itsprettygood
Like basically all beat-em-ups, this is almost worthless if you aren't playing it with a group of friends. But thankfully, I was playing on a classic machine with all of my siblings, so it was a real blast!
Life is Strange if it sucked ass. Silent Hill is back, but I want it to leave again. This is least effective anti-suicide ad of all time, please god do not make any more of these.
The new remaster is absolutely horrible, ugly cutscenes and non-functioning multiplayer, just a total wreck worth avoiding at all costs. However this is still one of the most endlessly replayable games I've ever touched. There's some kind of secret sauce here that has kept me hooked since birth. The 10 hours I'm logging here is only for the Switch version, because I genuinely have no clue how much time I've spent on this over the years.
1987
A great, foundational title to be sure, but I have genuinely no clue how you may go about playing this today without a guide lol
2016
Hi! You have to check out this game. It's the most innovative shooter I've played in years.
2023
This review contains spoilers
The Dark Place is where you go when you get high and go to the store
2009
For some reason, I always had trouble wrapping my head around the combat, but man, what a world to live in for a while. I really like all these characters, and the insane nonsense of the story really won me over. To call this bad is just odd to me, as it isn't doing anything other Final Fantasy games don't have worse examples of. I think it's quite good even! Now onto XIII-2, which from what I've heard, will be much more my style.
2011
So much more my shit than the first game was. Just total earnest mayhem, time travel shenanigans and heartfelt relationships. The gameplay is so much tighter, the story way more original and fun, the characters more exciting, and an ending that genuinely blew me away.
It doesn't surprise me at all that the gamer dudes didn't like this one, but this is probably one of my favorite Final Fantasy titles. What an insane improvement, loved basically every second!
It doesn't surprise me at all that the gamer dudes didn't like this one, but this is probably one of my favorite Final Fantasy titles. What an insane improvement, loved basically every second!
2005
One of the most interesting of the bygone halycon days of survival horror. A deep dive into the male ideals of power, legacy, birthright, and what it's like to be objectified at every turn. I really couldn't believe how hard this game goes, to the point where it uses it's own early 00's gamer grease to it's advantage, turning this era's casual misogyny and horndoggery on it's head, making it a key theme of the entire work. Absolutely excellent, a high watermark of this period's horror renaissance.
Everything stays, everything fades.
2018
The cop stuff makes the narrative here almost unbearable. Everything Spider-Man does or thinks in this is related to the police, he's a lap dog for the state. Fine game otherwise, but nothing special. Give me gay Venom in 2
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A vast improvement over the last game in essentially every way, but still quite a mess. I love the idea of making Peter/Harry/Venom a love triangle, but that dynamic is bogged down by every other character in this story being unbelievably boring versions of themselves. The combat also feels... worse to me now, for some reason. At least when Peter isn't using the symbiote. Broadly it's good, but very flawed.
2010
Sam Lake's writing is endlessly indebted to the work of David Lynch and Mark Z. Danielewski, but he's very aware of this. Alan Wake, to me, is about the forms of violence inherent in art. The vision of seeing yourself as that which worlds are born of, centering yourself within the universe. It's certainly clunky, and the game itself can be repetitive to actually play, but I can't help but admire what Lake and his team are going for here. One of the rare director-driven video games, I'm extremely excited to try Alan Wake 2!
Just really boring, honestly. It starts out interesting but it doesn't go anywhere with the idea of actually being in Night Springs. Inessential.
2006
Words fail. I genuinely cannot believe there are people trying to reclaim this as "misunderstood". The only value here comes in Silver being perhaps the funniest character ever written by human hands, and that the Garry's Mod-ass cutscenes produce occasionally hysterical moments. Literally every other thing is abysmal dogshit. I'm amazed we even got more sonic games after this.