Story: Someone infects city with virus that turns people into zombies. Such innovative... oh wait. Whole story is about "stopping crazy person from turning whole world into zombie land". Boring.

Gameplay: We walk around, shot zombies in the head, do some QTEs, pickup junk. Only thing worth mentioning is that game really feels like previous gen port, so controls with keyboard and mouse are really clunky. But using controller makes you miss a lot when shooting. So there is no "proper" way to play it. Co-op works really well though, which was surprising for such an old game. No connection problems, exchanging items in inventory works perfectly, and it doesn't feel like one player is "main" and second is just walking turret. When playing in SP 2nd player role is taken by bot that works well enough. Checkpoints are frequent enough to not feel penalized for dying. Game is linear, and there is chapter selection in the menu with option to see which collectibles were missed.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is dated, and it's obvious it's previous gen game. I didn't see any big bugs, just some QTEs that feels "unfair". Plus bad mouse acceleration that can't be turned off.

Story: Game takes place after Dishonored 2. And as game title indicates - it's about death of the Outsider. Plot is straightforward and without big revelations. And have yes / no choice at the end. So plot is not game strong point.

Gameplay: Gameplay is the same as in Dishonored 1, only that we have different set of powers. Teleport (that works in a bit annoying way, as we need to click double to move), seeing enemies / objects through walls, and camouflage. New skills (quiet run, higher jumps, no dogs alerts etc.) are acquired by finding bone amulets. It is possible to craft them as well, but game does not give notification about it. So I missed it completely. We collect junk (just like in Prey...) that gets converted into coins. Gear upgrades are bought in black market shops, but it all boils down to bigger stack of single use items. Nothing interesting really.

We can pick up contracts on each mission that acts like side objectives. But they are really simple - like "kill dog and burn it's body" or "find this person and drop them inside this crate". More of making game feels longer than it is in reality, than some well-designed side quests. Some of the contracts can't be completed in a peaceful way, and we need to kill someone. So it's not possible to get "complete all contracts" achievement for people that'd want to play only in no-kill way.

Tbh game was made by the same developer as Prey, and it feels like it shares a lot with it. Similar to how Assassin's Creed games share basic mechanics. So may be that they re-used assets and ideas heavily between different games. For example interface customization is nearly identical in both. Same as collecting junk in environment to get materials. Only that Prey felt fresh. And Dishonored feels like re-used game with some Prey perks. How long can you use blink to move between ceiling lights inside or balconies outside, to go behind enemy to kill enemy, before you get bored? I didn't see many environmental ways to kill enemies to make it more interesting. And ability to camouflage as enemy to go and kill another is not really interesting.

There are only 3 small levels, with 4 buildings that can be entered. That may explain why they did not add minimap - to try masking how tiny world is. It is possible to enter buildings in at least 3 different ways, and there are some hidden passages inside to move around. So they are well designed to give some replayability. But still - are really tiny.

Graphic, music, bugs: Textures are fine from afar, and blurry up-close. I didn't encounter any bugs.

Story: Bayonetta travels to recover lost memories, and understand why hordes of angels decided to attack her. It's hack & slash, so there is not much more to it. Just a background to kill hordes of enemies. There is no deep plot or big revelation.

Gameplay: TPP slasher like DMC or Darksiders. We get bonuses for making long and complicated combos, not getting hit, killing enemies in certain way etc. There are few alternative weapons, techniques, and accessories to unlock. Game is grindy, and it's not possible to unlock everything during one gameplay. Chapters are made from corridor levels, there is no open-map approach to traveling.

We have standard weak / heavy attacks that can be combined into combos, extra attacks, torture attacks (that looks like taken from bondage / BDSM community). Each unlocked weapon has some distinctive traits, and for example ski-boots allow us to move around faster and freeze enemies in combos.

It is possible to replay level but we don't get information where are missed collectibles. Camera can work wonky during boss encounters. I believe game is hard to play with K+M, as it was sometimes annoying to play with controller, for which it was designed.

Graphic, music, bugs: Music is nice, but feels bit repetitive. Graphic is fine but shows it's age. And I didn't encounter any bugs.

Story: We need to fight with alien threat! That's... all. We learn about past and current events from books, e-mails, audiologs and from talking to the characters. But there is not much story apart from that. NPCs are generic and not really interesting. I found it more enjoyable to learn various facts about typhoon than NPCs. Ending wants to be a "big cliffhanger", but I only thought "Ugh I hope I did not see the ending scene, it was so boring".

Gameplay: First person game where we can focus on stealth play, DOOM-like gameplay or using powers to take out enemies. But even on easy some enemies require few shots from shotgun on point-blank range to be killed, and ammo is scarce. So I think only possible approach on hard or nightmare difficulty is stealth, which makes game turn into Alien: Isolation.

Apart from the generic weapons (pistol, shotgun, wrench, stun gun) we can use particle (laser?) gun, gloo gun (makes foam blobs that put out fire or allow to climb on walls), dart gun (hitting switches from the distance).

Collected junk can be changed in recycling stations into RAW materials - later used to create ammo, weapons, health packs etc. It is also possible to throw recycling grenade and convert items in blast radius into RAW materials. It is selective though, so you will transform old turret into metal, but bin that stands next to the turret will remain on place. Feels off. IMO would be better to have "safe areas" where you can use this grenade to not cause dangerous damage, than arbitrary dev rules what can and can't be transformed. Blueprints are needed to create items, but they are abundant. Some can be found 3 times.

Inventory and map are easy to navigate and use. But all notes found in game are stored under "notes" tab, without ability to sort them in any way. Which makes it hard to find info you need fast.

2 or 3 missions are timed but otherwise map is open and it's possible to free roam for hours. But none of the quests I had to do were particularly interesting. Majority of side quests are just fetch objectives. There are some choices to be made, but mostly as context actions. So it's not Mass Effect type, where actions are clearly marked and have predictable consequences. Still it leads to rather (IMO) uninteresting cliffhanger ending.

There are few enemy types but (at least on easy) there is not much difference in approach how to eliminate them.

Graphic, music, bugs: Textures are detailed and whole screen just overflows with small environmental details. Music is really atmospheric and was making me jump a bit in more tense moments at the beginning. Game is generally bugless, apart from physic. It is possible to pick objects and move them around, but not to rotate them. So if you pick up chair on wrong angle it will be never possible to put it back standing. Feels like downgrade, as there are games that allow players to pick up, rotate and put object in any way they want.

Story: Our character arrives on the island and needs to find their lost mother. Game heavily relies on occult and historical events of XVIII century (Bonaparte, Washington, Spanish aristocrat etc). So if someone is really bad in history and don't remember basics about French revolution or beginning of USA - they may find whole story to be rather bland.

Gameplay: TTP detective game. We can collect clues from the environment and books, talk with characters to get needed information, solve environmental / logical puzzles.

We are required to chose character class - diplomat, occultist, detective. Each specializes in different skills, and it cost less points to level up skills that are specific to the class. For example if we start with detective then all skills associated with this class have 1st level, while we need to unlock non-class-specific skills by investing points. Having specific skills is necessary to chose certain dialogue options. If we talk with scientist and have science skill unlocked, then we will be able to ask about science-related topics. That's why it's good to invest enough points into skills to at least unlock them. Leveling up skill further lowers endurance needed to use it. If topic requires 5 endurance points to use - we will need to spend 5 points on 1st level, 2 points on 2nd level, and it's free to use if we have skill on level 3.

Talking to characters is biggest part of the game. Dialogue options are divided between general topics (that does not give detailed information, or will lead to failure in confrontations) and specific topics (tied to unlocking character skills). On top of that each character has their weaknesses and immunities. If we chose specific topic that is an NPC weakness - we will not use endurance points. Choosing specific topic for which NPC is immune makes us exhausted - which means that skills cost more endurance points to use. Finding NPC immunities and weaknesses is a big part of the game, and we can do it via talking, or being noisy and read information left in their rooms (books, letters etc.).

We can carry up to 5 honey jars, golden elixir, thorns, carmelite water. Honey restores 2 endurance points, elixir removes negative effects (like being exhausted), thorns temporarily show character immunities and weaknesses, and water makes next use of any skill free. Amber is not consumable, but finding 4 permanently rise our endurance by 1. Those items are found by free roaming the map, but sadly picking up mechanic is annoying. If you already have 5 of certain item game should not allow to pick more and display "Inventory full" next to the item. Instead of allowing it to be "picked" and showing later huge message "max items number, item not picked".

It's obviously not possible to max out all skills, so we need to decide on which we want to focus. Skills are also used as a help in solving puzzles, but it's not necessary step. We can grab piece of paper and re-calculate dates by hand for example. Many puzzles rely on reading or finding connections in the bible, so you may avoid this game if you're allergic to catholic religion.

Choices look more impactful than those from TWD series. If we help character and prevent them from dying - they will not die anyway 5 min later, attacked by zombies. But instead try to confront us at the very end of the game. I didn't do 2nd gameplay yet to see how many choices like that are in the game, but this one makes it more than whole TED series anyway :eyes:

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is detailed, music fits to the game. I didn't approach any visible bugs, but overall animation quality is moderate. While whole body animation is ok - face and hand animations are lacking. Especially hands, as most of the time they act as stiff planks. Not hand that has fingers that can move.

Story: Our sister is kidnapped and we need to get stronger to rescue her. End.

Gameplay: I played on mobile, so it is surely different on PC. But in general map is open and we free roam it to go into dungeons, attack enemies (still happens on the map, no battle transition), pick up quests from notice board. But whole game is one big fetch quest really.

Experience is earned by killing enemies and character auto-levels up. No skill points to unlock abilities. Magic spells are leveled up via spending in-game gold, and gear is leveled up by unlocking loot chests. Which is stupid waste of time, especially with too long animations, and inability to buy x chests to unlock them at once.

There is some variety in enemies design, but everything boils down to "attack, run away, wait for enemy attack sequence to end, run to attack again" sequence.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is "cute and simple". I played with sound off, so can't say anything about music. And game is bugless.

Story: Our caravan is attacked on way to the city, and we end up in storm that "enables" us to see people soul / essence. Which pushes us into quest to save the world. Not amazing description, but game makes up for it with interesting backstory for the world, gods etc. On the other hand companion quests are bland, and in one case it literally boils down to going to one location to talk with NPC. So there is no complex interaction with companions, like in BW games for example.

Gameplay: Isometric RPG which is quite similar to Dragon Age. Only that companions are dumb. And will get stuck on a way to the target. Or not cast any useful spells even when we try to configure (very basic) AI. So it's not "pick characters and order them to attack" game-style. We need to constantly micromanage who characters need to attack, when use healing abilities, move ranged characters away from attackers etc. Character may be left with 10% endurance, and they will not use ability that will recover this endurance... It may be something old-RPG fans will love, but it was just annoying for me.

Character pages are full of data, but don't list something as basic as "which weapon is best for this character". Inventory is a mess that is sorted by name. Not by category or rarity. So even if you try to sort armors by type you will have "Heavy, Light, Medium" order, which is totally unintuitive. It's even worse when it comes to sorting weapons. Sword, magic, shields, pistols are all over the place, instead of being nicely grouped together.

There are no markers on the map or in the walk mode, so you don't know if there is new quest. You'd need to click every NPC over and over again to double check if they have new quest, or if you did not miss them before. Which is especially bad for companions. I literally missed 2 essential characters (and combat on easy difficulty was really hard), as I thought they are general peasants without much interaction. Like if they could not add markers that are turned off by default, to not angry hard-core-fans. I did try to look for a way to turn on markers with mods, but only encouraged angry players that wrote "general location in quest description is too much, I want Baldur's Gate with no hints at all!", and that even this bare bone help should be removed.

There is optional "rebuild your stronghold" quest. But it's nothing like upgrading Normandy in ME2. More like "castle where you can sleep will look nicer" thing.

Characters have health and endurance. Endurance regenerates after the battle, while health does not. We need to eat food or rest in a camp to regain it. And frankly I don't understand whole idea behind it. Character will faint in a fight when endurance drops to 0. And it happens way before health can even reach 50%. Normally endurance is used to cast spells / use weapons and health is health. And here endurance is like health, and health is I-don't-know-what-for. Only thing that matters when you send character with 0 health to battle (yes, it's possible, as endurance regenerates) is that it will permanently die if it's hit by something. And we need to re-load save to restore companion. Otherwise their companion quest fails and they are no longer accessible.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is nice. But zoom out could be bit bigger. Music is fine. Game is in general bugless. But I don't know if companion AI is badly made, or it's buggy. You may send 4 fighters to attack a boss. 3 characters will take position in front and attack. 4th will stand behind them, trying to "go to" target that is "taken" from this side. They will not move around to attack from side or back. You need to click them and move them manually. If caster summons creature it will stand next to them, without attacking anything - again you need to micromanage it etc.

Story: We wake up inside QUBE and are given a task to yet again destroy it! But this time we have some backstory to it, so it's closer to Portal than original QUBE.

Gameplay: Our suit allows us to change color of the white surfaces (just like portals in Portal can be put on white areas). Green power makes a cube that can be moved around. Orange makes block that can be pulled out / in to the wall. And blue makes field that act like a "bounce platform". Game also features sprays that make cube slide around, fire, buttons that control fans etc. So there is quite a lot of variety in what we can do.

Learning curve is fine, there is no need to think for a long time to understand how to use new item or power. Which is important, as game does not give any hints what you should do.

Puzzles are nicely designed. I found them a bit on the easy-normal end. And I consider Talos Principle to be on the normal-hard end. But I think it may be because I played a lot of puzzle games in the past. First time I learned about momentum in Portal 1 I was like "woahhhhhh". Now I enter a room for first time and I'm like "oh yeah, momentum again". Things were nicer when we were kids :sadness:

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is fine. Music rather ambient. Game is bugless.

Story: We need to stop Jack from opening the vault and killing everyone. Big "part" of the story is game humor, but I'm not a fan. In the end, for me, story of this game is on the level of average FPS game. Enough to justify killing others, but nothing good.

Gameplay: We kill enemies, get tons of junk weapons (with hopes for something good), do fetch quests. So nothing much. Game was clearly designed for consoles. There is simple experience system, but it takes ages to level up. Mostly because doing all the side quests will make you over leveled for the main quest, and all enemies will give whopping 1 exp per kill). Maps are big, but rather empty and filled with invisible walls. There is no fall damage which makes exploration faster. Weapons are divided into groups (shotguns, SMGs, ARs, snipers etc) and are further modified by the company that made them (explosive damage, shooting speed, accuracy etc.) So it's easy to find your preferred weapon and look for it in the drops. There is basic trading between players, but it's clunky due to console menus. Driving mechanics is the worst I ever saw in a computer game (you drive in direction you point mouse at, not where you press directional keys).

Graphic, music, bugs: Game did not date well. But fact graphic is so simple is an advantage here - it looks better than "realistic" Skyrim for example. Music is forgettable. And apart from invisible walls (and collision problems associated with it) and some weird ragdoll game is bugless.

Story: Our character wakes up in a room and need to leave the Maw. Along the way we discoover what Maw is and what it does. There are no dialogues or text to read or listen, so story is learned from what's happening on the screen. But in the end it's nothing deep or innovative. I was disappointed in how shallow it turned out to be.

Gameplay: Game is a mix of light platformer, puzzle and a bit of creepy atmosphere. But it's neither platformer, puzzler nor horror. Many compare this game to Limbo and Inside. But while Limbo had nice puzzles, that focused a lot on trial and error; and story in Inside was not entirely predictable - LN does neither have unpredictable story nor innovative puzzles.

Instead we get puzzle with really basic design, platformer with control and perspective problems, story that is average, and stealth that's barebone (hide under table to not be visible - that's all).

There are few chasing sequences that are frustrating due to controls and checkpoints that are too far apart. If I already beat chase sequence and died shortly after due to badly timed jump - I should restart after chase sequence. Not before it.

There are two types of collectibles, but they do not unlock anything. And as you need to restart whole level to grab them (not possible to pick checkpoints inside the level) - it feels like a waste of time to start level anew to find collectible we missed.

Graphic, music, bugs: Music is really nice, but there are graphical problems with character models and animations are sometimes wonky. Controls are sometimes wonky, which should not be a case in a platformer game. And game was randomly crashing for me to the desktop.

Story: We need to stop nasizsts :D Story is predictable but still enjoyable. We can read optional diares and letters to learn bit more about characters background, or listen enemy talks that comment our previous actions.

Gameplay: Stealth is possible, but game was certainly no designed to be played slowly. We get passive bonuses for using weapon in certain way (killing x enemies with gattling gun will allow us to carry it in our inventory, killing x enemies with last bullet in the magazine unlocks faster reload etc.). Like in other games in the series we can use double weapons, find collectibles (that do not unlock anything). Enemy AI seems a bit lacking, as they can get stuck behind the cover.

I found climbing mechanic interesting. Instead of approaching wall, pressing E and then pressing W to climb we need to interact with wall, and then alternately click left / right mouse button to climb. Releasing button makes our character take the pipe out from the wall, pressing the button bury pipe in the wall. If we hold both buttons both pipes will be in the wall, if we lose rhythm and release both buttons - we fall down. I think this kind of mechanic could be used in Tomb Raider series.

Graphic, music, bugs: Game is bugless, but graphic feels a bit dated. Especially rocks or some foliage looks like taken from Skyrim. But character and weapons models are of higher quality. Music is fine.

Story: Enemies stole princesses and we go on the quest to save them.

Gameplay: Action sidescroller. Playable characters use various blunt / sharp weapons and magic to kill enemies. Each map ends with small or big boss. We can "equip" a pet that gives us passive or active abilities. Experience is not shared among players and granted in weird way - you get one experience point for each hit you make, not for damage dealt. So game promotes spamming light attacks to grind experience. Leveling up gives us ability to invest points into strength, health and magic. We can find burred weapons or get them from enemy drops. But they all feel the same when using, no bigger change in gameplay between using default sword and lightsaber.

Graphic, music, bugs: Game is bugless, music is fine. Graphic did not age, but some backgrounds make it hard to localize our character when there are bunch of enemies around.

Story: No story.

Gameplay: We control the ball and need to use physics (momentum, moving platforms etc) to beat the level. Each level compose of 3 sub-sections with checkpoint at the beginning of each level. But as levels are short - game is not punishing for dying. We can make ball more sticky to the surface, accelerate it or reverse gravity. But not all abilities are available on all levels.

Graphic, music, bugs: Game is bugless, music is ambient. Graphic is quite barebone but fits into overall game atmosphere.

Story: Hourglass time-pieces get sucked out from the spaceship, and without them our character is unable to fly further. So they are stuck on the planet, collecting lost time pieces. Plot is not amazing, but good enough to make kids entertainment. Not adults though, as it's shallow and villain is too obvious.

Gameplay: Game levels are unlocked in certain order, there is no real free roam mode. We start levels from our space ship, and they are boiled down to "find hourglass on this level". Some levels (like Mafia Town from 1st act) will be replayed like 5 times. While levels from Movie Battle are somewhat unique, but at the same time really small.

On levels we can collect yarn, coins, tokens and gifts. Yarn gives ability to unlock new hats and abilities. Coins are used to pay for badges that modify gameplay a bit (coin magnet, grasping hook, treasures radar etc). Tokens are used on ship slot machine to unlock new outfit colors, hat designs and music. Sadly there are less tokens than available prizes, so it's not possible to unlock everything. Gifts unlock relic pieces, and if you already have all the relic parts - they will give tokens instead. Relics do not do anything useful apart from unlocking 1 - 2 extra hourglass pieces in certain act.

Character can jump, wall jump, dash and attack enemies with an umbrella. Some parts of the levels need certain hat to be accessible (like dweller hat which gives ability to enter into spirit world for a few seconds). There are clear holes in the gameplay, as developers started to work on some feature, then dropped it, and did not remove idea from the shipped game. E.g. there is ability to change weapon, but there are no other weapons in the game. Some levels were unbeatable due to low FPS on my laptop. Thankfully devs implemented normal console with cheat codes, so you can use fly to get on otherwise inaccessible platform. EA or Ubishit would throw them into in-game shop under "time savers", and ask you to shell out cash for them.

Graphic, music, bugs: I did not encourage any bugs, apart from wonky camera work near to the walls. Graphic is fine, same as the music. Nothing to go back in the future though.

Story: Our to-be-herose need to save the world from evil demon. Game has a lot of references I didn't get, and humor I did not found funny.

Gameplay: This game has friendly fire, so it's easy to kill other players... which I did a lot :hehe:. It's isometric action game where you move around with one mouse button, attack with equipped weapon with other and use keyboard to make spell combinations. No jumping, hiking, dialogues or choices to be made. There are 8 elements, each is assigned to different key. Pressing key for water + cold will produce ice, shield + stone will spawn ring of boulders etc. It is interesting, but I was constantly ending with bad key strokes that were messing up spells I wanted to create.

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic and music are fine. But this is multiplayer-oriented game - and it's online mode is implemented very badly. It is not possible to move from one completed level to another. When next level loads game will freeze for hosting player, kick out joining player, and then crash for both.

Story: I don't remember this DLC to have any story - so N/A.

Gameplay: The same as in base game with small additions. Curses can be "paid" for items or get from the enemies. They increase possibility enemy will land critical hit on our character. Fights on the arena (wave horde mode) gives some points that can be spent for permanent bonuses. On top of that devs implemented statues that can be built, and give permanent boost. They are really expensive and act as infinite ore-sink for endgame players that like to grind in their games forever. So not for me.

Graphic, music, bugs: Same as in the base game.

Story: Hunter is kidnapping animals. And we're sent on the quest to free them, defeat him and his subordinates. Muahaha!. So nothing overly complicated, but it is also game for kids. So it fits.

Gameplay: Kao can jump, attack with gloves and jump-slam. Some sections require use of gliding, others are timed. So it's quite similar to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. I think studio did copy this game a bit :D We don't need to collect keys or coins to end level though, it's enough to reach the exit. Levels are simple and of ok-quality. Could be more complicated for my liking, but it's kid's game. So I will not complain here.

Graphic, music, bugs: It's PS2 era game, so graphic and 3D objects are really simple. Psychonauts was released the same year as this game, and graphic there is more complex. Music is really basic, and voice acting is average.

Story: We join a summer camp which trains cadets for Psychonauts. Soldiers that are able to enter mind of someone else to "fix" their mental problems, steal secrets etc. After first night someone stole brains of other students, and we start quest to bring them back. And to save our girlfriend! Script is well written, even when it does not have any plottwists or surprises.

Gameplay: Platformer that is preferably played with the gamepad, as K+M controls are wonky (I remember having a lot of problems while playing non-Steam version on K+M years ago).
During gameplay we unlock abilities which allow us to progress the plot. Levitation, pyromancy, shooting, confusion grenades etc. This is not metroidvania though, so there are no additional areas on levels, that can be unlocked with new abilities.
We collect figments and PSI cards, which upgrade our psychonaut rank. Every xth rank upgrades certain ability - longer lasting invisibility, ricochet psybeam etc. It does not feel like something really important, as abilities do not give visible advantage. So collection part of the game is really optional.
Game hub is small, but still has fast travel points. Levels are closed, there is not much in the terms of free roam. Dialogs with other characters are quite basic.

Graphic, music, bugs: This is PS 2 game... so graphic is simple. But thanks to that game worked at stable 45 FPS, so yay!. Music is bit repetitive, but voice acting is good. I did not experience any in-game bugs, only problems with game opening / closing.

Story: DLC focus on events that happened before main game campaign. So destruction of terraformer on Mars. It is short (like 2h), but does not feel rushed.

Gameplay: Just like in the main game. We have a few weapons to chose from to shot + hammer to break stuff. Destruction model (in this 2011 game!!) is light years ahead from anything new you can buy right now. You can break every single wall, fence, floor, vehicle you can find. And it stays destroyed unless you rebuild it. Game is corridor shooter, so there is not much of an exploration. But it also means we don't need to go long way to gather resources, and exp is given for killing enemies. I beat main game exactly 6 year ago, and most of the fun came from destroying stuff :D

Graphic, music, bugs: Graphic is ok for that old game. Voice over is fine, and I did not experience any noticeable bugs.