Recent reviews by Asmodeus

Very... whatever experience. Gameplay peaks early on and remains consistently mediocre throughout. Unlike Trilogy, ZA 4 is more "arcadey" in nature and all Sniper Elite weapon impact satisfaction is gone. Can't say I hated it, but I won't be ever returning to it either.

- "What do I owe you?"
- "Nothing. It's for free."
- "FREE??"

I miss you, Stefan

Being too broke for Battlefield 6, I went back and finally played through Hardline's singleplayer and you know what? It was actually really fun! Real shame that this formula didn't stick with Battlefield community. I can see what EA was trying to do here - smaller scale Battlefield title between major releases to be able to keep up with Call of Dewty. Entire cops and robbers theme is also very interesting, rubbing a heisting genre enthusiast such as myself just right (Call of Duty about cops/SWAT would have been cool as well now that I think about it).

Multiplayer is dead with only one mostly populated server in it. Technically you'll still be able to play it though, although you'll sure have to wrestle with broken Punkbuster to keep it from kicking you every minute. At -95% off it was a fine deal, I liked it. Yet again, real shame it didn't click for majority of the playerbase.

Dynamics of RE4 in first person with RE7's mechanics simply doesn't work. Game feels straight up frustrating to play. RE7 worked, because it's based more on RE1 in terms of pacing. Not the case with Village, this one feels like an RE4 from Wish. 3rd person mode is just as horrible since the game was not designed for 3rd person to begin with. Story is a forgettable whatever, overly sexualized Dimitrescu sisters make me cringe uncontrollably. Man I'm glad that Winters's saga is over.

Gotta thank my sister for making me give it a shot. I REALLY like Far Cry 5.

Pulling away from typical exotic setting with extravagant villain in favor of rural Montana was a fantastic choice. Map is full of things to do and always alive (perhaps, too alive at some points. I feel like I'm fine without helicopters and planes crashing all around me while I'm trying to fish in contested regions). Directing is great, cult theme is intriguing and is portrayed amazingly. Not a single character I can't stand (if you don't count the ones I'm supposed to dislike), Joseph's actor gave his all. Best Far Cry antagonist after Jackal (fight me).

It honestly would be faster if I count things which I dislike:

- Constantly being kidnapped and be forced to play story missions which is essentially unavoidable, since everything you do pushes you towards the end. Sometimes these kidnappings are straight up absurd, like when I was sniped with a sedative arrow while wingsuiting somewhere on the mountain.

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- Ending that make a player look like a bloody idiot. Throughtout the game you are given two choices to "walk away". One leads to a "joke" ending, the second leads to the bad one. Main ending is horrible (as in Bad Ending) either and is "player's fault" according to Joseph. Which is rich, coming from a cult leader whose cult is: murdering, pillaging, zombifying, drugging, brainwashing innocent people. And right in the end his character has AUDACITY to accuse the player of making the wrong choice. We are made to feel "bad" over our choice when main villain has no issue gouging someone eyes out for just for theatrics. Joseph tried to see everyone, you see. Killing off half of Hope County is "collateral lmao xD", you see. Absolute trash of an ending which, thankfully, can easily be retconned since a) Nobody likes nor cares about New Dawn, b) final boss fight was under infuence of... heavy substances, so it can be written off as drug induced hallucination. HOWEVER, I must admit, final section with driving while nuclear bombs keep falling gave chills.

Quick word on side content: waste of time. DLCs are boring filler, Arcade is dead. Interesting idea, horrible execution. They gave map making tools, but didn't give any incentive to be creative and make proper maps. 99% of custom maps are horrendous garbage.

You won't regret it if you are looking something to scratch your open world FPS itch.

Despite being written by various authors, Linear Bounded Phenogram is a Steins;Gate visual novel through and through.

It's either drags it's feet for hours before getting to the point (God I love Zero purely because it gets to the bloody point much quicker without unnecessary water in plot) or it's an unstoppable rollercoaster that keeps you engagent and entertained up until the end. Not a nothingburger like My Darling's Embrace but ain't necessary either. Think of it as "El Camino" of Steins;Gate universe. Regardless, can't say I didn't like it, a fairly enjoyable experience.

I bet my ass this was a Android/iOS title at some point in development but they decided to make a PC port of it instead. What. A. Garbage and absolutely insane downgrade to Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2. The only cool thing about this one is being able to play as alien units (I'd really like a viper waifu Torque to squeeze me for 2 points of damage every turn) and that's it.

Firaxis claimed that this is an experimental title but I genuinely don't see what they were experimenting with. Chimera Squad is so watered down it's not even funny. I got this in a bundle with War of The Chosen expansion for XCOM 2 for pretty much free and I still feel robbed.

I'm glad that I was proven wrong. A fantastic remake. Sure it's not as perfect as Resident Evil 4 and is rough around the edges but MAN did I enjoy every second of it. It was a fantastic decision to start with Silent Hill 2. However if sure feels like Bloober Team did absolute contractual minimum and quickly ditched all support, even simple bugfixes (which is HELLA weird considering that they are doing original SH remake). Born from a Wish never seen the light of day but considering that it was a pointless, unnecessary and less than an hour adventure - it's not that much of a loss. It would've been it if was on the level of Separate Ways.

This is why it's best to have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised rather than be disappointed because of inflated expectations.

The only good part of Battlefield 5 I can think of is The Last Tiger campaign. Other than that I... don't really have anything good to say about it. I *suppose* the new mechanic of building fortifications was interesting but that's it. Personally? Horrendous TTK is what made me abandon the game and go back to Battlefield 1. The lower your weapon's fire rate is - the less chances that you will win a duel. Good luck using something like Sten or MP40.

EA tried to dip into "current thing" and it backfired so badly that they abandoned the game entirely almost immediately and I'm not particularly surprised. They tried to be a battle royale (current popular thing at the time), they tried to be Call of Duty with killstreak squad score system (which backfired badly, only SL can call these in and EVERYBODY wanted to use these so you constantly end up in games where there's 16 squads with only 1-2 people in them), they tried to dip into cosmetic/skin market and failed at all those things altogether.

Do yourself a favor and go for Battlefield 1 or 4.

Meh. No different from the original game. Gets boring just as fast.