Recent reviews by Flawii

The world is not flat... not an orb.. it's ... multiple circles connected by bridges!

Fast paced and easy to learn, and maybe not even that hard to master... but there are still some secret techniques and some tactical stuff to be found out. All in all very rounded up.

At first you choose your leader, which sometimes differ only in some bonuses sometimes they are a complete overhaul.
Then you choose the game mode. Monster Hunt (i.e. conquer one specific circle), World Domination (i.e. conquer every circle) or V.S. AI (i.e. classic defeat the other player).
Then you choose your enemy, map size and difficulty etc.
In the end, everything is just "conquer it!" in different flavours. No complains here.

It is all in great fun and in my experience smaller maps are much harder but faster due to the lack of ressources.

This game is almost completely macromanagement based. Your workers just work on their own, they will mine every single ressource, and then just wait there to regrow. To control your army you will just send them to "GO!" there. Maybe you can pull some tricks... Like attacking and then retreating to lure them into your towers or attack from two sides, but that is mostly only what I did.

Overall no crashes or bugs. Many things to try out and many achievements to be made.
Completed every mode on (almost) every difficulty and every A.I. in about 8 hours. No multiplayer sadly.

A new Aperture Game! Wait...

What in the world did I just play?...

Ok, it's a test game for the Steam Deck, I get... Works great with a Steam Controller too! Just discovered, that it has a module that detects if it's turned, so you can steer like in Mario card. Nice.

Otherwise the same brilliant Aperture humor. An all that in 30 Minutes!

Just take a quick play. Why not?

From the tales of "Once I was a prisoner"...

This game has some problems. The story is actually quite intriguing, a war and as usual a lot of war criminals, and you are all in it. The two sides fight far away and you never see the end, yet it happens and people live in the aftermath.

It plays a lot like Mass Effect, with many dialogs and fully voiced converstations, while the fights oft feel more dark soulishy... always rolling around and hitting once, maybe twice. And most of the time your companion is not at all useful. Well... they tank a lot, while you deal with the other guys...

What this game needs is, aside from some more modern graphics, but still the current once are fine, some polishing. The characters just don't really feel fleshed out. All the women (and there are really few of them) talk like dolls and the men have the same faces used over and over again. The quests, while being always different, feel more like fillers. You could just go through the main story, and it would most likely turn out the same, while you miss out on some XP of course. Then the game starts to "waste more time" by thorwing random enemies at you, which you have no choice but to defeat since the arenas are always locked in. It just feels very lengthened and unnecessary, yet you get over it.

The story itself leaves a lot of things open. May there be a part 2? Or maybe a book or something like it? Could be interesting.

For fans of games like Mass Effect, with less depths and clankier combat a good choice. Overall solid, but there is better to be had.
Finished in under 10 hours with every side quest done on the lowest difficulty level (I just got bored of the neverending fights, so I turned it down)

Well time for some XCOM... ish... game with the World Map of Heroes of Might an Magic. Well sounds like something new, let's try it...

... and oh boy did it deliver! It may not be for a long term gameplay. But if you want to pass some hours, go for this!

The story is simple... an in this case it just makes it awesome. You do not need to find a key for a puzzle to unlock techs, which enable you to get another class etc. etc.
4 classes, all given to you at the start, but more heroes recruitable. That's it. The same goes for everyone of the 4 playable factions, although the campaign only gives you the humans.

The entire plot and campaign is littered with so many little jokes, references to D&D and HOMM and just plain absurdity, that I am just so happy to have it been a turn-based game. Because I would have lost it if it were in real-time. That is how you build atomsphere and the will to play "just one more turn".

The combat works great. X-COM like games always had it for me. In this case you do not have about a dozen different enemies to learn and counter, yet you need to use "physics". The environment is highly move, destroy and changeable, which makes the archer more of "Sir-Hook-a-Lot" than an actual archer. Fine by me!

Overall the story was exactly as long as I wished it to with being able to finish it on normal after around 11 hours in two sittings (to bad I needed sleep).

Will play again and recommend it to anyone who has not learned his/her lesson not to ask me about some good videogames I know of!

P.S. I still wonder... If I turn of Permadeath (which I did) what happens if one of your maincharacters dies?

That was well short but intense.

This game concludes the story before Wolvenstein and you are, of course B. J. Balzkovicz fighting your way through some people. There is this always present, "You go in first. We will hide and then follow you." Following though all of the wolfenstein games. Fine by me. :-D

Overall not bad, but really short. (4 hours on normal difficulty).

One of the weaker ones, but I still had my fun.

About two decades after the war for control of america (The New Blood) BB is now doing pretty well as a father . And what is he teaching his daughters? Well, of course the one thing he can do well. fighting a war.

So, once there is an opportunity to actually fight you and your sister grab it and there we go.

You meet up in Paris and get to the underground movement in order to find your father. and have a pretty good plan. Yet you kill anything that moves anyway.

The graphics are well done and the aesthetics fit very well, yet there is only a limited number of levels to explore and exploration itself is not really rewarding. The weapons are well balanced and different for each kind, yet my favourite was really the pistol, since the sneaky playstyle was my thing.

Overall I only played offline, without a coop partner. The AI is not that bad, but all she really accomplished was to tank some damage for me while I killed everything. And of course getting me caught while sneaking.

Storywise this game is a little low in comparison to the normal Wolfenstein world, pretty simple, more focussed on "farming" and concluding daily tasks, which is really not my style. I finished every side mission and of course the main story, but never did a weekly challenge or focussed on the achievements.

The fights however feel really good, fast, immersive, and realistic in a way, that you can't see the enemy if they shoot a bright laser at you, which was really annoying, but it felt scary and frightening, and that's a good thing right?

Not the best part of the series, but fun if you play with a partner or just want to immersively shoot some stuff up.

The final piece in the well known Crysis franchise.

Well known, of course, after the revolutionary graphics and physics technology.

With Crysis 2 the game became another big push, and, atleast for me, a great story push.

This one now tries really hard to live up to that. Fully voiced, well made facial expressions and gestures with known characters. Sadly it lacks some depths. The crisis with Michael is really well done, and both characters really have a great "pep talk".

But in the end it feels more and more empty the further you get into the game. The missions with the plain shooting and running are getting longer, the maps bigger, but it doesn't get more interesting through this. The maybe 10 different enemies don't help with that either.

Once the human enemies are completely gone and the aliens take over it just gets annoying.

The suit learns new things with each game. This time you can hack into enemy electronics like turrets, mines or robots. Yet this feature is used so often, you barely do anything else...
With hacking you also gain access to the supply crates that contain weapons or upgrade kits.
Aside from the first time I never even used those upgrades once. It may be because I just played on normal difficulty, but they are just not needed.

One of the fun parts of the last game were the enemy soldier who did not know what was coming to them. This time everyone has EMP Grenades and good rifles that hurt even in armor mode. They know about cloaking and act accordingly.

To be fair the graphics are outstanding, the controls smooth and the atmosphere works, especially in the first part. As usual the water looks absolutely stunning and the vegetation wants to spend my holidays in a devastated New York..

I can only recommend this for fans of the series who want to get closure to the story. Seen solely it works as a decent shooter.

Finished in 7 hours.

Well it has been quite a while... since Commados: Behind enemy lines I mean.

Because this game is exactly that, with ingame voice acting, cutscenes and modern, beautiful graphics.

To be short: I love it! I did play commandos as a child back in the day and did finish it after a long time.

So you play a group of 5 people. Those people cover all the main roles for a stealth game with the usual professions: Assassin, Thief, Brute, Master of disguise and Sharpshooter. Those are all well rounded and, based on your playstyle, more or less useful. For me Takuma, the sniper was the by far least used character. And even if I used him he was just there for the tanuki Kuma, who is the real mvp here. But otherwise my most favourite was clearly Yuki, the thief.

Depending on the mission you control 2 to all 5 of them. The less people there are in a mission the more difficult I thought it to be.

Throughout the 13 missions you fight through different types of locations which are actually all more or less unique with features like tracks in the snow, loud steps in puddles of water, swimming in larger pools of water and light sources which reveal your characters over longer distances (the last ones were particulary annoying).
Each of these mechanics can be turned around somehow. Each of the enemies react differently and can be defeated by different things (those samurai really give you a hard time).

I had some issues with the quickload feature stopping some enemies behaviors and sometimes an unchanged cameraangle (my fault but annoying) did not allow me to climb some ladders or something.

Aside from those minor issues, I had a great time. With a great soundtrack, good voice acting (japanese and englisch version available) and a believable insight into japanese culture I cannot stress enough how much I loved the atmosphere.

Finished on normal difficulty in around 19 hours.

One of the few racing games I found interesting enough to play for a couple of hours (Mario Kart forever!)

Beatiful futuristic graphics and a soundtrack you can easily listen to outside of the game. The gameplay itself ist really fast, the stages sometimes repeat small section (which is fine and gives a familiar feeling) but are each one vastly different to each other. I particulary enjoyed the space stages in this manner.

Sadly I lost my savegame of 14 hours, which was apparently not uploaded to the steam cloud.

Not finished, but about 40% done with the singleplayer after 14 hours (I'm not a good racer).

Fast, big and relentless. That's how I would describe the main story campaign. You go in, move quick and just never stop running, wall-walking, double-jumping and sliding, the one definition of "run and gun". It feels just brilliant and smoothe.

Then comes your buddy, a big clunky titan, which can swap loadouts on the fly, has a sophisticated AI and a form of dry sarcasm you just have to love.

About 4 hours of fighting your way through countless enemies it goes to a big finale. Sadly the campaign is really short, since the main-focus of this game is still the multiplayer (which I'm not including in this review, since I did not play it).

Graphics are up to date und voice actors are brilliant (Matt Mercer voices the protagonist).

Finished in about 4 hours on regular difficulty.