Recent reviews by BinarySplit

Fantastic puzzles with just the right amount of challenge. Don't wait for a sale, buy it now, you won't regret it

Fun and well-paced. The puzzles are just the right level of challenge, they weren't so easy to be boring, but I also never got stuck for too long.

I completed it in 3 hours, but approximately half of the game is split between 2 paths and I only played the blue path so I suspect the total amount of content is around 5 hours if you're a completionist. This is my only complaint about the game - I don't want to replay the easy parts just to get the last few bits of content, so I'm not going to see the red path puzzles.

Definite buy when on sale, but probably don't buy at full price - this wasn't as magical of an experience as some of the more expensive story-heavy puzzle games (Portal, Lightmatter, Outer Wilds), but when it's at a few bucks, this is absolutely worth your time & money.

Mixed review. While there were many puzzles that I really enjoyed solving, the experience was soured by me frequently missing items because of objects that appear inanimate unless interacted with in very specific ways, leading to me thinking they're part of the background clutter. There's a lot of puzzle items hidden in background clutter, so get ready to have to click on absolutely everything you see and still somehow miss stuff.

Took me 3 hours to beat, though I ended up using in-game hints twice to find the awkward interactable objects I missed.

The most memorable adventure game I've played in recent years. The puzzle design is fantastic, the story is fantastic, the gameplay is fantastic. Once you start, you'll have trouble doing anything else until you uncover all the secrets of the solar system.

14 MONTHS LATER UPDATE: Outer Wilds still regularly occupies my thoughts. I, like many others, am eagerly waiting for the day that I've forgotten enough that I can re-experience it from the beginning.

Mixed review. It had its good moments, it had some questionable moments. It definitely wasn't a bad game, but it didn't amaze me at all either.

IMO it's definitely not worth full price though. I'd be bitter if I hadn't gotten it cheap as part of a bundle.

I played it on Casual (i.e. easy) mode and had to use hints a few times. If I had played it on Gamer (hard) mode and couldn't use hints, I would probably have ragequitted a couple of times. I recommend Casual mode - the harder puzzles don't challenge your thinking ability, they challenge your patience.

I enjoyed the original HotK, but I can't give the same review for HotK:TLT1. The story is much simpler, with a less satisfying conclusion. The quests feel more grindy - lots of running back to the same vendors for more health potions, more torches, etc.

The two positives: It's the same sort of constantly rewarding/impossible-to-fail gameplay that keeps you hooked, with no microtransactions, and for it's length/quality it's appropriately priced.

Absolutely picturesque. There's so much attention to detail, it feels like not even a grain of sand is out of place.

In 54 minutes I got 100% of achievements and #5 on the leaderboard. I'm pretty sure I've seen all there is to see in the game.

There's only one objective - build enough parks to get enough points for Grandmaster rank by the end of the round. There's no replayability - only one map, only one objective, only one way to achieve it. In addition, the controls are awful - you'll spend more time clicking through the horrible build menus than making strategic decisions.

I don't understand why the game was sold for money like this. This is a minimum viable product. A single vertical slice. A prototype you take to a publisher so that you can ask for more money to make it into something greater. It feels like there's a lot of potential behind these gameplay mechanics, but they go completely unexplored.

When it first came out, the reviews were terrible. I avoided it and lamented the braindeath of BioWare under EA. I regret that decision. ME:A is fantastic. A true Mass Effect game, brimming with characters, exploration and interesting stuff to do.

17 hours in and I haven't seen any trace of the instability, bad writing or nightmarish facial animations that the initial reviews criticized. I guess they must have fixed all those issues post-release.

ME:A is a absolutely worth playing if you enjoyed any of BioWare's previous games.

FFXV is a mistreated masterpiece. You can tell a truly enormous amount of love went into crafting this game world, the character interactions, the enemies, etc. but they just kind of gave up on it at the last minute. There are all these technical issues (rampant stuttering, long load times), unexplained game mechanics (fishing, "warp links"), and quality-of-life issues (there's nowhere you can see all of your active quests at once on a map, lots of common interactions are frustratingly long). Apparently the stuttering issues were actually added in the last patch, and they just haven't bothered to do anything about it.

I can't give a good recommendation to something that would otherwise be a 10/10, only to be ruined by someone not willing to put in the last 0.1% of effort required to make this a polished product. If you still want to play this game, make sure to read the PCGamingWiki article on it BEFORE you start. To work around the problems, you need to downgrade to an older version, which means you can't use save games from the buggy newer version.