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5 people found this review helpful
22.3 hrs on record
Uncharted is a lighheated affair with a few serious bits and depending on what you like this could be a great thing or maybe like me - after having seen, how well they can do emotional bits - I started to miss it a bit.
It has good story telling, somewhat loose gunplay and a LOT of climing that I found a little pace braking. Great over-the-top set pieces and some very beautiful vistas.

Most people compare it to Tomb Raider and rightfully so but playing the two games feel totally different. Lara is gritty and everything is kind of hard and gloomy and a bit slower. Nathan is goofy and serious situations feel like jokes at times. TR feels more a bit more real and I think the gunplay and RPG elements are better. Uncharted has more fun and looks a bit better.

All in all, despite some its shortcomings, what's there is solid and there are some amazing moments in the game. 8/10.
Posted March 13. Last edited March 13.
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31.4 hrs on record
TLOU is an interesting game to review. Playing through it emotionally reminds me a bit of Telltale's Walking Dead but not quite as intense. I liked how the story was told and the characters but did not enjoy the story experience itself because I guess there enough bad choices in the world already and this just gave me another messed up mind game.

The combat was alright, a bit easy and the enemy variety was boring (though the few enemies that are in the game are quite well done). The set pieces - although a bit easy - were all-in-all quite enjoyable and game had good pacing. I liked the little touches with the upgrade bench, but aside from a few upgrades the whole "rpg system" felt unimpactful.

It’s a decent cinematic action game with ok gunplay, good storytelling (but a depressing story) and a rpg system that doesn’t add up to much. Great vistas and for the most part actually decent mood in the game. The relatively slow paced action gives some time to reflect and enjoy.

8/10
Posted February 20.
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40.8 hrs on record (24.4 hrs at review time)
This game is a very nice take on an AI space dystopia. Well written and oozes with atmosphere. Does not hold your hand that for the most part is nice, but with that said, I do wish it had better quality life features to give you better tools to overcome the not-hand holding. Tools like decent note taking and map marking opportunities + goal setting. I ended up using steam overlay for that ( well done Gaben, ty!)

Another thing I wish they had chosen to do a bit better is the aquisition of coins. You need coins to buy items and upgrades and you get coins by taking scrap to recycling machines. And you get scrap by picking up random stuff and vaporizing them into scrap. If by any chance you are like me, you wanna have a lot of coins so you will end up stoping everywhere and just "cleaning up tables" for plates and silverware for a looong time, because you do it one by one and they all take up inventory space that you dont have, so you are dropping guns, filling inventory up with forks and plates, then vaporizing them and then putting guns back.... I just wanna play the game not play cleaning lady.

Ofc you can choose to not do it and have a lot less coins in which case game if fab again.
Exploring the wonderfully crafted space station with good degree of freedom and whacking dead hords of the rather well crafted enemies while going through the audio logs to piece to gether how ♥♥♥♥ got so bad to the beat of a decent electronic space score is awesome.

Gunplay is fine, motion is a bit stiff and RPG elements minimal. It feels a bit dated by the modern standards but I would say it does so in a delightful way that gives it the atmosphere and a unique feeling that separates the game from the average modern title. Be ready to soak yourself into some fine space dystopia and do not expect the next COD and you will be fine.

After finishing the game I changed my score from 8 to 8.5 because it just kept delivering for almost 40 hours. This will be a 9 once the studio delivers on its promise to remake the last bit of the game.

8.5/10
+ atmosphere
+ music
+ exploration
+ no handholding

- coin system
- quality of life upgrades for exploration

PS: I was a backer of the game on kickstarter and I feel i defently got my money's worth.
Posted December 17, 2023. Last edited February 19.
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1 person found this review helpful
47.9 hrs on record
Tbh, I have no idea why the game is not a big hit.
Great setting, great story, well written, good sound/voice and god what a blast to play.
It does not take long to get started.

I really loved the resource mangement and little puzzles to solve to get around.
The combat is fun and creative with a lot of variance and pacing of the story is just solid. Feeding you these bits and pieces with just the right pace to keep you interested at all times and there are some pretty nice twists as well.

One of the best games of the type. If you liked Deus Ex, this will be just up your alley.
The visuals are just good, not maginficent, so I guess a 9.5/10.
Posted August 12, 2023.
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1 person found this review helpful
18.5 hrs on record (17.7 hrs at review time)
As far as coop games go, Broforce is AMAZING.
It easy to get into but there can be a lot of skill involved.
The share amount of destruction and openness the gameplay provides is second to none and its just all a ton of fun. This is a game that is fun to play with your child who sucks at computer games but also with your buddies who all speedrun dark souls.
A ton of humor, a lot of fun characters from the 80s-90s action movies, a lot of soul in this one.
For me, this is as good as coop platformers come.

10/10
Posted January 29, 2023.
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3,917.1 hrs on record (3,135.2 hrs at review time)
After too many years to count and endless other games, I have played, Dota is still the one game I keep coming back to.
Its always changing, each and every game is different and especially when played with people you know (with voice chat) its just great fun.

It's also a mentally very taxing game. It will make you a better person if you try to be above the average toxic pub player. Of course if you play with friends, you experience much less of the negative side of Dota.

Provided you have to time and dedication, I really recommend giving it a go. Just know, you have to put in the effort to get the most out of it.

9/10
Posted November 28, 2022.
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26.2 hrs on record
More like Pleasident Evil! I know, hilarious. But in all seriousness its seems like Capcom cant go wrong with a Resident game recently. This has been fantastic fun. Possibly my favorite RE game to date.

Well paced good action, fun story, good level design. Nice enemy variety. A bit easy on Hardcore, but thats what NG+ is for. Just a fun game to play.

Would have liked more of the Castle area grandness in the later stages, but the factory was OK. Everything about this game is at least good and it all adds up to a great experience.

9.5/10
Posted February 24, 2022.
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140.6 hrs on record (117.7 hrs at review time)
Cyberpunk 2077 v 1.3 is a good game. I never followed the hype before the game so I cant really compare what was promised, but what is there is solid. Not groundbreaking, but good and about 95% of the time works. I got my first crash to day at 117h into the campaign, so its stable. There is occasional physics weirdness with cars and every now and then when happen on an unfortunate angle you can see threw walls but and I also have one side quest that glitched, but aside from that, its all good.

The good:
+ the world is a delight, a vibrant dystopia with a lot of character. Night city is beatiful and full of stuff to do. The cars look amazing.
+ the "filler" is decent quality. You have your story and I quite like it so far, but aside from the story you have the filler missions and they are pretty decent. The gunplay is fun with all the abilities and the sneak/hack gameplay loop works well, there is moderate variety, the races, the thivery and sabotage missions etc.
+ the story is rather enjoyable. I the characters are voiced, its decently written, the world around it makes sense for the most part and its fun.

The bad?
Some technical stuff needs ironing out
Some more quest variety would be nice
I really did not enjoy that they give you a special gun Skippy and if you use it "wrongly" eventhough they dont tell you how to use it correctly, it will lock into non-leathal mode. wtf.
Agressive rock music in every car by default (you have to change radio stations every time)

Overall, without going too much into detail, its quite solid and most importantly FUN game. Beatiful to behold.

As it is, 8/10 in my book.



Posted December 4, 2021.
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14.5 hrs on record
This is a great game with some outstanding qualities and some decent ones that come together much better than the sum of the parts.

The outstanding:
1. The graphics are really nice and the levels have plenty of life and detail
2. The characters are lovely, well written and voiced

The decent:
I was gonna say that gameplay is great but it is - you guessed it - in fact decent. The controls are a bit sluggish and the sneaking is not very refined. The puzzles are very light in nature and serve as a mellow brain teaser at best.

The rest of the elements like music, game play loop, enemies (and enemy variety) are good but what is remarkable is how all of those elements come together to make one great adventure game that has excellent pacing, great story and just about enough action/puzzle/tense moments to always keep you entertained. Always enough in the right places.

Really liked the game and would recommend it in a heartbeat.
9/10
Posted September 1, 2021. Last edited September 18, 2021.
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14.1 hrs on record
Having played most of the RE games I quite like the direction the series is taking being now a bit slower and more horrory as opposed to more action focused. Its not quite silent hill levels of horror/pace but closer than before and that leaves more room to build a nice atmosphere to get the player more involved.

The good old action/survival is still there, the movement and the guns are still as nostalgically clumsy as before. The camera angles this time around I found to be rather well done, so that was nice. I don't actually recall the music much, so I assume it was fitting but not special.

You will find a good RE experience with mild puzzle elements included in this game. It has a decent story, is well paced and is just a joy to go through. The only gripe I really have with the game is that the bosses are a bit "meh".

8.5/10
Posted July 11, 2021.
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