Recent reviews by Wagz

If you're a fan of Mr Joel G's ENA animations, then you'll be a fan of Dream BBQ.

Wonderfully quircky, whacky worlds, character and adventures of ENA.

An incredible game nearly all the way through. The visuals and audio are stunning, the design of the world and slow fall into eldritch horror does an amazing job turning the mundane into an absolute hell-scape.

I was comparing this to Alien Isolation with how good this felt all around! It doesn't have as good as sound design as Aliens does, but the sound design never took me out of the game and always kept me in.

My only complaint I could give is that the ending doesn't feel very satisfying, it's very fitting and natural but there's something about the directing that and the lead up that ends up coming down as a bit flat.

Highly recommend as a game, It's really good.

I have played a lot of Starfield at this point. So I feel confident in my review here.
The game comes with a lot of what you expect out of a big company, beautiful sound design great environment, great visuals 95% of the time.

The writing is passable, some strange decisions made, a lot of the writing comes across as a draft that went through very few iterations. Or their final product wasn't something they were happy about, but pushed along anyways. Three out of the four main quests, were fairly generic but the stakes and escalation felt right and they were pleasant experiences. I think the writing, design, and character teams probably need to talk between each other more often, as you'll constantly come across things that pull you out of the game and make you question what is happening in the moment. This game suffers a lot from 'The plot demands it', characters do things, and actions happen because the plot demands it, not because it was a natural response of what was happening at the time.

Design wise this game is lacking, there are constant design decisions meant to make this game as slow, and as grindy as possible. It feels like an MMO in some cases the way the skills are laid out. City design is forgettable, uninteresting, and confusing. Their aesthetics are great, but in terms of playability it's awful and defies common sense.

Almost everything else, from dungeons, to planets are procedural generated trash. I love procedural generation in the right context, it's fantastic in rogue lites, it's fantastic in Dwarf Fortress, it isn't great in a fully fledged 3D RPG. Everything suffers as a result, it's either generic or the design is so weird it's clear the generation had some issues.

Not worth 70$, and just cheat experience and credits in. The grind takes forever.

I never write reviews, but I almost never play games as unique as Shadows of Doubt.

Graphically the game works wonders within its theme of a dirty grimy city. With the visuals always matching the atmosphere and mood of the environment you're in.

Sound design, is fantastic. I hope there is a bit more polish to come, especially when it comes to the situational music but as it is, it does its job pulling you into the game and giving you those emotional queues.

Game design wise, it certainly has its share of bugs, but the core gameplay elements are fantastic and when they're working smoothly it plays so easily and yet feels like it has an oceans worth of depth. Crawling around vents, breaking into peoples homes, snooping into peoples lives and building a case. It all feels wonderful. My only complaint, is that as of now the jobs are incredibly straight forward. You rarely need to visit more than two locations to solve a crime and more than half the time, I solve them by chance with just fingerprints which isn't the most rewarding feeling.

More on the motivational front might be interesting,
'Newspaper says they're killed by a coworker, you build up a case of all the coworkers and see which ones had motivation to kill them. Emails, or notes left around the workplace/apartment could point to oddities.

Definitely worth picking up and playing though, I'm excited to see what is next for these devs.

Amazing, Fantastic, they took the game we've loved for decades and just made it accessible on a level I never expected. Worth 30$ absolutely if you enjoy these types of games.

Not as good as other Worms titles. An overall let down.