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The good: It's classic ROTT, in HD! Every level of the original including all levels from expansions and site license CD are included. All the comforts of modern gaming with all the charm of DOS, into one neat package. Sound can be toggled between 1994 original in both OPL and MIDI (sounds like Roland Sound Canvas emulation), or Andrew Hulshult's excellent 2013 reboot soundtrack. Runs extremely smooth, supports high frame rates, etc. the cheat codes from the 1994 original like dipstick, chojin, goto etc. all work on this one as well, so you won't have to relearn anything to get that go at the vomitorium again. Also, Lorelei

The bad: I'm still a scrub at this game, I guess?

The unforgivable: They've removed the Will of Iron, Knees of Jell-O quote in the difficulty screen and replaced it with Knees of Gelatin. You screwed up!

9.5/10 and you don't get a perfect 10 for removing my Jell-O. Not cool. I bet El Oscuro paid you good money for this sabotage. Bahahahaha

I'm turning 30 years old in two days from the time I'm writing this review. I grew up with this game. I was a newborn and my mom had been playing this game on her Mega Drive while she held baby me in her arms. She's 60 now, and still mentions this game from time to time. Because I always come back for more, in fact, I have a setup with a CRT monitor to play the games I grew up with, this one included.

Having played the MD version of Twin Cobra for as long as I can call myself a person, through all ups and downs of life, with almost 3 decades experience, and being quite acquainted with the arcade version, the one thing I can tell you about this game is that it is so damn HARD! You'll be proud if you can make through the past first level on one credit, and I don't think I have ever gone through a full loop spending just one. It requires an insane amount of skill and precision to beat this game in one credit, and it gets progressively harder with each loop (enemy bullets become faster and faster).

There's an incredible amount of attention to detail, a frame with useful statistics for those on widescreen monitors, supports screen rotation, controller remapping, rewinding function (believe me, I think it's unplayable without it), has a sound test mode, looks great on a CRT... and even features a super smooth 60fps mode! The complaints that I heard about sound emulation must be in the past because it sounds pretty faithful and awesome to the arcade version. The only issue I found is that by using practice mode the music will always be the one from the first level (Break a Leg!), but if I recall correctly using the level select cheat (Up, Down, Right, Left, Start after the heli lands on the title screen on the MD version) also has this effect, at least until you die the first time.

200% recommended! but beware, this game is not for the faint of heart, it's extremely difficult even on "very easy"... the best 2.5 MB you will ever spend on your SSD.

If you like shmups, or an old school challenge... In fact, you know what, just buy it. It's an amazing game and a piece of arcade history.

Will of Iron, Knees of Jell-O™

This review doesn't account for the (relatively poor) technical state of the PC version of the game. It focuses solely on the content itself.

Mechanically, it is a decent, if not great game - with the extreme downside of being heavily censored and watered down to PG, with consideration for modern, woke audiences. For this reason, I don't recommend you buy this game at full price, especially if you have not watched the anime or read the manga before. Consider that you are not taking the entire experience home with you, due to the abject censorship this game is subject to.

Provided that you can purchase it on a heavy discount and on the condition that you already know the Dragon Ball story like the back of your hand, play it, though the censorship is prevalent and everywhere. I'm not kidding, I can't stress this enough: practically every scene which depicted anything that could be even moderately objectionable has been censored or removed entirely.

To be fair, this is a problem that Western dubs that were based on the American script had already accumulated over time due to oversensitive burger audiences, but it's tripled down in this game. If you are from a region which the anime was dubbed from the original Japanese edition or experienced it in the original Japanese, it's going to feel like the story has been robbed of its soul.

Obviously, contains spoilers, but here's a quick list of what's been cut in the main game:

https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_censorship_in_the_Dragon_Ball_series#Censorship_in_Kakarot

4/10 and 3 of those points are because it's Dragon Ball Z

Quite the amazing fan game. It's a competent fighter in its own right, the control scheme reminds me of old arcade fighters like SNES-era Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Easy to pick up, hard to master - won't judge the currently "broken" characters, it's a free game in its earliest stages.

Long shot as it may sound I think Cover Corp. should definitely sponsor the devs, officially license the characters and all, turn this into a proper game franchise. Huge potential.

Recommended to all fans of hololive and vtubers in general as well as anyone who fancies a competent fighting game.

ps. eagerly awaiting Ina and Sakamata

What if there was a place with all the zip of Nuka-Cola?
Wouldn't that be the cheer-cheer-cheeriest place in all the world!
Where the river's made of Quantum, and the mountaintops are fizz
With fun and games and rides for all the moms and pops and kids

Well it turns out there's a place with all the zip of Nuka-Cola!
Come on down to Nuka-World and see it for yourself!
Kiddie Kingdom's lots of fun for tots like you and me!
And Safari Adventure's full of animals to see!
Blast off to Galactic Zone for otherworldly thrills!
Down in Dry Rock Gulch there's cola up in them thar hills!
The World of Refreshment is the most wonderful place!
The friendly streets of Nuka-Town put a smile on your face!

Now you know there's a place that's just as great as Nuka-Cola!
Come on down to Nuka-World and see it for yourself!
A vacation that refreshes, a trip you won't forget!
A park with every minimum acceptable safety standard met!
Quench your thirst for adventure at Nuka-World!

nnngh get this out of my head

I preordered this game on Bethesda.net way back. You could not believe my hype the day Todd Howard went in front of everyone at E3 and announced this game, alongside a snippet of - to this day unreleased - Elder Scrolls 6. Naturally, fanatical as I was about it, I went all-in and bought the Tricentennial Edition, which included some (back then, exclusive) thematic weapon and power armor skins - which are still my favorite to this day.

But when it first launched... it was an unholy, desolate mess. Really, it was horrible. The servers used to lag something unreal (not that they're perfect nowadays, but you needed to see how bad it was to believe it), and the world was... dead. Empty. Lore reasons? Sure. But perhaps a gross overestimation of how social Fallout players are by the dev team, thinking that they could replace NPCs entirely by human interaction alone. That, of course, did not work. Still, I played through the initial story, hungry as ever for more Fallout, shortly after I had finished Fallout 4 for the first time - a game that really, really resonated with me, despite having its detractors. Then I dropped it and pretended the game didn't exist.

Fast forward a few years, and many debacles (such as Fallout 1st - it's premium membership that I don't mind paying for, but back when it released, the game was just not ready for something like it and it felt like a massive cash grab at the time), they released the Wastelanders update. That update was insane, it made a game out of a husk, and a good one at that. But it didn't stop there, no. Developers kept adding more and more content, and introduced the scoreboards, which are really something like season passes, which gives you some subquests to complete each day in exchange for a few points, but feel generally organic to the gameplay anyway.

I played through Wastelanders and left to play some other games, but in the meantime, it looks like I missed on some of the best updates this game ever got. I'm more or less catching up now, but in one month I have played more than I had played in all those years before.

Is it still buggy? Yes. Is it still clunky? Wouldn't be a Bethesda game if it wasn't. But the game has soul, and an amazing community. I wholeheartedly recommend playing through this nowadays, even if you will have quite a different experience from the initial one, especially now that there are NPCs everywhere. Still, it's good fun. You don't need Fallout 1st to complete it and play through the endgame, but its benefits will become crucial if you venture past the endgame and you find yourself a collector of weapons.

Inventory management is a reality, due to the 1200 unit limit at the stash. If you play this on and off, pay for a month, play through it and then cancel the subscription until you decide to return.

All-caps disclaimer: THIS CONTENT IS TO BE CONSIDERED IN EARLY ACCESS AND IS STILL UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT AS PER RECENT DEVELOPER BLOG POSTS - DO NOT BUY IF YOU WANT A FINISHED PRODUCT! Read the Steam news blogs for this game to see what, when and why you are getting this.

Buy Far Territory now if you want the lowest price, can wait for the development (Hinterland takes time but they always deliver, you can take my word for it - I have been a TLD player since 2014 with over 2,300 hours on Steam) and want to support the studio's efforts. Otherwise, purchasing this DLC is currently not necessary to have a fully fleshed out experience in The Long Dark.

Crysis 2 and 3 (I mention 3 as I consider it to be essentially an expansion pack for 2, given it is a much shorter game and brings closure to the story), are, in my opinion, some of the best video games of all time. They are excellent story-driven first person shooters. I am not very fond of the first game, I find to be particularly clunky, which is certainly a divisive opinion in the fandom but, that's up to you.

Story? Well, supersoldier game against alien invasion. Fun stuff. I'll leave the wonder of playing this game for the first time to you, since I wish I could do that all over again.

The remastered editions contain no censorship or removed scenes compared to the originals, and are mostly engine upgrades, thus, technical improvements, achieved by optimizing the game (slowdowns and issues known to exist in the original versions of Crysis 2 and 3 have been completely fixed), using modern versions of CryEngine and significantly improving the visual quality by a complete overhaul of assets and implementation of advanced graphics techniques such as raytracing. However, multiplayer was removed (it was never a big thing to begin with), and the PC versions do not support HDR.

This may be a dealbreaker to you, but it certainly is not for me. You can pigtail HDR on it by using Special K or Windows 11's AutoHDR if you so desire.

One last thing? The games are no longer published by EA, with everything being provided directly by Crytek, and thus no longer require the Origin launcher.

Will run on very high settings, including very high raytracing without resorting to DLSS upscaling at 1080p, 60 fps on an RTX 3090, with around half GPU load. This means the same experience should probably be achievable on a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti as well, which is not exactly unreasonable given how great the game looks. The game is not very CPU intensive and should run well if you have a decent CPU from the past few years.

Recommended, if you have a computer capable of high-end graphics.

What if Majin Buu was a psychotic, spoiled girl? They definitely know fighting game fans well... or, at the very least, boomer weebs that grew up with DBZ. Either way, works for me!

Delightful fighting mechanics as expected of ArcSys, and a great Dragon Ball game all around. It is not too technical and can be played by fighting game novices just fine. Combos and finishers remind me of the old PS2 classic Budokai Tenkaichi 3/Sparking Meteor.

Definitely worth picking up the Ultimate Edition in the ongoing Steam Sale.