Recent reviews by xProFlipScarab

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The MCC had a very rough early life on Xbox, then the MCC team really stepped up and slowly ported the entire Halo series [that matters] to PC with modding support...
While the 343i management is busy desecrating Halo's corpse The MCC team worked there asses off turning this collection into the gold standard.

6 Full campaigns [Three of which are 4p Coop and Three 2p], Firefight, Multiplayer and Forge all with the best customisation in the franchise [Bar H: Reach], 700 solid achievements that will keep you busy and some of the most satisfying FPS gameplay of all time...
*Oh and also one of the fairest "respectful" battle pass systems of all time; 8 Seasons with no time limit, the ability to progress in any you choose, and a reasonable token system that can be earned through a healthy amount of challenges which have sets for both PVP and PVE [Campaign/Firefight/Ect]

As a teenager the MCC was a dream come true, all of my favourite games in one upgraded package...
As a young adult the MCC fulfilled that dream all over again when it released on steam...
Now at the age of 26 they put in more polish and extra content that any of us every believed... This collection stands as a snapshot of my life and will never be uninstalled...

What can i say Capcom knocked it out the park once again...
Only reason my Playtime isn't triple is due to Life Stuff...
I'm frothing at the mouth to replay this with Preydog's VR Mod...

Only issues I have with the game worth noting are:

1. Boss Transformations are notably hidden from view and oddly lacking compared to the original...
2. DLC Should have arguably been free... [It absolutely should have been free for Deluxe Edition owners.]
3. No Assignment Ada
4. VR Mode Being an PS Exclusive [Timed Exclusive I can respect but not permanent].

Overall an absolutely fantastic game and almost perfect remake, Don't think about this game JUST BUY IT!

On a serious note, Luis has no ballistics Line... 0/10 ♥♥♥♥ game do not buy :)

I'd give this a neutral review if possible but steam doesn't allow it and I'm not inflating this game's positive review count because frankly i don't think it deserves it.

Massive Potential, Seemingly Abandoned, Pure Cancer Lobbies...

Recoil isn't absolute ass like most VR Shooters however it's too far in the other direction now... 99% of weapons found in current lobbies are just laser beams that can 1-2 tap your dome.

Combined with the fact that lobbies are full of a select few basement dwellers that clearly never put this game down... (There is a separate competitive category but no, these degenerates want to sit in casual mode and practically jerk off down mic) They absolutely melt everyone in the lobby leaving the casuals constantly spawning and 1 shotted before even seeing the attacker, most maps are too big and are spawn trap galor...

Modding carries this game hard, Much better than pavlov. The COD Zombies maps are genuinely fantastic.
The games vanilla zombies survival mode is clearly abandonware, Very promising ground work with terrible balancing and game design...

One of the absolute worst things about this game is the completely abysmal settings menu, Graphics settings are hollow and the gameplay settings and VR adjustments are next to non-existent...
HOW THE HELL CAN WE NOT CUSTOMISE WEAPON/AMMO/EQUIPMENT PLACEMENT BUT SOME RANDOM DUDE HAS A WHOLE COD ZOMBIES MOD BUILT FOR FREE THAT HAS EVERY CARRIED ITEM COMPLETELY CUSTOMISABLE

Truly one of the best remakes of all time... Up there with the likes of REmake, Crash/Spyro, Demon Souls and Shadow of the Colossus...

It takes Dead Space 1 and Remakes it faithfully and fully while adding impeccable detail and atmosphere, Its the dead space we all know and love we all the Quality of Life changes its sequel brought to the table and bringing the entirety of the Ishimura together as one streamed Map; The train still acts as the fast travel hub, however now levels seamlessly interconnect not only providing one fluid journey throughout the game but also gives you this amazing sense of scale while showing you how the crew actually travel from one end of the ship to the other.

This is truly the definitive way to experience this story and I hope to god they are going to get to remake It's sequel and possibly rework the 3rd entry...


There are a few minor gripes i had with the game however i don't really wan't to point them out here because you could essentially go through the entire game and not realise them or until you give the original a replay or rewatch and directly compare them like i did...

[Summary / TL:DR Bellow]

First off i want to say I'm the type of guy who does enjoy a completely unrealistic fantasy land dating sim regardless of what other people think of the genre so i enjoy both genres this game has...
So most people are going to have some sort of idea that this game is not what it appears to be just like me, i didn't see any spoilers i just knew that at some point something creepy or spooky was going to happen...

The first 2 hours of this game are your traditional date-sim stuff which would be fine however its so basic in its execution, its all one giant cliche and non of the writing or scenes having any interest or originality to them what so ever, so even though i enjoy these types of games i found it so boring and inconsequential that i ended up skim reading through a lot of dialog because most of the initial dialog as nothing to do with anything...

Regardless of my previous issue i still ended up pretty attached to Yuri, this is my first VN in a long time so my nostalgia for this kind of friendship is probably the only reason i cared about this pretty cliche 2 dimensional character... Some pretty cutsy, wholesome moments ensue and I'm at least enjoying this much, During this time we start the unravel Sayori's character who has serious depression...

Now Depression is a very hard topic to think/talk about due to it being a massive spectrum and extremely hard to understand from an outside POV, IMO Sayori's confession comes across as so ham fisted stereotypically dramatised depression that it actually pulled me out a little, But i accepted that some people can feel and act like this no matter how stereotypical it sounds so i continue on...

Our main Protag acts equally stereotypical with his overbearing support which left me wanted a bit more complex writing for such a delicate issue, fast forward through a wholesome scene with Yuri (or presumably which ever girl your choices give you) and we get to a pretty heart wrenching scene where Sayori witnesses the protag getting close with Yuri which causes her to confront her own confused feelings... You then have to lie to her to hopefully save her from total breakdown or be honest and tell her how much she means to you as a friend... of course i chose to be honest as nothing good comes from lying to a mentally ill person, This causes her to have a mental breakdown and run away, at this point I'd be calling a helpline and making sure she doesn't hurt her self but what does our protag do... Brush it off like it will be ok in the morning ...

Cue next day: Sayori is no where to be seen on the way to school, Protag concerned? of course not he thinks its perfectly fine to leave her be (Although is suspect she has already done the deed so it wouldnt make a difference) so our protag goes off the school where he then decides he should go check on her so off he goes again... We are then shown a pretty disturbing image of her hanging in her bedroom, at this point i'm preparing to go on journey about mental health and coping mechanisms but then the game uses this extremely real and harrowing topic as a cheap segway into the next act with some fake Renpy exception logs behind the still hanging Sayori which i though was very distasteful...

The game "Ends" and throws up a "broken" main menu, clicking the jargon where start would be starts the game over but without Sayori... This is where the game switches from date-sim to breaking the 4th wall spook, and there isn't much to say about this half of the game because it just replays 80% of the VN you just read with some creepy glitches here and there...

So this chunk of the game takes another few hours of repetition and half baked spook which i had 0 interest in for the most part, the last hour was when Monika really started to hint at her true nature and had me intrigued at best, it all becomes a big 4th wall break and Monika is written as some weird sentient character But at this point i just want to die because all this happens over extremely long sequences of pauses and jargon text... after deleting "monika's char file" the game glitches and the dying monika restores the game without her

You then spend more time dragging through the same dialog only for Sayori to become the sentient character and go spooky BUT THEN ghost monika nukes the game and a sad song plays and then game ends requiring you to reinstall he game to play it over...


This game is a mix of Date-sim and 4th Wall break spook, But does neither to any notable extent... The first section's date-sim stuff is super generic almost intentionally which makes it such a drag to get though (even as someone who like date-sim type VN's) 80% of the dialog was useless drivel...
Once you get the to spoopy stuff it would have been mildly interesting if the game wasn't insistent on making you relive 90% of the dialog you have already read but with a few spoopy graphics errors and then once the games hits ♥♥♥♥ town dialog crawls to a halt with seriously long pauses and jargon which completely ruins anything the Novel had going for it.

My last point is about how the novel handles mental illness, I genuinely thought this was going to be a serious dive into depression with how brazen they wrote Sayori's scenes but then its completely played off for a cheap spook which i though was pretty distasteful... Its all written off as fake in the end game anyway so i ended up feeling like I'd just wasted 5 hours of my life for a cool concept that was wasted with awful writing... And to top it all off anyone that got remotely invested in any of the characters during the 2ish hour intro just get a giant ♥♥♥♥ you as the story stops half way through and is never concluded or given a second thought... I will never get to see what happend to my boy and waifu Yuri and that pissed me off

[Side Note]
I know this is a terribly written review but once i finished this game i needed to put my opinion out there to counter the universal undeserved praise (most likely due to youtubers) but got so bored and irritated at what the game did that i lost steam 3/4s of the way through writing it but i had to finish it so here have a ♥♥♥♥ review

completed the game on normal 3 times in ~2 hours (although to 100% the game you need to play through 5 times).
Gameplay is surprisingly fun for the most part (especially as new game+ gives you an infinite ammo gun every time you complete it thanks devs for know where to assist with the repetition)

Adult Content is rookie level but still pretty good (The VA if you can call her that for the main character sucks though)
Story is an extremely funny twist on RE3 and i think the 3rd/Last ending was worth it :D

For £1 this is 100% worth it, a good 2 hours worth of BS fun I might even go play it another 2 times just to 100% it

To start off i can't not recommend this VN due to its free price tag, but its not great..
Warning this game is 1 massive ♥♥♥♥ tease to anyone remotely intrigued by it i finished it in 15 minuets its not even a complete first acts worth and ends on a filler scene at best...

Now to review said VN first segment of the game has you debating whether or not you even want to continue through the VN due to how messed up it seems to be for the sake of it, but then towards the second segment the characters hold a small amount of worth to them.
Clive for the most part doesn't make much sense with conflicting Feelings for Alice being shown in the same paragraph but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up guy that can possibly be redeemed interested me just enough...

Alice is the selling point to this story (although in this VN that isn't saying much) its the classes abused girl story desperate to find an escape which doesn't sound like much but once paired with our questionable "protagonist" its where the real interest from me comes in; it feels like its going to be 2 broken characters that will heal each other in their own way

The uncle character has a few lines but for the most part not good nor bad, however i do appreciate for me at least he didn't feel 100% transparent like most VN characters i always felt like he wasn't truly saying what he was thinking which for me is a nice change from very regular VN characters having very clear mind sets and motivations

All in all that all you can say ... there isn't even a finished act here just enough to give you blue balls from a story perspective and a H-scene perspective

Art is good (BG are nice, Alice looks superb)
Writing is a meh (not being able to differentiate bad writing from intentional questionable character moments due to the lack of closure)
Music is standard.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD FOR A QUICK NUT; NO H-SCENES
BUT I STILL RECOMMEND YOU CHECK IT OUT FOR 15 - 30 MIN OF PENITENTIAL TO FOLLOW IN PART 2

MONSTER GIRL ISLAND: PROLOGUE 04/04/20

Decent Game.
You know what your here for... but the story looks like its going to be interesting.
The content of this game is very inclusive, it caters to a variety "tastes" and im sure this will only grow in future builds. but for the most part im sure at least 1 character in this game will suit your fancy (However Shiru can stay the ♥♥♥♥ away from me, it was going well until the meat got beat.... and not in the good way).

All in all very promising game, im looking forward to newer builds

In summary...
- Story looks high standard for what we get
- Girls are High standard
- graphics are gorgeous
- H scenes are high standard for the current build this game actually is
- Animations are OK but this is a pretty early build, from what ive scene on patreon there is more work put in to newer builds
- Gameplay is the biggest problem for me, movement is very slow for the size of the world (yes the wolf helps but still), the UI is also sluggish and there are alot of key bindings to be desired... However for what this build is you cant expect pollish just yet as gameplay will probably be the last thing the dev will finish.
- Note to the Dev the one scene with voice acting is scary (Mystery girl) ... please stap it!

Potential 9/10 (in my opinion)
Story 6/10 (in its current state)
Graphics 9/10 (Geometry could use some work yes but in its current build the graphics are great)
Girls 7/10 (for now)
H-scenes 8/10 (Its called Hentai and its art...)
Gameplay 2/10 (Definatly tests your patience and i didn't even do the grindy shopping bits for outfits)
Demon Slime girl (Eris) OVER 9000... Worth the whole game .... Now have arms of body builder ....

Really fun time playing through the story mode, definatly pick this up on sale or not

****"2018 H1Z1 Funeral ****

Well there we go .... i posted my original positive review back in 2015 then changed it to negative at the end of 2017 now a year later These cheeky C**ts have the audacity to just pack up and f**k off leaving a unplayable game behind (ACTUALLY NOT POSSIBLE TO PLAY WHAT SO EVER WHEN THEY PULL OUT THE SERVERS) Knowing full well steam refunds wont help us... we all paid money .. we all supported you... You never supported us ... wonder what would of happend If SOE (Sony online entertainment) was still developing the game.

I WILL be writing to steam about this as you are in a sense stealing a game back from your customers after they have allready paid you

IF THEIR IS ANYONE ELSE READING THIS WHO HAVE BROUGHT THE GAME WRITE TO STEAM ABOUT DAYBREAK STEALING FROM CUSTOMERS BUT REMEMBER DONT BLAME VALVE FOR THIS BLAME DAYBREAK.... Oh and P.S. Daybreak F *** U *** C *** K YOU


***** 20/10/2017 REVIEW ******
HAHAAHA Thanks daybreak you F***ED one my favorite games in the Ass ... Fast travel ... safe areas.... THe F**k are you doing are you even paying attention to your fan base everyone hates your new direction but do you change ? NO so f**k off get lost and give me my money back

Sorry for just being angry and all but if you saw my original review you can see i used to LOVE this game but now its not even called H1Z1 anymore ? Come on "Just Survive" Really... i dont know whos in charge of marketing and naming stuff but you have clearly got a brain dead fool.

Over all macanics are Ok, Strong holds are idiotic , Safe boxes are also idiotic , safezones are silly but i think i could deal with it, FAST TRAVEL ... ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH WTF ARE YOU GUYS DOING PUTTING THAT IN A SURVIVAL MMO. Sorry daybreak but you really have upset me and it just makes me mad how you ignore your fans requests and everyone knows it.
Look at your ♥♥♥♥♥♥ HUD & Menu from day 1 compaired to King of The Kill, the fact you can't give us a nice menu and HUD after all these years is a JOKE

**** OG 2015 Review REST IN PIECES H1Z1 *****

First of all i would like to say how amazing the devs ! these guys add new stuff every week <-- EVRY WEEK
secondly i LOVE THIS GAME !

thirdly, i see people say theres loads of bugs and hackers ive never seen one hacker, and the worst bug i ever game across was a door opening and killing me (which Pis *sed me off !)
but the game for how early it is, is just awesome its lightyears ahead of DayZ standalone and thats been alpha since 2013

this game has great NPC's; the zombies are pretty good at pathfinding and kicking your ass, one zombie is easy if u have the right tools but 3 or more u can get into a pickle if your not carefull, the wolfs are pretty balanced which makes them a pain if ur not carful but a perfect sourse of food, The bears however i think need to be tweeked (yes i know bears are very big scary and OP) but they somtimes can be found way out of place and once they track you most the time they will sprint after you non stop and they kill u in around 3 hits, i think there should have a tad less health i shot a bear with 3 hunting rifle rounds to the face and it just rhino charged me and kicked my ass. so yeah the NPC's are nearly perfect

The guns are pretty well made too with more being added like every 2 to 3 weeks now ive only ever used the origional 4 (AR rifle, Hunting rifle, M1911 and Shotgun) not much to say about them apart from they work pretty well although i do believe they should spawn with ammo in the clips occationaly because at the moment all guns spawn empty and ammo is a pain in the ass to find (baring in mind that this game is based around the us so a small defence arm and ammo is pretty standerd for homes)
ermm what else ..
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Ahh crafting...
H1Z1's crafting is awesome it works perfectly nothing else needs to be said.
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Over all this game is pretty solid and i can't bloody wait for what comes in the future !!!!!!!