Recent reviews by Ganking Panda

GOTY.

Endgame is a disaster of grindy, time wasting decisions that is only worth doing if you can play the game as a full time job. Campaign is some decent, but sometimes draggy, fun. Hopefully future patches make the the endgame more rewarding and fun to play.

If you think you won't like it, you will.

TFS is the best Destiny has ever been. If you like Destiny, you'll really enjoy this expac. If you don't like it/it's loop, you probably still won't. The campaign, patrol, events and activities are the best they've been. New exotics are actually fun to use. Sound effects are on point. Well worth it for any Destiny fan.

This is a special game. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it is an amazing ride for the ones that stick through it from ending A to ending E. It's hard for me to really describe what I love most about Nier without spoilers so I'll try to remain as vague as possible. The combat is fast and fun, the world is engaging to explore, the characters will bring you tears of joy and sorrow over the course of the journey and it has the BEST SOUNDTRACK EVER MADE! Seriously, the score is ridiculously good from beginning to end. Each theme brings it's own unique feel and the perspective changes get reflected in the variations on familiar themes throughout. Ending A may feel like it drags at times or things don't make sense and that's okay. Ending B will help fill in those gaps and may feel repetitive, that's okay because everything will get paid off and it will be worth it.

If you're unsure whether ot not you'll like this game -buy it anyway. Play the prologue. If you don't like it then refund it, but everyone should give it a chance. I like to tell my friends Nier: Automata is the best game less than half of gamers will never play. I know it's not for everyone, but you should give it a chance. You might just find something you never knew you needed. Just remember the game doesn't end the first time the credits roll, it's only the beginning ;)

Wow. This game is incredible from many different aspects and I'm sure plenty of others will rave about the graphics, locations, and more technical aspects (Touissant, WOW!) but what really made this game stand out for me was the characters. The story was well-written and executed that I really felt the relationship and love bwteen Geralt and Ciri and there were many moments near the end of the main story that I swear someone hid onions in my room during the scenes. It was refreshing to see a father-daughter dynamic be so prominent in a storyline where most games and all the characters' actiosn and motivations are driven by one simple goal. It was very sad when the game ends to say goodbye to these characters that you can really invest yourself in and feel a connection too. Hopefully this universe gets re-visted in the future (maybe a full Ciri game, please :D), now if you'll excuse me, I believe Yennefer is still waiting for me at my Vineyard...

Amazing game. Planned to play it when I wanted breaks from Witcher 3...didn't touch any other game for 2 weeks. Oh, and the terminator, Darth Vader, Deadpool, and Tracer just went around killing aliens for hours 10/10 and mods make it even better!

Only about 8 hours in and jsut finished doing that shouting stuff for the monks. It's a good game, tremendous world, absolutely astonishing scenery, but the story hasn't really grabbed me yet. Dragon Age: Origins story had me dying to get back to my comp every night, but maybe Skyrim's just takes a little bit to get going. Still, very fun and 13 bucks for the game and all its DLC was a steal. Looking forward to re-writing this when i'm 200 hours in (and hopefully a werewolf, that looks so fun).

Fantastic fun if you like turn based strategy. Defintley great if your a history buff like me and can nerd out cranking out 40 panzers to simulate your own blitzkreig on the poor underteched CPU and then get nuked by gandhi the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥...seriously...gandhi is the biggest prick of all the AI, but apart from that the game's great. Get ALL the DLC, G&K really improves the combat with new units (and civs i think?) while BNW just overhauls the entire late game to make all victory conditions more engaging, interactive, and entertaining.

I've only played the game up through the end of story mode and haven't spent more than an hour or two exploring the open world. As a die hard LotR fan I thought LEGO Lord of the Rings was the best LotR game ever made for making a realistic feeling open world middle-earth and capturing the feel of it being mroe of a journey or quest rather than hack n slah like all the other games we get. LEGO Hobbit does it exactly the same. Most of the levels will rarely feature more than acouple enemies to fight and consist more of utilizing the Dwarves' different skillsets to solve, albeit easy, puzzles. The boss fight against Sauon can be a ♥♥♥♥♥ though...good god that was annoying. Oh, and you also get to shoot orcs as legolas while balancing on the dwarf heads during the barrels scene just like the movies, definetly my favorite moment. The open world has gotten revamped. Eagles can now fly you to each of the main areas making for cool flying transitions. Dol Guldur, Thranduils Kingdom, Dale, and Laketown are all explorable (the goblin kingdom is not in the open world), some more limited than others. Lake Town's lake is wide open for you to sail around, although i haven't gotten around to it. The major new addition is of little caves that hold puzzles inside each to solve for collecting your bricks to craft all that mithril stuff just like lotr. Oh, you can also customize your own horses, ponies, and Wargs for free world riding. There's a fourth option for big creatures (troll looking) but I haven't unocked it yet and there's also create a character. Overall, it keeps intact the feeling of adventure and exploration that LotR is about, which is what makes it a great game for any LotR fan.