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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
The 25th Ward: The Silver Case
No More Heroes
No More Heroes
Undertale
Undertale
Alan Wake II
Alan Wake II

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Quantum Break
Quantum Break

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Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage
Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage

Mar 17

Duplicate Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover
Duplicate Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover

Mar 16

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Mar 13

Undertale Yellow
Undertale Yellow

Mar 11

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Time travel meets Jack Reacher.

I want to preface this by saying I played on PC Gamepass and it ran like absolute ass for some reason (Alan Wake 2 ran well on my set up for reference) so my judgment might be clouded. But even with that in mind, I think a lot of my problems aren't necessarily with the gameplay. Gunplay in this one can be really fun, and messing around with the time powers zipping around and using time powers is fun. But this suffers the fate of being an early eight generation game with a lot of ambition on its plate. Every interesting decision is really undermined by how undercooked everything is. When you aren't doing pretty decent third person shooter arena fights, you're going at a snails pace as characters in the game say "Hmmm, I wonder if theres an entrance round here."

The timeloop is well fleshed out, but its really hard to care about that when most of the characters are very one note, only elevated by mostly decent performances. With Aidan Gillen (I'm CIA) and Lance Reddick (Rest in Peace) picking up slack. Anytime they were on screen I perked up, but the writing in this one feels so flaccid in this one. Not helped by the fact that the optional written text/audio in emails and radio is mindnumbling long in this one. Anytime I bothered to read it felt like I was completely distracting from game flow. And that is to say nothing of the well-shot but ultimately very uninteresting television aspect of the series (of which it wouldn't load properly on PC Gamepass, this was a Microsoft funded project).

I think there are cool things in this game, but a lot of them can be found in other Remedy works before and after. Might be worth your time if you think it'd be up your alley, but I'm glad Remedy has made more interesting works after this one.

Not a whole lot to say about this. Playing the entirety of this game felt like playing a game at a booth. Its neat, Aqua is cool, there is not much else to talk about. I think it is very funny that the ending of this game is Sora trying to figure out how to reach his friends and he immediately thinks of fucking Olympus. I respect that, they know what they like. I'll see you when I inevitably play through 3 and ReMIND.