Recent reviews by juvo

A very cozy game, gives you all the time in the world and is overall very simple. There's not too many crazy things happening, seeing that the tea shop customization and the recipes you can make are mostly a bonus to the important narrative this game is trying to sell. And yes, narrative-wise the game is also very interesting, even if it's different from Davey's usual direction. I mostly just wonder if Alta's character development was portrayed enough in this game, or if she needed some more time to develop. I can't say for sure, but everything that was visibly explored has been portrayed well.

Unbound had a lot of potential, but the game just doesnt do it for me. No matter how lively the streets may be from the outside, the world itself as a playground feels empty. I love the art direction and the driving, but that's unfortunately not enough. I didn't feel like I completed much after the "story" was over. After that, I felt like there was no incentive for me to continue playing.

We've tried this game in the office now during some downtime and it's fantastic to play together. The minigames are easy to understand and the new workshop support makes the game anything but repetitive. Can't mention anything about the online though and I don't really plan to delve into minigames on my own. I like to be as surprised about the minigames as my colleagues when they pop up. A great local multiplayer experience.

track mania is a game

Unique take on the kart-racing genre, but personally not a fan of it. Results become too reliant on the AI which I think isn't fun.

I can understand others would enjoy it, but personally I'm not digging it too much.

The game is great, fun, challenging and is a great homage to the early cartoon days. It's kind of like Contra and Megaman combined, but a little faster paced. There's some RNG in certain bosses that gives you multiple/hard obstacles at once to overcome, making them incredibly hard to beat. Nonetheless knocking them out is very rewarding.

The game is very good! The style and gameplay is cute. Bosses are fun and challenging. Exploration is enjoyable, can take a lot of time, but the story can lose a bit of fluidity just because of missing something important until you find it. The freedom is amazing and the world feels actually very alive. Definitely a must grab in 2016 and beyond.

♥♥♥♥ this game

Hacking feels so good in this game. Outstanding singleplayer experience.

Trackmania Turbo is fun, I'll keep it that simple. But there's something that needs to be made clear:

This game is not made for creative players who enjoy getting the best out of trackmania. This game is made for the more casual side of players who want nothing more than pure gameplay. If you want a larger range of customization (car, map and replay-wise), more community focused events on anything Trackmania, you should get (one of) the individual trackmania² environments, or Trackmania Nations/United. If you're here for racing on all environments into one, simply beating times and having a mere joy on several maps. This game might be the one for you.

Trackmania's latest installment has a change of focus when it comes to customization. Instead of giving the player the full capability of being creative with their car, the player has a limited customization range which he or she has to unlock through playing the campaign. This is rather disappointing to the people who enjoy the change of car models, skins and horns (not in this game) at an instant. On the bright side however, for players who do not care so much about this: everyone will have their paintwork visible to each other. You won't have to worry about witnessing a grey skin of someone's car, because there is no issue with temporarily downloading the skin from every player on a server. This new feature of unlocking customization items also heavily improves the joy of the campaign map. There's actually something to achieve now, rather than just a good time.

Trackmania Turbo's offers what they call "semi-dedicated servers": players host their own lobby, but the lobby is hosted through the servers of Ubisoft. This is bad, but not too bad. On launch day I noticed quite a painful delay in button pressing. I've tried to reset my car on some online servers, to have nothing happen. Then after pressing 5 times in a row, I was launched back to the start, to notice the countdown stuck on 2 for a short while. This would probably not have happened if the servers were all purely dedicated, or I shouldn't have played on launch, but the fact that people can still launch a lobby from a list of games where a hundred people can join at once is still pretty okay in my book.

The track editor is focused on making it easy for console, but the legacy editor is still available. Put your mouse on the gear icon and click on the legacy editor option in the dropdown menu.

The thing I hate most about the game is not having the ability to disable other cars on a map. When you're with a hundred racers, you will not be able to focus on the map when you're racing. All you can do is disable the names, which.. kinda helps? It'd would have been better to keep this ability. Hopefully they will add this in.

This game may not be worth the full price, but it's definitely a lot of fun if you can get it for 25% off. I heard the devs wanting to give Turbo owners the Lagoon environment for free. So if you want this, but also the lagoon environment. I'd give this game a shot.