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Don’t even try this. The secret of the whole mystery will be revealed in the prologue, and after that you will waste your time being endured by meaningless actions of the cardboard characters, awful face animations, implausible choices of action, unrealistic pauses and connections between these choices and the actual actions.

I mean, Until Dawn was better, even though, in my opinion, Until Dawn was the worst interactive movie game ever made.
«Waste of time»
«Boooring»
The whole game has that Alan Wake feel to it, you even kill the monsters with your flashlight like in Alan Wake. I do like the mystery of the main character and obviously the dog which is the star of this game. Loved the Bloober feel and style in it too, the story also delivers. The thing is, that this game has some gamebreaking bugs and some xbox live bullshit (couldn't log in and cuz of that no saves, achievements didn't work and some other minor inconveniences). I would recommend picking this up at 15euros after some patches. I heard people complain about optimization, but for me it works good on my mediocre rig.
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD EEEEEEEEEEEEE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYY
Nice
«Just one more turn»
Exceptional
Absolutely exceptional and truly inspiring game.
Exceptional in terms of visual design by creating an entire game world out of various fonts that also manages to encapsulate historic, cultural and audiovisual context/mood of various stages of the evolution of humanity and written word.
Inspiring in terms of technical simplicity. It's a game that proves a simple truth that these days anyone passionate enough can praise his object of passion via a video game. I'm jumping to conclusions there, but really, technically anyone could make such a game after spending some quality time with Unity video tutorials while placing all the bets on audiovisual/narrative side of things. And it works. I know I encountered numerous bugs during my playthrough, but it simply didn't matter then and now I can't even remember them :D.

Highly recommended to anyone with interests in human history, typography or visual design, as well as to those with a dream to create their own game sometime.
«Blew my mind»
«Sit back and relax»
I can't stop Playing this game
«Can’t stop playing»
«Constantly dying and enjoy it»
Finally got around to playing Days Gone about a month ago, and sold it a few weeks later. It was fun for around 10 hours or so and then just bland overall. The main characters voice acting is kind of strange to me, sometimes you can't hear him and other times he'll yell for no reason. The biggest con is the frame rate will take a dump sometimes and it can last for several seconds.


Overall I'd say 6/10, worth it for $20 but I'd not pay more than that.
Exceptional
First time playing through and it was just as good as everyone said it was going to be. The gameplay is fun and engaging, but my only complaint would be that at times it felt a little dated. It covers a lot of bases and it juggles all these different mechanics and accommodates for different play styles. In a lesser game that would be a problem, but Bioshock manages to execute this extremely well. But by today's standards I've like played good shooters that have managed to have better roleplaying elements or more tense and claustrophobic horror sections. So my experience as the player ended up feeling kind of middle of the road. I was never as scared as I wanted to be or as hyped for gun combat as I've been in other games. But Bioshock is still great and I would recommend to anyone who hasn't played it yet. 
Super Mario 3D Land successfully takes the linear progression used in the 2D games and brings it into the third dimension. Not much new is found here but the game is very solid and has more content than any Mario game up until Odyssey to sink your teeth into.
«Sit back and relax»
«Beaten more than once»
The game adds gold enemies and a gold fire flower that gives you meaningless coins. Literally nothing else is new. Don't bother.
«I could make it better»
Super Mario Sunshine is a black sheep in the Mario series, and with good reasons. Despite being a well controlling and functioning game it falls short in a lot of areas. After laughing at the awful voice acting you'll find that the game's music isn't up to snuff with the rest of the series, despite being memorable. While being a huge step up from 64's monotony it still has a lot of structural issues as it removes the freedom of getting any star you want from the last game into a mission based structure that forces you to complete the first 7 missions in a world. The game can also feel unpolished at times as you realise how few worlds there are to explore, despite them being the same size, if not smaller than the worlds from 64. And don't even bother completing this game to 100%. Overall it has flaws but it functions and you can't go wrong with a mario game. Not the best 3D Mario by a long shot but still an experience worth your time.
«Sit back and relax»
This game isn't very good and has very little to do but it's cheap and you could get a good laugh out of it. 
Klonoa 2 is one of the few cartoony platformers to blend creative level designs and mechanics with a story involving rich themes and a colourful cast of characters. Being the sequel to the also fantastic Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil expands on everything the first game did great while adding more mechanics that add more creativity and challenge to the puzzles. It is still an exclusive to the PS2 and can be a little pricey but this game is well worth your time, especially if it gets a rerelease in the future.
«Blew my mind»
«Liked before it became a hit»
Amazing game.
Yakuza fans aren't all kind with it but man, it's my favourite Yakuza game now.
The end is just pure perfection, despite whoever says otherwise.
«Blew my mind»
«Underrated»
Favorite Thing: It's nice to see a modern look on a classic.
Least Favorite Thing: Playthrough B was a big let down. It is too much of a repeat: (mostly) the same places, same enemies, same bosses. As a special note, Claire has a big uncanny valley thing going on.

Date Completed: 2019-08-23
Playtime: 15h (Claire A, Leon B)
Enjoyment: 6/10
Recommendation: Enh. If you like horror/zombies/RE play through it on easy.
Exceptional
God of War is, to me, one of the most impactful action video games released in the early 2000s. The combo based hack and slash combat, the action-adventure elements, the puzzles, all of these things can be seen in the industry today in some way or another. This game, hands down changed the hack and slash genre going forward, that cannot be contested. God of War centers on its main protagonist/ anti-hero Kratos, a Spartan general who was in service to Ares, the Greek God of war, and who has done terrible things in service to his master and is shackled to that pain and horror. This game was the first of the series that tracks Kratos’s rise to power as an Olympian. To cease Ares’s attack on Athens, the gods of Olympus enlist Kratos to retrieve Pandora’s Box, the only weapon capable of defeating a god. Kratos must travel to Pandora’s Temple, brave the traps and hazards within, retrieve the box and have his revenge with the Greek Pantheon promising to absolve him of his sins. Therein lies the beauty of this game. It has some lofty concepts, but it’s about fallible characters ultimately. The gods help Kratos along the way by giving him special items and abilities to use in battle. This game and God of War II, both pull this off organically. But in other games, especially the prequel and in-betwee-quel games, the weapons and powers feel so obligatory and the game seems to begrudgingly grant them to you out of entitlement and loyalty to the franchise as opposed to organically as this game did. The design of this dark take on Ancient Greece is very cool and unique. The characters themselves embody a lot of traits and attributes from Greek mythology and art, but at the same time there is a strange gothic feel and aesthetic to the game that sets it apart from more traditional depictions of Ancient Greece (as seen in games like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey). The voice acting is very good as well as the sound design. However, sometime the game is difficult and quirky in what it demands the player t do. Balancing acts on precarious ledges, dodging blades, killing enemies within a time limit, performing a minigame button mashing contest, all of these things present some form of frustration as you go through the game. The demands aren’t impossibly, just annoying. God of War is a fantastic game and is probably one of the best games ever made. I will never regret taking my friend’s advice and picking up this game.

Rating: 4.5/5
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Exceptional
I refuse to believe that there are people who haven’t played Super Fowlst yet. This is one of the most addictive and clever mobile games ever made. It packs in simple controls in a unique rogue-lite where once you start playing, you will never drop it again. If you have the free time, absolutely check this out.
Exceptional
Forgotten Anne tells a powerful story with intrigue, humor, drama, and a cast of wonderful characters, But what I like the most about Forgotten Anne is how it uses it's fantasy setting to deliver this story. Throughout the entire game, it slowly gives you exposition and it lets the story pretty much tell itself. You could say it can be predictable, but it's all in the delivery. Great moments one after the other; decisions that are easy but weighty enough that you will want to see the other side of it eventually, of what could have happened.

It's honestly a little tiring to see fantasy backdrops be used as self-indulgent window-dressing in most games nowadays, and seeing one deliver such a gripping tale through one deceivingly simple premise is a much needed breath of fresh air in games narrative.
Just nice game
Exceptional
I replayed this recently after Mandalore's video. It holds up really well especially with some of the community patches that have been made over the years. The Community Patch modifies the ending which is still rough, but it feels a bit more climatic. 
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