Recent reviews by yjzep

This game was so incredible on PS5 that it made me actually build a gaming PC just to experience the full gamut of what 2024 has to offer in the world of GT3 sims. Playing it on a Samsung Neo g9 57 super ultrawide. 7680x2160 of 4k maxxed rt goodness with no dlss needed. 90fps+. 4090oc was TOTALLY worth it lol. Just for this one game alone. Thats how fantastic of a gt3 sim this really is. Ive been sim racing since roughly 2010, starting on console and eventually moving over to $racing. on my g27 with a load cell. These days Ive been running the Fanatec rig on ps4 and then 5. I was DONE with PC gaming. The days of really needing both were done, i'm not a modder or FPS freak. Consoles are fine these days. Sim racing isn't gaming for me tho, and THAT is worth the investment. and I would never go back to iracin$. So if this gem didn't come in a very very nice form to console I wouldn't have splurged. but this is much better lol. just for the simhub access for the buttkickers alone. or the super ultrawide support. I'm sure if you're a sim racer you know about this title already. if not, it is totally worth it for the competition alone. Rather, the competitizione. I am very into hotlapping, and there are great challenge boards. The safety ratings keep people in check on console, so I imagine PC is even tidier, I haven't delved yet. Still acclimating to the new setup. I imagine that I will be spending a lot of time on this sim in the coming years! I already have a few hundred on ps4pro and ps5! If you have a rig, you NEED this game!!

I don't typically love indie titles,but it's not like Cave is killing us with content right now. Met this guy in a facebook group and decided to check out his game. Hand drawn, full story. Controls very well. Nice mechanics, you get manually rotating option turrets and a "risk" system that rewards in game currency for risky play. You can use this ostensibly to "buy" content like art and credits. Adds replay value beyond "practice for the 1CC". I like it, I've definitely given $20 to far, far worse games. Good stuff Shinu!

SO for someone with $$$$ worth of shooters, including 11 Cave titles ranging from Donpachi SS to Ketsui Deathtiny PS4, I CAN'T BELIEVE I waited so long to play this. I was holding out for a japanese 360, or maybe a japanese ps2. I still may do that eventually, but fear not about buying this port. I LOVE Futari. This isn't as good. but it's close. they say "Pizza and sex" are both good even when they're bad. Anybody that gets the pizza at a Chinese buffet will disagree vehemently, as will anybody that has endured a post relations doctor visit. Cave games, however, should be used as a placeholder example of that idea, as even Progear and Deathsmiles 2 are a load of fun!! So a lesser Futari is still better than 90% of new games out there, and 98% of shmups. I like the bugs (the creepy crawly kind you blast in game, not the kind that usually get discussed in game reviews lol). The scoring is easy, and the manic mode is a blast. Ultra is fun if you're a sadist ;) It has enough variety while being closer to a straight chain scoring system than most of their outings.
I've never played any other ports of Mushi, so I can't compare. It feels fine. I haven't died and thought it may be lag induced. Maybe lag in my own aging motor skills lol.
Another plus of this port is the ability to finally score the elusive "Matsuri" 1.5 mode (thru dlc). This was a special launch dlc that went away quick never to be see again! Can't even buy it on xbox!!
It's a competent port of a Cave shmup, worth every penny at full price!!

So I've always shied away from PC shmups. Bad lag experiences, old mindset...etc. I finally broke down and went to buy Daifukkatsu (Dodonpachi Resurrection) because I have the European 360 version and I had no access to the dlc without some convoluted workaround with a different region account, which shouldn't be necessary on a region free game...But anyways, I logged into steam and saw the recent sale and bought every shmup I could. This one is a GEM! I've heard about it before, but I also remember people raving about DUX lol. I was wrong to doubt. If you told me this was a Cave release I wouldn't fight you. ONE GUY made this???? WOW. Thanks Bro! I'm sorry it took me 5 years and a sale to bite. I was stuck in my Sega Saturn and Xbox 360 induced elitism about PC shmup issues that I almost completely missed one of my current favs besides futari, Ketsui, and the everpresent in my life Batsugun. If you like shmups you don't need to be readin reviews lol. Buy it, turn your monitor on it's side, and hit those double breaks!!

Yo this game is so dope! Seriously, in 2019, after playing games spawned by the success of this game and it's predecessors for the last 23 years, this game is still as fresh as it was the day I first played it in 1996 as a 17 year old. I didn't completely love the strogg, I always dug this game and the lovecraft theme. Shamblers were terrifying when the only light in the room was emanating from my Win 95 powered 13inch crt monitor! Had to have the volume loud enough to drown out the fans needed to cool my cyrix 686! Ah, nostalgia... Anywhoo, the level designs, aesthetics, pacing, and satisfaction of merc'n terrifying monsters in such an interesting ambient atmosphere with interesting weapons and a killer soundtrack of both effects and music provided by Trent Reznor (provided you do some patching! ;) ) are just powerful even to this day . Actually... definitely patch it. I did the "ultimate quake patch" and it runs perfect on my win 7 pro machine complete with NIN pumping in the speakers! Google it. Easy peasy. They don't make them like this anymore, and while that's probably a good thing as progress is important, there is no reason not to also go back and play or replay or even re-replay this MASTERPIECE again!

Its DOOM!! sold here with a very serviceable dosbox setup. google how to use the setup, it takes a tiny bit more work than normal given the lineage of this dos game. You can use a sourceport of your choice if needed, I'm good with the current dosbox with mouselook turned on. The mouse still moves you forward and back, but the wasd works fine. there is no up or down axis in doom, so no need for it to do anything else other than turn and fire. More importantly, circle strafing works fine. Any review telling you to "download the wad free" is telling you to steal. The sourceports are free, the ID wads are not. AT least have the decency to wait for a sale. Whether you use steam's outdated dosbox, or anything else you want to do, is up to you. But these are the WADS (game files for Doom levels) that started it all. I have owned this game on 3.5 floppy, doom95 on cdrom, on Sega 32x, PS1, Sega Saturn, and Xbox 360. This is how I play it these days, using dosbox . Still holds up gameplay wise. Im actually much better on PC using wasd and mouse than I ever was using classic kb controls in the 90s, and better than any controller port on console. The way to go back!

I feel its very well written. I laughed quite a few times so far. replay value in the form of added difficulties as well as multiple angles to play the game from due to factions. I do love Obsidian so I may be biased lol. Combat isn't stellar but it has its moments. So far so good!

OK. So I did a Disfavored playthru. 36 ish hours. Only gripe is I wanted more. Im not mad tho. Game is ripe for a sequel. In fact, I can't stop thinking about this game. I LOVED the world, setting, atmosphere. I know better than to jump back into my 2nd playthru, but I can't wait until I do! even bought the dlc to do so with. I think Tyranny may be better than Pillars, DOS, and the rest of them. I even think the 4 man party was less clunky than 6 in the RTWP environment, worked great!
Its a shame that this game will get tied up in publishing rights hell. This is an rpg for people who love crpgs. The kind of game obsidian makes. I hope Chris Avellone isn't right and they stop making their kind of games and become bethesda. There is value in a game like this. Just because it isn't a billion seller doesn't make them unneeded. Pillars sold so many off of hype. Look at the achievements. 46% beat act 1, only 13% beat the game!! I hope they don't expect Pillars numbers out of these iso crpgs, otherwise they're done making them. RIP Black Isle if that happens...

...A Note about old games needing patching.
The game is not broken. You can install it on an old XP machine and play it fine(as fine as back in 2004 at least). WHining about "selling broken games" is dumb. I own music on Vinyl that never got converted to digital. Should I be able to get these albums FREE, or for like $2, because they won't load, as-is, to my Ipod?? No, because I know they are vinyl records, and if I want to play them in digital format, they need to be ripped and converted. The game wasn't meant to play on a 32 GB Win 10 machine.
"But GOG sells it patched?!"
SO Buy it there. GOG isn't 1/50th the size of Valve. My mom used to cut the crust off my bread. SO therefore any restaurant that doesn't is terrible?
Nobody forced you to buy the game. Go try to play your Super Mario Bros 3 NES cart on your wii U, as-is. Go try to play your copy of Parappa the Rapper for PS1 on your PS4. As-is. You can't That doesn't mean nobody should sell these items. Old Code isn't useless, and isn't without monitary value. Giving a bad review to a game because it doesn't play as-is on your new machine just means you are ignorant, and don't understand media, and how it works.
Flame on. I'm Ready for my 12% recommended review score. Just please take what you just read into consideration.

Yes it's early. But whoa... This game should be up for literary awards. Only the written word can so easily, and completely, convey meaningful emotion and nuance. Perfected along with the vibrant backgrounds, subtle yet solid soundtrack, and actually legible at high resolution text (adjustable font size in menu), this game will hold to be the test amongst all story based rpgs. What little I have played of the combat engine has been intuitive. Infinity engine perfected. This game plays like a MUCH better written Baldur's Gate, except buttery as well, ...butter! The extremely competent game mechanics hide away nicely, so that the immersion in environment and story stands unbroken for hours. There have already been some large mood shifts and some mouth open gasps within the first 2 hours of gameplay. I admit that I am already a huge fan of Obsidian, but it is with great reason. I do not game for victory. I do not game for competition. I game to be entertained. A 50-100 hour interactive book or movie is an immesurably better option than scrolling endlessly thru Facebook, or watching "reality" advervision.

Mr Sawyer, Avellone, Cain, Brennecke, Urquhart, and the rest of that team deserve an award. Not an award given to shooters because of realistic ballistics. No. I am talking Pulitzer prize level descriptive writing..(in my opinion obviously). Kickstarter gave them the freedom to be as flowery as they wanna be, and boy oh boy did it pay off. AAA publishers and mindless console drones, screw you and your multiplayer gib shot twitch muscle "e-sports". No, not really, as that stuff has merit to you if you enjoy it. But for me, THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT! I have the butterflies like the first time I read LOTR, long before Elijah Wood supplanted my vision of what Frodo looked like. Bring your imagination and ENJOY!!

>>>>UPDATE<<<<

56 hours in and I love this game even more! I have played thru some bad (mechanically) games just to see a decent story. Not a worry here! This story seems layered and rich, and even the game mechanics are amazing. Anybody who doesn't like the way it plays are either looking for something specific (it does NOT play exactly like Baldur's Gate, despite similar appearance and mechanics), or they just haven't taken the time to learn the system. If you choose to pass up an amazing artistic Tour de Force due to "mages not being as OP as in BG" or something along these lines, then you are very hard to please and I believe it to be a mistake. If you like RPGs, and when you think of "RPG" you don't immediately think of skyrim, then this is worth a shot!!

Not as good as the second game. Much shorter (entire playthru doing everything except grinding random encounters for hours for most is around 20 hrs), and the whole timer thing puts a damper on things. I play RPGs to avoid quick thinking. I do that all day. I like to think out my moves, and the turn based combat in this game allows that. I like to explore. I like to take forever to actually dent the main storyline quests. The timer kills that quite a bit. I get what they were doing, and that sense of dread was very real. The writing is solid obviously, Black Isle duh. I know what the timer was there for, and can appreciate the device it represents. Any arguments for it are valid, but I am sure glad they took it out in FO2. Other than that play this game. If the graphics matter to you don't, also if you are impatient. The UI is chunky, as it should be. I actually like it, the whole pip boy novelty is solid. It takes a few minutes in these games to shed off the expectation of convenience I get from the newer games today. Not necessarily quest markers, or quest info even, but more ease of operation. You gotta try things till they work in these games. I like this. Takes me a few minutes to realize, but the wastelands are so harsh, even the game's ui fights you. The hostility is palpable, and it is entirely worth it. Who needs fast travel quest marker quests, banging out 5 at a time, when you could literally spend an hour pixel hunting, trying out different skills, talking to npcs, trying anything to avoid having to shoot up the place and make your life a ton harder. All this just to get that one part you need, to trade for that other one part you need, so the guy who you are getting said part for will just give you bad information. PLEASANTLY frustrating! :)