Recent reviews by MsBismuth

A buggy, laggy, unfinished mess -- but in a pretty package. The devs seem to be more interested in adding and implementing cosmetic and additional content to the game over addressing playability and QA concerns (some of which have been there since beta and Early Access). Despite being officially released, this game still feels very unfinished, and I can say that with confidence having followed the development from the start.

I would not bother buying this game for a few years yet. The skewed development priorities mean that the actual fundamental gameplay concerns seem to be tertiary at best.

Monotonous, depressing grind -- all set to a droning soundtrack. Some of the puzzles are quite clever, but the sheer amount of time you waste getting to any interesting bits in this game renders the entertainment value of this piece moot for me. To give you context, I first started playing this game in January 2021... and I still have not managed to finished it in 2024 despite giving it multiple chances.

Perhaps the "killings" here are actually the attempted playthroughs, because this game deadly boring to me. More power for the people who adore it, but for me, this is not a good mystery game with engaging writing – or engaging anything, really.

This is a bug-ridden, crashing mess of a game. Castle Flipper is nowhere near a full release and does not have full functionality or decent hardware compatibility for a game of its specs... it's Early Access at best. Rife with spelling and grammar errors with what texts it does have, vague graphics options, and very "proof of concept" first levels, this has Amateur Hour Asset Flip Flavour all over it.

Don't bother with this one until it has been on the market for a few years. If this is what the so-called "full release" looks like, you're better off not frying your hardware and wasting your time on this until some third party makes an optimization patch for it. The music is nice, though, but the rest is...

I'm sad to say that this game really had good potential, but once again, the publisher has pushed out a half-baked, buggy mess that still has the same game-breaking bugs in its supposed "full release" that it did in Early Access. This is still a bug-laden, incredibly badly optimized, inconsistent, half-baked mess of a game. If you like grinding, Uncanny Valley graphics circa the first X-Box, and "ocean-wide, thimble-deep" gaming content, Lumberjack's Dynasty is the very game for you!

Sadly, this now seems to be Topliz's MO, and any project of theirs should come with a massive SHOVELWARE WARNING. They seem to come up with good ideas, and then move on to the next project without actually making the game work. They did it with Farmer's Dynasty, and they've done it with Lumberjack's Dynasty now - I wonder what their shiny next project will be once Medieval Dynasty gets close to alpha, and is inevitably dropped like a hot potato...

Cute little point-and-click adventure game, perfect for a younger audience. Quirky characters and appealing art style compliment the mystery plot that isn't too simplistic or "kiddiefied", and the excellent soundtrack and audio design deserve a mention. For adult gamers this adventure may seem short or a bit unchallenging; despite this, Detective Grimoire was still hours of good fun.

I thought this would have been a cool game - the premise had me at "hello", after all. Instead, I found it ugly, grotesque, badly produced and grating, and not in that fun, bewitching John Waters way either. 0/10, heartily DO NOT RECOMMEND.

Another excellent offering from TellTale in the episodic point-and-click adventure flavour, The Wolf Among Us has in its first installment won me completely over. As a long-time fan of the graphic novels, my standards were sky-high going in, but so far I have few gripes and absolutely accept this prequel as canon - TellTale has obviously done its homework, and the world of Fables comes to life quite gloriously. Nods to canon characters in subtle clues abound throughout the game. TWAU has a bit brisker pacing than The Walking Dead, and some of the game mechanics, especially cue-prompted button-mashing, managed to surprise me. My few gripes come from not being allowed to reassign action keys to my personal liking, and the rewind function not working quite clearly enough that you could comprehensively understand just where you're rewinding. All in all, I find the game absolutely delicious, and I'm waiting for the next installment with some serious GIMMEGIMMEGIMME anticipation.