Greetings, everyone!
Time for a new entry, let’s review the next few games I’ve played:

For ABC challenge, letter W: Waking mars

I found this game terrible boring, and awfully lacking. I liked the idea at first, of a scientist exploring
martian caves studying new lifeforms. But the way the puzzles become a chore, the bad quality of
the story and the cardboard graphics did make me uninstall this game quite fast.

FINAL SCORE: 4/10 MEDIOCRE

So I had to put another game here, and I found no better one that my last big assassination:

The Witcher 3: GOTY

What a ride! The best RPG I’ve played in years. This game is not without its faults, but it’s an amazing
experience that every lover of the genre should play.

Setting: I’ve liked this world’s lore since a long time ago, I’ve read the books and played the previous
games. And I feel this aspect of the game is impeccable. The mood, the characters, the world…
Everything makes sense in this world, and I felt it was brilliantly done.

World and Graphics: same as before, there are a few visual glitches here and there, but the world
looks astonishing, and feel alive. You cannot interact with most NPC, and some view this as a
downside, but they add a lot to the atmosphere. I’d rather have this that the 10 NPC skyrim’s capital
cities. Map feels alive, and compels you to travel through it. Its size is huge, and this may be one of
the downsides. It feels empty at times, even if beautiful, with little to do, as with most other open
world games.

Story and Quests: It’s surely not the best story in the world. It’s kind of predictable, standard fantasy
setting story. But gods, was it well written. I feel this was the main draw of the game for story driven
games lovers. Both main and secondary quests are mostly of good quality and very well done, with
maybe the few first ones giving you a kinda weak start.

Gameplay: this is when things go a bit south. All gameplay is serviceable and decent, excepting Geralt
controls are not very good. But while the combat seems fleshed out with skills and tactics
customization, it’s still dull and repetitive. This goes hand by hand with the game’s lack of difficulty.
Geralt is so powerful that you won’t struggle much with anything even on the highest difficulty, and
you don’t even need to fully explore the skill trees. This lack of challenge will put off some players,
especially the ones who like more action centered RPG.

Exploration is also not rewarding, since the map offers you an amount of ? symbols signalling where
you should look. And most of that places are just some monsters/bandits with mediocre loot.

FINAL SCORE: 10/10 MUST PLAY

Overall, I think this is a must play game for this generation, even with its flaws. There is so much
quality and love in this game to let it pass

Letter H: Hot Tin Roof: The cat that wore a Fedora

Let’s just say that I didn’t like this game. The gameplay seemed poor, the graphics were poor, the
level design was extremely confusing and I didn’t have the patience to try it further. Oh, and I hate
cats. So I didn’t find anything good in this, sorry. I’m growing pickier with the games I play in this
stage of my life.

FINAL SCORE: 2/10 VERY BAD

So, I chose another game instead of this:

One Finger Death Punch
This is a game of reflexes and combos. You control a stickman martial artist with just 2 buttons: one
to strike left, and one for striking right. This simplicity hides a quite complex and interesting system,
since coordination and quick thinking are very necessary in harder difficulties.

Overall, and despite average graphics, I very much enjoyed this game, it was very fun and addictive.
The unique and fast gameplay makes it a good choice when you only have a few minutes of playtime.

FINAL SCORE: 7/10 GOOD

Letter Y: Your quest

This is a mixed game between resource management and dungeon crawler. It’s very basic and short,
but since I like this kind of games I sticked with it to the end.

FINAL SCORE: 5/10 AVERAGE

The Shrouded Isle

This is a small game I got in last Humble Monthly. I wouldn’t have bought it otherwise, but despite
it’s very short length, it was a pleasant surprise. You are a cultist leader awaiting the arise of your
dark god, and you must sacrifice people in order to make him/her/it happy, while juggling with a
series of variables, like noble houses approval and population fervor towards your cult. It’s a fine
small game, but I would not recommend buying it if not in a bundle.

FINAL SCORE: 5/10 AVERAGE