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The Park is a psychological horror-based narrative experience, and is actually a spinoff of Funcom’s The Secret World, an MMORPG. The controls are extremely simply, as all that you do is walk around, observe objects and shout for your son. The plot begins simply enough, you play as a young mother...
Like most roguelikes your first few attempts are chaotic. Frantically trying to slow your descent as you rush downwards while haphazardly stomping on enemies and collecting gems as best you can. Once you start to achieve a balance between falling, shooting, and pausing to take a breath, things start to...
I understand this is a management game, but you are also a character in this world. Something is lost when all the action takes place and you are just standing there with nothing to do, watching the archers painstakingly attempt to murder monsters. At the time when tension should be...
Graphically, Sword Coast Legends is pretty standard. This genre has never been known for its looks, and Sword Coast Legends is no exception, but it is presentable. Despite this, the game is incredibly difficult to run. You can blame this on its complex systems, unoptimized code or specific effects, but...
The ingenuous movement mechanic and clever level design make Mushroom 11 a standout in a market saturated with physics-based puzzle platformers. Even with its flat soundtrack, I would still recommend Mushroom 11 to those you enjoy the unfamiliar and experiencing fresh ideas. Mushroom 11 offers a memorable experience, and one...
Another criticism of mine is that it takes roughly 2 and half hours to complete a run around the globe. It’s quite a lengthy amount of time for something that may simply fall apart one city away from the finish line. Even when you are three quarters around the world...
What really sells this game to me is that it is open to interpretation. Whilst more or less being a linear narrative, its use of the surreal and simplistic vehicles for storytelling leave a lot to discuss at the game’s conclusion. In the early stages, it can seem that the...
Lifeless Planet hits you with a kind of preachy undertone that makes you think about the way we use our own planet. Human beings treat Earth as if everything will be around forever, consuming our precious finite resources on a rapid scale for our own selfish creature comforts. I can...
The violence in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is what you’d expect from a shooter including limbs that can be severed or exploded by your bullets. That’s all well and good, I just didn’t find Wolfenstein: The Old Blood to really bring anything new to the genre. Sure, it’s a good...
There are plenty of things to spend your diamonds on in Crypt of the NecroDancer though, so you shouldn’t have any problems finding something you want. There are various merchants in the lobby that you’ll have to find keys to gain access to, including a Dungeon Master that sells permanent...
Westerado: Double Barreled features local co op so you and a friend can have a retro romp through the wild west just like you always wanted. I tried co op out with my brother and it was pretty fun, I just wish Westerado : Double Barreled supported online co op.
Unbelievably, there are more ways to play. Free Roam is just a sandbox version of the story, with no objective and no end-game conditions so thatplayers can move freely as any kind of in-game bread. There’s Zero-G, a mode in which you are placed back into the same maps, but...
