Recent reviews by Struthio

Dishonored is an awesome title in more ways than one. It can be a stealth game, it can be a shooter, it can be a parkour game, it can be a lot of things. One thing it's not, is outdated.

One of the best games i've ever played. One of the first ones too, with my brother forcing me to play a "Real game" after spending hours on minecraft 1.11. Of course I finished the game with countless deaths (most being mine), high chaos and with no idea Granny rags even existing and having barely explored the map - but even then, it was phenomenal. The shooting feels good, the parrying feels impactful and the killing is exciting.

Having played it now, with a lot more knowledge and with 11 playthroughs under my belt, I can say this game is worth it. It can run on outdated hardware, it offers immersive gameplay and it's lore is... inspiring and inspired to say the least. It sure did inspire me.

It's a good game. You'll see a few bugs here and there but nothing game breaking in my 130 hours on shared accounts. Every map is an amazing playground to play in, most of the places you expect yourself to be able to go to, up a building's roof, in a tunnel or a river or inside a house, you can go to. Might not sound like much, but with how few games do this, it really is something to take note of. Best thing is, some of the spots you don't expect being able to reach have loot in them!

I've watched a lot of videos about dishonored and it and it's sequel introduced me to Best at Nothing, along with many other youtubers who discussed the lore, it's shortcomings and it's potential. I feel Arkane dropped the ball with Dishonored 2 but even it is good. As one of the videos i did watch say "Games offer the illusion of choice and freedom. In that regard, Dishonored is a master illusionist."

Additionally, all DLC were a welcome addition, save for Dunwall trials. Woudln't you know, more toys to play with!

+ Excellent graphics that leave up to this day even at low quality settings.
+ Amazing gameplay, regardless if you're going quiet or loud.
+ Replayability is through the roof
+ The lore is interesting and well thought out, even with it's short comings (it's one of my inspirations for my own writing).
+ One of the few FPS games I truly did enjoy.
+ Interesting and immersive world building.
+ You can vore the rats

- You can't sex the rats
- The level with Daud is excrutiatingly and annoyingly long and irritating (especially the part with the train, I've ran through it so much I only learned about the weepers in my last playthrough but even then I didn't bother.)
- You can't sex Lady Boyle
- The non lethal way of dispatching lady Boyle isn't interesting. I'm not really bummed about a stalker taking her, it furthers the cause of the loyalists after all, but it's not as interesting as it could've been. For example, you could have taken her yourself like you did with Sokolov. It makes more sense to me personally and the game itself would've avoided the flak it got for handling a woman to her stalker (Which is ridiculous to me. People got mad over that but not the countless of corpses you can willingly leave behind? Or the fact that you can let a little girl die, or worse, accept powers from a god who drove people insane (Proof: Sokolov level: Mad survivor)
- Achievements will be a pain to get thanks to the Dunwall trials.

In short, 9/10, would buy again.

Bad north is a charming and artistically beautiful strategy game.

It's small, easy to learn, self contained and can run on outdated hardware (like mine) very well. I rarely had performance issues except for a single crash while i was alt tabbing like a maniac.

The music is nothing to write home about but the sounds and VFX is. It does a perfect job of putting you as a leader for a guerilla army defending their homelands, with death all over the soil, the crimson fluid feeding the plants and going back to the sea from where it came.

It's brutal, hearing your commander die or killing a giant. As it should be, you're either being massacred or you're the one massacring - but there is also the in between, where you're managing, though with losses.

The price tag was a bit chilling at first, but having played as much as I did, i can say it's worth it. This game deserves more recognition that it has, dare I say, it should have as much success as Slay the spire does. It's a dynamic strategy game that really does enforce the "your actions have consequences" aspect. All in all though:
+ Good game design
+ cute art style
+ Replayability
+ Fun and challenging levels and enemies

- the general early game (With perks and items) is a bit rough
- price tag may be off putting for what it gives.

8.5/10

Got Slay the Spire on my phone before buying it on Steam. It's worth.

Endless replayability, fun designs, good artstyle and neat lore. After the watcher was added (i'm an old head), there was an uproar in popularity, and it was well deserved - lots of bad cards were reworked and the game as of now is in the best state it's ever been (all it needs is to delete clash).

I'd recommend it. It's a good buy and when it goes on sale for 9 euros, it's worth quite a bit more thanks to how replayable it is. Only criticism is that once you start unlocking things, most of cards and relics you do unlock just clog the pool with stuff you don't want. A lot of the achievements like minimalist or purity require good decks to live on, something like Thunderclap and two drop kicks - but all card rewards are just exhume and shockwave, not bad cards, but not cards you need - same goes for relics but that's different, as most relics (even the boot) can and will help (except for the branch if you're running a shiv deck).

That's the only criticism though, and it's not even that bad, as it simply gives more chances to make a good deck. I recommend this game from my heart as i've played it since I was 12. All classes hold their own (the fourth one a bit more so), all classes have good ideas and art (Even if The second and third are a bit more nuanced than Iron Clad and Watcher) and pretty much all decks work.

9/10, would buy again

I cannot reccomend this game.
I started on hard. First time. I've beaten salt and sanctuary and a decent portion of hollow knight. I'm well versed in metroidvanias and especially dark souls games. Maybe not on this account because i gave the old one to my brother but I am. I've beaten ds2, got ds1 past O&S, i beat bloodborne and I went to caelid on elden ring. I quit elden ring because it's boring and i quit Ds 1 because it was also boring. DS2 was not. I'm willing to struggle through whatever slog the game might throw on me if the game, lore and atmosphere is good. Tails of iron has neat lore, just enough to keep a history nerd like me engaged and it's artstyle is too godo for me not to endorse. But the gameplay SUCKS. It's not like ds2 or bloodborne where if you ♥♥♥♥ up it's because of your lack of foresight or skill, it's more like ds1 where the game just wants to ♥♥♥♥ you over with it's jack. This game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ j a n k y. Hitboxes out the window. Might just be me playing hard mode but it is not fun at a l l. The enemies are too tanky and you are too squishy. I'll admit, I still dodge when it's yellow but that's because too few enemies have yellow attacks. I'm at the second boss, the shield guy after receiving the bow and he angers me even more than the first one. The circle attacks are utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thanks to the jank hitbox. On hard mode, if the game just ups the ups the damage and health values which, fun fact, is not good game design. It's lazy. They could've done something fun like both you and the enemies do more damage. How can I stay immersed when the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ king of rats, the protagonist, the prodigy dies from 2 wee lil arrows while the archer, the guy that is supposed to stay back because they're squishy, does n o t die from five hacks to the cranium by a double handed axe. It's absurd. No, it's more than absurd, it's borderline bad game design. I wanted to enjoy this game, it's everything i could ask of: Medieval aesthetic, cool artstyle, cute rats. All of that down the drain because the game can't balance itself. I do everything it asks of me - Dodge when red, dodge back or front when circle, block arrows and parry yellow. I still have trouble with parry yellow but i'm fine with a spear taking half my health. Why? Because it's a spear. The king of weapons. What i'm not fine with is the welp wielding it, which has no armour by the way, having double the health of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ KING! I cannot STAND it. Games like intravenous and dark souls do this well, in intravenous everyone dies in one or two bullets and in DS it's believable because you're fighting gods or animated armours. Here you're fighting frogs. Sure maybe they have tougher skin but that's not an excuse when im wielding a hammer or a double handed axe.

♥♥♥♥ this game. I've beaten Dark souls, darkest dungeon, skyhill and so many other tough games. This game actively doesn't want you to have fun. There's delay input, sometimes it just won't parry for some reason, sometimes it doesn't block for some reason, some times it does not let you attack even before finishing a combo, sometimes it charges up an attack without your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ consent.

This game is bad. I cannot recommend it for the life of me. I locked in, i can beat the mobs just fine but the bosses are the bane of my existence. Terrible design, terrible hitboxes, terrible everything. I hope i can still get a refund from this ♥♥♥♥.

Editing after i got further into the game - It still sucks, i did get better at parrying but to no avail. I reached the mines boss where you just fight three guys back to back and it broke me again. Can't believe i can beat the souls games and not this

This is a pretty good game. I payed 25 euros for it and it damn well made up for it.

First of all, I am very biased. This is the game I watched my father play when I was a toddler and part of my core memories is him burning tyranids in a dark corridor.

That being said, no amount of Bias is enough to say how good this game is (or at least was for it's price). I wasn't fast enough to get the mobile OG Version, but I can see that this was a port. Regardless, it's awesome, no Microtransactions, great gameplay and the only things i would say are "bad" about it is the music and maybe the marines moving a bit too slow.

That being said, The gameplay is fun and the live banter between your marines is pretty fun (+ the voice acting is very good). If you have a key or some way to get this game, i'd highly recommend it

This, is a very good game.

I love it. It's, as it says in it's own description, unique. It's not for everyone, but if you just want something simple to just boot up, play and rock back on your chair at 3 am before you go to sleep, this is t h e perfect game for that. The achievements are fun if you're a perfectionist or achievement hunting, there's great replayability, The story is pretty neat and it poses great challenges in the later difficulties.

It's one of a kind, and if you like it then it is worth your money.

This game

I first tried this game when I was twelve. I was playing Minecraft, my brother walked in and told me
"Play a real game you donkey"

And so, he directed me to Darkest dungeon. I cannot even begin how much of an as Whooping it is. If you don't know ♥♥♥♥ and if you don't think (like 12 year old me), you are going to fail and all of the heroes you trained and spent your time with will die by hearing a slightly above average in loudness howl by some giant cuckold that gives everyone tinnitus.

However, if you are into ♥♥♥♥ and ball torture and if you do want your efforts, foresight and knowledge to be rewarded, this truly is the game for you (and me). It's by no means a masterpiece, but combined with the DLC, the Workshop and the already good amount of content the game has, it is unique and fun in it's own way. Greatly recommend it.