Rise FM & Lips 106 > Vice Citys whole soundtrack

The overlooked game of the generation of iconic GTA games, and for understandable reason. But where its lacking compared other GTA games it makes up more in dense atmosphere that is just as good as its sequels. Rolling through the miserable city drowned in dense fog with late 90's Drums n bass blasting on the radio is honestly mesmerising and the map of Liberty City is an absolute blast to mess around in.

The open ended mission structure is also a standout feature of the game and makes up for the severely out-dated and underdeveloped controls. The first half of the story is great, which a likeable cast and fun missions, but it takes a nosedive in quality after the first island with a plot that introduces way too many new elements without really tying anything together, and missions that push the game far beyond its technical capabilities.

While most of the shitty fucking parts of this game were fixed in the sequels, a lot of what makes this game so fun and charming were left behind when Rockstar pushed the series in a new direction, which makes this game a special entry to the series in my opinion.

The gameplay is fucked, you mainly just jump around and hope the game figures out what you're trying to do, there isn't a grind button you just sometimes land on the rail and awkwardly shuffle back to your original position to try redo the landing (given you haven't already plummeted to the bottom of the level), which is really cool when you're under time-limit and there's a bunch of cops shooting at you, definitely won't make you wanna cry.

But despite the shit gameplay there's also the aesthetics and music and vibes which is 100% some of the best you'll ever see in a game (If your into y2k dnb type vibes). There's an obvious appreciation for the culture and history of dance music and its political undertones that it stems from that the game isn't scared to tackle. There's a perfect balance of displaying the cruel nature of police brutality while thriving in the rebellious joy of dance culture as you bounce through the colourful NY and Tokyo inspired levels, with the iconic Hideki Naganuma composed sountrack blasting behind you.

Honestly though, Jet Set Radio is infectious and charming enough to make it a very very fun experience despite the gameplay often feeling broken and disjointed, couldn't recommend it enough.

From a purely technical gameplay perspective this tekken is GOATED. The classic silky-smooth combo based combat has been perfected and most characters have a unique flair that makes digging through their moveset and adapting to the playstyle incredibly rewarding.

BUT..... if you are an idiot baby at fighting games and have a brainfart everytime you try to play competitively like myself then you'll find a lot less value out of T7 then you'd expect compared to previous games. Treasure battle is a very very fun single player experience that might be familiar to fans of T5 but even i often found it a tad too easy to make up for the lack of any other single player content.

If you're looking for a fun, more casual Tekken game I'd honestly recommend T5 or TTT2 over this one. But if you want to get into the tekken competitive scene then definitely pick this one.

a goofy but important little game, like the gaming equivalent of pulling a super old historic book out of a library and reading one page and realising its old and shitty now and putting it back but understanding that it was crazy influential.

Doesn't have any of that tekken swag yet but still a pretty cool game. if you absolutely love Tekken like me then you should try this game, its verry funny and interesting to see how far the series has come and also it has the wildest PS1 cutscene graphics so gotta watch those.

Its like my MUGEN build from when I was 14 but worse. Multiversus is as uninspired and bland as the name suggests, and is devoid of any soul and instead yet another example of following a boring money-making formula. Get funi pop culture guys, have them do memes for epic lulz, take concepts of ideas from other popular games and awkwardly mash them together, watch the interwebs laugh at funi epic laughs.

The combat is janky and completely unfun and everything presented visually from the stages and UI is so boring I can't believe they couldn't come up with one single fun idea from all the various franchises being presented. Also the music is so bad its actually very funny so I'll give them an extra half a star for that.

I really wanted to enjoy TUNIC but it feels like the game did everything in its power to stop me. The visuals and music are absolutely top notch and make up for the mostly good-but-not-great world you're allowed to explore.

The games combat isn't necessarily bad imo but its very hit or miss on how it blends with the enemy design. Some of the bosses here are fantastic but, along with the rest of the game, become unbearable as the late game difficulty spike pushes the game past what the floaty and limited controls can handle.

If you enjoyed the multiplayer at launch but wanted to wait until the game was more complete and finessed to really dig in.... you'll probably have to wait a little bit longer, BUT I honestly think its worth trying out or at least just keeping an eye from from this point as the real Halo Infinite multiplayer experience is definitely starting to come alive.

A nice big step in the right direction. Infinite's winter update adds a lot of gooood shit but its really just a teaser for what could potentially be a game-saving season 3.

Really struggled to finish this bad boy, but that doesn't mean GTA IV isn't a fantastic gem that was ground breaking at its time. Liberty City is incredibly built here and I'll pick the grim condensed city over San Andreas any day. I love the overall funny goofiness that all the driving and physics allows and the overall craziness that you'll get just from being creative in free roam. Outside of a really compelling first few hours, the campaign falls into a boring formula and any interesting plot points that made the game initially fascinating take a back seat to an overall very boring and tediously long story.

The AAA game of AAA games. Everything works and looks fine and dandy, but nothing here is interesting nor innovative. I tried to let this game impress me, I wanted to explore the visually stunning world and see the full potential of its solid combat. But everything the game tasked me to do felt so incredibly pointless.

Alloy is dull as a piece of paper and every interaction is awkward as fuck and has a weird blend of seriousness and wit where you can't tell if they're trying to be funny or intentionally unlikeable. Every task consists of following a trail, kill the enemy in front of you, suffer through an awkward conversation, kill an enemy with more health than usual and so on.

The quests, the world, the crafting, the dialogue choices; everything feels so pointless and only exists because it can. All of it felt like a chore and none of it felt fun.

Currently feel like I've hit a wall on the Pontiff Sulyvahn fight. I've fought it a few number of times and feel like I'm not making any progress. It's no where near the hardest fight I've played in a FromSoft game but I have no desire to sit down and learn and conquer the boss at the moment.

To be honest, I think maybe part of me feels I bit of relief having a moment where I can justify putting Dark Souls 3 down for the forseeable future. I find nothing in this game compelling, its definitely fun and playable but coasts of the strengths of it brilliant foundation and formula, but by Soulsbourne standards it feels like its doing the bare minimum. I feel like DS3 is the result of feeding DS1 and Bloodborne through an AI and telling it to quickly make its own game. Compared to the awe-inspiring worlds and premises of before, this one feels almost generic.

The environments are visually more drab and gritty than before but the feeling of melancholy that made the other games so beautifully atmospheric is noticeably absent. There are stunning sights, but most the areas and enemies in the first half are really just border on typical soulslike stuff, there isn't a feeling of a world beyond whats presented in front of you.

Dark Souls 3 is definitely the easiest I've played from FromSoft, but somehow also the most frustrating. There's nothing noticeable that makes it stand out amongst the series, even the gameplay doesn't do anything crazy new or interesting, there's no real pull-factor for me. It took me a month to finish a 90+ hour Elden Ring run, it also took me a month to get just under halfway through (?) this one with 15 hours playtime. Not because I've haven't had the time, I've just not felt the need to pick it up every day like I might have expected. I wish I could sing my praises for this game like many others but it feels like a simply good game in a series of GOATed games.