Recent reviews by Serge le lama routard

I'm writing a review because so few have.
The game is a puzzle platformer that brings to mind Prince of Persia or old school Tomb Raiders. In This game however, you are alone, no sand corrupted guards nor wildlife to brutalize you. You have the capacity to jump, activate stuff and throw a chakram that will be useful for a few puzzles.
The environment is beautiful despite the low polygons count and many shots reminded me of classical Tomb Raiders level. There is not a lot of sound tracks in the game. It has a relaxing exotic middle east feel to it. It is kinda lacking in that regard but the game being really short means that you don't really get the time to get fed up with it.
How long is the game was the reason why I wrote this review as in the other reviews I saw only people publishing the review just after launching the game and playing like half an hour or people having 15ish hours of playtime.
The game is really only 3 hours long. Which isn't really a problem imo you just need to know what you are getting as of the time of this review it doesn't have any registered times on How long to beat.
The lack of a guide to explain how to get all the achievements is a pity as well since it seems some of them are quite interesting.
Conclusion: Good little game that will get you busy for 2-4 hours. If you liked the Prince of Persia and the sands of time and old school Tomb Raiders you should try it out, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Best Tomb Raider ever made, be sure to grab the mod to play the original soundtrack.

Another good game in the Steamworld series, they never fail to impress me. It's always refreshing. The art and gameplay is really good, I would say the problems are with the story: really basic uninteresting and the repetitivity. One run will be enough for you and you mostly won't play it a second time. As a result I advise you to play directly in legend because lower than that it's too easy. Especially if you never switch characters and have a good compo from the start (first 3 characters were my go to for all bosses when the other ones I just used them for trash mobs for fun).
The game is fun to play nonetheless and really good looking but I still prefer Steamworld Heist

This one is my favorite among the 3 games of this saga, sure it's an old school point n click, it is really hard sometimes but my god the environments are beautiful. Every screen is a pleasure to the eyes. What makes it my favorite overall is that when playing the two follow ups, I was often finding myself remembering how it was in the first game. The races, the locations. In that regard, I really think that the 2 other games are disappointing, it fails to recreate the enchantment that this game was when I played it. I think it's my favorite point n click so far, the second might be syberia 2 maybe.

Like many others, my game crashes at the beginning, even without this crash my pc has a lot of lagging issues even when running it with everything set as low when it worked with FFXIII. It's even more frustrating for me because i'm really curious about the pet system, seems really cool. I don't know if SE plans to release a performance patch, hope so, but i really doubt it. Buy it on console if you want to try it, unfortunately i don't have a ps3.


EDIT: I have been able to try it out with a better computer, and now I can talk about the different aspects of the game, there have been some improvement compared to FFXIII like when the character you control die, you don't have the game over immediately which is nice. What I don't like is: you only have 2 boring and generic main characters and that's all, hard to play when you don't like the MCs, the music: it sucks so much it makes my ears cry, and that's coming from someone who like FFX-2 OST (which I think is great, but I know that most people hate it). The gameplay is pretty much the same as FFXIII. The greatest thing about this game is the way you can play with time travel, really adds to the non-linearity compared to FFXIII (I like linear games but FFXIII was just awful). I don't like the story either.

This game is awesome! Though the gameplay is pretty much basic, the fun is really there, i loved using the same soldiers over and over because my team was so over powered, maybe you'll consider it as a flaw (never changing your team) but i didn't mind, i really get attached to my men because everyone had their role. The diversity of the ennemy is really nice too and being able to study them and capture them (gotta catch'em all!) was fantastic. At the beginning you'll always be low on cash and you'll always be waiting for your payday to get new weapons, or construct new aircrafts, it's really addictive! Though this game is really great it has some flaws, sometimes you'll move a unit and you won't be able to fire on your opponent because something blocks you but you can't see it and you can't go back oh no! The other flaw isn't really a flow : if you want to exploit the game at it's maximum you'll have to buy Ennemy within which is a little bit expensive considering you've already bought Ennemy Unknown. But you have to buy Ennemy within, you can't play without it, it adds too much awesomeness to this already excellent game, it adds mecha, and you'll be able to genetically modify your troopers, new ennemies, new missions, you HAVE to buy the extension.

Nice little game to kill time, it looks like a flash game so get it on sale.
You can easily beat this game in a few hours but if you take your time, get all the minerals you'll have about 6 hours of playthrough i think, the graphics and music are nice and the gameplay is addictive : especially the upgrade system.
There's not really much to say about this game, fun and addictive but a little bit expensive.

I loved this game, Khemris are so fun to play, crushing other players is SO fun!
If you liked the boardgame then you must want to get it already, but for the newbies i'll try to describe why this game is so good. The number of teams is really nice because each team represents different playstyle : the humans are pretty much balanced and you'll be able to throw passes or run through the opponent's line whereas elves' playstyle is based mainly on passes and dodging tackles due to their agility, Khemris will try to litteraly crush the opponent's line to get their holder of the ball to the touchdown because they can't do a single pass while gobelins will play dirty by using unconventionnal weapons during the match such as chainsaws, pogo sticks etc...
At the beginning you'll be a little lost if you didn't play the board game because nearly nothing is explained, you'll have to read the rules book and that will take you about 1h to get through this but when you master the rules it gets really fun. You should start by playing the campaign mode because that's how you'll learn most easily.
Final flaw : sometimes you just wish to play real american football ^^ (and maybe you'll find the commentaries getting a little bit old after a bunch of hours of game)

First, you have to know that there are only 6 stages which is a little bit weak for the cost of this game.
I got this game on sales and i must say that if you don't mind spending 9 euros for about 6 hours of game or if you get the chance to buy it on sale then buy it!
This game has really great music and the gameplay really synchronyzes you with music's beat. After playing this game i couldn't help singing over and over these musics. The story isn't really interesting but it matches the game atmosphere. The fact that you are under water is really awesome and i think that it fits perfectly to the concept of a music game.
If you buy this game you'll surely want to buy the ost and that's perfect because you can get it on their website for 3 dollars or more as you wish.

This game has great graphics, good gameplay, aweome music (point lemaign is taking the cake for me ^^) and a fantastic story in my opinion. It has a newgame plus and it will take you around 10 hours to beat it the first time if you want to finish all the training stages. The only flaw i noted is the story telling, although the story is really good i kept complaining about the fact that i couldn't read the subtitles while i was fighting at the same time. I'm not english but i can understand spoken english but when i'm focused on fighting monsters i can't really concentrate on what i'm hearing.
If you are seeking for a smart beat them all with an amazing atmosphere, colorful graphics and a raging little kid, then this game is for you. If you don't, well this game is for you!