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drawingtoptarp is now playing Filament

2 hrs ago



drawingtoptarp abandoned F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
This game is buggy and unplayable. Most of my inputs would register as double inputs, causing me to do a lot of stuff that I didn't want to do, such as getting stuck talking to the same NPC countless times because I kept initiating a conversation with them with the double inputs. Also, sometimes I would try to do an action while walking around and the button I press just doesn't do what it is supposed to do, causing me to get stuck a few times until the button decides to do what it should do. The constant fight with the game ended up just not being worth it and I had to quit after playing for only an hour.

The use of the Unreal engine is good for making graphics that look pretty, which they definitely do in this game. I barely got anywhere in the story, but it started out in an interesting way that made me at least engaged enough to want to continue playing. The combat was actually well-done and felt satisfying. That's all the positive stuff I can really say about this game.

2 hrs ago


drawingtoptarp abandoned Katamari Damacy Reroll
Saw this game used in a lot of videos and stuff and it looked like it would be fun. Once I tried it, it was a bit of a let down. The controls were super weird and unintuitive, making the game feel clunky and unsatisfying to play.

Rolling into things to collect them only gets fun near the end of the levels when you are big enough to collect almost anything. But until that point, it is just constant bumping into things too big to collect and missing things I can collect since it is kind of hard to see where I am going with the huge ball in my way. Nothing really changes from level to level, so it gets kind of boring after a few levels of doing the same thing.

8 hrs ago


drawingtoptarp abandoned Portal: Forbidden Testing Tracks
Did not get very far in this game. Saw a bit of the weird interdimensional, for lack of a better word, portals that led to rooms and places that could not exist in the places where they were. But I don't know if I just lost all my IQ since the last time I played a Portal game or if the game is just unclear on what to do, but I usually expect Portal games to be relatively straightforward and simple to understand. This game just seemed too confusing and I wasn't having too much fun playing it.

13 hrs ago


drawingtoptarp reviewed Thumper
I thought this game looked so cool when I saw my friend playing it, so I bought it and tried it for myself. It was fun at the start, but I just couldn’t bring myself to finish it.

I think the core idea of this came is pretty good for a rhythm game. I played in marching band and concert band as a percussionist in high school, so I like to think I have a pretty good feel for rhythm by now, but there were some parts of this game that felt completely disconnected from the music, which is pretty bad for a rhythm game like this where movements are supposed to sync to the music. That’s probably why I felt like the difficulty ramps up way too fast because the levels seem to continue to use the music as a suggestion for the movement of the player rather than a requirement. I didn’t even make it halfway through the game since I found it too challenging and ended up not having fun when I kept dying. Maybe it’s a skill issue, but I just wasn’t enjoying myself after a while.

Other than that, I really like the music and art style. It is very pleasing to look at and listen to.

1 day ago



drawingtoptarp reviewed Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
I once had a dream to get every gold medal with every character. But once I did that for like 2 characters, I realized this would be more tedious than I thought, so I gave up.

This game blew my mind when I first played through it. This was such a good game for many reasons and the character lineup was crazy for its time. I feel like this game specifically will be able to stand the test of time as one of the best sport/party games of all time, or at least for Nintendo.

1 day ago


drawingtoptarp reviewed Carnival Games Mini Golf
I will never be more into Mini Golf than when I was in the phase of playing this on my Wii for hours trying to buy all of the prizes and finding all of the most efficient ways to collect coins.

1 day ago




drawingtoptarp reviewed A Hat in Time: Nyakuza Metro
Thought this was a pretty good addition to the game. I liked the setting of a sort of dirty city with crime and morality being more up to interpretation rather than hard rules. Gameplay is just as solid as the base game. I do like that it felt more like an open-world type of thing rather than certain levels.

1 day ago


drawingtoptarp reviewed Mercer Mayer's Little Critter and the Great Race
I completely forgot this game existed until a few days ago when it suddenly just jumped into my mind as I sat in bed. When I was really young, I remember playing this all the time and loving it. Although, I always asked one of my parents to do the race at the end since I wasn’t good enough to do it myself.

Watched a bit of gameplay recently to jog my memory and I can confidently say that I am no longer in the target audience for a game like this, but I’m still trying to rate this based on what I thought when I was the target demographic.

1 day ago


drawingtoptarp reviewed Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
I’ll admit that I am a Marvel normie that got into Marvel almost exclusively because of the MCU, but I loved seeing all of these different characters interact in different ways that simply aren’t going to happen in the movies. The story was definitely one of the big things that I liked in this game.

Having said that, I found the gameplay to be kind of meh. It just felt like a lot of button spamming around enemies and you’ll win the fight. That style of gameplay is fun at first, but gets kind of boring and repetitive after a while.

1 day ago


drawingtoptarp reviewed Kirby Super Star Ultra
This was my first Kirby game and I think this was a great intro into the Kirby franchise. Plenty of smaller games to play with tons of different styles and feels. Shorter games, longer games, mini-games, arenas, small levels, big and interconnected worlds, music player, and even something similar to new game+. Plenty of variety and something for everyone. I was a bit sad to learn that other Kirby games did not feature the teammate mechanic, but that’s ok.

1 day ago


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