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I enjoyed the game thoroughly. It has a special ambiance, wonderful sound effects and soundtrack. Not to mention pretty good voice acting also. I think it's for anyone that wants to kick back and do some puzzles in an 80s environment. Thankfully, almost no timed decisions which made things relaxing and not as stressful as I thought it could be. Game time is roughly 4-6 hours. So.. yeah. Buy it, play it, give it a thumbs up so more people can experience it. It deserves it.

Good, if you have friends to play with. Can't imagine what queuing with randos feels like. Committed devs.

Maybe a bit of an unpopular opinion but Civ 6 plays better than any of the previous games. I was an avid Civ 5 fan when I played it a few years ago and I couldn't imagine myself playing this instalment for good 4 years (damn), but last year I picked it up with the newer expansions and I've had a blast playing it. The mechanics provide for a lot of content. There are some insanely good leaders with uniqueness to them like Maori or this version of Indonesia etc. The newer map they added as the finale updates to the most recent expansion allows real world true start map! Now, if you have the setting enabled you can pay barbarian encampments tribute not to attack you or to send them to attack another nation and if you keep interacting with them and not destroy them early on you can convert them into a city-state. Which, to me, is a very interesting addition. The art style felt a bit cartoony at first glance but it has some great settings to them to allow night and day cycles that make your cities all the more beautiful . Overall, a good game.

Very much needed skins for any base building enthusiast. The eyebrella skin is awesome but let's be honest - you'd be getting it for those sweet sweet fences.

Some people have described Hades as sex and I 100% agree with that statement. The game is mindblowingly excellent on so many levels. Amazingly optimised (runs beautifully on the crappiest rigs), the visuals are stunning and unique and the gameplay is addictive and varied. But to me what stood out by a lot was the sound engineering - the audio queues , the soundtrack, the effects and the glorious voices of the talented people working on it. It's not just a game to take your money, it's a game made by passionate devs for a passionate community.

I recommend both games, I'll tell why below.

9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors - Start of the series, everything seems unique and bizarre. The puzzles are wonderful, story's mysterious and it draws you in rather quickly. The fact of the matter is, at least in my eyes, this game doesn't have a mindblowing story, nor the most fun characters, but what it offers is one of the best settings of a visual novel I've seen, alongside a few good mentions of real events and real facts in different types of scientific fields. The art is rather serious, the characters are drawn in a much more mature and refined way. It makes it easier for people that do not have much interest in the anime industry enjoy it. Replay value is... rather mandatory to get the full picture, though. So it might get a little bit irritating at times.
Setting, art, decent storywriting and challenging puzzles these are more than enough to keep you intrigued.

Virtue's Last Reward - A little bit of a downgrade in terms of an artistic approach, I didn't like how the characters were not drawn anymore, excluding some cutscenes. Again, same thing applies here - replay value is mandatory and it can come across as a bit irritating. Now that pretty much all the negatives, or rather things that can be seen as negatives, have been said, the story's much more well-thought of than the first game, the thought behind this game is different, hence the approach is different, although there are still different types of locked doors that only specific combinations of people can enter, so the format is still untouched. Puzzles are a tad more difficult than the first game. Unraveling some of the game's mysteries provided with a more satisfacory revelation. Overall, a much more preferred Zero Escape, I've liked the philosophical approach much more here.

You get two games instead of one, the price might be a tad much, but it's definitely worth it if you can swallow the expense.

Completed Episode 1. That's a no from me. For multiple reasons. I'll just keep it as brief as possible.

- Less dialogue options for what it's worth. (Seriously, provide me with the ability to interact more, it's supposed to be my own adventure, not a movie)
- Absolutely not a single special gameplay mechanic (ex. time warp or even something like a backtalk option)
- I'm going to be honest here, I don't like companion missions. Let alone a game that entirely focuses on that. If in LiS 1 I had to endure Chloe for 100% of the time, I swear it wouldn't have been as memorable to me as it was. It just strips away the experience of exploring a beautifully established universe.
- Introduced a kind cinamon roll character for literally 20 minutes before they forced some indian style drama and killed him off. ( Whole scene was so poorly executed I even had to chuckle, and that's supposed to get me hooked?)
- The elephant in the room - clear political message that makes American society look even more messed than they actually are. I mean, come on, who treats *children* this piss poor, without the shrink of evidence pointing at them being culprits of pretty much anything?
- Started off strong, but afterwards the lack of characters became more apparent, as the storyline grew more and more stale.

My problem is that the game didin't provide me with an experience, I didin't hate it persay, I found it mediocre, which could be considered even worse. I am very disappointed and I hope next episodes make me eat my own words and change this review to a positive, but as of now you can't look away from its current state.

Have you thought how great it would be if your base could get flooded as poisonous mosquitos continuously spawn from the puddles? Get rekt by errupting volcano pieces, destroying anything on its way? Get poisoned and slowly going mental as your hp drains? Monkeys getting off the ground everything you've mined/logged as you try to make room for the things? Wind blowing hard at you as you can barely move? Oh man, this DLC is harsh as hell.

It has an amazingly high amount of content to it.
It has even more challenging concepts to it.
It's an entirely different game on its own.
New characters added to be unlocked.

It's frustrating as hell. I love it.

It took me a while to get my ♥♥♥♥ together and to fully finish the game, because only a mother, or in this case a die-hard danganronpa fan, could go past this wanky camera, tedious gameplay moments and Monaca's "Upupupu's".

But yeah, I won't get in too many details - this is one freaking great game. I keep thinking that they didn't focus too much on the action, but rather on the puzzles within the game. And I think it's quite visible. "Boss fights" didn't pose any difficulty.

About the story and enviroment - simply engaging. This game feels like it's the most "danganronpa" - full of desBEAR(s), absurdity, creepiness, adults and children dying, sexual harassment (wait, what?)

The battle between Hope vs Despair continues on in this saga, as you travel through Towa City and witness grotesque sceneries, kill a bunch of robotic monoturd abominations with your serial killer trusty companion Toko ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and the fate of the city is in your cinnamon bun hands.

Soundtrack is on point.
References are on point.
Hatred for little children is on point.

Basically, it's a game meant for people that have completed 1 & 2 Danganronpa games that simply can't have enough Danganronpa in their lives.

Going back to the original Don't Starve where the game was meant to be antisocial and isolation had helped push the insane world deeper into the player's mind, we didn't expect, or at least I didn't, we'd be able to share our adventures with our friends. And how did that work? Well, it worked out brilliantly.
Don't Starve Together is entirely based on team cooperation and surviving through the hardest of obsticles to reach a level of satisfaction when you come back to your own base, where it feels like home, because of all the effort you have put. You take down bosses with enormous hp pool for their loot, you explore the dark caves, you find secrets and you end up spending a ton of hours in the Don't Starve wikia just so you can strategize your next approach in the game.
But Klei should be sincerely thanked for, because they keep on working on the game, they add fun events, the devs stream the game as they answer fan questions fairly often. They are a small team invested in bringing the best experience. Since Early Access until now, there has been an enormous amount of content added to the Don't Starve world.
And let's not forget, there is a whole community of hardworking people providing us with great content in the workshop. Invested in creating new mechanics and add their own touch to the world. Thank you guys for making this an even greater experience.