Recent reviews by Schulz

One of the best RPGs of all-time, if not the best. This is especially for folks who enjoy CRPGs or decision-tree RPGs like Bioware- and Fallout-style games.

It may not be as much of an emotional rollercoaster as The Walking Dead Game, but The Wolf Among Us is worth playing for anyone who is a fan of the adventure genre.

Gone Home is a digital interactive story of an LGB/feminist theme. Someone of a literary sort may appreciate its plot and symbolism, particularly one who is sympathetic to LGB issues in a 1990s grunge/punk/rebellion context. That being said, $20 is pricey for the game, considering it is only about two hours long. It is worth picking up when heavily discounted, however.

The game has wonderful artwork and music, a decent premise for its plot and the combat is passable for a turn-based game. However, the story is presented almost entirely through text and the dialog is often flat. You also spend maybe half of the game just watching a rolling background. Furthermore, some of the choices you make in the game have random outcomes; practically none of them are predictable. So it makes for a frustrating experience when you repeatedly draw a bad hand.

I really hope Stoic's next effort is improved. Voiced dialog would have done much for the game, as well as abbreviated travel and more focus on stories as they occur in the villages and cities. I realize constantly being on the run was supposed to be a part of the plot, but Stoic needed to show more compelling ineractions between the members of the caravan to support that. I'm of the opinion they should have just faded to black, otherwise. Because I'm really not that interested in coming across random bandits that have no impact on the major story arc. Filler is not the way to go.

If you are a fan of story-based gaming, The Walking Dead is one of the best there is.