Recent reviews by Jag Gentlemann

I don't like calling any game a "clone", but this really plays like Left 4 Dead, but just not as good. I wouldn't make a negative review for a game I barely played and don't care about, but they lost my sympathy with the Season Pass.

This is basically SS4 without it's flaws, and I already like SS4 well enough.

I'm glad that Unchained died.

The main strentgh of this game, theme aside, is the combat. It feels very satisfying, and you have to be aware of what's happening all the time, because things can go very wrong very fast. Thankfully the game telegraphs the enemy's attacks. Don't get it wrong, this doesn't make a game easy, since it's balanced around this. It makes the game less BS, and you have to do anything you can to mitigate damage on your characters. This doesn't make the game a glorified Simon Says either, it's a good mechanic.

When you use a skill, it gets disabled, and you have to recharge it. This sounds bad, but again, in practice is a good mechanic once you play with it. The way you upgrade skills is also interesting. You have to have one skill three times, and then it gets upgraded. There are plenty of ways to get skills, and it adds to the decission making of what you use the skill slots for.

Sadly I'm not a roguelite guy, and this game isn't chaging my opinion for them. But that doensn't mean I don't enjoy the core gameplay. Characters are very unique, but sadly there aren't that much enemy variety, at least from what I have played. There are levels that get unlocked eveytime you clear the previous one, but all look and feel the same. I'll update the review if I see things changing.

There are more things to talk about, like how you can cheat and drain an enemy's HP to 0, or swap statuses however you like (again, the game is balanced around this), but the review is long enough, I would say. Overall, a great turn-based game with fresh mechanics, I just don't feel the roguelite progression.

This is the poor man's Muramase The Demon Blade, and I say that as a compliment. The game is pretty short, but that's good, it doesn't overstate it's welcome.

Yes.
I've played on Switch, my low runtime is from a free weekend.
This game is one of the best games out there. Period. The RNG comments are mostly overblown or a meme. I mean, the game has a big dose of RNG, but if you know what are you doing, it's not as big of a deal, it functions more as added flavor than a way to screw you over. Yeah, maybe a crit screwed you over, but you probably made some poor decisions that made that crit matter that much.
Art style is amazing, atmosphere is amazing, and more importantly, the gameplay is amazing. Combat is super satisfying, and for me, it never got old. Dungeon exploration is a bit simple, but I prefer it that way. You already have enough with path planning and deciding if you want to interact with curios or not.
Overall, an incredible game, with many ways to play (normal way, Stygian mode, which adds a time limit and modding) and very satisfying to play.

Yes and no.

If you are like me, that want to play for the single player, I don't recommend it. Guilty Gear XX is better for that. Yes, I know, why would I buy a fighting game for the single player. As I said, XX is pretty good for that, since every character has a story with multiple paths, along with a standard arcade mode and the MOM thing that I haven't played. This game has just the standard arcade mode and the MOM thing. That's it.

The Standard arcade mode isn't even that good. They don't end with a super boss or anything, it's literally 8 random versus battles.

The story mode is a joke. It's just cutscenes. That's it, just cutscenes. No battles, no nothing. You can watch it on Youtube and get the same experience.

I wasn't planning to play online a lot, but I can't play any of it. It never finds any other player.

As for the core fighting mechanics, I'm not good at these so my opinion doesn't mean much, but I think I can say that they are good.

A game to surpass Smash Bros.

Only recommended if you have already played all the previous Serious Sam games. If not, don't bother, play the one you haven't played yet or start with any of them. Oh, and the Legion system is a lie.

At the time of me writing this review, the game isn't finished at all. There's a lot of graphical glitches, many of them can blind you, and there's stuff like T-posing knight armors.

The Legion system is a lie. There's no system that puts you versus thousand of enemies. There's only one battle with thousand of enemies, and it's a scripted gimmick that lasts less than a minute. There isn't much I can say about it because there's nothing more to say. I'm blaffed that Croteam made that the selling point of the game when it's a lie.

The game itself, it's fun! It doesn't try to change the Serious Sam formula and it doesn't need to. They added a skill tree which this type of game doesn't need, but it's a way to unlock the best new thing about this game: dual weilding. You can use two weapons at a time, and you combine them as you want. There are also sidequest that are prety cool because most of the best enemy encounters are in them.

The bad stuff, aside of the game not being finished, it's that some levels were very dark for me. Guess what, you have to have the dynamic light enabled. Thing is, it's not easy to get to that option. The last level in particular was a nightmare form e because of that. I was shooting following my intuition. I couldn't see anything. And the last boss was more annoying than anything.

I had a long positive review about the game, but I'm changing it now.
This game could be great, but the MMO label destroys it. Everything they make, is busy work, tedious and sometimes doesn't even work. If in the future we can play an offline mode of this game, I might change the review, but for now, this is more frustrating than fun.
I can't even write "disconnect" in the chat because it censors it, they are more concerned about people being offended than making a good game.