Recent reviews by Gustavostopher

A buncha people told me that Dark Souls was cool. I was like, "Mkay." Then I bought it on sale and tried to play it, barely making it through the Undead Parish before giving up.

At some point, I decided to come back to it and stream it live because I thought people would enjoy watching me get angry for hours. But something peculiar happened: people in the chat for the stream started educating me on strategies. Sure, I still failed a bunch after that, but I came to the realization that the game was frustrating because I wasn't attempting to learn anything.

This game, more than any other game I've ever played, encourages a mindset where you eventually stop complaining about your failures and instead analyze them intensely. Sure, you'll still get frustrated when you play the game for an hour and then die and lose all your progress, but you can almost always pinpoint the mistake(s) you made that led to this defeat and work to better your skill for the future.

It's trial and error executed to perfection. Combine that with an amazing world full of mind-bogglingly interconnected areas and this may be one of the most enjoyable games I've played in a long time.

Long story short, here are some pros and cons:

Pros
+Learning
+Excellent combat mechanics
+The world is purty
+Amazing level design

Cons
- Blighttown

Bad guy #1: I heard a noise over by that bush. I'm gonna go investigate. (Gets murdered. Corpse is dumped in the bush)
Bad guy #2: I heard a noise over by that bush. I'm gonna go investigate. (Gets murdered. Corpse is dumped in the bush)
Bad guy # 3: I heard a noise over by that bush...

20 bad guys later

Used one bush and a knife to take out twenty-three guys. None of em saw it coming.

This plus more is what you'll find in this game. Buy it.

This game seeks to resolve the age-old problem of "Americans finding soccer dull" by completely obliterating all that boring finesse involved in the sport. It does so beautifully with the following steps:

Step 1: Replace the players with rocket-powered cars
Step 2: Add explosions

Take notes, FIFA.

Hello, my name is Gus...

Hi, Gus

...and I'm an addict. I used to have friends. I used to go outside regularly. Hell, I had ambitions once. Then I started using Terraria...

For years, I heard friends and family rave about how awesome Terraria was. I didn't really understand what they were saying. "...defeated Wall of Flesh with Hellstone armor..." "...Skeletron dismembered me...." "...built a giant set of genitals out of gold in the jungle..."

It all sounded too weird for my tastes. Everyone insisted I should play it. I wasn't interested.

Then it was on sale for $5 during a Summer Sale, so I figured, what the hell...

Since then, I've been in a downward spiral. I became so focused on building cool houses and terraforming that I often forget to eat, sleep, and talk to those who used to be my friends. I didn't realize I had a problem until my girlfriend came into my room sobbing uncontrollably, saying, "You care more about protecting these NPCs than you care about me!" Then it turned out that I had never had a girlfriend, but was hallucinating severely due to the lack of sleep.

I've tried several times to quit, but the developers...they just...keep giving me more stuff to collect, endless amounts of things to build, and more enemies to destroy. I don't know what to do. The last time I tried to quit, someone told me that there's a collection of mods that add tons of new items, so I instantly downloaded a bunch and threw another 60 hours into the game.

With a new wiring and content update on the way, there's no end in sight. I'm crippled, broken, and alone, save for this group of fictitious strangers in the treehouse I built. I have a problem.

"Good gosh!"

Take the gameplay style of GTA 1 and 2 and add a story involving time travel that throws in pretty much every piece of '80s and '90s nostalgia you could possibly think of. Then add an insanely awesome 8bit soundtrack and sound effects and you have this game.

I've pretty much had a smile on my face the entire time I've played this game. Even repetitive failure is entertaining.

Plus you can jump and stomp on people.

It's amazing how intuitive making a set of boobs was.

"And the lord spaketh, saying, 'PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH KICK PUNCH.' And all was good.
And yea, did they all rejoice as Jesus turned the fish and bread into donuts and cakes
and pies and sh*t."
Leviticus 21:32

The textures are simple, but the architecture is insane. To be in a giant room, see something way way way way way far away and eventually make it to that place was just wonderful.
I've never felt quite an unease like I did when playing this game. The music always makes you feel like you're about to be chased by something, which makes it all the more unnerving as you look around and are completely alone.
It is basically a walking simulator with a few really difficult platformer sections, so you have to be really into exploring and try not to rage at a few of the sections, but overall it's an incredibly immersive experience to the point of madness on occasion.

Let me start off by saying there are parts of this I really liked. The humor implemented around the movie dialog I thought was well done, and many of the gameplay aspects of it were done well. I've been a fan of the Lego movie games since the first Lego Star Wars, and gameplay-wise this game does some really cool things that I haven't seen before in any of their previous installments. The game itself was just as fun as every other Lego game I've ever played.

That being said...

The bugs are too numerous. The number of times I've had to restart a level or a puzzle because a boss got himself stuck in the ground or an object flies off into space randomly or something along these lines was....well....a pretty big number. Far too big. Not to mention it also caused my computer to completely freeze up multiple times to the point where ctrl-alt-delete doesn't even work and a hard reset is required. I'm running a pretty decent rig that has no problems whatsoever with Far Cry 3 on 1080p in ultra settings, so I don't see it being my computer at fault here.

I want to love this game. But reading on some sites and in forums that this company doesn't patch their games at all, I recommend it cautiously. Just know that it might frustrate you way more often than you want a Lego game to.