Recent reviews by Island

The deer liked the mountain I made for them :)

Play this game. Don't look into the details too much, just trust me. There are very few games since that have offered the sheer scale of exploration and satisfaction of discovery that Outer Wilds has. This is by far one of my favorite games ever, and should be on everyone's play list at some point.

Click the Circles

A great test of problem solving skills as well as sanity. Enjoy hours of looking at problems, not knowing what to do, going to bed, and spending your sleepless night going over your program in your head to figure out why it isn't working. Great intro to assembly-style code (at least in theory) and also great for getting to know some basic programing tools even if you don't quite realize it.

Very Epic! :)

First of all, I love the idea of ramdrives. I have a computer with a decent amount of extra ram that goes almost unused during my gaming sessions. What’s the point of having that extra speedy storage just sitting there? Dimmdrive allows you to quickly and easily load your games onto your ram, for insanely fast data transfer speeds (about 8,000 – 9,000 mb/s in my experience). This allows you to load things like textures or maps within games at insane speeds.

The best part of this program in my opinion is the direct steam integration. On launch it scans your stream folder for your installed games. You can then load up the games you want, and start the drive. After that you can just start the game like normal, even if you don’t load the entire game into the ramdrive, steam recognizes that the files are loaded onto a different drive and reads it from there. This makes using the program fast and easy.

I personally see a pretty decent increase in loading times, and in some games slight fps boosts. But most of my success can be seen in the insane load times. If I had one complaint about the software, it is that the steam version does not allow the game you are playing to be broadcasted to your friends through the “Now Playing” part of your friends list. This means your friends cannot see what game you are playing, or join you. Other than that one problem. I am extremely happy with this software. I suggest you get it if you have some extra ram and are interested in giving a boost to your games.

Game is good so far, would be better if I could pet heads and fluffy tail. 9/11

Alright, let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way. Yes this is a katamari rip off, yes the game is short, and yes the gameplay leaves much to be desired. But let me explain my reasoning.

I enjoy the original katamari games, even to this day (Katamari Damacy is one of my favorite PS2 games). They had a feel and a style not many games had at the time of release. I am not sure how many "katamari" rip offs there are on the PC, but if you are interested in the original idea of katamari, you’re better off getting the original games.

Right from the start of this game, you get a feel for the experience you have ahead of you. I don't want to judge a game from its cover, but all the menu buttons are small spinning circles, and the options menu is just a wall of comic sans-ish text for crying out loud. Once you start a level you will find it is very much like its source material. You roll around, pick up objects smaller then you, work up to larger ones. That is one of the very first of many issues with the game though. In katamari you have a ball to judge what you can and can’t pick up, and it works well. Here, when you pick objects up, you absorb them and they sort of morph into a human like shape. This makes it very hard to see what you can and cannot pick up. There are some objects that you are clearly much bigger then, however you cannot pick it up, or vice versa. You also have very limited camera control, and are only allowed basic left and right camera movement. This is not usually a problem, but in some cases it makes it hard to find objects.

Now, on to the music. The Katamari soundtracks were more than memorable, the music in this game, well, not all of it was terrible, but it was nothing great, just general stock music, some that I even recognized. Now I know this game had a much smaller development team then katamari, but it's hard to fill in such large shoes, and since they decided to try, it's only fair that I critique them on it.

Overall I do not recommend this game. I got very little playtime out of it, even though I unlocked every level. Almost every level made me feel like I was trapped in a small box, and there was little to nothing that I could take away from the game, experience wise. And for the current whopping price of $10, it’s a novelty to own at best, a low grade rip off at worst.

its ok

its ok