Recent reviews by sondragoniss

A fantastic remake of a classic game. Inputs feel crisply delivered with no evident delay. Gameplay flows wonderfully.

One feature I really like is the passive replay channel playing on the main menu, acting as a screensaver, and a endless fount of knowledge of matchups before entering gameplay.

The new addition of the World Stage mode has added significant hours of gameplay and customization, and I can only hope the devs have more planned.

Virtua Fighter 5 plays very simply and without great complexity of inputs, making it very easy for players unfamiliar to the series or the genre pick it up.

State of Decay is a labor of love from the developers. It's not perfect, it has flaws that range from infuriating to being absolutely hilarious, but despite that, this is a game that you can play over and over and over again and still find enjoyment. I highly recommend this game to anyone who likes open-world games with a lot of emergent narratives.

I've played Fallout since Windows 98 and from then until now, it is a fantastic game with more than enough depth to satisfy, especially at the cheap price it resides at currently. The quests are fun and interesting with plenty of voice acted characters and plenty of flavor text to help sell the gameplay. The graphics are rudimentary by today's standards, but the animations, in my opinion, hold up, especially if you possess the classic Bloody Mess trait. The story actually takes a couple twists and turns for the amount they were able to allow back then. I remember when I finally completed the big quest given at the start, only to find out there's another half of the game beyond that.

If anything, the game suffers if you don't like a fairly steep difficulty, with what I believe to be a rng type system that can be both a friend and enemy during your sessions, so getting familiar with saving and loading frequently isn't uncommon. But, once you've crossed a threshold and gained gear consummate with your playstyle, you quickly find a fun, robust experience.

If you're a fan of Fallout and don't mind isometric, tile-based rpg gameplay, kind of an important point I missed until now, I highly recommend playing the original Fallout.

This game has timeless style, fun gameplay, and is full of replay value.
Now, I have experienced a few lag spikes during gameplay, but this could be specific to my hardware and may not be representative of the gameplay on a higher quality system.

This game is relatively cheap at full price, and is even cheaper on sale, so if you want to have fun for a short investment of time, pick this game up!

I enjoyed the presentation, there's always plenty to do and look over.
The game is very generous with resources and card draws.
Character progression goes along at a decent pace.
No matter how long I play, there always seems to be something else to do. :)

What do I liked about this game? I like the story with the diverse cast of actors, the campaign is rather fun, without particularly overwhelming difficulty.
I play quite a lot of Blizzard RTS(Warcraft/Starcraft), so the C&C series presents a much different gameplay experience, dependent on more tactical consideration.
The graphics and sound are quite good, without any immediate problems. Presented in a colorful, somewhat cartoonish design, it makes for very visible armies that are easy to spot.

As for dislikes, I would say it can be difficult to effectively use one's armies and micro-control units with good use of their full abilities, but this could be attributed to my own lack of skill.
At this point, I can't rightly think of anything harsh to say about this game.

Try it out, and you might find yourself a new RTS series to dig into!

This game is absolutely wonderful. Pumping out units quickly builds up a vast army that just feels amazing watching roll out to engage the enemy. The campaign mode is difficult as ♥♥♥♥, but feels incredibly rewarding when you win the day after a HARD fought battle. Maps are varied and interesting with plenty of replay value. Building up to the ultimate units of each tech tree feels great.

It's hard to not speak of so many positives to this game so I'll focus on negatives. Some people might be averse to the difficulty of the campaign mode. In custom games, the AI difficulty seems to take a big jump from Easy to Normal, which might be jarring and keep someone in the minor leagues until they take the time to learn good techniques and practiced skills.
Because of the vast army size, this game might run poorly on computers with low RAM(1gb-2gb), but the game possesses many graphic settings to help optimize your gameplay.

This is just another part of the greater Dawn of War franchise that well deserves it's place in the halls of legends!

Well, that was a lot of feels.

I honestly stopped reading/watching Naruto Shippuden a while before it's end, so there were things I didn't understand about the characters and how things have changed. However, the movie was pretty good, a little dry at points, but chugs along nicely.

Truly, it's a character story more than a spectacle, but the action scenes still manage to be about as entertaining as a filler episode arc, but no truly memorable action beats. By the end, honestly, I realized how strange the world of Naruto ninjutsu as is characters were routinely performing magnificent feats.

I wish there were a selectable Japanese dub/English sub option, but I didn't find any and just dealt with the English dubs, which were as good as you'd expect, the villain's voice was a little flat, but I assume that was intentional to play up aspects of his character.

Though once I got to the end of the movie, I felt it came off as a pretty nice send-off for the series. To think, I was watching and discussing the show in high school, ad nauseam.

Overall, this is a pretty good rental to once and get a lot of closure on the Naruto story, but I wouldn't buy it unless you're a diehard collector.

Fat and unwieldy are two words to describe this game. While it uses many exotic contextual actions, dynamically grabbing pipes, ledges, and other objects in game to ascend to higher safer perches, the game just falls flat on it's face.

I believe the description of this game is a "vertical" fps, which I think they meant to show by this emphasis on climbing and acrobatics, but I think what went wrong is the aiming, which felt clunky, enemies didn't seem to die fast enough, mostly because you're flipping and climbing everywhere just trying to find the guys, and an overall unappealing level design which was consistent of mostly blank brick buildings and bridges leading to nowhere special.

If you can get over the aiming and the level design, you might be able to take this game. But given the size of the game, I feel like I could use my space better than with this game.

Mad props to this game for its famous narration, graphic style, and gameplay features. This game offers little in the way of platforming but a heck of a lot in action and challenge, whether it be combing levels for all the currency you can, while also hearing bonus bits of narration as a reward, or besting time/score based challenges to gain helpful upgrades, and of course, hanging out in town and picking and choosing from options to build up the town and upgrading your character with the results of those choices.

All in all a fun game to play on a weekend.