Recent reviews by Maice

My machine now has aids (epic online services)

Review in progress as i beat the game but my thoughts now are;

Combat is fine and can even be fun and very engaging/satisfying when the design is there to allow to to utalize your tool-kit. Rather than being punished for trying this move/spell

Map design is rather phenomenul (in the early game only, otherwise it's big and empty . yet somehow makes Darks Souls 2's world feel full to the brim. It's just that empty) as it twists and turns around and in itself that it feel like exploring Dark Souls 1 again. Before you know it, you'll come across a door or shortcut that leads back to the start or an area very close to the last rest point point that it just flows in your head and is a true joy to explore. And the further you get the more big, open and empty the levels become. Clearly level design was a focus early on in development but trailed off into oblivion as the dev cycle continued.

But the team leans into the cheap tricks to add difficulty, that doesn't add to difficulty rather than piss off the player base. IE: Enemies on every blind corner. If your on as ledge, there will be an enemy with as push attack just in front of you, ready to kill you. Have an area where magic is plentiful, enemies are resistant to all our magic

Overall:
Game is fine. Game is cheap in its level design/ enemy placement

It's a crash--ey pieces of dog poo

This game makes me wish for a neutral category for steam reviews either way though.

The most basic of basic platformers. If you've played super Mario 3 on the NES or anything newer:

Skip this game, unless you want he bare bones of a platformer and not much else

Great game finally on pc.

I have never played it before until now, having a blast. If you like the "RockStar" formula type of game grab it and enjoy. If the formula is appealing to you in a casual i have fun but don't immediately like it way (like myself)
definitely pick this up on sale, as I have had a blast with this title

Still full of little ♥♥♥♥ design choices that should be null & void by now (post 3rd DLC launch) but what do i know.

Great if you brought it before the DLC dropped.

As every DLC makes the game worse to control and fight. The "new" read "DLC" enemies dodge everything cause ♥♥♥♥ you.

Have fun. NOT

If you didn't welcome to scam island, a new map full of ♥♥♥♥ to do (after a full year of promise) Yet somehow feels even less empty tan the tutorial. Where any new ♥♥♥♥ is locked till a second or fifth playthrough (miles will vary) of said DLC, if you can be bothered to do it again. Especially when going through with a friend who didn't grind the rougelite elements cause it should've mattered, It doesn't BTW. So ♥♥♥♥ you for wasting your time (what a loser trying to get a slight advantage of any kind over anyone who just purchased the 3rd dlc)

All I can say is, stay off the big chair in the realm of negative as that's my chair and you're not welcome to sit in it until you hear all of my complaints for games game's going back to the 1980's

Cheating ass ♥♥♥♥♥ made ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass game. Nothing is fair. Game does nothing but cheat. ♥♥♥♥ this game

Good but grindy even as solo with boosted item rates

Chp 3 boss makes game unplayable, with a frame-rate of 22avg. lows of 5 highs of 53
Computer Information:
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
Speed: 4492 MHz
Windows 11 (64 bit)
Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Primary Display Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Refresh rate 120MHZ
RAM: 64649 Mb

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ devs that have moved on to number 3, while not fixing this, means frame-drops out the arse
edit for pc specs taken from steam client:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUS
Model: System Product Name
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor
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CPU Stepping: 0x2
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 4492 MHz
32 logical processors
16 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Supported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Supported
AVX512VNNI: Supported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
Windows 11 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Video Card:
Driver: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 32.0.11021.1011
DirectX Driver Version: 32.0.15.6094
Driver Date: 6 20 2024
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 120 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2684
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 2
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 3840 x 2160
Desktop Resolution: 7680 x 2160
Primary Display Size: 62.99" x 35.43" (72.24" diag), 160.0cm x 90.0cm (183.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 4x
Primary VRAM: 512 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek USB Audio)
Memory:
RAM: 64726 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 31474292 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 1907469 MB
OS Install Date: Dec 09 2023
Game Controller: Xbox Series X Controller detected
MAC Address hash: e6b86fd8b57ac7f96e4fc0cfc5c64cd5f7272f06
Storage:
Disk serial number hash: b219ab3d
Number of SSDs: 3
SSD sizes: 2000G,2000G,1000G
Number of HDDs: 3
HDD sizes: 10T,10T,8001G
Number of removable drives: 0