One of the most popular games of all time for a reason. Killer story, great characters, just a ton of fun all around. One of Rockstar's best games ever.

I'm such a sucker for these old school tribute platformer games. Super fun gameplay, cute little characters, it's got the whole kit and kaboodle!

A remaster of the first Yakuza game on PS2, this has a great story with some exceptional characters but the gameplay itself just kind of dragged for me. I've always wanted to try this series and I felt like it was just really slow-paced by the middle. This is definitely one I'll probably try again later.

A classic rhythm game with a laggy, off balance PS4 emulation - the original goes hard, the PS4 version I played brings it down a notch. GETTING WORSE!

One of the weakest additions to the Jackbox Party Pack series yet, unfortunately. As a massive fan of the series, I hoped for way more out of the landmark tenth installment. Timejinx is one of the few bright spots of this pack, and even with that, there are far better and less convoluted trivia games in the series. Hypnotorious is one of the most needlessly confusing games in Jackbox's catalog. Dodo Re Mi is ambitiously un-Jackbox-y, but its unique appeal wears thin. Tee-KO 2 is just Tee-KO 1 with new graphics. Fixytext is like that one South Park episode where they lampoon on Family Guy with the randomizer - it feels like somebody generated all the premises of past Jackbox games and ran it through that and out popped Fixytext. Regretfully disappointing, and I hope the Jackbox series massively improves on its tenth anniversary next year.

Do you like doing errands? Running around in a car, just to do that same thing over again and again and again? Then boy howdy, will you love Dead Island, which had such a killer, much talked about trailer in 2012 and greatly disappointed everyone by releasing a bland, overly lengthy quest-a-thon of a game.

A game that I'm sure was incredible in 1999, but is really aged in every way today, from controls to the gameplay itself.

Feel it comin' in the air (Yeah)
Hear the screams from everywhere (Yeah)
I'm addicted to the thrill (I'm ready)
It's a dangerous love affair (What's up? Come on)
Can't be scared when it goes down
Got a problem, tell me now (What's up?)
Only thing that's on my mind (What's up?)
Is who's gon' run this town tonight (Ah, what's up?)
Is who's gon' run this town tonight (Yeah, what's up? Yeah)
We gon' run this town

This dragged on and on forever and felt like a soulless Arkham copy - just so boring.

Criminally boring. I expected so much more out of this with its unique story and setting but was incredibly disappointed.

I really wanted to like this. The first two Life is Strange games were phenomenal and I was fully immersed in the characters and environment - I struggled to care even a little about the characters here, and the story just slogs on and on. The first chapter is ridiculously slow paced and barely anything happens, and it doesn't pick up much after that. Just so boring. Incredibly disappointing sequel.

Expected underwater Fallout, got something entirely different with great FPS mechanics, but a story that felt a little lackluster and went on for too long.

2016

Under the sea
Under the sea
Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea

A neat creation suite game that still feels very pandemic-era. It's not my type of thing, but it's a cool concept that beats a lot of failed attempts at doing a Roblox-like style game on consoles. Dreams is currently in its waning days, but even if it were still hot, I'm not quite sure I would have stuck around for even another couple of days, it loses my interest quickly, but I also recognize there's an audience for it, and it adopts a lot of the best creation parts of the Little Big Planet series.

One of the all-time great racing games and a Crash classic.