Recent reviews by Hawf

Excellent game, nothing else captures the magic of the playstation-gamecube era of action platformers quite like this.
Highly recommend trying out this demo and getting the full release.

I LOVE MY WIFE

An excellent callback to n64 platformers, incredibly stylish but devious in its presentation. Nice and brisk pacing too, a solid 6-8 hours. Could be beaten in one long sitting but probably shouldn't, as you'll begin to resent some of the games more unforgiving sections, there are quite a few platforming segments that are exercises in frustration. (ie: make this series of jumps perfectly or climb all the way back up and redo all of your hard work, etc) If you're looking for a retro style 3D platformer this delivers, especially if you're looking for something particularly difficult. At least the game is merciful enough to drop you back at your last checkpoint should you get a game over.

This game wants to be bioshock/halflife so badly, it had the engine and gameplay for it. But literally nothing happens the entire story and the dialogue was oddly melodramatic for concepts and ideas that are never really properly conveyed to the player even through all the scattered notes you can pick up.

It was very pretty though.
There is an interesting game here, but there is no plot and there are no characters.
maybe buy it on sale as a case study on good environment and set design.

User experience is nonexistent.
match maker does not work.
game feels more planned than actually designed.
Very disappointing.

it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ half life what else do you expect?

An excellent upgrade to Risk of Rains insane formula, Highly recommended with or without friends. But playing with friends makes it so much better. An unexpected but wholly welcome release for fans of co-operative shooters and co-operative games in general.

Hollow knight was a lot better than I expected it to be, very solid metroid-vania, and challenging as hell.

the best tod hooward

Black Mesa is easily one of the best examples of how larger developers green lighting fan projects can produce amazing results, even though lack of proper funding and studio management can lead to development delays and pushed back launch windows, it stands on its own next to the original Half-Life. It's certainly way better than Half-Life Source that's for sure.

Easily a great alternative for those looking to scratch that Half-Life itch.

Though the hammy voice acting can be a tad strenuous it's still quite entertaining.
The multiplayer component doesn't feel like it was tacked on and does a really nice job of emulating the fast paced gun play of the old Half-Life Deathmatch games, though could use a bit of attention in terms of content.

Still Highly recommended