Recent reviews by JinKC98

This game tells a story of vampires, politics, schemes, ancient power, and life in NYC under the dark nights. Players at different parts of the game throughout get to make certain choices (which lead to different achievements) and see how those choices pan out. If you do not care about the lore or story, you can just keep on clicking straight to the end.

I read through all the dialogues and feel like reading a novel, it feels average to me but I can see why people like it, perhaps the themes. I'll give a cautious recommendation for this game.

If you're a World of Darkness lore fan, get this game while it's on sales with the other two titles (Coteries and Shadows of New York)!

100% achievement in 21 minutes! HANGMAN II is a bit too dark for my liking but it's another casual guess-the-word game, so get it on sales if you're hunting for 100% achievements too.

Only take 35 minutes for another 100% achievement run! Guess the word/term until you get it.

Get it while on sales.

I'll give a cautious recommendation for this game since there is no in-between option. The game delves into some problems that are very philosophical in nature, most of us wouldn't even be concerning ourselves with most of the problems in there save for a few. Game play is basically click and choose/proceed, that's it.

The Good:
· Exposure to certain problems I personally never thought about before this (appreciate gaining new views, but my opinions remain unchanged).
· Creative presentation in certain parts of the game, like the glitch (some people might not like it though).

The Bad:
· The Narrator is going all-in when it comes to guilt-tripping and the condescending tone along with the constant mockery of the player can really make one suffocating throughout the entire game.
· There's no "good" ending. Any decisions that could be messed up, will be messed up. Gloom and doom everywhere.

Got this game while on sales and ran through it in an hour. To get all achievements, I might have to re-run this game multiple times. But that's for another time. I have enough for now!

Writing this review after 2,991 hours in, lots of things to say but I did my best to summarize my experience as follows.

THE GOOD:
[1.] The World of Elder Scrolls. This game is updated on a yearly basis with each Chapter featuring a new Zone, a new part of Tamriel or an Oblivion Realm. Throughout my play time in this game, I have learnt lots of lores of other races, cultures, myths that I did not know back when I was only playing TES:V Skyrim. It really opens up my view on Tamriel and I'm actually satisfied.

[2.] Storytelling. This is a mixed bag really. Some of the zone stories are quite boring to be frank, but out of principle I always let the NPCs finish their dialogues. However, every so often, an excellent piece of writing/storytelling just came out of nowhere. E.g. In latest Gold Road Chapter, there's a side quest chain involving newly added feature of Scribing (Spell Crafting) and it involves a Netch (floating jellyfish like creature in TES) which turns out to be a Luminary (primordial being of pure magic). Story about how a primordial being with immense arcane power doesn't care at all about itself, but would rather use its power to do little good deeds in life, guiding us (players) to help reunite and reconcile a father and its son during his final moments, helping some desperate, scared kids finding their way out of dark places, etc. There're quite a lot of other heart-warming stories through the base game and all its Chapters and DLCs but this one stands out for me personally.

[3.] Theorycrafting. Every so often when I suddenly thought of a build, I can't help but get to work on it, like I would write down the Armor sets, their traits and enchantments, the skills and champion points to go with that build, and the mode (PVE, PVP) I want to try it on (mostly PVP, PVE is a bit more rigid in my opinion). There're currently seven classes in-game, [I.] hyper tanky fire-breathing Dragonknight, [II.] stealth assassin and rogue class Nightblade, [III.] dark magic and thunder channeling Sorcerer, [IV.] Holy Paladin-ish and light power wielding Templar, [V.] Nature magic and cryomancer Warden, [VI.] undead-manipulating Necromancer, and [VII.] abyssal, eldritch power channeler and Mora's follower Arcanist. Each of these classes offers so many opportunities for different builds and throughout my thousand hours of play time, I have YET to grow bored.

[4.] Graphics. This one is very, very debatable. But the graphics are decent in my book. I recommend a few zones that I particularly like, High Isle zone with its countryside and coast, the High Elves' island paradise of Summerset and its associated zone Artaeum, etc. If you like autumn vibes, I recommend West Weald zone (the latest addition to the game). A few other zones I do not like but seem to be popular: Blackreach Caverns (dark and gloomy underground cavernous zones associated with Western Skyrim), Murkmire in Black Marsh, and the ash-covered zones of Stonefalls and Vvardenfell (why would anyone lives in these places?!).

[5.] Outfit styles and Skins. I dabble a bit in editing outfits for my characters and I quite enjoy it. Basically you equip armor sets (different armor sets offer different bonus and perks, outfit styles change the looks but not their properties), and you mix and mash your outfit. From the coolest looking Knight, or Mage to the foulest looking Lich/Undead or rotting zombie, the options are limitless. There's a subreddit called ESOFashion dedicated to this topic. It's also commonly associated with roleplaying but I do not roleplay personally so I won't go into that.

THE BAD:
[1.] Occasional server issue. If anyone has played consistently throughout 2024, you'd have noticed the unstable performance of their servers, I said "occasional" because I could go a couple weeks without any issues on my end; or I couldn't do anything at all in a day because of the disconnects and lagging. The devs acknowledged this issue and I hoped they actually look into it and do something.

[2.] A small portion of elitist and toxic community. I need to emphasize that the majority of the community is nice and friendly, and would even give out some old stuff (e.g. style pages, motifs, or other consumables) for free to help out lower level players. But occasionally there're also people who constantly judge and tell you how you should build and play your character. I encountered lots of these instances in PVP, e.g. people telling you not play one bar (Oakensoul build) because it's lazy, people telling you to shore up your defenses to at least 30k+ HP so you don't get one shotted, people telling you to not build your character to be too tanky because no one likes tank meta; people telling you to not play healer role because it's for cowards that like to hide at the back of others, etc. My opinion? I play what I want, end of story.

[3.] Crown Store and Crown Crates. So yea this game like most others has a in-game store that stocks items to be bought using IRL money. There's also this ESO+ Subscription that gives you unlimited storage for raw crafting materials which is REALLY necessary or else your 90% of game time would be used to organize your inventory. Crown Crates (ESO loot boxes) occasionally go on sales, these are completely RNG-based, some people get the 1% chance reward (Radiant Apex mount) in just opening a few boxes, while others opened up 20-50 boxes for nothing. If anyone's interested, I'd recommend buying Inventory Pets and Assistants in Crown Stores, and Furnishings if you're into decorating houses. But personally I have bad experiences with Crown Crates so I'd advise people to try stay away from them or only buy them if you have like lots of disposable income.

[4.] FOMO. Every time there's an event going on, people would be rushing in to farm it, causing certain zones and areas to be crowded (as commonly seen in MMORPG?)... screen would be lagging, flashing like crazy with everyone rushing in for the kills, casting skills and spells and whatnot, etc. Maybe it's just a common scene in MMORPG, but still it makes me feel dreadful to be among them.

Despite its many flaws, TESO has been my go-to game for over a year now, I'm fully addicted to the theorycrafting aspect of it. Not to mention the beautiful worlds and its lores.

If you're new to TES world or MMORPG in general, I highly recommend buying this game on sales. And if you decided you like it, you can consider paying for ESO+ Subscription which grants you access to all zones (EXCEPT the latest zone) and DLCs and unlimited crafting bag. Or you can just pick the DLCs you like and buy them separately in Crown Stores using Crowns.

This game is celebrating its 10th Year Anniversary milestone. Here's hoping for more glorious adventures and battles to come!

Saw this free to play game today and added it to my Library for two hours straight of dumb fun! I was actually kinda obsessed with getting higher and higher Scores back there that I didn't even notice I was already at it for two hours... Game play basically requires you to switch between left and right lanes, shooting arrows, picking up boosts, getting Pets (Dogs and Dragons), and just try to get past the final Boss and challenge your own best Score. So if you're looking for something to kill time, this is it!

I managed to finish this title in 16 hours of playtime. So do allow me to share a little bit of my opinion below. Spirit Hunter: NG is a visual novel type of adventure game with horror elements sprinkled all over it. You get to choose certain dialogue choices, reactions, explore and collect tools to escape or resolve... certain supernatural situations. This is actually also one of those titles I hope to have a third option other than "Recommended" and "Not Recommended".

The Good:
· Solid story with themes like friendship, humanity, moral, etc.
· Rich Japanese folktales and cultural elements.
· Various Spirits with unique backstories (you have to either purify them or destroy them).
· The soundtrack is so good.
· I also really like a few other characters in-game (not the protagonist). Not many games out there that can make me care about the side characters these days.
· The weird satisfaction when you got everything right the first time, like resolving supernatural encounters without casualties.

The Bad:
· My biggest gripe about this game is the decision making. Some situations require solutions that do not make any sense to me personally. And if you fail to make the right choice, it'll be instant game over for you and you have to redo the encounter from the latest checkpoint. To avoid spoilers, I won't list out any of them here. But as far as I remember, I'll say the worst one thus far is that one situation that requires the player to throw a book at the tree to distract some entity. Took me 30 minutes to figure that one out...
· Jump scares. Yup, jump scares in visual novel. Certain images and entities will pop up right at the middle of your screen at a few points in the game. Kinda annoying and even infuriating to be honest.

All in all, that's my review and a little bit of my opinion nearing the end there. If you're into horror-themed visual novel, I'd strongly recommend this title to you. However, if you're overall impatient and have limited attention span, I'd suggest you stay away from this one for now.

Purchased this game a few days ago during the Visual Novel Fest sales. I must say this is one of those little hidden gems in the indie game world. Basically you play as a cab driver in a cyberpunk themed city, driving vastly different kinds of people across the city each and every night, trying to scrape by with those meager pays. There are main story locations and then there are different kinds of people you can choose to pick up. Each different rider is like a side quest, giving you insights and perspectives into the game world. Along the road, the protagonist started to realize her situations and learn about betrayal and psychological manipulation by those supposedly dearest to her.

In terms of gameplay, there's really not much to say. Visual novel style, open the map, choose who you want to pick up, where you want to recharge your car, where you want to stay for when the shift's over, choosing dialogue options, etc. And you will need to stay above 4-star rating or it's game over. The real gem here still, is the main story.

I recommend this game on sales due to the relatively short amount of time it takes to get through the main story; a good story nonetheless. Let's hop on along for the ride!

Free Superman simulator here guys! The long distance flying Superman Punch during boss fight is so satisfying. If only the ranged attack could be changed to eye laser, it'll be double the fun!

Just a tiny issue here, it might crash a lot (5 crashes in my first 10 minutes of gameplay). I looked up Community Discussion, it's experiencing issues with next-gen hardware? There's a code you need to copy and paste in the Launch Option at the General tab of the game's Properties.

With the crashing issue out of the way, enjoy your Hero life in UNDEFEATED!

The Fall is an indie adventure game with a bit of action elements in it. It's designed in a 2D style where you go left and right exploring each level, pick up stuff, and solve the puzzle to proceed to next areas. You have a gun as weapon and camouflage as stealth tactic.

The themes involve AI and awareness of itself, so artificial awareness? You play as ARID, which is an AI within a combat suit. Some of the puzzles are interesting, of which solving them give satisfaction; while some others do not make sense (especially that ONE in the home area test, something about baby). To pass the tests and solve certain puzzles, you (an AI) have to find ways to bypass the rules and limitations programmed on you. And someone or something in the facility doesn't like it when you do.

The final boss fight took me some time to figure out, but it's mildly cool and interesting nonetheless. Also it really tested my reflex.

I recommend this game in The Fall Bundle during sales. Good enough experience with decent pricing.