Recent reviews by Athener

A pretty solid 2D fighting game for old fans and new players alike, and I'll list the pro and cons for you to decide! but personally it's one of my top 3 game of all time, so I'd recommend you to at least give it a try.

Pros:
-Fun gameplay, with different modes, albeit they have the same core.
-Wide array of playable character, from a "once normal" guy with sibling issues'til a freaking psychopath with his butterfly knife
-Almost no form of grinding, which mean game results is mostly determined by skills
-Nice combo mechanic, characters even reward you with special quotes if you perform a good one
-Have very little to no amount of bugs, yes Arc Sys did a splendid job porting this game
-Very good AI that can replicate experience with another human player (Except on the highest difficulty, the AI go full frontal cheap)
-Good voice acting regardless which language you choose

Neutral:
-High learning curve, some may find this annoying but some may enjoy it, there is a lot of mechanic to learn and master
-It's anime, so it's not for everyone

Cons:
-Somehow hard to play with keyboard, considering this is a PC game, I'd put this as a con
-Story is convoluted as hell if you didn't invest some time "studying" the game's lore


Overall I'd give 8.5/10, can't wait for Central Fiction (or Extend)

It's like owning a sibling, sometimes you're proud of him and sometimes you're not. Regarding the details, pretty sure it's already mentioned to death, so I'll let my hours speak for itself

To be honest, my opinion is like 50.5% vs 49.5% on Recommended and Not Recommended, because a lot of the trailers and teasers was featuring Alesso's concert with lots of cheering crowd, and in the actual heist, we can't even enter the crowd, moreover see the DJ himself. Although the music compensate that

The Mission:
Decent, quite challenging in both stealth and loud. Basically you need to find C4s then place them below the new GenSec vault with the forklift as a moving ladder, and go back upstairs, play as the pyro controller for the concert to cover the explosion which is quite boring since it is just pressing buttons. Then you need to go back downstairs and cut the vault with the circular cutter, than start bagging. (5/10)

The Matever:
is somewhat close to the Bronco, thus not making any significant change to gameplay. The grip shown in the teaser is changed. It's actually black-colored. (5/10)

The Melees:
You can now become a Cloaker.... uhh.. at least wielding his signature melee... and we got a Microphone with 30 concealment, good news for fugitives which is bored with Nova and friends. (5.5/10)

The Masks, Materials, Patterns, Achievements:
Decent. The materials and patterns are great, and the Boom Box mask is somewhat similar to the Alienware helmet for me, so a nice placeholder :). The achievements are mediocre-easy to obtain. (5.5/10)

To Summarize:
Pros:
+Good Materials and Pattern
+Matever is acceptable
+Complex Heist Map with good lighting
+Good Music
+The "Cloaker's" Baton Melee
+Guards have set patterns, good for stealth aspect

Cons:
-No close-up Alesso concert (A BIG downside for me)
-Music is not available as in-game tracks
-Lock Picking Simulator heist (If you don't Ace Lockpicking Expert or bring a Saw you'll suffer ;))

Literally speaking, this DLC features some of the well-known weapon in the wild west.

-The Plainsrider Bow:
Very stealthy with 30 concealment and 50 arrow capacity with arrow pick up system, which makes it very reliable either in stealth or loud. The mod itself, The Explosive Arrow, is average, it does not create "magnificent" explosion and lose the ability to pick up arrows.

-Repeater 1874:
Haven't tried this yet, will update.

-Peacemaker .45:
Another "Deagle" brother, having huge damage while low ammo capacity, good to use in all range though good aim is required to conserve ammo. The concealment is very good, reaching 28, making it a viable weapon for fugitives.

-DInamites:
I'm not sure what makes this different from standard Grenades, so... just for a skin change I think.

-Achievements:
The achievements are not too hard, (Thank you OVERKILL :)) can be done solo without too much effort or hours.

Overall:
Pros:
-Nice looking weapons
-Bow is quite good but need practice
-Pistol is good
-Achievements are not too hard
-Decent Masks and Melees

Cons:
-The trailer lied... no akimbo Peacemaker (Hope this will be added)
-Dinamite is almost the same to Standard Grenade
-DLC does not offer outstanding contents

This DLC is recommended for those who wants a change of style and atmosphere, beside from that I suggest you wait this DLC to be on sale.

Now I can burn my own safehouse (y)
Now I can burn the meth lab
Now I can burn the law enforcers
Now I can burn the deposit boxes
Now I can molotov myself
Now I can burn the rat

10/10

This DLC consisted of 29 music with most of them are instrumental musics, the length varied between 2-5 minutes, for me the music is calming and relaxing.

+Calming, good music
+Very cheap price for a VN music, + now it's on sale

-Duration is too short (thought this is tolerable, It will be very good if the loop is increased IMO)

10/10, this DLC is a must buy

Capitalism Ho!

10/10

So far I enjoyed it very much without the *IYKWIM* patch,

I won't spoil anything here, just gonn write a short review :)

Positive
+Amazing art (100/10)
+Superb BGM and Voice (10/10)
+Beside romance and slice of life, there is also physics lesson :P (One new method to study physics)

Negative
-Some incorrect spellings (Though sometimes hilarious)
-Censor made some thing strange :/

Overall this VN is a must buy

One more... Harem-ness level: Not too extreme, at least there is other male character :v and .....

*SPOILER*
... duck....

*THIS REVIEW IS BASED ON EARLY GAMEPLAY*

Story
-Overall still great, same as the previous version
-The FPS on the exploration and unrendered cutscenes drops sharply, mostly the sound came way faster before the character's mouth model moves :( .
(I used the minimum setting for Shadow Resolution and Anti Aliasing, My Resolution is 1366 x 768

Battle
Suprisingly, the FPS runs smoothly in the battle, and the battle style is same old paradigms.

The weird thing is some enemy from the previous version returns with significantly different HP (NVM this not too important).

Graphic and Music is decent, slightly better than the previous version.

Overall, the problem is only the FPS, I'm waiting for SE to fix this, if you can stand lags, it's great, but if you don't, better wait for a patch.

7.5/10

-Graphic: 7/10
-Gameplay: 7.5/10 (Rather confusing story)
-Spooks: 9/10 (Screamed like 6 times)
-Sound: 10/10 (Yep, support the spooks perfectly)

F.E.A.R became one of my favorite FPS after the spooks scared me to death (Okay, this is exaggerating :P)

F.E.A.R is a good horror games infused with decent FPS gameplay,

The graphic is some sort of okay since this is not a brand new game using sophisticated engines, but what's more important is the "Fear" and "Thrill" you got from the game, instead of just watching out for enemies, this time get ready for jumpscares too.

Overall it's excellent 8.5/10

Well, kinda short review...
Because I'm too impatient to finish it!