Recent reviews by OctoBlitz

Helldivers 2 is the most fun 2024 has offered thus far, the game has extremely challenging highs and lows with a vast catalog of armors and weapons to play with.

Recently Helldivers 2 was under threat of Losing millions of players due to Sony's account linking enforcement. Allowing only 69 countries to play the game as they have access to PSN account creation, but some of those countries have restrictions like Korea's "Account must be made using a console PS4/PS5" limitation and those in the UK being forced to send their legal identification in order to make an account.

Now... we've won. Sony is rolling back the update that requires the account and is once again making the process optional. Everyone will once again have access to the game as intended with the option to link your PSN being completely optional.

Mission Complete. I love this game, its community, and the friends I've made diving into hell.

Dead by Daylight Ripoff.

If you want more information there is a battle pass day one + Micro-transactions in this EARLY ACCESS GAME, game is extremely Survivor sided with Monsters have to buy access to sabotages to help prevent survivors from completing objectives with tickets you've earned by losing games despite being able to use one in the tutorial. The Tutorial for the monsters are broken with the ability locking any attacks you may have and soft locking you from completion.

Game disconnects frequently, constant frame drops and locked at 90 fps for me for some reason despite turning off a frame cap and having an RTX 3060. Its hard to gain any progression in the game because if you are either taken by the monster or are just late to doing puzzles you earn no XP or tickets to progress through the Battle pass or unlock the survivor perks.

It shows where your priorities are when you release a game you can't even play and include a day 1 battle pass, while Youtube and Twitch influencers get all skins and unlockables for free from the get go to advertise your clone of Dead by Daylight.

Intro Cinematic is a 10/10 though and is honestly the only thing I enjoyed from the game at this state.

This is essentially the Half Life Source version of Portal, where as the original is held in high regard, this will more than likely be frowned upon by the community.

RTX may be the future of graphics however the game suffered from poor FPS and stuttering all throughout the game, while I may recommend the original game for its puzzle design, I would not recommend this purely for the graphics alone even if they look nice.

A detail I quite liked however are the small design changes that make Portal 1 and Portal 2 closer in terms of artstyle, things such as the cores in Glados' fight more resembling the cores we see in Portal 2 and a slight overhaul to Glados herself. However while these minor touches may help the game's look slightly, the game's graphics are not entirely boosted to the same level of quality, signs, Ratman's Scribblings, posters, company powerpoints, glass, and a few other textures came out over pixelated, especially in the elevator where you load into each test chamber.

Node graph Out of date: rebuilding/10

Somewhere in Nevada.....

Newgrounds is pretty much everyone's childhood wither you grew up in the 90's to the early 2000's Newgrounds has been the place to create nearly whatever you wanted to make and post it for the site to enjoy, or alternatively to blam outta existence. I didn't interact much on the site growing up, but playing Alien Hominid, Dad and me, Castle Crashing the Beard, while watching Old school Egorapter (may he rest in peace) and Gonzossm animations are what made me love the site and all of its quirks and no series did that better though than Madness.

Whether it be watching a group of people killing themselves over and over, or seeing Hank's adventures through the wastelands of Nevada you're bound to see gratuitous and yet glorious violence. Project Nexus 2, is a fitting upgrade and update to those amazing flash based animations and games all those years ago. There has been so much care, time and effort put into this game that no review I can ever make can really delve deep into what makes this game really special.

Please play it now, it is a genuinely amazing update to a classic Newgrounds born series.

10/10. Best Birthday gift ever. Thank you Jani!

The game is a great test of how much you can:
- Pay attention
- Keep your story straight
- Remain hidden
- Take advantage of the situation
Much better with friends than random people, just remember to keep your cool, blend in, and remember its just a game even if you get caught.

This prototype for me was fun for about 5 out of the 10 minutes I had playing it as almost none of the keys were bound for keyboard and the controller input Straight up did not work at all even after tinkering with the settings. Half way through I was forced to move to the left even when I wasn't touching any movement keys. Magic and blocking did not work despite having key bindings listed and properly bound.

As another reviewer posted Sega's message of it being made for the fans is practically a bold faced lie as one of the ex-developers recently had a thread on their twitter regarding this demo being released: https://twitter.com/ironicaccount/status/1316622918248349696

As a fan of the of games inspired by Golden Axe such as Castle Crashers and replaying the original Golden Axe on a copy of the Sega genesis collection on Xbox 360 I thought I would enjoy this scrapped prototype, however unfortunately that was not the case,

Game is unplayable and is still getting more microtransactions added 3 times a year

Will not change this review until something changes #Fixtf2