dill0wn
2024
Indika combines many aspects and weaves them together to form a one-of-a-kind experience. Heady ideas, with a beautiful presentation makes it worth playing. For fans of Immortality and A Plague's Tale.
2016
It starts slow, it's clunky, the translation feels held together by tape, but it's truly a unique vibe and something special. You get to know the various characters throughout the chapters, and they evolve and surprise you. It has big, heady ideas and a stylish presentation.
Fans of the weird should definitely check this out.
Fans of the weird should definitely check this out.
2024
I doubt I will stick with it for more than a few weeks, but I’m having a lot of fun with XDefiant. It’s basically Call of Duty but with a lil bit of class abilities and skinned as “The Wide World of Ubisoft Franchises”
Fantastic edgy zine humor. Gameplay is pretty basic, but the vibes and artstyle are what makes this worth checking out.
I’ve heard The Insert Credit boys, Thorhighheels and more talk about the joys of cavia’s jank, but this is my first exposure. Beat Down oozes a misplaced gritty style reminiscent of over the top Hong Kong gangster flicks but set in a SoCal type location that looks like a NY type location.
The meat and potatoes here are punches and cusses. Every character, both male and female, spouts tough guy fucks and shits.
The punching is jank. You have 5 different punchers to choose from when starting a new game. Your chosen puncher then punches their way through quests across this small interconnected world of hubs that is Las Sombras.
Campy japanese gang warfare mixed with gritty over the type street warfare violence. Good stuff.
The actual 1v1 combat is clunky and took me a while to get used to. Certain opponents felt cheap. They wouldnt act at all while i was blocking, but would atart their attack combos the instant i released the button such that their moves would connect before i had a chance to connect with mine.
This is a first impression, and i doubt i will finish it. But there is fun to be had here.
The meat and potatoes here are punches and cusses. Every character, both male and female, spouts tough guy fucks and shits.
The punching is jank. You have 5 different punchers to choose from when starting a new game. Your chosen puncher then punches their way through quests across this small interconnected world of hubs that is Las Sombras.
Campy japanese gang warfare mixed with gritty over the type street warfare violence. Good stuff.
The actual 1v1 combat is clunky and took me a while to get used to. Certain opponents felt cheap. They wouldnt act at all while i was blocking, but would atart their attack combos the instant i released the button such that their moves would connect before i had a chance to connect with mine.
This is a first impression, and i doubt i will finish it. But there is fun to be had here.
2023
Mad fun. Proximity chat will be the new hot feature across games if it isn’t already
2023
It's still Quake, baby. Runs very well on modern systems. Feels great with a gamepad. Deathmatch servers are still around. Despite me not having finished it yet, the new campaign by MachineGames is very very good.
2019
Like literal crack.
2022
I really wanted to like Weird West. I think it wanted to be too many things. The "immersive sim" elements are there, but don't feel fleshed out. Meanwhile, the combat is frantic and difficult. I never felt like the game would let me execute any sort of dynamic plan I had in my head.
It's not a bad game.
It's not a bad game.
2015
Soma is a fantastic adventure/psychological-horror game from one of the best studios in the realm. I played w/ "story mode" enabled (where the monsters can't really kill you) and it was still stressful.
Where Soma shines is in its story, writing, and environment. The visuals are quite good, but definitely not revolutionary. I found myself deeply caring for the few characters by the time credits rolled.
Great game, would recommend. Warning: if you're easily susceptible to existential dread, maybe steer clear ;)
Where Soma shines is in its story, writing, and environment. The visuals are quite good, but definitely not revolutionary. I found myself deeply caring for the few characters by the time credits rolled.
Great game, would recommend. Warning: if you're easily susceptible to existential dread, maybe steer clear ;)
2005
The Something Rotten podcast inspired me to give this a go. Killer 7 bursts with ideas. Games are seldom this whacky, let-alone games out of studios like Capcom. It was a different time.
I haven't finished it yet, but the gameplay is still approachable all these years later.
I haven't finished it yet, but the gameplay is still approachable all these years later.
2021
An exceptional "remaster" -- very little changed. Just increased the resolution of some textures, improved a few special effects, and improved some of the face models. All the camp was intact. It's the exact same game. Still great :)
If you ignore the quirks of 90s adventure games by referring to a walkthrough after getting stuck, this is a masterpiece. I cant remember the last time a game conveyed such a convincing sense of place. The art, quippy dialogue, and especially the voice acting are all immaculate.
Ive been searching for the same high ever since.
Ive been searching for the same high ever since.
1997
A great boomer shooter. Not as fondly regarded as Quake, but I think it brings a lot to the table.
2021
Sometimes a game is more than the sum of its parts. The only thing that would make this game genuinely better is snappier dialog editing. What’s there is great, but sometimes the pacing and pauses between speakers ruins the vibes.