mysticalpeace
2024
Hades II is a great refresh from the first game, and the early access is all you need in the beginning with tons of new features and characters.
Basic Story
Melinoë was set on a rescue mission to eliberate her parents Hades and Persephone. They were captured by the evil chronos and it the beginning you will start to ascent with your mentor Hecate, for a first boss fight she is pretty strong and she's somehow a parental figure for the protagnist. The second boss is in Oceanus where you will meet with Scylla and her sirens, putting up a good show and after her going deep in ground you will find the infernal cerberus and at last chronos that comes with 2 phases, that's all the bosses in the story since Melinoë is cursed to be underworld.
Conclusion
Loops are great and this sequel looks to be very faithful to the first one, looking forward to see it in action with updates.
Basic Story
Melinoë was set on a rescue mission to eliberate her parents Hades and Persephone. They were captured by the evil chronos and it the beginning you will start to ascent with your mentor Hecate, for a first boss fight she is pretty strong and she's somehow a parental figure for the protagnist. The second boss is in Oceanus where you will meet with Scylla and her sirens, putting up a good show and after her going deep in ground you will find the infernal cerberus and at last chronos that comes with 2 phases, that's all the bosses in the story since Melinoë is cursed to be underworld.
Conclusion
Loops are great and this sequel looks to be very faithful to the first one, looking forward to see it in action with updates.
Snow Day is quite a tricky one because I haven't tried the other SP games and it's my first one, some elitist will say that this game sucks for changing the gameplay into 2.5D in 3D completely but for someone like me the first time I played it was amazing, the combat felt nice the story was right for the series scenario and there's co-op missions to play.
Gameplay
Like I said, the gameplay looks very good the graphics are charmful combined with the snow theme but one thing that will always suck in this game must be the bots, they will always die no matter what you do in the 5 chapters of the game and you will be almost all the time awarded with the medic class rank. The gameplay fits perfectly with the RPG and fast peace movement and the cards deck are unique with the weapons upgrades and character customization, the game is optimized for a 2019 specs pc and it runs very well. Only in chapter 4 you will encounter some performance issues but that's the game fault since I played the version from the launch that came with some major problems. You will find gamemodes like waves so you will have some fun without the main campaign which is fairly short.
Story
Miraculous blizzard day strikes and cartman is happy to be home and play with his buddies, but this snow storm is not something usual at all but you are the new kid in town and cartman makes connections between you and stan,kyle,and kenny. The main antagonist isn't known in the beginning but you start in the early chapter to fight with kyle known as the elf king and then later on fighting with kenny as well known as the princess and the last one being stan the barbarian. After all of them cartman knew that the blizzard will end somehow and he betrayed all of you to maintain this weather so he will not go to school, after fighting him in his grand wizard form all of you realize that the main antagonist is mr hankey because he got canceled on twitter and to consume his rage he used his magic to strike a snow day in south park, after fighting all of these bosses which are your friends it's time to take the last one and the most dangerous one out that being hankey, all of you gather in his location and climb up to reach him and once you are there the new kid has to strike him but being so powerful it will make hankey fulfilled with magic power as well, after one punch he transforms into a huge shit monster and you have to take him out with cannons powered by toilet paper to wipe him out. So it is done, south park is saved and the group goes to school until jesus comes out of nowhere and he tells the kids that what they did to hankey was wrong when he was down and no one helped him so they decided to offer forgiveness to hankey and wish for another blizzard day.
Gameplay
Like I said, the gameplay looks very good the graphics are charmful combined with the snow theme but one thing that will always suck in this game must be the bots, they will always die no matter what you do in the 5 chapters of the game and you will be almost all the time awarded with the medic class rank. The gameplay fits perfectly with the RPG and fast peace movement and the cards deck are unique with the weapons upgrades and character customization, the game is optimized for a 2019 specs pc and it runs very well. Only in chapter 4 you will encounter some performance issues but that's the game fault since I played the version from the launch that came with some major problems. You will find gamemodes like waves so you will have some fun without the main campaign which is fairly short.
Story
Miraculous blizzard day strikes and cartman is happy to be home and play with his buddies, but this snow storm is not something usual at all but you are the new kid in town and cartman makes connections between you and stan,kyle,and kenny. The main antagonist isn't known in the beginning but you start in the early chapter to fight with kyle known as the elf king and then later on fighting with kenny as well known as the princess and the last one being stan the barbarian. After all of them cartman knew that the blizzard will end somehow and he betrayed all of you to maintain this weather so he will not go to school, after fighting him in his grand wizard form all of you realize that the main antagonist is mr hankey because he got canceled on twitter and to consume his rage he used his magic to strike a snow day in south park, after fighting all of these bosses which are your friends it's time to take the last one and the most dangerous one out that being hankey, all of you gather in his location and climb up to reach him and once you are there the new kid has to strike him but being so powerful it will make hankey fulfilled with magic power as well, after one punch he transforms into a huge shit monster and you have to take him out with cannons powered by toilet paper to wipe him out. So it is done, south park is saved and the group goes to school until jesus comes out of nowhere and he tells the kids that what they did to hankey was wrong when he was down and no one helped him so they decided to offer forgiveness to hankey and wish for another blizzard day.
2017
Little Nightmares was a decent stealth game with some frustrating parts, although for a 3 hour long game it was amazing but in this game you can get lost pretty easily.
Storty
You take the role of a girl named Six, your goal is to escape The Maw which is a underwater iron vessel. With the help of a lighter who guides you through the game you will encounter leeches,a janitor and some twin chefs, the iron vessel is fulfilled with lots of guests who are ready to eat anything that contains meat in the game, the theory surrounds that the children or those anonymous creatures are being killed and served to the guests. The main antagonist is a mysterious lady in a kimono, through the game while you encounter massive and obese creatures she's the last one once you survive the guest room, by defeating her with a mirror you will consume her flesh and become powerful being able to take lives away from the guests at the end, a bloody story with terrifying creatures but yet again it's a decent story.
Gameplay
A 3D plaftormer with stealth, that's how I can describe this game but the controls are DAMN AWFUL, if you want additional challenge play with keyboard and mouse input. The stealth part is fairly easy but sometimes you can be stuck not knowing where to go and dying randomly until you find a way, and the controls felt very unresponsive at times that lead me to rage quite a bit, and at the end of the game please check your graphics settings it might randomly crash and you will need to fight the lady again. The game had some horror atmosphere but on how annoying it was at times that horror atmosphere was gone.
Conclusion
Interesting game for being so short, but GOD DAMN it was frustrating at times so that takes away from the stars.
Storty
You take the role of a girl named Six, your goal is to escape The Maw which is a underwater iron vessel. With the help of a lighter who guides you through the game you will encounter leeches,a janitor and some twin chefs, the iron vessel is fulfilled with lots of guests who are ready to eat anything that contains meat in the game, the theory surrounds that the children or those anonymous creatures are being killed and served to the guests. The main antagonist is a mysterious lady in a kimono, through the game while you encounter massive and obese creatures she's the last one once you survive the guest room, by defeating her with a mirror you will consume her flesh and become powerful being able to take lives away from the guests at the end, a bloody story with terrifying creatures but yet again it's a decent story.
Gameplay
A 3D plaftormer with stealth, that's how I can describe this game but the controls are DAMN AWFUL, if you want additional challenge play with keyboard and mouse input. The stealth part is fairly easy but sometimes you can be stuck not knowing where to go and dying randomly until you find a way, and the controls felt very unresponsive at times that lead me to rage quite a bit, and at the end of the game please check your graphics settings it might randomly crash and you will need to fight the lady again. The game had some horror atmosphere but on how annoying it was at times that horror atmosphere was gone.
Conclusion
Interesting game for being so short, but GOD DAMN it was frustrating at times so that takes away from the stars.
2012
This review contains spoilers
Spec Ops is really a game driven by the plot, the gameplay nowdays is pretty outdated and it has some glitches. It was removed from steam for some reason but the idea of the game is really the story.
Gameplay
in rest the gameplay does not get repetitive because it take 5 hours to beat the game not more than that depending on what difficulty you are gonna choose.
The year himself 2012 was the peak of smaller games that innovated something that a AAA game can't sadly, well if we speak about the recent events of helldivers then yes, smaller devs are always better and creative than huge game companies and this game with the rest of thousand proves that point really good, spec ops is only about the story not the gameplay even though it looks very good for UE3.
One thing to point out, the major problem with the audio speakers for modern headphones, yes it always happens to 2009-2014 games where the audio cuts off for no reason, its like the third time happening from an action game and it only happened to these third person action games like tomb raider (2013) and batman arkham asylum.
Story
Here's the most important part of the game and why this review is checked as a spoiler, everything that happens in the game after the helicopter intro is a huge hallucination, dubai has gone wrong and captain martin walker was sent with his mates to stop and save innocent lives and evacuate the city, while there the main antagonist is john konrad and the former commander of 33st infantry, the second antagonist is robert darden who is a radioman taunting walker's team, the three soldiers are surrounded by terrorists in dubai while trying to rescue innocents but one segment in the game changes everything, the mortar scene where walker thinks he kills the opps he actually killed innocent lives, that changed the game and made the 33rd infantry aganist them for killing his own men, adams and lugo are arguing because of this but they know that they cannot stop there and have to push to find john konrad. In the game you find an old soldier by the name of riggs, you help him by stealing 20 gallons of water but failing and him dying shot by walker. Later on you have to reach the radio tower where you meet the radioman, your goal is to reach other soldiers to send help to evacuate the city and leave but robert darden gets shot by lugo, failing that the crew gets in a helicopter and the segment of the intro begins, choppers everywhere and getting down and so walker's men are alone, the captain is still alive and finds adams but unfortunately lugo was killed and hanged. They know that they have to push one more time aganist the 33rd army and reach the tower but walker and adams are being surrounded and he gives up but he starts to feel weird again and runs away without a gun to the tower where he met john konrad, apparently he was dead for decades and all of the events where in walker's mind, as a final scene they take 2 pistols and point at each other in the tower and someone gotta shot first, i shot him after that the epilogue begins, walker is calling to evacuate so the us army comes to rescue him but in the end the former captain kills them and the game ends after the epilogue with 15 chapters.
Everything was a setup in his mind, the delta force formed with walker,adam and lugo was sent after the 33rd failed in dubai and john konrad died there as well, walker's main objective to find konrad and rescue the people of dubai was in his mind all the time, his delta team possibly died and he imagined all of this scenario in his head with thousands of innocents dying.
Truly a game to challange the player's morality.
The Arkham Collection is a must have for the type of person who loves third person action games and it's a must play if you love DC comics, personally I ain't a big fan of DC but this trilogy made me love it, sadly it does not include batman origins because this is the rocksteady games not WB montreal. Highly suggest to play them in order, from asylum to city and finally with knight, already reviewed these games. Plus they are very cheap with tons of DLCs.
Arkham Knight is a tricky one, personally not the best in the series and it might never be, this game brings a lot of unique story dlcs and customization as well but it comes with A LOT of downsides.
Gameplay
The only melee boss that I can remember after finishing the game is Albert King, that's it really because the rest of the gameplay is with the batmobile and it gets repetitive fairly fast,it really feels like world of tanks and rocksteady had a collaboration. More than half of the bosses are being driven with the batmobile, atleast they added some stealth with the cobra tanks.
The second problem with the gameplay is the port himself, how can you mess this bad a freaking UE3 game running on a modern computer? like really yikes, it ran fairly good at 1080p high settings but the frame drops was felt, but other than that it ran more than 60 most of the times but the game lag the fuck out in batmobile chases for a reason.
Alright one good thing about this game is the graphics that saves a bit, it looks more spectacular than gotham knights and the latest release of suicide squad, they nailed the graphics too good for 2015 and it can't be beaten even by newer games.
There's a lot of side quests that includes DLCs with more characters because in the main story you will not frequently hear about two face or croc for example and to be honest the atmoshpere is great, the combat with the brutes or thugs is the same as asylum and city but it's even better if you do a double attack with robin, that feature rocks.
Story
After the death of joker and his burning body gotham is warned by scarecrow with his new toxin, moments after almost everyone evacuated the city and crane's militia surrounded the whole city.
Batman comes back and ready to stop him, with the help of oracle in the clocktower and jim at the GCPD he's well equipped with his new batmobile to take on the fight, but he stumbles upon poison ivy where she was at a meeting with scarecrow and batman takes her at the GCPD, while there he is being informed that he can track the toxin at the ace chemicals where he meets up with a new antagonist, the second one being the arkham knight, an anonymous masked villain well trained surprises batman but he escapes with his help of the batmobile and avoiding knight's helicopter. Later on chasing scarecrow he discovers that there's some of jokers blood into his system, so that combined the fear gas and make him see him through the whole story.
Later on oracle was kidnapped by crane and batman had to find her, after sometime he found her but it was too late, she shot herself behind the glass, this is where the story really gets interesting because batman could not forgive himself because gordon went hiding after he found out that his daughter was captured, batman could not tell him the truth because it was too painful, later on alfred informs batman about some kind of scientist that works with scarecrow and he gets into his blimp where scarecrow is located as well, the scientist ran away from batman and after that he found scarecrow but it was only a hallucination of him, batman was also helped by nightwing but he hold him to stay in bludhaven.
Batman found out that joker's virus infected more people, but only one was immune to it and that was henry adams, he discovered that with the help of poison ivy he can hold the toxin while her plants secure the zone.
Batman is being interrupted by harley quinn, she wants to avenge joker's death and she released the infected ones in the panessa movie studio, with the help of robin he needs to rescue them but they act back with violence, after taking care of chrstina bell,albert king and johnny charisma robin secures the bag and gets out.
But batman is hallucinating, he sees his former apprentice, jason todd. He sees himself tortured by joker and being asked about bats real identity, after that he comes back to life he takes harley with robin and puts her in a jail, robin finds out that batman isn't okay and he might be exposed to crane's gas and tries to lock him up but he failed and batman instead put him in jail.
After that he goes back outside but crane's cloudburst that spreads diseases was deployed, batman had to talk with ivy quickly to prevent this but alfred informs him about the scientist and he goes back into the blimp to simion stagg but he was exposed to crane's toxin and told batman that he can take some kind of cure that protects his car in the cloudburst, and so he took it and installed it into the car.
Time to protect ivy's plant, but in the other land is the arkham knight, with his new tank surrounded by cobra tanks, batman chases him and destroys his tank side by side but he gets hallucinated again and after he took the knight in his hands he got out.
Batman had to go underground to find another root to a plant to help ivy and so he did it but after he came back to her she died because she used all of her power to destory the cloudburst.
After that batman was informed that jim was taken, he head back to GCPD and got his location, after arriving he had to work with a ventilation shaft that was broken to reach jim gordon, but instead he found arkham knight while he chased batman underground.
Batman was surrounded by him and he had to sacrifice his car to get out, after reaching to jim the knight made another encounter but he revealed himself to be jason, furious of batman and dedicated to kill him he fights him and batman wins the duel and rescues gordon.
Gordon know that scarecrow is in the top of the building so he comes with batman to stop him but right after they reached the last floor they see oracle alive and jim betrayed batman to save his daughter, he had to make one choice but after he shot batman oracle was dropped off the building and batman saved her but gordon was taken as a hostage again.
Oracle and batman are now safely in the GCPD but the militia assaulted the station, after oracle helped batman taking care of the tanks and finding a new energy generator batman leaves to check on the movie studios where he finds out that robin was taken by crane as a hostage and had to make a quick choice to sell his sould to scarecrow.
Batman leaves and goes to crane's location and puts his equipment down and enters his van where he was taken to crane's place, while there he gets PTSD from the asylum with joker but once he arrives crane shows gordon and robin but he exposes batman's true idenity live, batman had to resist his toxin and he entered into some dreams with joker killing cobblepot, two face and destroying soldiers and right after that he gets outside where gotham is in flames.
Then his vision goes into a horror first person perspective where joker sees harley crying but right after he starts to shoot at stone building of batman and gets out but batman comes in and puts joker in jail.
Batman was immune, he defeated joker's remaining gas and he woke up where scarecrow was very surprised and right after he took a gun at batman's face jason helps batman get out and takes crane to the jail where the game ends, and now that everyone knows his true idenity he has to activate the protocol knightfall.
Gameplay
The only melee boss that I can remember after finishing the game is Albert King, that's it really because the rest of the gameplay is with the batmobile and it gets repetitive fairly fast,it really feels like world of tanks and rocksteady had a collaboration. More than half of the bosses are being driven with the batmobile, atleast they added some stealth with the cobra tanks.
The second problem with the gameplay is the port himself, how can you mess this bad a freaking UE3 game running on a modern computer? like really yikes, it ran fairly good at 1080p high settings but the frame drops was felt, but other than that it ran more than 60 most of the times but the game lag the fuck out in batmobile chases for a reason.
Alright one good thing about this game is the graphics that saves a bit, it looks more spectacular than gotham knights and the latest release of suicide squad, they nailed the graphics too good for 2015 and it can't be beaten even by newer games.
There's a lot of side quests that includes DLCs with more characters because in the main story you will not frequently hear about two face or croc for example and to be honest the atmoshpere is great, the combat with the brutes or thugs is the same as asylum and city but it's even better if you do a double attack with robin, that feature rocks.
Story
After the death of joker and his burning body gotham is warned by scarecrow with his new toxin, moments after almost everyone evacuated the city and crane's militia surrounded the whole city.
Batman comes back and ready to stop him, with the help of oracle in the clocktower and jim at the GCPD he's well equipped with his new batmobile to take on the fight, but he stumbles upon poison ivy where she was at a meeting with scarecrow and batman takes her at the GCPD, while there he is being informed that he can track the toxin at the ace chemicals where he meets up with a new antagonist, the second one being the arkham knight, an anonymous masked villain well trained surprises batman but he escapes with his help of the batmobile and avoiding knight's helicopter. Later on chasing scarecrow he discovers that there's some of jokers blood into his system, so that combined the fear gas and make him see him through the whole story.
Later on oracle was kidnapped by crane and batman had to find her, after sometime he found her but it was too late, she shot herself behind the glass, this is where the story really gets interesting because batman could not forgive himself because gordon went hiding after he found out that his daughter was captured, batman could not tell him the truth because it was too painful, later on alfred informs batman about some kind of scientist that works with scarecrow and he gets into his blimp where scarecrow is located as well, the scientist ran away from batman and after that he found scarecrow but it was only a hallucination of him, batman was also helped by nightwing but he hold him to stay in bludhaven.
Batman found out that joker's virus infected more people, but only one was immune to it and that was henry adams, he discovered that with the help of poison ivy he can hold the toxin while her plants secure the zone.
Batman is being interrupted by harley quinn, she wants to avenge joker's death and she released the infected ones in the panessa movie studio, with the help of robin he needs to rescue them but they act back with violence, after taking care of chrstina bell,albert king and johnny charisma robin secures the bag and gets out.
But batman is hallucinating, he sees his former apprentice, jason todd. He sees himself tortured by joker and being asked about bats real identity, after that he comes back to life he takes harley with robin and puts her in a jail, robin finds out that batman isn't okay and he might be exposed to crane's gas and tries to lock him up but he failed and batman instead put him in jail.
After that he goes back outside but crane's cloudburst that spreads diseases was deployed, batman had to talk with ivy quickly to prevent this but alfred informs him about the scientist and he goes back into the blimp to simion stagg but he was exposed to crane's toxin and told batman that he can take some kind of cure that protects his car in the cloudburst, and so he took it and installed it into the car.
Time to protect ivy's plant, but in the other land is the arkham knight, with his new tank surrounded by cobra tanks, batman chases him and destroys his tank side by side but he gets hallucinated again and after he took the knight in his hands he got out.
Batman had to go underground to find another root to a plant to help ivy and so he did it but after he came back to her she died because she used all of her power to destory the cloudburst.
After that batman was informed that jim was taken, he head back to GCPD and got his location, after arriving he had to work with a ventilation shaft that was broken to reach jim gordon, but instead he found arkham knight while he chased batman underground.
Batman was surrounded by him and he had to sacrifice his car to get out, after reaching to jim the knight made another encounter but he revealed himself to be jason, furious of batman and dedicated to kill him he fights him and batman wins the duel and rescues gordon.
Gordon know that scarecrow is in the top of the building so he comes with batman to stop him but right after they reached the last floor they see oracle alive and jim betrayed batman to save his daughter, he had to make one choice but after he shot batman oracle was dropped off the building and batman saved her but gordon was taken as a hostage again.
Oracle and batman are now safely in the GCPD but the militia assaulted the station, after oracle helped batman taking care of the tanks and finding a new energy generator batman leaves to check on the movie studios where he finds out that robin was taken by crane as a hostage and had to make a quick choice to sell his sould to scarecrow.
Batman leaves and goes to crane's location and puts his equipment down and enters his van where he was taken to crane's place, while there he gets PTSD from the asylum with joker but once he arrives crane shows gordon and robin but he exposes batman's true idenity live, batman had to resist his toxin and he entered into some dreams with joker killing cobblepot, two face and destroying soldiers and right after that he gets outside where gotham is in flames.
Then his vision goes into a horror first person perspective where joker sees harley crying but right after he starts to shoot at stone building of batman and gets out but batman comes in and puts joker in jail.
Batman was immune, he defeated joker's remaining gas and he woke up where scarecrow was very surprised and right after he took a gun at batman's face jason helps batman get out and takes crane to the jail where the game ends, and now that everyone knows his true idenity he has to activate the protocol knightfall.
Maybe the best DLC, when I think about FH4 it gets me directly to the lego dlc.
2021
Got tired in 5 hours, why did I expect something unique... That's a lesson to don't have a huge hype from a mega corpo that literally does copy paste for a living.
Forza Horizon 4 is still the better option.
Forza Horizon 4 is still the better option.
1999
Crazy Taxi is the most clunky game with cabs that you will see in your life, extremely fun and very moddable.
Gameplay
A time limit gameplay influenced by the player that needs to take as many taxi rides as possible, by selecting a character from 4 selections such as axel,joe,gena and gus. This game will make you hate the traffic as much like a real driver but here you are being indicated on where to go and stop the brake, I'm not a big sega fan and never was but some of their games are fun like this one, you also have variety between gameplay modes like original and arcade that also let's you select the amount of time you want to take, also you can modify the difficulty of the in the menus which is pretty good.
Conclusion
If you want a clunky game but very fun involving cars you can try this one, I also modded the game with a ADX encoder to modify the tracklist so it is pretty moddable in terms of music but never got around the models or anything like that.
Gameplay
A time limit gameplay influenced by the player that needs to take as many taxi rides as possible, by selecting a character from 4 selections such as axel,joe,gena and gus. This game will make you hate the traffic as much like a real driver but here you are being indicated on where to go and stop the brake, I'm not a big sega fan and never was but some of their games are fun like this one, you also have variety between gameplay modes like original and arcade that also let's you select the amount of time you want to take, also you can modify the difficulty of the in the menus which is pretty good.
Conclusion
If you want a clunky game but very fun involving cars you can try this one, I also modded the game with a ADX encoder to modify the tracklist so it is pretty moddable in terms of music but never got around the models or anything like that.
2021
Industria is a game inspired by half life and portal, combining the atmosphere of city-17 with the antagonist trait of cave johnson, nothing too fancy for 3 hour ride
Gameplay
Pretty much every generic shooter made by a small dev team, it runs on unreal engine 4 but its very bad optimized, and my pc specs are not even that old coming back from 2019, even on low settings the game has moments when it reaches 60 fps and a moment later in the open game (outside) the frame dips. I'm saying this with my pure heart because I ran a lot of UE4 games and not all of them ran perfectly but it ran more than okay in low settings 1080p with a 100% resolution scale, it might be my pc or the game himself.
Story
You are a girl by the name of nora, you are the fiancée of walter. GDR’s does not know that in 2 hours the berlin wall will fail, nora rushes to her workplace where her colleague walter rebel is, when you arrive everything was evacuated and so your work was destroyed, there is only one way to find walter and that is to go into another dimension, you are awake in a city alone where you met a guy by the name of brent that will guide you through the city. By doing some puzzles and making your arsenal pretty you are guided to head into the town hall, by then in this universe, apocalyptical one to be sure where you and another guy speak through a damn radio you already know how doomed the situation is, you are being chased by robots in your way and finally you learn the fact that your husband was the king of the city, since you visited his place and he was not there, the only way to get to him is the train, eventually the train stops and brent has a request for you to go visit his old house on a roof, when you got there you see a beautiful picture of 2 people, that is brent and his wife and he wants you to take that photo and put it next to his wife graveyard. In the meantime you opened the gates so you can continue your journey to a countryside, brent says his thanks to you and you arrive in a beautiful countryside where you meet walter, but his physical form is kept by machines because he sold his soul, you encounter him in a robotic voice where he tells you that hes done all the bad things in the city for a good reason, you might have so many questions about it but the game ends there.
Conclusion
As of now (4/26/2024) the game is free on epic games and the sequel was announced, go grab it because it feels more of a demo than a full game and I'm a bit excited for the sequel but can't promise that I will play it.
Gameplay
Pretty much every generic shooter made by a small dev team, it runs on unreal engine 4 but its very bad optimized, and my pc specs are not even that old coming back from 2019, even on low settings the game has moments when it reaches 60 fps and a moment later in the open game (outside) the frame dips. I'm saying this with my pure heart because I ran a lot of UE4 games and not all of them ran perfectly but it ran more than okay in low settings 1080p with a 100% resolution scale, it might be my pc or the game himself.
Story
You are a girl by the name of nora, you are the fiancée of walter. GDR’s does not know that in 2 hours the berlin wall will fail, nora rushes to her workplace where her colleague walter rebel is, when you arrive everything was evacuated and so your work was destroyed, there is only one way to find walter and that is to go into another dimension, you are awake in a city alone where you met a guy by the name of brent that will guide you through the city. By doing some puzzles and making your arsenal pretty you are guided to head into the town hall, by then in this universe, apocalyptical one to be sure where you and another guy speak through a damn radio you already know how doomed the situation is, you are being chased by robots in your way and finally you learn the fact that your husband was the king of the city, since you visited his place and he was not there, the only way to get to him is the train, eventually the train stops and brent has a request for you to go visit his old house on a roof, when you got there you see a beautiful picture of 2 people, that is brent and his wife and he wants you to take that photo and put it next to his wife graveyard. In the meantime you opened the gates so you can continue your journey to a countryside, brent says his thanks to you and you arrive in a beautiful countryside where you meet walter, but his physical form is kept by machines because he sold his soul, you encounter him in a robotic voice where he tells you that hes done all the bad things in the city for a good reason, you might have so many questions about it but the game ends there.
Conclusion
As of now (4/26/2024) the game is free on epic games and the sequel was announced, go grab it because it feels more of a demo than a full game and I'm a bit excited for the sequel but can't promise that I will play it.
2011
Arkham City may seem familiar to asylum in some gameplay ways but the story and the open world opened this game and felt like a new phoenix, although I consider this game to be way easier than asylum if you play on normal or either easy and it was shorter with minus 2 hours compared to asylum for some reasons.
Gameplay
Like I said, this game has a decent open world but for 2011 it must have been amazing to have that. An open world full of side quests and still full-filled with riddlers trophies, but the best part of the game it must that now you can play with other other characters, like in the story with catwoman. The side content after you finish this game is kind of huge compared to asylum but for me I do love the atmosphere of asylum better than this game imo, but here you can fly up in the sky with your cape and yes the freeroam is way better here than asylum.
Story
Bruce Wayne, also batman was captured by Hugo Strange but the game actually starts with catwoman who is threatened by two face of public execution, batman is being held like a prisoner in arkham city. Our here manages to get out of the prison and track two face and rescue catwoman, but while he had a chat with her a sniper rifle was pointed at her and batman saw joker in a tower. Batman was threatened for exposure to the public but his main goal in the game is to defeat TYGER's soldiers that are being ruled by Hugo. Later on batman tracks down joker and goes into a chimney that leads him to harley, though easily beaten up our iconic antagonist shows up and makes batman go to sleep, after that catwoman adventures herself to ivy's location but she was trapped in the meantime. After batman escaped he was informed that injection was a virus remained from the last time joker became the titan at the end of asylum, and so batman knew he was on a clock and needed to find a cure quick, he was thinking that freezer is the only man who can help him make a dose for him but he finds out that he was trapped by cobblepot in the museum and he heads there but after he entered the museum he met penguin and he prepared a gladiator arena special for batman, but after our hero escaped death he heads straight but he was trapped by freezing water and he could not reach penguin but only by having a tactic, meanwhile he rescued an officer that requested batman to save his men as well. After that he finally reaches penguin but he got a trick, he stole freezer's gun and can't proceed without being hit by freezing ice. So batman head to the right side and found freezer, he didn't seem so happy at first but batman got his distruptor and was ready to fight penguin, but he was tricked again and batman was forced to go down and fight a TYGER infected soldier? idk what was that tbh, and manages to use electrify him till death, and penguin was dragged down there where he took some good fists coming from batman. After that he met with freezer, telling him that a cure cannot be made, and he needs a special type of blood to achieve the cure, batman had an idea to check up ra's ghul corpse to gather that blood, but an assassin heard what he said and ran out to tell the others, that female was from ra's ghul tribe and batman quickly promised that he will be back with the source of the cure. Tracking the blood trail he finds out an underground wonder city right below the subway station, when he opened the door batman met with talia, a girl he met in metropolis sometime ago and batman was already on a clock and sick. He was desperate to do anything to reach ra's ghul blood which was the father of talia, he needed to complete the demon trials and so he accepted and he met ra's soul in another dimension after he drank the chalice. After he completed the trial he finally met him but he was very angry because of the lazarous pit and he begged batman to kill him and he refused so he took him in a fight and after sometime ra's ghul decided to kill her own daughter but he came back to his senses and batman extracted his blood. After that he went to the police station where freezer was, something felt off about him for some reason and he became very angry and fought batman until he came back to normal, but it was too late... Joker took the cure and batman had to find him but there was 2 problems that had to be resolved, hugo's protocol 10 that literally kills everyone in arkham and his time limit about the virus that was injected in him by joker, so batman came back to fight joker but he was not alone, joker called for soldiers in the room even a mutant one and after all that fight the wall collapsed where batman stand, everything was almost over but talia came there out of nowhere and made a trade offer to joker about immorality so he accepted, back to catwoman after sometime with ivy, she promised that she will bring her flowers back to her if she let her free, ivy accepted and she had into the sewers where she silently took 3 keycards from the soldiers and got ivy's plant but she was discovered and had to fight the soldiers. After he finished her fight she had to make a choice, leave gotham and batman or save batman and then leave gotham, in my playthrough I decided to help batman so yeah. After she found batman he decided to leave catwoman alone because he had chase hugo strange, immediate he rushed to the clocktower where hugo was after fighting his thugs and successfully defused protocol 10, but then out of nowhere ra's ghul shows up and tells batman that he was the man behind protocol 10, he stabs hugo and threatens him but quickly he activated protocol 11 that destroys the high building. After batman survived the explosion he saw ra's body hanging, but right after that joker gets on a TV and threatens talia's life so he can make batman come to him and get the cure. In the last moments of the game you finally show up in the cinema where joker is and he transforms into clayface and kills talia. in the action to beat batman but he failed and the floor collapsed and batman took the sword and froze clayface and he directly went in him and sliced him up, then the game ends with joker dying and batman taking the cure and leaving with his corpse outside where everyone sees joker dead with the police as well. Right after the credits you play as the fourth mission and the final one of catwoman, where she leaves the city for good because batman took care of protocol 10 and unfortunately talia was killed but he took the cure , she head back to her apartament but she was shot in a explosion and got the information that twoface took her stuff, so she made into the museum and finished him off but without all of her stuff because twoface gave away some of it.
Gameplay
Like I said, this game has a decent open world but for 2011 it must have been amazing to have that. An open world full of side quests and still full-filled with riddlers trophies, but the best part of the game it must that now you can play with other other characters, like in the story with catwoman. The side content after you finish this game is kind of huge compared to asylum but for me I do love the atmosphere of asylum better than this game imo, but here you can fly up in the sky with your cape and yes the freeroam is way better here than asylum.
Story
Bruce Wayne, also batman was captured by Hugo Strange but the game actually starts with catwoman who is threatened by two face of public execution, batman is being held like a prisoner in arkham city. Our here manages to get out of the prison and track two face and rescue catwoman, but while he had a chat with her a sniper rifle was pointed at her and batman saw joker in a tower. Batman was threatened for exposure to the public but his main goal in the game is to defeat TYGER's soldiers that are being ruled by Hugo. Later on batman tracks down joker and goes into a chimney that leads him to harley, though easily beaten up our iconic antagonist shows up and makes batman go to sleep, after that catwoman adventures herself to ivy's location but she was trapped in the meantime. After batman escaped he was informed that injection was a virus remained from the last time joker became the titan at the end of asylum, and so batman knew he was on a clock and needed to find a cure quick, he was thinking that freezer is the only man who can help him make a dose for him but he finds out that he was trapped by cobblepot in the museum and he heads there but after he entered the museum he met penguin and he prepared a gladiator arena special for batman, but after our hero escaped death he heads straight but he was trapped by freezing water and he could not reach penguin but only by having a tactic, meanwhile he rescued an officer that requested batman to save his men as well. After that he finally reaches penguin but he got a trick, he stole freezer's gun and can't proceed without being hit by freezing ice. So batman head to the right side and found freezer, he didn't seem so happy at first but batman got his distruptor and was ready to fight penguin, but he was tricked again and batman was forced to go down and fight a TYGER infected soldier? idk what was that tbh, and manages to use electrify him till death, and penguin was dragged down there where he took some good fists coming from batman. After that he met with freezer, telling him that a cure cannot be made, and he needs a special type of blood to achieve the cure, batman had an idea to check up ra's ghul corpse to gather that blood, but an assassin heard what he said and ran out to tell the others, that female was from ra's ghul tribe and batman quickly promised that he will be back with the source of the cure. Tracking the blood trail he finds out an underground wonder city right below the subway station, when he opened the door batman met with talia, a girl he met in metropolis sometime ago and batman was already on a clock and sick. He was desperate to do anything to reach ra's ghul blood which was the father of talia, he needed to complete the demon trials and so he accepted and he met ra's soul in another dimension after he drank the chalice. After he completed the trial he finally met him but he was very angry because of the lazarous pit and he begged batman to kill him and he refused so he took him in a fight and after sometime ra's ghul decided to kill her own daughter but he came back to his senses and batman extracted his blood. After that he went to the police station where freezer was, something felt off about him for some reason and he became very angry and fought batman until he came back to normal, but it was too late... Joker took the cure and batman had to find him but there was 2 problems that had to be resolved, hugo's protocol 10 that literally kills everyone in arkham and his time limit about the virus that was injected in him by joker, so batman came back to fight joker but he was not alone, joker called for soldiers in the room even a mutant one and after all that fight the wall collapsed where batman stand, everything was almost over but talia came there out of nowhere and made a trade offer to joker about immorality so he accepted, back to catwoman after sometime with ivy, she promised that she will bring her flowers back to her if she let her free, ivy accepted and she had into the sewers where she silently took 3 keycards from the soldiers and got ivy's plant but she was discovered and had to fight the soldiers. After he finished her fight she had to make a choice, leave gotham and batman or save batman and then leave gotham, in my playthrough I decided to help batman so yeah. After she found batman he decided to leave catwoman alone because he had chase hugo strange, immediate he rushed to the clocktower where hugo was after fighting his thugs and successfully defused protocol 10, but then out of nowhere ra's ghul shows up and tells batman that he was the man behind protocol 10, he stabs hugo and threatens him but quickly he activated protocol 11 that destroys the high building. After batman survived the explosion he saw ra's body hanging, but right after that joker gets on a TV and threatens talia's life so he can make batman come to him and get the cure. In the last moments of the game you finally show up in the cinema where joker is and he transforms into clayface and kills talia. in the action to beat batman but he failed and the floor collapsed and batman took the sword and froze clayface and he directly went in him and sliced him up, then the game ends with joker dying and batman taking the cure and leaving with his corpse outside where everyone sees joker dead with the police as well. Right after the credits you play as the fourth mission and the final one of catwoman, where she leaves the city for good because batman took care of protocol 10 and unfortunately talia was killed but he took the cure , she head back to her apartament but she was shot in a explosion and got the information that twoface took her stuff, so she made into the museum and finished him off but without all of her stuff because twoface gave away some of it.
I Hate Running Backwards Is a what? game to be honest, a serious sam top down scroller with roguelite elements I guess? this is the most random combination of video games characters in a serious sam spinoff game. The gameplay is atleast decent with some variety of characters and some unlockables in the main hub, I tried to understand this game but I simply can't, on howlongtobeat it says that there's some 5 hour gameplay to it but I could not find anything on youtube for a storymode game, that I understood is that this game is based around a global scoreboard and it tracks your playtime and score based on some runs, that's like it with it and to be honest the graphics feels so uncanny combining minecraft or nevermind, it's pure favor dream someone smoked high on 420.
Random Encounter is a decent RPG with a bit of turn-based elements, starts off pretty quick and it end fairly short.
But in the end it becomes a roguelike for no reason, and it was not meant to be that.
Story
So, as mentioned in the game that the events of first encountered didn't go so well so our hero is being sent to the future to kill mental. In the story you will find some kind of allies with the same wish as sam, fork parker sents sam there where he encounters them. Gregory and a damn cowboy that I forgot his name, the trio is after mental and they elso encounter ugh-zan III while mental tricked them to visit his temple and they didn't find him. So after the fight of ugh-zan the game ends.
Problems
If you fuck up the final boss, you fuck up your save.
you might start from 0, at the beginning or a random save so BEWARE this game is already a bit frustrating in 2 hours and might become a roguelike.
Conclusion
If you got the temper, got the time go play it that's all im gonna say, some guys will find this game to be easily abandoned.
But in the end it becomes a roguelike for no reason, and it was not meant to be that.
Story
So, as mentioned in the game that the events of first encountered didn't go so well so our hero is being sent to the future to kill mental. In the story you will find some kind of allies with the same wish as sam, fork parker sents sam there where he encounters them. Gregory and a damn cowboy that I forgot his name, the trio is after mental and they elso encounter ugh-zan III while mental tricked them to visit his temple and they didn't find him. So after the fight of ugh-zan the game ends.
Problems
If you fuck up the final boss, you fuck up your save.
you might start from 0, at the beginning or a random save so BEWARE this game is already a bit frustrating in 2 hours and might become a roguelike.
Conclusion
If you got the temper, got the time go play it that's all im gonna say, some guys will find this game to be easily abandoned.
Double D got me very surprised, initially I though that the side games of serious sam would be very unpleasant
storywise/gameplay but doubting again made me realize how good it is.
Gameplay
A platform shooter with unique abilities and variety of levels in 3 acts of the game, I'm reviewing the remaster version of double d and to be honest I was very surprised that this game got a remaster from the same devs that made the original in 2011. A very unique mechanic is how you can upgrade your weapons and combining everything in a gun shack seems amazing to me, and also so many new enemies were added to change the classic ones to provide variety and the jump pad must be the most useful thing in the whole game, alongside with the CO-OP mode.
Story
The gameplay is fine as heck, so what about the story?
Sam is being sent back in the ancient egypt being informed about mental's reinforcements operated by General Maxilla.
Netricsa was a bit in clouds thinking that sam already killed mental but that was a lie told by sam, in the first map your boss is a huge chimputee, after killing the boss sam finds a crystal that needs to be investigated by netricsa but it had to be destroyed by sam.
Sam was teleported to somewhere in canada (lol) but in a ancient time, after destroying the first crystal sam encounters with a huge female biomecha but upon destorying the crystal it does not teleport sam, weird enough another boss approaches that being a huge hamster known to be mental's one and again sam wins and gets teleported to pompeii, where a huge vulcano is about to start erupting and he finds out immediately that mental's force are there so there must be a plan there. While the vulcano is erupting huge fireballs are dropping from the air but sam is being saved from a large fly while being chased by lava golems. After that Netricsa tolds sam that mental's evil plan is about the vulcano and sam had to escape. After escaping and going to the surface he meets general maxilla the leader of mental's army. While he's being challanged by the general to fight him for the last time while the general sent his army to kill him, funny enough the general sucked in battle but he summoned double diva, a giant female with a big knife a large boots. Upon killing her sam gets the last crystal and the game ends.
Conclusion
Underrated, if you love platform shooters you gotta try this.
Currently as of writing this I'm trying to play all the non-canon SS games on steam so yeah this was a good discovery.
storywise/gameplay but doubting again made me realize how good it is.
Gameplay
A platform shooter with unique abilities and variety of levels in 3 acts of the game, I'm reviewing the remaster version of double d and to be honest I was very surprised that this game got a remaster from the same devs that made the original in 2011. A very unique mechanic is how you can upgrade your weapons and combining everything in a gun shack seems amazing to me, and also so many new enemies were added to change the classic ones to provide variety and the jump pad must be the most useful thing in the whole game, alongside with the CO-OP mode.
Story
The gameplay is fine as heck, so what about the story?
Sam is being sent back in the ancient egypt being informed about mental's reinforcements operated by General Maxilla.
Netricsa was a bit in clouds thinking that sam already killed mental but that was a lie told by sam, in the first map your boss is a huge chimputee, after killing the boss sam finds a crystal that needs to be investigated by netricsa but it had to be destroyed by sam.
Sam was teleported to somewhere in canada (lol) but in a ancient time, after destroying the first crystal sam encounters with a huge female biomecha but upon destorying the crystal it does not teleport sam, weird enough another boss approaches that being a huge hamster known to be mental's one and again sam wins and gets teleported to pompeii, where a huge vulcano is about to start erupting and he finds out immediately that mental's force are there so there must be a plan there. While the vulcano is erupting huge fireballs are dropping from the air but sam is being saved from a large fly while being chased by lava golems. After that Netricsa tolds sam that mental's evil plan is about the vulcano and sam had to escape. After escaping and going to the surface he meets general maxilla the leader of mental's army. While he's being challanged by the general to fight him for the last time while the general sent his army to kill him, funny enough the general sucked in battle but he summoned double diva, a giant female with a big knife a large boots. Upon killing her sam gets the last crystal and the game ends.
Conclusion
Underrated, if you love platform shooters you gotta try this.
Currently as of writing this I'm trying to play all the non-canon SS games on steam so yeah this was a good discovery.
Kamikaze Attack is the most simplistic serious sam game ever, recently I decided to play all the available SS games on steam and picked up most of them.
Gameplay
A simplistic platform scroller with the main objective of blowing up the man himself, serious sam. Though it was a bit addicting and frustrating but you can do a 100% in one playthrough, watching out for rockets and avoiding bombs is all to the gameplay, you have also some kind of a jungle dlc so you can have the first encounter in egypt and serious sam 2 in the jungle themed one. You can also customize your kamikaze and abusing the hell out of the meter while jumping in the air.
Conclusion
Very simple, not unique in any point but alright if you want to play all the games out of boredom.
Gameplay
A simplistic platform scroller with the main objective of blowing up the man himself, serious sam. Though it was a bit addicting and frustrating but you can do a 100% in one playthrough, watching out for rockets and avoiding bombs is all to the gameplay, you have also some kind of a jungle dlc so you can have the first encounter in egypt and serious sam 2 in the jungle themed one. You can also customize your kamikaze and abusing the hell out of the meter while jumping in the air.
Conclusion
Very simple, not unique in any point but alright if you want to play all the games out of boredom.