We haven't gotten too far in, but this just feels like a really watered down Lethal Company in nearly every single aspect. The environments, while a cool idea, are so bland and boring that everything meshes together into a labyrinth of pure headaches. I'm sure it was on purpose, but it's not much fun to deal with when everything is so grey. In Lethal Company I can at least have fun exploring the depths of the mansion map or go to Embrion during eclipse for shits and giggles to keep things fresh, this doesn't really have anything to keep it from getting stale. One thing this does have over Lethal Company would be the emote system, which is something that the former desperately needs outside of modding at this point. I know I shouldn't be comparing this too much to Lethal Company, but I couldn't help but do so the entire time we played. Maybe it'll get better as we play more, if we do.

I got this hidden gem from GameStop for 15 bucks. I took it home, and I was blown away. Some people seem to dislike the gameplay, but I don’t really see that problem. The strategy of trying to command a team in the heat of battle is a fun loop, and I was never really bored with it. The story holds on, And never let you go. This is one of three games that got me to cry. But the game isn’t perfect. Some of the platforming could’ve been shortened. Luckily, that takes up such a small portion, that it doesn’t really affect the score.

Lethal Company initially starts as a confusing mess, but that's part of the charm and design. You progressively learn how maps, items and creatures function as the game lulus you into a false sense of security. "We've got this" you collectively think while landing on one of the final planets for the first time. FUN FACT you do not have this.
Lethal Company is great fun as a group but after exhausting alot of the scenarios it can get a little repetitive. It's highly recommend to try out the mod support for extra ghouls and goblins, players and costumes alike. I'll definitely be back on occasion to play with new friends or old ones but I can't imagine it being something I pick up regularly.

Wow. Just fucking WOW.

At its best, a clumsy, boring and poorly executed horror game. At its worst, a complete misfire at making a game which deals with teenage trauma and bullying and suicide. Frankly, its just fucking irresponsible to make a dumb horror game which uses real life shit like this to sell some units (and i know it was free, but Konami wouldn't make this if they didn't intend to make money off it at some point, probably in the form of a full length game down the line). The whole story and its execution is in such poor taste.

The writing is atrocious, the voice acting is very bad, the graphics pretty average and the gameplay is so boring and uninvolving. Basically walk around with your phone, click X to interact with items, look at your texts, watch a boring cutscene with some Japanese girl, and then run away from some monster who looks like a rip off of the clickers from TLOU. rinse, repeat. I just got sick of it by chapter 3 and gave up.

What a complete fucking misfire from Konami. What a fall from grace from this once great company.

A game that sucked me in straight away, and I really enjoyed its gameplay loop of exploring, fishing, upgrading. The day/night cycle is cool too, I really started to sweat every day around 6pm as the day grew darker and I knew night was approaching, and all the dangers unseen. And heck, just cruising around in your boat is pretty relaxing in itself.

But at about the 10 hour mark, when I had explored pretty much the entire map and found all the docks, I found that all my remaining quests were just simple boring, quite grindy fetch quests. Some random guy in a robe on an island says "Catch this fish/crab and bring it to me". OK, so I have to find where this fish is at on the map, if its in your encyclopaedia cool that helps, if not its basically a time consuming game of chance. Oh I found it finally, oh shit don't have the right rod to catch it though. Gotta go to a dock and research it. Oh I don't have any research tools, ok now I gotta go find some of them (more time consuming), now i can research the rod. Oh shit i don't have enough money to buy it, now i gotta go fish for a few days to get the money. more time consuming. Ok ive bought the rod, now i gotta go find the fish again. Ok ive finally caught the damn fish, return to the NPC. His reward, some book that gives me a 5% discount at stores. Hmmm.

It was at this point, I was like, as much as I enjoy the game, the quests suck, there's really no story to speak of, and im kinda just over the grindy boring fetch quests. Im still undecided if ill finish it or not. I just wish it had more of a story to keep me playing.

Hell Divers 2 blew up for reason. The game is action packed, hilarious, immensely fun, 3rd person shooter, PvE, and a game you absolutely owe it to yourself to play with some friends. As someone who finds the shooter genre just very ok I can not recommend this game enough.

It has been since Overwatch (before it sucked) originally came out that me and my friends had a game that we regularly get on every other night and just have a great time together with. For two months me, @Chordata3 and @TSampys25 have regularly got on and just joked, laughed, and had a great time killing robots, bugs, and spreading democracy.

The gameplay loop is great. There are many different missions, across 9 different difficulties, against (at the time of this review) two seperate factions. The first race you are at war with is the alien bug like creatures known as the Termanids. The bugs are aggressive and can overwhelm you with their numbers quickly. The second race is the robot cyborg Automatons. This race while less likely to swarm you and less chaotice are more tactical which makes them in my opinion a scarier threat. With an aresonal of tanks, rocket launchers, grenades, and a whole lot of guns your going to want to seek shelter and be more stealthy in you approach against them. Going from one race to the other almost feels like a separate game. Luckily the game gives you many different weapons you can unlock as some weapons are great against the Termanids but awful against the Automatons and vica versa.

This game can be played alone but I highly recommend playing with friends. Once you get to a high enough level to unlock all the weapons playing on the highest difficulty with some buddies is one of the most fun and rewarding times you can have playing video games.

I will always be thankful @TSampys25 on a whim asked if me and @chordata3 wanted to buy and play Hell Divers 2 together. We had no idea what it even was at the time and its been some of my favorite gaming memories I have with them now.

Now back to spreading liberty, freedom, and democracy.

I was interested in Dredge as someone who loves both fishing games and Lovecraftian horror. I found the fishing part to be plenty fun, and while the Lovecraftian aspect is interestingly executed, I wouldn't describe it as a central aspect to the game as much as in, say, Darkest Dungeon.
In that regard, I found the panic mechanic to be simplistically implemented; I would've preferred a system that scaled in a longer cycle than simply night, and affected what you see of the world (Like in Darkest Dungeon 1).
I also felt the upgrades to your boat, be it in lights, engines, or fishing rods, were a tad boring. In this kind of game, I think I personally prefer side-grades and personal choices to straight upgrades.
And while the story really just isn't there, the chore gameplay loop is addictive enough to, combined with the lovely art style, provide more than 10 hours of enjoyable gameplay.

I loved retro cartoons as a kid, we had all these compilations on DVD of different cartoons from the 30s and 40s, Popeye the Sailor, Felix the Cat, Owl Jolson, etc. So right away the look of this game evokes a lot of that nostalgia, recreating that style with such an insane amount of detail. The actual game itself is polished to a sheen as well, it’s one of those games where a boss starts out impossible, but you keep getting better and better until it practically becomes autopilotable. And these bosses, they’re all so imaginative and feel right out of the cartoons that inspired them. I don’t really have a whole lot to complain about here, besides my absolute contempt for the Pirate boss.

It was also really funny watching this game singlehandedly destroy every gaming outlet’s integrity.