that I’ve had the pleasure of playing this year. It’s an incredibly good game with some amazing writing and a cast of really interesting characters. I love the game quite a bit. I have absolutely zero complaints about the game, and it’s pretty much perfect in my eyes. I can’t recommend the game highly enough.
I’m quite impressed with this remake of QUBE. It’s a beautifully designed remake and I loved all the puzzles the game had to offer. I also liked the overall atmosphere of the game. The Lighting Effects were great, and the sound was excellent. I do kinda wish there were a bit more story elements but that’s not really a con as it’s a puzzle game.
1997
Quake II is an amazing game that pretty much 1-ups everything that was present in Quake 1. From its level design, its story elements, and its gameplay, Quake II is an excellent game, that holds up incredibly well even after all these years. It’s an absolute blast to play, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
2004
I honestly love the game, but it’s not without its own set of issues. I'm a long time fan of the FlatOut series so I enjoy all of them (Except 3 and 4, it's not FlatOut without Bugbear) but they're not something everyone is going to enjoy,
2020
I’ve developed a bit of a love/hate relationship with this game. I absolutely love the story and the overall mystery, that’s incredibly well made. On the other hand, I absolutely hate the exploration part of it because it feels like “Blood Stone Collecting: The Video Game” and it gets really boring by the end of the game. If it weren’t for the exploration portion of the game, the story would be an easy 10/10 but since exploration encompasses 90% of the game, I had to take a few points off.
2012
while I did enjoy the game, I do feel like it does have a lot of things that could be improved upon. The voice acting was better than in the Combat Wings series but not by much, the motion blurring was definitely a hindrance, and there’s no way to turn it off, and the AI wasn’t too smart, even on higher difficulty levels, it just increased their damage output.
2003
The Black Mirror features a great overall story but there are a lot of things gameplay wise that I really didn’t enjoy very much. From the pixel hunting and frustrating puzzle design to the forced pausing of the story and hit or miss voice acting, The Black Mirror has been a rather mediocre adventure experience and while I do praise its story, I feel the overall experience has been a letdown.
2023
I wound up really enjoying this game. So much so, that I practically played through it in one sitting. It’s a really addicting game, and I had a ton of fun playing through it. If you’re in the market for something retro but with some modernity to its combat system, then you should 100% check out Wyvia, it’s great.
I find Gear.Club Unlimited 2 Ultimate Edition to be a relatively fun game, but admittedly, the game feels a little too easy for me. It definitely feels like a racing game that’s been geared more towards beginners than intermediate or even higher skilled racing game fans, and that’s not a bad thing, but it definitely loses its fun factor if you’re always winning without any real challenge from the AI. Even mistakes can be rectified by simply rewinding time, so the chances of losing is slim. I played the PC version as well.
I honestly wound up enjoying Three Minutes to Eight, it’s not perfect, but the story was quite interesting, and the multiple endings were fun to uncover. It is a time loop style game, so it may wind up getting a bit boring for a lot of people, but if you’re like me and find time loops rather interesting, then definitely give Three Minutes to Eight a try.
I honestly like this first Space Quest game, but I imagine it’ll be a much harder sell for players new to the series, due to its age, and generally frustrating puzzles and lack of any real sound effects and music. Still, I like the game for what it is, and would recommend it if you’re as into old school point and click adventures as I am.
Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge is a pretty solid sequel to the first game. It was a lot of fun revisiting the game, and while it definitely had its frustrating moments puzzle wise, it was still a lot more fun to solve them than that slot machine section in the first game (I hate that section).