The puzzles were fun, but much of the dialogue was painful.

What I REALLY liked about the game, was how the finale weaved all the clues together to give us the full connected story, it made a lot of sense considering the setting is in a small town so it felt very natural to do that. However, there was a twist that I completely forgot was possible because it was briefly passed by, so while it was on the nose to shove it in there last second I guess it made sense. All of these things the game did well within the genre of mystery puzzler, so I think it was fun overall to play through.

Just again a lot of what the characters said was just so cringe and would take you out of the experience a bit. I also think a lot of the tension with the game was fine, it wasn't exactly great in horror but it did make for some great moments where you were uncertain if the whistling man was closer than you thought.

I wish we got another.

Universe at War: Earth Assault was planned to be the first of a series that came to life. It featured an interesting story, where humanity was quickly shown to be underpowered against the main alien force - the Hierarchy. As such you don't spend your time playing as the humans, as they are spread thin and play as the Hierarchy, Novus ( A robot civilization) and lastly the Masari (ancient human-like aliens that have technology far more advanced than the other factions)

In terms of RTS, this game didn't really do anything that made itself stand out from the crowd in terms of gameplay mechanics but it just honed in on its aesthetic. It would have been great to see the universe get expanded more by seeing how far the Hierarchy spans while also finding its own identity as a strategy game.

Wow, what a title, it took everything from the previous titles and made it so much more. With the original spider-man PS4 I felt strongly that it was a fantastic take on the hero with great swinging mechanics but was weighed down by the simplicity of the combat that quickly got repetitive. You had the inclusion of many more gadgets and suit powers as a means to try to keep the gameplay loop satisfying but it failed at that in my opinion because the fundamentals of the combat remained the same, but I will say that combat wasn't completely terrible still

This game, however, revamped this, fixing the gadgets to 4 using the right bumper and face buttons to simplify it while also fixing their usefulness because they all feel equally useful compared to its predecessor. Furthermore the title incoperates 2 playable spider-men each with their own unique abilities that they will develop throughout the game at certain points in the story as a means to provide an easy-to-understand and impactful fresh approach to the combat while building on the fundamentals of the combat itself by including brand new types of attacks you have to adapt and tackle to avoid damage, such as attacks you will have to jump over or parry. This took a while for me to adapt to which I loved because I felt like any wrong input and I would be punished which added a whole new level of challenge that I enjoyed on the spectacular difficulty.

The story of this title was great, the voice acting was just even more incredible, the only thing i was a bit ehh about was how they moved into the final act of the game but just outside of that, they absolutely crushed it with this game.

The side quests are just wonderful as well! I will not be going into them in this review but they're just a treat with some fantastic storytelling.


The slight issue I had with the game was just going through a lot of bugs that would make me have to restart the game or load checkpoint, even worst once load a manual save.

But overall: This is just a spectacular game, a spectacular Spider-Man you could say.

Squall is the best-looking guy here.

This is a tough one really. Because this remastered version presents some really excellent QoL features, such as being able to accelerate the game by 3x so when your farming to build your junction or ap, etc it gets a lot more bearable. as well as uh, you know not sitting through gf animations. There's also a boost feature that will make your ATB permanently full so you can constantly attack, have your hp full so you're able to infinitely tank attacks, to just help you get past situations you are unable to get out of. And also stop encounters without needing to equip diablos encounter cut ability.

But I still want to say that the junction system, in general, is a huge con for this game. While it is unique and ties into the actual lore well. It causes a lot of optimization issues for the actual combat of the game, where you will spend ages drawing magic of specific targets to get 100 stock to maximize the gains when junctioning and be encouraged to not use these spells because it becomes a very valuable resource for the growth of the overall characters power. Leveling also becomes a problem for you if you aren't junctioned well because the enemies will get stronger so if you aren't fully prepared you can overall have more of a tough time. I really wish this system was handled better because it is very different and I definitely enjoyed it at the start of the game because of this until it became quite clear that it was going to drag the game down.

The story though was pretty great overall (albeit with some really weird moments) the characters were very interesting and the use of the dream sequences was cool but man did it make me annoyed when I had to junction all over again!

Overall I think this game was fine, my issues really just came from the main gameplay system that the combat was built upon which really took me out of the game more than a few times.

Final Fantasy VII Remake is a good action game with different characters having their own unique abilities that swapping between them in combat is enjoyable and really built on the ATB system that we've come to know in final fantasy games and the use of builds you could make with materia just built on the fun

The soundtrack is fantastic with a lot of them being rearrangements from the original game. There are also new songs in this game that are pretty hit-and-miss but I don't think there were any that were really just straight-up bad.

However, issues I had with the title were related to the side activities within the game. Especially with chapter 14 where the world becomes more open with the level layouts we've tackled previously in the game. This alone isn't exactly a bad thing is the fact that most of the side quests they have you do, don't indicate where to go and you have to figure it all out (like how to go to the sewers). However, I will always appreciate the fact upon completing the objectives you can instant travel to the quest giver to finish it quickly instead of having to head all the way back. So with Rebirth I kind of hope they build on this because there is a lot of QoL within this game that just saves time already in this title.

Overall I think this title was a pleasure to complete and I just can't wait to see where Rebirth heads down after the turns the story took.

This game honestly was an excellent opener to the franchise but...

I really think I dodged a bullet playing on the standard mode, because it felt incredibly inconsistent in terms of the difficulty for me, from one moment a boss would be easy to destroy and the next I'd be overwhelmed out of nowhere. It was hard to strike a balance, and I'm still glad I could beat the game without having to farm hefty amounts of exp.

Donald pls stop dying

The overall plot of the game though, was actually really nice. Going into it I was really cautious because I always heard its a convoluted mess and I can happily say that the first game at least isn't and pretty easy to follow.

But yeah I just think some of the worlds are a mess and especially in some of them in terms of navigation, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out where to go a lot of the time because it was not very clear that kind of came as a slog

Overall: I am happy with this opener to the franchise and looking forward to the next one.