Recent reviews by 3RDplayer

I finished SilentHill2. Too much combat, all subtlety of the story is completely gone. So if you like subtlety, you won't find any here. But you find a great survival horror gameplay loop with exploration, combat and solving puzzles.

The Bad / Story Changes
While the original was more weighing down on you with its atmosphere, the remake tries to terrify and keep your blood pressure high with combat encounter after combat encounter. The atmosphere is still here and as good as in the original game, but its clear that Bloober Team decided to give combat a more prominent role too.

The story additions add NOTHING to the games overall narrative. Each character's mental health issue is now front and center and their defining trait. They constantly shove it into the camera to let you know at all times how much they suffer.
In the future dear Bloober Team: don't change dialog, don't change cinematography of cutscenes and don't add fan fiction level slob as extended story. The implemented changes and additions change the original intended meaning and is proof that who made them misunderstands the source material.

Deepdive on how characters are presented
Since the game came out, I came to the conclusion that the remake variations of the characters is just different. But the points i initially made below still stand:
James now constantly cries, sobs and coos how much he has mental health trauma.
Angela now constantly acts out and performs to let you know at all times that she was abused.
Laura is now just an a**hole little kid without any traces of innocence and emotional struggle left.
Maria is now a 40 year old soccer mom looking milf. They added a fanfiction subplot and nightclub scene that adds nothing to her character. In the subplot she tries to show James that she is reliable in replacing Mary by guiding him to a place where she thinks Mary is waiting at.
Eddie is now depicted as a disgusting filthy ugly pig, he constantly acts and lets you know in every cutscene that he is exactly what people bullied him for. This completely misses the point!

The Good / Verdict:
Why do I still recommend it? The atmosphere, the tension, the thrill and the terror and horror are amazingly implemented. I loved every second. The actual gameplay loop is terrifying: The game managed to make me, someone who doesn't get scared at all anymore, scared again. It also reminds me of the good old times exploring places, uncovering clues and solving puzzles. Go and buy it if you want to relive survival horror, despite the fact that there is way too much combat now.

Can't recommend it at the moment.
I only recommend it to help the creator out, who usually has a great track record.
The true problems started in stage 3 which is the first boss fight.
Here you die 40 or 50 times until you get lucky after trial and error.
- You can only carry one dial clock at a time.
- You die in 1 hit. Maybe 2 if you are lucky.
- Enemies die in 1 hit, some in 2 or 3.
- Bullets are easily dodged by using sideway strafing slowly. Unless you are swarmed from multiple directions. Or dodged by running backwards as far as you can and then go through the gaps.
- Level design is very basic and short.
- Level 9 elevator ride can be cheesed by standing at the place the spawning enemies have their back turned to you.
But there is an update planned to fix some of these problems. So I guess it will be more playable in a while.

This game delivers exactly what it says in the title. Sakuya Izayoi is offering you basic life advice and, in addition, dabs at least once. Hey, thats 0,79cents and 10 minutes of your life well spent if that's what you were looking for. No regrets!

Hey, it's Corpse Party for poor people!
Grab some snacks, and some friends on discord and stream it to enjoy a short and eventful evening full of deaths, WTF moments and laughter. Can you find all possible deaths? Story isn't really that deep, gameplay not really ground breaking.

There is not really a difference between male / female MC playthroughs. Except the male part forces you to make a decision while the female part makes you choose on your own. Keep that in mind just in case you plan on 100% all achievements and started with the male part first and skip through the dialog on the other.

RPGmaker fans and newcomers shouldn't pass it up and give it a spin.

Visuals
The different color schemes for each episode are a nice touch to make each story feel different from each other while keeping the same playable and returning characters. The art is lovely and even includes great looking still images and very short FMVs to give characters and stories some extra depth.

Combat & Gameplay
Combat on the other hand is nothing special. Superweapons that trivialise the combat can easily be found by exploring the locations. For extra enjoyment I would recommend not using them. Most of the time you will talk to characters and solve the mysteries every episode presents to you.

If you are a fan of short JRPGs with little exploration but great and loveable characters and interesting stories. Then nothing should stop you buying and enjoying LiEat.

Why buy it?
Resident Evil 3 Remake features 5 difficulty modes. Two of them being unlocked after beating Hardcore Difficulty. I highly recommend playing Hardcore first because its the difficulty the game seems to be designed around. Once you have cleared a playthrough, you earn unlock points that you can spend on bonus items, weapons and inventory slots for your next playthrough. This means, the more you play the game, the more bonus you can unlock and the more chances you have to survive the brutal and challenging higher difficulty modes. There is a ton of replay value to be found with that.

Also remember. Once you purchase Resident Evil 3 Remake, you will find the complete co-op multiplayer game Resident Evil Resistance in your library for free! You can play this one with 5 of your friends online! If that isn't enough value for a retail price of $60 then I don't know what to tell you.

Should you trust the haters of the game?
Resident Evil 2 Comparison
Resident Evil 2 Remake isn't a perfect remake. The second half was completely different, at least 90% of the iconic character interactions were cut out, the A and B scenarios made even less sense than in the original. Even going so far as creating giant plot holes and time paradoxes the original didn't had. There is also no replay value except maybe speedrunning it for better ranks and unlocking 4 weapons. Not counting the bonus modes and DLC.

The average playtime on Hardcore Difficulty was 8 hours on the first playthrough for the A scenario. And yet you don't hear the hardcore fanbase scream and moan about content that was cut in comparison to the original RE2? Some even praise it into heaven as a perfect remake. Which makes no sense reading the points I listed above.

Resident Evil 3 Comparison
Resident Evil 3 Remake isn't a perfect remake either. The second half is the best part of the remake. In comparison to the original, at least 90% of the iconic locations, mechanics and character interactions were cut out, but got replaced with even better locations and the story makes more sense than the original.

The average playtime on Hardcore Difficulty was 8 hours on a first playthrough. So why is the hardcore fanbase screaming and moaning about content that was cut in comparison to the original RE3?

I believe most of it has to do with being blinded by the fact how good Resident Evil 2 Remake was, as well as - I really don't want to say it but I have to - hardcore fans being biased! They wanted a 1:1 copy with not a single stone turned. And that's not what they got and the reason why they are salty. I am a hardcore Resident Evil fan too, playing the series since the first game came out over 25 years ago and I consider Resident Evil 3 Remake a phenomenal remake that even puts RE2 Remake into shame.

Conclusion
If you want to play through Resident Evil 3 Remake only once and never ever again. Then I can understand that a retail price is too much for you and that the short playtime of 8 hours for a first playthrough on Hardcore won't satisfy you. In that case you can wait for a discount and still enjoy this phenomenally good and thrilling survival horror experience. And who knows what DLC will be out by then!

Nyanco Space is a challenging and short game. I finished it in maybe over 1 hour. Nyanco got kidnapped by aliens and you have to save her! Gameplay is very simple: Avoid the bad guys, jump over obstacles, eat food when you get hit to replenish health, pick up all the points and make it to the end.

The game can be saved at the beginning before landing on the planet as well as halfway through and sometimes before the boss. The only thing I found a little disappointing was the art. I was also hoping for a little bit more fanservice. But maybe next time!

Conclusion
Nyanco Space is a nice little time waster as usual. Best enjoyed while streaming and talking with your friends while having a good time. So why am I coming back to playing these games? I think the most of it has to do with the fact that the developer making them just has fun doing so. And that's all what small little indie games need to be enjoyable.

The used sound effects were good and can make some people feel uneasy. It also doesn't have cheap jumpscares that popp into your your face, which is always a plus. Due to the nature of the games content (suicide) unlocking achievements doesn't affect your profile games completition rate.

Conclusion
+ If you look for a very short atmospheric horror game that makes you feel uneasy, buy it!
+ If you want to support a small indie dev studio made out of two people, buy it!
- If you look for a cheap game to increase your profile stats, dont even think about buying it!

Gameplay
If you run out of health points you will have a gameover. If you don’t get hit, health regenerates constantly, even during on-screen text. So if you are low on health just enjoy listening to the music for a while and then continue with almost all your health fully replenished.

Responsivity
When too many danmaku are on screen the game slows down to a crawl, making movement impossible. The trick is to memorize the patterns and move accordingly to the dead spots in hope not to get hit. Even if you get hit, you will somehow still be able to spam the shoot button. Maybe the developer can find a way to resolve this issue either with a patch or hopefully another Nyanco game set in Gensokyo (please?).

Sound & Music
Nyanco Dream features some sweet renditions of the bosses themes from Touhou as well as the iconic danmaku sounds. My only complaint was with the final boss, when she is almost defeated the music gets super hyper but it’s long over before real excitement can settle in.

Conclusion
Nyanco Dream got everything that one likes about Touhou. Five Bosses (almost all of my favorite Touhou girls, except.. Where is Patche???) to challenge you, including their recognizable danmaku patterns. The sprites are cute. The english localisation is good. The only thing it lacks is responsivity. But it’s an enjoyable time filler that can be finished in around 20-30 minutes for a single playthrough. So what are you waiting for? Become a fan of Nyanco too!

Nostalgia Goggles
A future where armies of robots and human fighters battle it out in the middle of city ruins while blue and purple lasers fly over their head. Where giant robot tanks, flying HunterKillers and humans bombard each other with rockets causing big explosions and destruction wherever their rockets hit. And if it's not an all out battle, Resistance Fighters use guerilla tactics to sabotage and stop the robotic warmachine before engaging the machines that want to wipe the human race out head on.

It’s all there in this game, made by people that respected the source material in such shocking detail that especially fans of these future scenes of Terminator and Terminator: Judgement Day owe it to themselves to play it.

Gameplay
If Terminator: Resistance would not take place in the Terminator universe it would just be your average middle-class First-person shooter. It uses many mechanics from a variety of games in the same genre. The looting, crafting, lock picking, hacking, inventory managing, leveling-up and weapon-upgrade systems are all executed competently enough that there is not much to complain about.

Most of the time you will play alone. Exploring the small open-ended battlefields. You will avoid being spotted by Terminators but you can also just shoot at everything in sight without being punished for it. There will be various Terminator base-camps you can infiltrate and blow up. The game only saves at hideouts or sporadically at choke points on the map. But there will also be times where you run in a group of people rushing down the murder-machines coming for you.

While out in the field, you will fulfill main and side quests. Sidequests are given by NPCs you can talk to at base camps. When interacting with the NPCs you can affect their likability to you as well as the outcome of their story at the end of the game. There is even two love-interests you can sleep with if you so desire. Obviously only if your likability to them is high enough.

Audio
Terminator: Resistance doesn’t use the official music from the films but rather its own renditions and versions of the well known themes the franchise has to offer. This is especially helpful to increase the authenticity of the movies the game aims for. There is nothing more epic for a fan as hearing that iconic horn-sound when hiding behind a pillar while a group of death bringing robots passes by or while exchanging purple lasers with the iconic T-800s, HunterKillers and Airships during all out combat with your NPC teammates.

Difficulty
I started playing on Hard because I heard the game is too easy. And to my surprise it was. Even after increasing it to Extreme difficulty it was still not hard enough. It just makes the enemies more bullet spongy. If you want to play it only so you can say: “Yes, I battled in the future war of the Terminator universe!”, this might be fine. But if you are looking for a challenge then it can become a problem. It’s not a dealbreaker, but it can be to some.

Conclusion
In conclusion you can already guess that this is a game made for fans by fans. It’s hard to recommend it to somebody that has no idea about the source material. People would also think that it is a mediocre game. Yes, it’s not a perfect by all means, but passion and flawless, even though not outstanding, implementation of all its core game mechanics make it shine. Again, if you are a fan, then Terminator: Resistance is the game that you always wanted and then some. Happy Terminating!