A very enjoyable AC game. I really liked the ship combat and the shanites sung by my crewmen during travels. These are the best parts of the game. The story was good, the land missions were so too, but that's not what sets the game apart from other ACs. I could have done without THAT many collectibles though…Oh and the diving missions sucked!

A short addition to Black Flag. You play as your former quartermaster Adéwalé, focused on freeing slaves in the West Indies. Maybe it was a mistake playing this right after Black Flag, but I was a bit bored by the game. Still an okay game though.

A very enjoyable mix between Shooter and story-focused game. Story-focused parts, shooter sequences and live-action epsiodes were orchestrated to a very unique experience. The graphics were excellent, I was amazed at how good the ingame models depicted the actual actors. I quickly cared about the characters and was really interested in seeing the story progress. It might not have been as captivating as ME or DA:O, but still much more than any of the recent games I've played.

Despite reading a lot about performance issues I could play the game on ultra settings on my several years old PC. The loading times were a drag though! Overall, I don't understand, why this game has gotten such bad reviews at its time. I think it's great looking, interesting story, unique feeling…I definitely recommend this game and it's one of the few times, where I regret that there is nothing between 4 and 5 stars in my rating system.

Achievements: Can all be gained in one playthrouh. Basically you have to get all collectibles and play the game on hard. Since the game's not actually that hard, playing on the highest difficulty poses no real problem.

If you were a fan of Chloe in the original Life is Strange then this should be the perfect game. We finally get to learn about Rachel Amber and play more rebellious then we could as Max. Since she also has no magic every choice is final so you have to be careful. If you didn't like Chloe however well probably shouldn't touch this. Not only those 2 do we learn about but also characters like Nathan. Most of the people here don't appear again but he's a major character that is totally different. You can't even tell that he needs to be locked up in this game.

Despite the game being shorter in episodes it sure made up for that in terms of length. I was spending an extra 30 minutes compared to before. Without time travel it feels like we are doing more stuff each day when actually no it just drags the story on more instead. They really could've done anything with this prequel but they went with the 1st time Chloe talked to her. That was fine in it's own right since we would've gotten a different view of Chloe and the people around her

We also get a bonus story between Max and Chloe as kids. It takes part during the same day Chloe's dad dies. God that really is a heart breaking thing to see. Like were just so happy then next thing we know we just see her whole life fall apart in a matter of seconds.

Normally I would post a couple of songs that I liked during gameplay but frankly pretty much every song is amazing in this game so I couldn't just post the like 3 that I did like.

I definitely preferred this game to the 1st but it suffers the same problem with the end. You fight the last boss, which is horrible btw the worst ive ever done, only for it be like you did it THE END. I just don't know what happened with these games. All the others had suitable endings or some sort of ending but both of these so far suffer from not having any!

Omg it has an ending. So apparently the way to making queen quest have a damn ending is to just make it much longer then the others! Frankly the whole thing could be done so quickly if they just explained why you shouldn't collect those crystals. But no they didn't explain and just let the very obvious twist happen!

It's sad to say but I really didn't like this game. It's the first hog from artifex mundi that I've seen have a man but I dont base these games on genders. I just found the story to be bland and drag on way to long. There wasn't really any puzzles and the ones there were, were just way to easy and the hogs scenes I struggled way to much with. Oh and I did skip the bonus story, I'm not a fan of them naturally so I'm not gonna touch one where I disliked the main

Also I noticed except from the 1st one, for which we actually play the queen, none of these features a queen (or at least one in charge). They probably could've just made the 1st a standalone and then called the other 3 a different name. By the looks of it number 5 goes back to it but I don't own it!

This version of dead rising 2 is complicated to say the least. For the most part the story is the same as well as psychos, survivors and gameplay. I found that alot of missions were no longer announced (pretty sure 75%was just bugged though since no mention on wiki) but they also added more people like a pretend cop who Frank can refer to the original game or Chuck as a psycho, who is the 2nd games protag. Frankly the story changes were like ehh, thats one way to include Frank I guess but then the end is just different and so stupid. The people just have different motives which kinda makes me want to say play both while also thinking why would you do that just pick 1! It's hard to talk about it without going into spoiler territory. Our last boss is a giant robot… Up until the last moments you didn't see anything that would make you suspect Stacey. She was good in the original game and was very helpful still in this game. Sure you saw a CURE member start the outbreak but thats because we saw TK pay him this time! The guy was also a psycho in both games. Then suddenly it turns out she's a secret agent and we have a giant crab robot to fight. Just search up the robot and see how stupid that thing is. I came for zombies not crab robots! Lets just say someone compared this to resident evil 5 so if that doesn't excite you for this game idk what would

Honestly I was dreading starting this. I didn't want to touch this last POP game since at this point in the last couple of months I've played so many point and clicks that it was getting boring and frankly most of them were terrible. I've not read The Pillars of the Earth and 1st glance it looked like it would be a drag to play through but it actually wasn't. I really enjoyed the different types of people I could be and because it tells you what choices you made in the end it felt more like an episodic game rather then your typical point and click adventure. That point is only helped with the fact you have timed choices and qtes!

Finishing this I totally get the praise. It was so much more amazing then I could imagine and I was honestly expecting to repeat so much more then I did. When I heard 2 playthroughs that's what I expected not save and reload a little bit for like 1 damn choice.

I was enjoying this but it doesn't really finish of great. There is an end but there's no talking. You defeat the bad guy which is typical but they don't say anything, then you rescue the baby in this case where we don't learn what happens. Clearly they went back home but was everyone okay? Did the queen forgive her husband for what he did? Like I don't expect much from these games but the story is just way to simple! Oh stop the dragon, open the gate and stop it again. Fix the ship and beat the bad guy. Simple is fine, I liked it but it doesn't feel satisfying since there is no end! However what I just mentioned was slightly fixed in the bonus chapter which is fine I guess? Normally the bonus chapter gives us story on why the events happened which I would've liked to see instead of just making us play more to get our actual ending which still didn't answer anything. All it answered was that indeed the husband wasn't unfrozen. In the end I also managed to miss a damn achievement since I didn't realise I had a tutorial to listen to dammit.

DOOM is a game I've heard a lot of good about. People have praised it as a return to the classic (non DOOM 3) DOOM, one of the best shooters in decades and so on.
I went in expecting DOOM, but with more melee, and my first reaction was disappointment. This was not at all what I expected, and as people had repeated the same praise over and over again, it was hard to not have that influence my expectations. But once I realized that in terms of gameplay, this is more of a successor to Quake 2/4 than DOOM, it clicked for me. My initial first impressions were also hurt by the bad interface design, particularly in the main menu.

DOOM is a fast paced FPS (though not as fast as DOOM 1 or Quake 1), where large amounts of daemons wants to rip your face off, and you need to kill them before they can do so. Rinse and repeat. And combat in DOOM feels very satisfying, particularly after you get the Super Shotgun (I'm so glad they did not mess that one up. The super shotgun from DOOM 2 is considered one of the best shotguns in gaming, if not the best).

While the combat is great in DOOM, there are some parts I thought detracted from the game. The main one being looking for upgrades. You're encouraged to look for different collectibles, and do some side quests, because those earn you permanent upgrades, which really make a huge difference. But looking for these upgrades really kills the pacing of the game, and I feel like the game would have been better without this scavenger hunt.

Overall, I quite liked DOOM, but I don't view it as a flawless masterpiece. It's a great game hindered by some major design flaws, an interface that feels worse than most AAA interfaces released since the early 90's

The Room series is a series of first person puzzle games, a bit along the line of MYST (the later entries more so than the first). In The Room Three you need to solve a lot of different (mostly) logical puzzles in order to open up new paths and progress through the game. And unlike the previous two entries in the series, this one is not super short. In fact, it's as long as the previous two games combined (if you go for all endings)!

The Room is a simple, but very enjoyable game. I generally found the puzzles to be a bit on the easy side, compared to those in similar games, like MYST or Schizm, but they still felt satisfying and rewarding to solve, which is the hallmark of good puzzle design. Other than that, there's not much to say. Like to solve puzzles, and want a light story to contextualize things? Then this series is great!

I never knew I needed an spiritual successor to games like Top Gear in my life, but apparently I did. Horizon chase is an outstanding arcadey racing game that borrows heavily from the Top Gear SNES series (a series I have just dipped my toes into). Racing is fast and fun, and it gets even better when you bring a friend along. They've also done something interesting with the perspective. While everything in the game world are 3D models, they seem to scale them in a way based on distance that's supposed to emulate the look of the sprite scaling that was used in games like Top Gear and Outrun, which gives Horizon Chase a very unique look to it.

Overall, Horizon Chase was a very pleasant surprise, and I really enjoyed my time with it. It's been ages since a racing game managed to sink its teeth into me like this, usually I get bored after a few hours, but I will return to this one.

This is my third time starting a Borderlands 2 playthrough in co-op, and the first time I've seen the ending.
Borderlands 2 is at this point a relatively old looter shooter. That is an FPS that also has elements borrowed from games like Diablo (mostly randomized loot). Borderlands 2 is probably one of the better looter shooters out there, with relatively satisfying combat, and some interesting guns, and unlike the first Borderlands, it does not end up feeling repetitive after the first few hours.
That said, the game is by no means perfect. The humor often feels forced, and far too much of it is reliant on getting laughs out of you by being obnoxious. The main villain is quite entertaining, but most of the side characters are not.

This is the kind of game that I would probably not beat in SP, but in co-op it works quite well. There's enough to do here to keep it entertaining, and some enemies do feel like they were made for having a second player around, as their weak spot can otherwise be hard to hit.

It's a LEGO game. Really, what more can be said about it other than that? If you've played one LEGO game you've played them all. This time there are pirates in it.

You might remember that I talked about LEGO Jurassic World in my last post. Well, most things said there remain true here as well, but where Jurassic World had raptors, here you have pirates. Almost all mechanics are nigh identical in these two games, the only thing that's really different is that Jurassic World had big dinos that you could control at a few points, and here one of the characters has a compass that lets you find buried treasures.

This game also kind of highlighted how forgettable most of the Pirates of the Caribbean moves actually were. The game follows the story of the first 4 movies, but I found myself struggling to remember most of the scenes from movies 2 & 3, so some of the jokes were lost on me. Only the first movie seems to have left much of an impression on me (I've not seen the 4th).

Also, for some reason this game got very crash prone in the final quarter (the bits dealing with the 4th movie). And for some reason, characters had a tendency of getting stuck in places, which was really annoying, as it meant that events would not trigger properly. I sometimes had to spent up to 10 min trying to push a character out of a stuck position, so I could progress with the game

If you like LEGO games, and Pirates of the Caribbean, then this game will probably be worth it, despite the bugs. If you don't love Pirates of the Caribbean, you might as well go with any of the other LEGO games, they're all pretty much the same, only this one is a big buggier than most.

Blasphemous is a gorgeous Metroidvania with outstanding pixel art. Set in an alternative reality Spain that's been consumed by ideas of "Catholic sin", Blasphemous has you fight through a world where people are obsessed with being punished for their sins, and viewing the suffering they feel as a divine gift. It's really dark.

Blasphemous feels like a very post-Dark Souls metroidvania. It borrows quite a few mechanics from the DS series (although it's not a souls like), including rather punishing combat, and the need to pick up your corpse if you die. Combine it with an ever expanding game world, that opens up as you progress further into it, and you have Blasphemous.

I really enjoyed this game. It's great. It's not "Hollow Knight" great, but then again, Hollow Knight is the best game in the genre, so that might be an unfair comparison. A special mention goes to the bosses in Blasphemous, which are really creepy looking, and for the most part fun and challenging to beat.

This is my second attempt at this game, and the second time I almost instantly got a headache so bad I had to turn off my computer and dim all the lights. There's something about the icey "border" around the screen in this one that just makes my eyes not focus right, and that results in a headache so bad I can't keep on playing it. There's an option in the options menu that seems to indicate that it should remove this effect, but it does not. I simply can't play this, which is a shame, as I have a soft spot for these kinds of tile-based first person RPGs.