Durandana
2024
An incredibly fun and chaotic co-op pve shooter. A bit sparse on content imo but still leagues better than 90% of other live service games at launch. The clear Starship Troopers inspiration is great and really funny.
Anyway yeah this game is really solid and does mostly live up to the hype. The most enjoyable co-op experience I've had in a game since the days of playing Halo split screen with my friends.
Anyway yeah this game is really solid and does mostly live up to the hype. The most enjoyable co-op experience I've had in a game since the days of playing Halo split screen with my friends.
The ultimate celebration and culmination of not just Xenoblade, but the entire Xeno series as a whole.
I've never been more excited to see where a series goes next in my life
I've never been more excited to see where a series goes next in my life
2020
Marathon meets anime
It's refreshing to see a modern retro-styled "Boomer shooter" take more influence from Bungie's 1994 Mac classic as opposed to the typical Doom/Quake/Duke3d inspired crowd that has dominated the genre. I love Marathon and anything even remotely close is enough to catch my eye.
Unfortunately though, as much as I want to love it, the game is far from perfect. The actual gunplay and mechanics are solid and the visuals are nice and full of really cool anime girl gore sprites, but it's all held back by really amateurish level design, rudimentary ai, and environments all made up of an incredibly small number of textures, making every environment look the same.
This is a game that looks like something I'd love and was inspired by games I DO love. It's good but didn't quite live up to my expectations.
It's refreshing to see a modern retro-styled "Boomer shooter" take more influence from Bungie's 1994 Mac classic as opposed to the typical Doom/Quake/Duke3d inspired crowd that has dominated the genre. I love Marathon and anything even remotely close is enough to catch my eye.
Unfortunately though, as much as I want to love it, the game is far from perfect. The actual gunplay and mechanics are solid and the visuals are nice and full of really cool anime girl gore sprites, but it's all held back by really amateurish level design, rudimentary ai, and environments all made up of an incredibly small number of textures, making every environment look the same.
This is a game that looks like something I'd love and was inspired by games I DO love. It's good but didn't quite live up to my expectations.
2022
Gundam is cool and all but not nearly cool enough to make me play a far less enjoyable and more predatory version of Overwatch for more than a few hours.
An okay 6th gen WW2 shooter. Parachuting onto the map is really cool and I'd probably rate this higher but unfortunately this game gives me the worst motion sickness of anything I've ever played.
2004
Looking back on it, I really should not have been given access to this game as a child
2022
I have no idea what I'm doing and am completely overwhelmed by everything in this game but oh my god it goes so fucking hard
2005
This was the first game I played on my (at the time) shiny new Xbox 360. It's a solid WW2 shooter that improves on everything that the original did, and introduces some things that would become standard in future CoD entries like regenerating health and a 2 weapon carry limit, but even for its time I don't think it was ever anything spectacular.
2021
A solid remaster of one of the most important games of all time. The extra content is a nice bonus as well
1992
A surprisingly in depth political simulator from the early 90s. Honestly a lot less clunky and more enjoyable than I was expecting.
Somehow it's even MORE like Xenogears than Xenoblade 2 or any of the previous blade games were...
Steel Talons should have got a Mammoth Mk. 2 instead of the MARV. Huge missed opportunity and blemish on an otherwise great RTS
A buggy, clearly unfinished mess of a game that completely falls apart near the end thanks to some atrocious combat and level design - And that's all after one installs the quite frankly necessary community patch that make the game actually playable.
10/10 - One of the best games I've ever played.
Seriously, despite all of the very real issues with this game, it still manages to be one of the most immersive and well crafted RPGs I've ever played, with a plethora of well written and memorable characters, some of the best quests I've ever experienced in a video game, (special mention to Calling Dr. Grout, one of my favorite levels in any game ever) and an incredible dark and sleazy atmosphere that just perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being a vampire in early 2000s LA.
10/10 - One of the best games I've ever played.
Seriously, despite all of the very real issues with this game, it still manages to be one of the most immersive and well crafted RPGs I've ever played, with a plethora of well written and memorable characters, some of the best quests I've ever experienced in a video game, (special mention to Calling Dr. Grout, one of my favorite levels in any game ever) and an incredible dark and sleazy atmosphere that just perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being a vampire in early 2000s LA.
That milk sure is outside the bag of milk
A mediocre pay-to-win fps that somehow managed to be surprisingly fun while it lasted. It was really cool to see the GitS cast looking so crisp.