Recent reviews by Andrei Ulmeyda

There is a very fun game buried in here, that reminds me a lot of Brink set in the awesome universe of Ghost in the Shell. However, the literal non-stop frame stuttering and lag make it a unfun chore to play.

The game is a first-person shooter with several modes (3 total, 1 team deathmatch and 2 objective based). You pick your operative when you first start playing, from among the list of Section 9 operatives, each with their own speciality. The Major can deploy an invisibility cloak, Ishikawa can deploy turrets, etc and you pick your weapon loadouts. While it sounds fairly standard, it's actually presented in a pretty cool way, with ghost diving serving as the loading screen. You can only choose one operative at a time until you unlock more which feels really limiting but it's to be expected for a new game in early access, I suppose.

When Batou started talking with The Major during the tutorial, I was pretty surprised that it sounded just like the voices from the show. I certainly didn't expect that.

Then I started to play the actual game and this is where it took a dive. Enemies teleporting around the map, my character firing, stuttering, then no longer firing or being dead already when the stuttering stopped. Unable to move at all during lag spikes. Needless to say, my first game ended poorly. I checked my connection, made sure nothing was downloading, checked my specs (certainly nothing amazing but more than enough to run this game), all that fun jazz. Tried again. Exact same issues. Tried a different game. Worked just fine.

Alright, maybe I'll switch from American Empire West to East. That's helped on a few other games, since I'm right in the middle. Except on East, I couldn't even get into a match despite using quick dive (the quick match option) and waiting several minutes. On West, it was sub-30 seconds which was pretty awesome, at least.

I want to love this game, as SAC is one of the few animes I'm a pretty big fan of and the TF2-style class based play appeals to me a lot more than a standard loadout-based FPS game. I understand it's early access but the jankiness of the game so far has made it really hard to get into. Browsing the forums, I'm hardly the only one with these issues, so hopefully they'll be addressed soon and this review can be updated into something more positive. There is a lot of potential here, it just needs some baby powder for those rashes first.

Disclosure: Edited this review as of the 11th with much more info, clearer thoughts, etc, to make it more informative.

The original arena-tournament FPS that started it all. Still amazing well balanced, fast, fluid and holds up to this very day. Amazing game, get it if you at all enjoy FPS multiplayer.

An old-school RPG in the same vein as Dragon Quest, with the absurdity and humor cranked up to 11.

A main character who often disdains everything around him, his fangirl and more journey to save a world they could honestly give a rat's ass about to spite the omniscient narrator. Absurdist humor, fourth-wall breaking and tons of little references and in-jokes abound.

Underneath it all lies a solid, if dated RPG that is actually a little unique in it's mechanics. Considering that this -and- Breath of Death VII come bundled for less than $3, there is no reason to not get it if you love old school RPGs.