Recent reviews by Ika

The hamis and I are cool now. It's the ukko you gotta watch out for.

The best Halo multiplayer has felt in 10 years.

The exact mixture of nostalgia and fun I was looking for. Such an insane amount of content took me by surprise when I would have been satisfied with the flash game from 2005.

An amazing and incredibly unique way to tell a story. While short (Around 2 hours and I tried to see everything), it's an incredibly memorable and poignant game.

"You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it."

Galactic death-robots are here to end all life as we know it and it's up to you and the best damn team of alien misfits ever assembled to stop them and save the Galaxy. Help the little man, save a dying species from extinction, and make sure everyone makes it out alive. Or don't and rise up as the coldest most efficient savior imaginable who does whatever it takes to make sure galaxy is saved, no matter the cost. It's your choice.

A classic masterpiece remastered in 4k and it looks better than ever. Bundled with it's two amazing sequels, if you haven't played Mass Effect before this is definitely the version to play. One of the best video game stories ever written.

Other than some FPS drops I haven't had any issues and would say performance is night and day compared to Automata at launch. There's tons of content here and an amazing soundtrack and story. If you liked Automata and missed out on the original Ps3 version of this you owe it to yourself to experience this.

Weirdly addicting. Sometimes you have to lose to achieve the perfect looking town. Worth imo.

Don't be so serious.

Watch your words
Turn to dust
As we forget
As we move on.

Cyberpunk 2077 is like eating a meal that tastes like it needed an hour longer in the oven. The large and rather good looking open world is little more than an empty loading screen to watch as you speed by on your buggy vehicle to quest objectives. The world itself is an empty husk with 0 interactivity, and the longer you spend it, in the more you'll notice just how soul-less and unfinished NPC AI and the city itself are.

Played on launch, so don't even ask me about bugs. I doubt I finished a single quest without reloading the game at least once to get some obtrusive UI element off my view, to stop every NPC on the map from T-posing, or to continue the game at all.

I liked it well enough to finish it and see it's endings, as the main quest and side-stories are worth playing at least once, but the gameplay leaves a lot to be desired and is luke-warm even at its best. This game being in the top 1% of games of Metacritic is a borderline crime to the games that truly deserve to be there.

I'm sure in 6-12 months when the game is finished, it'll be worth playing, but right now you're paying for an early access game.

10 years later and The Dark Decent finally has a true sequel but is it any good? Sort of.

The game-play is somewhere between SOMA's narrative driven plot and TDD's silent creaky castle. I found myself getting frequently frustrated at the sanity system as you never seem to have quite enough light sources(Probably intentional) except the sanity system is lethal here. This means you'll be sprinting around in the dark trying to avoid death if you even slightly explore off the beaten path and trying to do otherwise will almost certainly result in the most tedious death system I've seen in a while. Monster encounters are almost entirely scripted along the lines of SOMA and not random whatsoever like it's predecessor, meaning there's no actual threat from monsters except for one particularly annoying enemy type you see towards the game's finale that rather then being scary, will just make you pissed off.

The plot is pretty disjointed and much more sci-fi then anything you saw in TDD and the overly talkative main character is a bit of a bummer. Nothing ruins a mysterious mood more than walking into a room and Tasi bumbling out "WOW THIS SURE IS MYSTERIOUS AND SPOOKY".

Whether the game is actually scary is probably subjective. While it has been 10 years since I played TDD and this game has it's moments; they are few and far between. The few actually scary moments that do happen can basically be boiled down to momentary jump scares that you push right past between the puzzles you encounter. Unlike TDD where horror was constant with the possibility of seeing a monster anywhere you went, the feeling of dread seen there is completely missing within Rebirth.

I'm not disappointed with my pre-order of 30$ as I'm happy to support Frictional-Games. But if any of my friends read this and aren't sure if it's worth it, I'd say wait for a sale unless you're desperate for a new horror game.