Recent reviews by Sicmendor Obscurox

Laika: Aged Through Blood is an indie masterpiece, and an unforgettable game. It is possibly the best indie game that I have ever played.

The game doesn't hold any punches, you can see this from the beginning already -- even in the demo. This story of vengeance is filled with feelings and emotions, where there are situations that don't leave anyone indifferent. There are sidequests that makes you think as well once you completed them.

Beícoli has outdone herself with the outstanding soundtrack for the game, with 21+ tracks that reflects how unique this game is in a music wise level -- it is amazing. I can easily spend hours with the in-game walkman playing the mixtapes (the songs) while I ride all around, killing the enemy and accumulating visceras by doing the longest combos possible. One of my favorite tracks is Lonely Mountain.

Everything in the game is drawn by hand. I sometimes stopped for a moment to contemplate how beautiful and well detailed the backgrounds are. The color scheme of each map fits like a feather. Visually, my favorite dungeon of the game is The Big Tree: the best way to describe it from my part is 'visit the place and you will know why' (my words won't be good enough to explain how much I love that place).

Once you get the handle of riding the bike and reloading: you'll find the experience satisfying, and even more when you do big combos with style and in a natural way. The world gets harder with more enemies as you progress in the story, and that's no issue after all because you get tougher as well. I play with Keyboard, Mouse and aiming manually with the Mouse.

Individualy, every aspect of the game excels in a magnificient way. And put all together makes this indie game a unique masterpiece. Brainwash Gang has put their hearts and souls in this game for year. My recommendation is to play this game from beginning to end. This is a unique experience.

Playne is The meditation game in Steam, and I enhance The because it's the only meditation game that doesn't enforce the user to have a VR headset and that is greatly appreciated (the rest are VR-Only).

I use this game once per day at least as part of my daily routine, and it helps me begin the day with a more calm and clear mind.

The basic of the meditation method used in the game is really easy to undestand and begin with: inhale-exhale, focusing in your own breathing while doing so.
The fox in the game gives more details about how to meditate (don't worry, it's not complex) and you can click in the screen every time that a thought arises during the meditation session.

After the session you get a quote about wellness, meditation or motivation, which can be inspiring.
The fox tells the story about Playne divided per chapters.

The game in its current state is completely functional and works perfectly for me. I've found some bugs while playing this game and pointed them out in the Bugs subforum in the discussions; the developer gives fast and nice answers and the indicated bugs are fixed in the next patch so far -- there is active feedback from part of the developer.

There are things to be worked on, like new chapters of the story told by the fox and the end-game mode which is in alpha stage. However, I recommend getting this game now (the price of the game will raise when more features are added) if you have meditation as a routine into consideration.

TL;DR: Even if the May 29 Update has the recipe for disaster, when you buy this collection, you also get the main roms to legally play them in any Sega MD/G emulator (like Kega Fusion) under the [...]/common/Sega Classics/uncompressed ROMs folder.

Since Sega is troubleshooting and working on fixing the many issues of this software from the horrible May 29 update, I'll give the short version.

Some of my main issues are...:
- The game boots in my highest resolution possible (more than 1920x1080, bigger than the screen itself) in windowed mode by default if settings are not changed.
- The intro is really laggy even in the correct screen resolution. I can run other 3d games without problems.
- Gamepad/controller doesn't work in the main software, and you can't map the RT nor LT buttons in the mini-launcher. If you own an arcade stick with xbox button display, you'll see that the Sega MD/G C button goes to RT and Sega MD/G Z button goes to RB.
- With a DInput controller, the direction is broken in the mini launcher and in-game in this mode, and (like with the XInput controller) it doesn't respond in the main software.
- Achievements are broken. Those 0% stats are not your imagination.
- I haven't tried the online matchmaking (and who could after all of this?), though I haven't headr pleasant things about it.

All the games in this collection are amazing. Not everything is lost even with all the present issues that I've described. You can play the games in any emulator that can execute Sega MD/G roms. And don't worry about the rom file extensions: you can change them in a way that it works with the emulator (sample: you can change .68K to .smd or even .bin, remember to backup the roms though).

However... I couldn't figure out how to play the romhacks of the workshop in emulators, so Sega will need to fix the main software in order to play them.

I recommend this collection because of all of the good games and that you can play them in this software, an emulator or anyway you want. Though I suggest to get it in a sale if possible, since 30€ can be somewhat expensive.

Please note: since my review was too long and I want to move on from this game and forget about it, I'll keep a TL;DR version of my review.

- The developers have betrayed the player base and the game itself so hard that players (at least I) expect this game to not survive the remaining of its product's life... that it had -- time's up.
- When I played the game (ending of January, 2018), I had horrible freezes and graphical lag even surpassing minimum requirements. My experience was not enjoyable at all. I can play another battle royale game without issues.
- SOS started as something more unique that involved social skills and got changed into another Battle Royale. Developers have (sadly) chosen Trending over Originality.
- Developers and Moderators related to SOS did fishy moves and decisions related to the game. The base game was initially 30€ and now it's Free To Play with Microtransactions with the compensation of 100 pieces of content if you bought the game before. Other reviews explains more fishy moves and decisions.
- At the moment of writing this TL;DR, the game has 42% of All Reviews (Mixed) and 10% of Recent Reviews (Overwhelmingly Negative), and the game is still in Early Access.

I won't be updating my review any further. Having the game Free to Play with MTs after the SOS BR fiasco is enough to consider the game itself damaged beyond repair.

Sonic Mania has the true feeling of the Sega Mega-Drive / Genesis games of Sonic the Hedgehog from 1 to 3 & Knuckles and Sonic CD.

The developers did put a lot of effort and love into this game. I recommend the game.

Do not use this software. Even if it didn't cause major damage to my computer, it gave me a justified feeling of insecurity.

Most of the times, the software did work, but the recent session that I had with this program was frustrating and had me question "why?". Here is some of my experience:

- I run the software once per week to check for driver updates, and there have been times that the program suddenly tells me that one or two drivers are outdated, out of the blue, and puts me drivers dated from the previous year (2016). If the driver was OK, no rollback was made and the program suddenly recommends me a driver from previous year (remember: previous week it didn't say anything, and at the next week it suddenly recommends a driver that is older than a week ago), then something is not right in the software.

- At the time of redacting this review, my Nvidia Geforce driver is not up to date, and the program didn't list the driver in the list of updates needed. I know that people will call me dumb and tell me to use Nvidia GeForce Experience or to go to Nvidia website to download the driver (and I use Experience to update the graphic driver). My point is that the Nvidia driver is A DRIVER, and should be treated as such.

- The progress bar didn't move after the 1% for a very long while even with my antivirus software deactivated before starting the updates/installations. I checked the Performance tab on Windows Task Manager and the CPU wasn't being used at all, like if the process of installation wasn't delivered to the CPU.

- When I tell the program to stop/cancel, it doesn't react after the confirmation. I have to close the window and restore it from the taskbar so it could realize that I told it to stop. And then it may suddenly say "installation complete, you'll need to restart".

Conclusion: If the program is doing a doubtly good work (remember, it should list EVERY outdated drivers, including graphic cards), how I am suppose to trust in this software?

My recommendation: Download the drivers directly from the companies websites (including Nvidia, Ati and even the motherboard's company), or use programs that are more trustful than this one.

And now I'm going to update my Nvidia Geforce. Thanks for reading.

Stardew Valley is a farming game that is inspired in Harvest Moon for the SNES and follows the crafting formula of Terraria and/or Starbound.

The game is relaxing, and if you advance very well, you'll have the feeling that you can't do everything in a single in-game day (believe me, it happens to me quiet oftenly after the 2nd year)

The animals gives eggs, wool and two kinds of milk, which you can transform into mayonneise (however that word is writen), cloths, chees or even use all of this into cooking.

The game has so many things that this review would get too short.

Addition for the Steam Autumn Sale 2018: The game has a fantastic multiplayer as well. You can relax with your friends.