Recent reviews by Fen

Currently not worth it. The roster of Gods is very small, the playerbase is lacking and it's riddled in cashgrabs.

The Blinding of Isekai 2: More Content Boogaloo

An old but gold roguelike game with lots of replayability, and the jumping board for Northernlion's career.

A fun and casual point-and-click game with an interesting story that is being told from two points of view. My only real gripe with the game is that the difficulty of the puzzles ramps up significantly from part 2 onwards. In the first half of the game you get slight hints as to where to go and which items might be needed, but in the second half you are expected to know that certain puzzles require other puzzles first, or require you to remember slight references from 6 hours ago. That part was a bit annoying, but i would still recommend the overall game.

Makes me want to pull up my socks and dance

Another good addition to the Borderlands series, my second favorite in the series thus far. I like that the game steps away from locking you to one planet and instead lets you travel to a handful of different planets with their own biomes, wildlife and challenges. Both old and new characters make their entry and i felt that i was really part of a group at the end instead of just being "the Vault Hunter who performs random tasks".

That said, there are two things that stuck out to me as being less great/interesting. The first one being the villains themselves, Troy and Tyreen Calypso. They felt less like evil villains and more like spoiled streamers with a god fetish. It also got really predictable and dull that they kept being one step ahead of you no matter what. You effectively get told "lol, we did that like ages ago, you slowpoke, okthxbye" for 50 hours. My second problem (which was more of a letdown) was that the story didn't care that i was playing the Siren character. There are a bunch of different Sirens that you meet throughout the game and they play a huge role in the story plot, but i don't get recognized as one? I was hoping for some unique dialogue or cutscenes, but you get the same experience as the other classes. Missed opportunity.

I don't see myself picking up the DLC (paying €50 for the season pass to unlock them is way too expensive in my book), but Borderlands 4 will definitely be on my to-do list.

Typhoid DeLeon, signing out.

It's like Slay The Spire, but circus themed...and generic looking...and outdated...and boring.

This game is basically Stardew Valley if it was 3D and had a quarter of the content. You set up your farm with crops and crafting benches, make friends with the villagers, complete quests, gather and give gifts, complete weekly tasks and hoard a lot of stuff. The villagers are very likeable with a personality for each type of player, and you can romance every romance option at the same time. The latest patch (at the time of writing this) also added a system where you can show off your farm plots to other players to recieve rewards, for those people who love to build stuff and prance their creations around.

However, the game also has plenty of problems.
- There are only two areas to explore, three if you count your farm. Nothing has been added in a year.
- There are only three types of ore and three types of wood. The highest tier of both is a rare resource that has to be farmed.
- There are no farm animals. You get a couple of crops and you better be happy with it.
- The cash shop is very expensive and seems to be the biggest focus in every update, especially after Daybreak Games bought Singularity 6.
- There are lots of bugs and every update breaks something else. Animals glitching into rocks and trees, loot bags getting stuck in unreachable areas, aquariums turning into dark squares, planted trees that stop growing, paths and furniture moving on its own, the list goes on.

My recommendation: play it for the quests and villager interactions and then drop it. The game drops down hard once you run out of those things, and since 75% of Singularity 6's staff was let go after the acquisition, i wouldn't expect any banger content to be added any time soon.

Decided to give this a try after watching a stream of it. What a horribly confusing and buggy mess.

1) The combat isn't really combat. You just chain a bunch of stuff together and watch them slap against each other while numbers fly around. Apparently they are actual attacks with buffs, debuffs, attack types and elemental affinities, but they don't do anything to make you care about those things. Just match up abilities with the same colors, screw what they do.

2) The tutorial (the only thing i played) is HORRIBLE. They dump a bunch of information on you over the course of 3 fights and still fail to fully explain what any of the systems do. I couldn't even complete the final level of the tutorial because it asked me to click on a character, which i couldn't do no matter how hard i tried. Meanwhile it disabled all of my other controls and forced me to ALT F4 out of the entire game. What a buggy piece of piss. Oh, and if you click the big skip button during any of the story parts, it skips the entire tutorial at once (8 story parts and 4 fights) instead of just skipping the cutscene LIKE YOU'D EXPECT IT TO DO.

3) I have no idea what the different rarities are even good for. I dumped all of my free gacha currency before uninstalling this dreck and got two 000 rolls, and couldn't for the life of me figure out why they were better than the standard ones. They feel more like skins instead of upgrades. Yet they will still milk the wallets of the stupid for them.

If this hadn't been free, i would've refunded it. I gave Project Moon a second chance after not liking Lobotomy Corp, but this taught me that anything these devs crap out will be manure.

Not as good as i had hoped. When i saw things like "9.3/10 score" and "this game will change how gaming companies will handle their games going forward" fly by, i thought i was buying an easy GOTY shoe-in that would leave me baffled at the quality and excited to play it.

Instead i find myself playing a 6/10 game that has some really fun aspects, but also aspects that take the wind out of the sails. For example, the Casual difficulty is still way too hard for someone jumping in. It advertises the difficulty as "the mode for people who want to focus on story", but then you face a random gnoll archer who is the same level as you and you get hit for 90% of your healthbar in one turn. Meanwhile that gnoll archer will evade 50% of your attacks and roll a critical miss (which is supposed to be 5% on a D20) way more than it should. It makes even the baby mode far more frustrating than it should.
Another example that i bash my head against over and over is the lack of a colorblind mode. EVERY game has a colorblind mode, yet this GOTY 2023 masterpiece fails to have one. It is extremely difficult for me to see how many spell slots i have left because they decided to make them light blue (usable) and gray (spent) which both look the same to me. Instead of using blue and red, or filled in square and empty square, they decide to use two colors in the same spectrum. It's horribly amateur for what i assume is a respectable dev team.

I really enjoy the dialogue option part of it, as a bard player focusing around being charismatic, but the combat parts are sooo bad. The story itself also doesn't grab me like it should (cheaper games have done a way better job at that) and the exploration feels very confusing. With different altitudes and bridges and whatnot, it's difficult to figure out which paths you have explored and which ones are just revealed on the map because you walked over top of it.

I will play a bit more of this to see if it picks up, but for now i think i would've been way happer if i bought this 50% off. It doesn't feel like a €60 game unless you were really hungring for yet another Divinity game.

EDIT: after picking away at it for another 30 hours and desperately trying to find something redeemable about this game, i can still say that this game isn't worth the price. The skill check system is great, but that's where the good part jsut about ends. The story is mediocre at best, the combat doesn't feel exciting and the chemistry between my custom character and the party member was near non-existent until the devs decided they should suddenly like me. (Seriously, they go from being indifferent about you to wanting to have sex with you in an instant after completing a main quest, which is very jarring and weird).
It's worth €30 at best and probably even less than that. The early access gameplay made it look so much more fun than it turned out to be.