Recent reviews by [SRS] Marshall

Return of our Sneakiest Goblin Styx in new and much improved sequel of the game, when i say improved it means that game got exactly what previous game didn't have.

Stealth Mechanics are almost the same like in previous game, but in this one main thing that they improved are accessibilities of areas by putting more places from which you can approach and new mechanic such as swingable rope which are really fun to use, besides that they improved a enemy vision and detection.

Styx himself got a lot of ability improvements that are good, but with previously mentioned accessibility of certain areas you can beat the game without using abilities which i did in most cases.

Enemies in this game got bit nerfs and buffs, various changes. Beside Humans, Elves, Orcs and Bugs you will get a new enemy a dwarfs (or dwarves) small lads with thick armor and huge hammer and absolutely good beard with special abilities to sniff out amber creatures. Some enemies got nerfs as i said such as Elves lost abilities to sniff out the Styx, Orcs are more blind and Bug are the same; maybe more sensitive.

Abilities as i mentioned got improved and skill tree got expended a lot. If you want to play Styx as Bloodthirsty Assassin than you should invest in abilities, but as i mentioned for full stealth you don't literally not a single one, but there is few very useful that you could pick.

Crafting mechanic are introduced which lets you to create potions, picklocks and few new tools that Styx got into his sleeves. Throughout level you will have scattered materials which will be used for crafting obviously, so if you want to have ready materials for next Crafting bench which you can find somewhere on the level you should spend some time sneaking and scouting the area for materials, but that wouldn't be problem cuz you will find plenty of them on your way to the objective.

Weapons got extension as well such as crossbow attached on hand that fires needles and poisoned needles, poisoned pressure plate traps and other things that you had in previous game.

Wardrobe is new feature that was introduced which obviously lets you to change your Outfit and Dagger. Each Outfit and dagger comes with Bonus and Penalty you can make combo of 'em and create useful set to carry on missions.

Story of this game starts with mission that you simply was tasked to steal a certain item to biggest cliffhanger, luckly we will get a new sequal very soon for those who played or planing to play this game in 2025. :)

Styx Personality is what i liked the first moment in this game same as in previous game he likes to talk to himself and makes a jokes and time to time to break the 4th wall and talks to you, he didn't change one bit matter of fact he is even more talkative and more funny and even more break the 4th wall than before, this time you have Death Screen with him mocking your poor performance.

I loved the first game and i absolutely loved this game even more, truly amazing stealth game and advise everyone to try it.

There is even Prequel of the Styx game that i didn't know that is actually linked to Styx with name "Of Orc and Man".

I been always fond of stealth games such as Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell, Thief, Dishonored etc. even though i already knew about this game it never occurred to try this game out, maybe that's was my best decision after all because playing this game in 2025 was so nostalgic and refreshing at same time.

As many not so old and not so new games made in 2010's this game has it's own charm that some new games really doesn't have anymore. One of many charms that this game has is the fact that your character breaks 4th wall and sometime talks to you and on the other side you can have some weird bugs while playing; i know very nostalgic...


GAMEPLAY

As any Stealth games you have to plan your moves to archive your goal in game, so in order to reach your goal you need to observe and remember patterns of guards movements. Beside observing you need to explore same as in many stealth games you can choose different approaches will you sneak past guards, going on roof and having high ground or you will sneaking in some smelly tunnels it's all up to you.

From Equipments on your disposal you have Dagger, Throwing Knifes, Sand Balls and three types of elixir(Heal, Amber and Acid) which you can use, but that's not all because your are not human in this game you are Short smelly green creature aka Goblin and you have special abilities because of Amber that runs through your veins.

From Abilities that you have are making a Clone and being Invisible, with this two abilities you will get many different approaches. With Abilities there is a many skill that you can have and you unlocking them with points that you will get doing main and side missions inside of the level. Unlock skills that suit your style or unlock them all by replaying all missions.

In some games you get indicator as HUD element that shows you that you are hidden and that you are in shadow, not some many games have this feature, but i think it's very cool thing that they added indicator in form of Amber(Orange mass) on your arm that shines in darkness indicating that you are hidden.

It was not mentioned(at least i think) in tooltip, but you are actually able to whisle by holding "X" on PC and i found out at the end of game, so be aware of that!

Main element is of course a stealth and with that you need to be careful how you walk and where you step cuz everything makes a sound like if you want jump from high places and guard is close if you drop on wooden or stone floor they will hear you so in order to muffle a sound you need to jump on carpet.

Throughout of your playthrough you will encounter various types of enemies, monsters and anomalies. Each type of enemy has it's own power and weaknesses, some can be killed normal way and other must be killed other way which gives this game a good challange for people who hunts to get insignia.

As i mentioned you can get Insignia which is a spice up rule for people who like to challange themselves. beside insignia you will get to find and steal relics on levels which are not showed, but mentioned on "Mission Tab".

STORY

I'll be short here because i don't want to spoil much of game, but i might make you a bit curious to try this game for yourselves.

You are playing as Little Stinky Green Creature, an Orc with dwarfism or later known as Goblin. When you first start game you will get all confused because whole thing didn't make a sense; you will be captured and interrogated with little clue what is going on you will get yourself a mission to find one man that can help you. While you playing game story started to unravel and you get a task to find various people. Then on one mission you find a man who will unravel whole story with one big TWIST! I'll leave you to see what that twist is.

FINAL WORDS

Game has Pro's and Con's but if you are someone who crave that old stealth vibe this game is definitely for you. With some unique features that this game has it was definitely a nostalgic ride for me and can't wait to start playing second installment and give me review there as well.

Babe, wake up! Serbian Special Anti-Terrorist Unit are added in to the game.

What a absolute banger of the game!

CP2077 described Cyber world the best not only with world architecture, but with sounds and stories of each characters in the game. You can see ; which is confirmed by people who worked on it and in-game references( and easter eggs) that inspiration came from 80's, 90's and 00's movies(Blade Runner, Matrix, Ghost in the Shell etc.) and games (SystemShock, Deus Ex etc.) which i personally watched/played and love. Voice Actors in game gave their best to make this game even better in which some of famous actors are included. Music are really good that many of the songs are in my daily playlist since game release, even fictional rock band "Samurai" that you can believe that they are fictional at all.

Game is Role-play so you get freedom to become whatever you want; everything depends on you what will you become and how you will go with story. Doesn't matter which Lifepatch you will take story will cross on one way or another. I assume that many who read this knows what happening in game so i don't need to explain much of it. There is one thing that this game want to tell one very important thing and only way to find out is through Secret Ending and that is "Don't Fear The Reaper" its very name of the quest which is named "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" and direct reference to the song by Blue Oyster with same name.

All our times have come;
Here, but now they're Gone;
Seasons Don't Fear the Reaper.

Which means that death is a natural part of life, something that should not be feared but accepted. Exactly where any ending that you choose leads in Base game. Also there is another sentence that keeps repeating throughout whole game "You always have a choice." but every choice have its own consequences.

With Phantom Liberty DLC gives new life into the game and in much more closed area of Night City, a Dog Town place that one man with his army rules filled with rich people, crackheads and gangs. You get a new mission from very good netrunner to save President of USA, because their AV(futuristic aircraft) got shot down in middle of Dog Town and she offers you a cure from the relic.

With story unraveling itself after we save USA president the same netrunner that gave us a mission got abducted by the man who rules Dog Town, Kurt Hansen. Then if you managed to save netrunner alive President will give you a treatment for the relic. You will then meet ex FIA agents Alex and Solomon Reed(voiced by Idris Elba) that happened to be operating in Dog Town for few years.

In meantime you will learn more then you will think about both President and FIA agents and netrunner, so at the end of the game you will prompted to ether Betray Reed or Betray So Mi(netrunner).

This is part where i said about "You always have a choice." sentence keep keeps repeating, you can finish this game 4 different way.

I chose to "Betray So Mi" because if she uploads a BlackWall in device millions would die in Dog Town; in process Alex got killed and So Mi managed to escape and being captured by MaxTec(Special Police for CyberPsychosis); Which Reed and V will free her later from transport vehicles. Reed will be shot in leg in ambush and you will be left to follow So Mi in secret underground facility.

In time you spend in that underground facility you will be hunted by BlackWall that controlling So Mi and while escaping from him you will have So Mi flashbacks from the past and will learn whole deal and plan that President will use So Mi as nuclear weapon. In that moment i set my goal straight and not let So Mi falls in hand of President of USA. When i finally reach So Mi in Underground chamber she had one final request for me and thats to end her suffering. I was skeptical at first with that decision, but after "Four Score and Seven" mission and final talk with Reed i was sure that was right call to do.

With this ending i archived that Alex(sadly) dies, but So Mi will not be used by NUSA anymore and Reed will be demoted from NUSA and be finally free.

Cyberpunk 2077 a lot of more then you think, its filled with story and secret meaning and metaphors; you can to further enchant your whole experience with some immersive mods on Nexus Games which i recommend.

We lost everything;
We had to pay the price.
Yeah we lost everything;
We had to pay the price.

Absolute Digital Extremes masterpeace, which unfortunately didn't get sequel. Dark Sector in 2024 is really a game that returns you in that good era of Singleplayer games with top notch story(we won't talk about controls *cough* *cough*). However in 2008 this game had really good gameplay filled with environment puzzles and environment use for your Glaive. Even though we didn't got sequel Digital Extreme made free-to-play game,Warframe which takes concept from Dark Sector, but it's not cannon story of Warframe.

It's very linear story like in any older games, you are man with missions and you go through levels killing bad guys and in this game monsters, you have normal enemies, Mini-bosses and Bosses. What i liked in this game is actually level design which is exectly how you can imagine Dark Sector, a DARK. Whole game is in Black & White and only Enemies, Vehicles and Monsters has bright color, which describes a world that has been infected and slowly dying.

Gameplay is decent, you will be often thrown in level where you will be overrun by militaries or monster or both and you will find yourself often taking cover until you kill all of them. Probem about covering system i didn't like is that it actually does not provide you with cover, unless they are in exectly 90 degree position of your covering spot, little bit on side and they will fill you will bullets like swiss cheese. On some level you will get the might sationery HMG which will give you power to kill everything on your way, except it has extremely terrible accuracy that you will be better throwing your glaive throughout your fight. While we talk about Glaive you will lose your mind when you miss-pick ammo box with glaive for 5th time(you can pick ammo boxes, weapon from ground and cases for weapon upgrades). Anyway with all of that small problems game is not at all hard and you will cheese whole game.

Music in game really good and when i heard music it gave me Warframe nostalgia.

I would recommend game for those who likes old fantasy games and for Warframe players for obvious reasons.
8/10

[Small Note]
If you want to play in 1080p or any high resolution with widescreen you must modify game files and set it on Reads-Only to be able to play it on that resolution.

Stardew Valley is one of those games that drops you off somewhere "unknown" with only small knowledge of story and free will of choosing your gameplay choices and that is exectly what i like the most.

Story is simple as can be - You get Farm from your Grandfather and you can choose what will be on that farm. Meanwhile you will meet various people's and enitities during your walkthrough and you will start unrevealing much deeper story in your surroundings. I'll leave you to unravel those mysteries...

Gameplay is easy and hard at same time - At start it's just normal farming game, you get your starting tools and begin doing farm activities meanwhile you will meet people in nearby village and raise up friendships with them. after more time you spend you will get more stuff and you will get more thing that you can do on your farm and that's what will start hard part about this game, cuz every new stuff you get recipe for will require some stuff that you will need to grind for while to be able to build; it's hard part, but fun! Later you will get some Intresting tasks for you and unlock completely new spectrum for the game. This is slow pace game after all so you will play it for long especially if you get hooked on the game.

Music and Sounds are really good - During your walkthrough of this magnificent you will be bestowed to hear sounds that will enchant this game. Dev really knew how to audibly represent all happening in game on his unique way.

If you like slow-pace farming games Stardew Valley is for you, game will give you a lot of content for you to keep you intrested.

It's Farming's Life for You!

Remember playing War Trigger 3, formerly known as Red Crucible 2 when i was younger. I used to spend a lot of time playing this game on old laptop i had back then, game was totally fun and gave free battlefield experience. Eventually i managed to hook my younger cousin to the game so we start playing each day and tried to compete who will have better gear and more in-game currency, until one day everything changed...

Developers updated game completely change everything in game; also renaming it to Red Crucible: Sandstorm, we didn't like update that much, but still playing it even though player count was lower each day until it was completely empty, so we stopped playing it as well...

I just wanted to leave my review here for remembering golden era of this game and it's shame that people who reviewed this game negatively(which i understand and don't blame) didn't experience it.

I always wanted to play Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, though i never could play it because of my PC configuration at that time and finally after this many years i can play and enjoy the beauty of this game gives.

When Witcher 1 came out i really liked whole story and wanted to try, but never get used to it so i dropped game and ended up watching walktrought, then Witcher 2 was annoucment few years later and i was overjoyed to play sequel of the game which i did, but i had some problems in middle of games o i deinstall and forget about game until Witcher 3 was annoucment and realize i won't be able to play.

Early this year i bought much better PC and recently stumble upon nice sale for both Witcher 2: Assasins of the Kings and Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, thats where my exploration of magnificent world of Humans and Monster starts.

Base Game

Game drops you in White Orchard in middle of war in company of your mentor - Vesemir in search for your adopted daughter Ciri who's being hunted by "Wild Hunt" and in same time in search for sorceress ( or love intrest) Yennefer and that how story is unraveling.

When game drops you off to the White Orchard you are forced to follow Vesimir to close by inn and when few more events are done you will be able to explore to your hearts content, which i would advise to all of you cuz even thought White Orchard medium size map it has a lot to show and experience. Beside of monster you will encounter wild animals, bandits, mercenaries, cannibals and as well rare varients of monsters which you will hunt upon accepting contracts on notice boards in settlemants.

As i mentioned notice boards not only you will get contract trought them they also use as addition information for some event and some close area hints. Notice boards are not the only way to get side quest you will also get them while you travel and explore. In Witcher 3 you will get Scavenger missions which contains quest for better loots and one of those quests are for Armor and swords of other Witcher Schools.

Witcher 3 is based on Slavic mythology which i like the most cuz i live in Slavic country and was happy to see some familier monster names that i was scared as kid (haha). While we speak about Slavic countries the thing i loved the most is music which fulfilling atmosphere out of combat and in combat, each area has it own track of various music that will play.

In base game you will be allowed to travel trough White Orchard, the Royal Palace in Vizima, Velen, Novigrad, Skellige, Kaer Morhen valley. Each of these Areas will give you diffrent type of experience and place to explore as well quest. Its on you will you go for straight path or fulfill your curiosity and stray from straight path for searching of unknown.

Hearts of Stone Expansion

You meet rather intresting fellow - Olgierd von Everec and his band of brothers. Olgierd von Everec gives you a contract to kill a creature that lurks in sewers of Oxenfurt. Geralt as Professional monster slayer for hire accepts contract on such creature and go streight for Oxenfurt to deal with creature. Upon entering sewer and defeating monsters that lurkers and in meantime trying to get more information on creature he's stumble upon his old acquaintance and medic Shani which was send with few guards to find same creature that lurks the sewers. After trying to find a creature they found dead bodies of people mostly a young and middle age womans caught in unfamiliar fluid, after more search you finally managed to find creatures nest and you need to prepare bait which you did and Geralt waited for creature to show up. After some time creatures took a bait and Geralt meet creature in eye to eye and found out that creature is extremely large Toad. Geralt succesfully slaying the Toad and realize that that Toad is actually cursed Ofieri prince and prince's guards captured Geralt and wanted to execute him. Later on he woke up in ship that is aiming to bring Geralt to Ofier land, in that same ship Geralt meet an powerful man, a entity of great power that helps Geralts escape, but in return Geralt received specific task and an strange mark on his face.

This expansion gives you much more content in game there is few main and side missions, story is good and even though its fictional you can learn a lot about emotions and personalities.

Gameplay wise you will unlock specific merchant at Upper Mill and help him to retrieve and make copies of same diagrams for you. Next to him is a man who is Runewright which will ask of you to give money so that he can start making runes again (you will need good amount of money for him). After giving him money you will be able to enchant your Armors and Swords which changes whole game and gives you ability to make such overpowered build. You also will have a chance to get Viper Witcher School Armor and weapons if you follow specific route.

Music is good as always gives you something between Slavic and Nordic vibe.


Blood and Wine Expension

Geralt is offered a contract by Duchess Anna Henrietta, the ruler of Toussaint, a vassal duchy under the Nilfgaardian Empire. Two knights of Toussaint were murdered in strange circumstances, and Geralt is tasked with killing the monster responsible.

CDPR really knew what there were doing when they created this expension. You are escorted to new area Toussaint- which is in same size maybe even larger then Velen and Novigrad together. Toussaint is much colorful and full of live than Velen and Novigrad, after all its place of Knights in shine armours, wines and proper manners; exectly what Geralt's not fond of haha.

This time you will get much more rewards than in Hearts of Stone and rewards that you will gets which will help you the most are : Expended Mutation, Grandmaster Witcher Armors and Weapons and finally being owner of your own estate- the Wineyard, Corvo Bianco.

Finally Vampires are more involved in story which i wanted to see the most. you will meet diffrent types of Vampires doring your exploration or staying on main path of Blood and Wine story. I might be the only one, but i think that Blood and Wine Expension have close resemblance with movie Van Helsig(2004).

Music is of course top notch in this Expension as well.

Final Words

This game gave me such ride that i doubt i will forget any time soon or maybe ever. As i writing this i have few more quest to finish and few point of instrest to explore and to play Gwent which i will doubt play and probably will someday start NG+ on harder difficulty.

With New-Gen Update they fixed and added a lot of things so jump onto game if you didn't play and let this beautiful fictional game show what it has to offer.

10/10

Very good Battlefield setted in World War 1.

Game is very Optimized and works totally fine without experiencing any crashes or anything similar. Visuals and Audio are very clean and fluid. Voice Actors in game and Narators for Operation Gamemode are top notch. This Battlefield has much more Factions this time : Austro-Hungarian Army, British Army, Russian Army, Red Army, American Army, French Army, Ottoman Army, German Army and Italian Army. With this number of armies there is also planty Weapons and Utilities to choose from for your Arsenal, beside Weapons there is also Vehicles and Planes that you can have in Battle and destroy your enemies with. Also if ever wanted to experience full destruction of map you can do that in this game, you will be able to destroy any constrution you want beside main buildings, you also can deform the map with any explosion and leave hole in the ground.

As i said "it's very good game", but it's not perfect. There is some things i didn't like and i would like to share.

First thing you will find out that there is a lot of weapons and most weapons are locked which is totally normal for Battlefield, but not this time cuz most of weapons required to be bought by Warbonds Battlefield 1 currency, so at some looking you can see that Weapons cost 200, Pistols are 150 and Utility are 60 Warbonds each. So you would obviously think this is something you will recive at the end of each match and its fine, but that's not a case cuz you will only recive Warbonds when you level up which is okey when you are low level, at some point you will stuck for while until you recive Warbonds cuz you definitely will be needed for Utility for classes, you will be stucked cuz you spend those Warbonds for the other gun. That's why i think that Warbonds are pretty useless in BF1.

I know that all of us loves to be Recon and use Sniper and pop someone heads off from 1km away, but its criminal how snipers works in this game. You will see that sniper rifle has very weird bullet drop, most of time i used Mosin and i believe that past 300m there is no bullet drop, for some this is not a problem cuz obviously you will get much more kills etc. i didn't used to it. When we already talks about Recon i K Bullet should be buffed or to be able to deal critical hits at some parts of vehicle cuz its useless most of the time.

Because i'm playing mostly Military/War Realism games my favorite part in those games are ability to destroy vehicles with Rocket launcher or in WW base game with AT rifles hitting it in their weak spots, i found AT and AA rifles in BF1 very disappointing, cuz first of all you carry only 4 bullets and with those 4 bullets you will not be able to destroy tank, same thing with Planes which in WW1 are like papers for AA rifles.

Finally Vehicles and Planes, Vehicles in WW1 was making big adventage in battle, but this is arcade game. Basicly you sit behind point you have one engineer in your vehicles and you will not die cuz i doubt someone will charge at you behind point especially if you have high ground and allies around you, you become killing machine. Vehicles should be nerfed or AT buffed. Vehicles fixing are in general very fast, you would not be able to deal enough damage to Vehicles they will fix it in second. Planes should have bit higher recharge rate for bombs and that's it.

Horses are so fun in this game and i often like to play it, but no doubt they are "broken" at some moments they have more HP then tank.

I played few couple of hours(10+) on Origin then i bought game on steam with DLC's and while i was playing on Origin i didn't found any cheaters, and when i bought it on steam my first game on steam version i had 2 cheating medics in my teams there were "passive" so they were just revive everyone in their proximity, so there is no much cheaters which is good.

Game is worth playing, but has some issues that can be fixed. If you like WW1 setting then you will like this game. I wouldn't buy game for full prices, so buy it while it's on sale, there will always good deal for EA games on Steam.

There is nothing much to say about this game, it's simple the best modern era Battlefield out there.

Weaponary - They really put some serious work on this category. You can have class specific weapons and if you don't want it you can have DMR/Shotgun/SMG with you, there is a lot of pistols you can unlock and use depends what you like. I don't want to talk about customizability of the Weapons, cuz it will not disappoint you in any way.

Recoil and Accuracy on Guns - This one was big problem in BF3 (the one i played the most), they really fixed that problem in BF4, although there is some moments that you stand infront of enemy and spend whole Mag on him and he still survives with like 5 hps, but that's mostly because of ping. Also there is the other side of that like getting gunned by Bipod MG from 1 km away, but in my opinion best fix they did is with Sniping, in BF3 you could literally see a bullet from Sniper flying at you and you could dodge it with ease, however in BF4 they made it much more quicker and harder to dodge or spot.

Grenades, Rockets and Explosives - There is much more equipments you can have and pick for your perfect loadout for every given situation. Grenades are usful to some extent, some more and some are less used. Rockets each have its own purpose for using and if using correctly and with decent teamplay they become very deadly. There is nothing much to say about Explosives if used correctly they will useful for every situation.

Classes - This one is most important that other predecessors didn't have and its main reason i think that makes this game very special. Like in BF3 and other older BF games, Classes are one of those if you take Assault you are madic with possiblity for having granades or M320 (noobtube) and thats it in BF4 if you are Assault you can make it more useful with diffrent variants of M320 to support team and other useful kits, but most importants are other classes that allowes you to carry diffrent type of utility with you taking for example Recon- in BF3 you could only have equipment for marking, spawning and support that way, however in BF4 you have ability to carrry C4 and Claymore boosting your survivability much more if any Ground Vehicle comes to you.

Vehicles - From Transports to Killing machines : You will find classic Transport to IFV, Tanks, LAV's to AA, Mobile Artillery, then water vehicles like classic Jets for transport to boats equipped with minigun to battleships with special weaponary for infantry and vehicles, then Air vehicles transport Heli equipped with miniguns on both side, Scout Helis to Attack Helis, Attack and Stealth Jets and Special Vehicles like AC-130 or Forklift. Extremely a lot of Vehicles to choose and honing your skills with them. Some of Vehicles are better then others for instance USA Abrams tank is much stronger then Russian T-90 so you can ram into him and make him unable to hit you, but in other hand Russian tank has smaller hitbox, also there is Scout Helis that USA Little Bird Helis don't have hitbox on propelers while Chinese/Russian Z-11W have and makes it much easer to hit. There is also Attack Helis that USA Viper has better view inside of cockpit of Heli while Russian Havoc has much harder view. There must be much more things that some others have pointed ou so check on Youtube. There is one more issue with Vehicles, while classes become much more universal, vehicles are much more buffed for instance if there is very good Attack Heli driver and gunner he is basicly unkillable, they sits behind their first point and spam TV rockets at you and you can't kill him especially with decent enemy team, you can't shoot him with with rockets cuz in most instance you wont be able to come any closer, or some maps have too much hiding spots for Heli to hide from Laser Guided rockets to get hits, there is counter messures that can be taken for this and those are Javelin + SUAV combo or SA-18 IGLA.

Overall it's great game to play. Although you will find a lot of Veterans to play it and clean floor with you and you must respect them, in the other hand you will find Cheaters and you can't do much about that then playing on server with admins or changing server.

Buy the game you will not regret, on some sales you will get great deal to buy premium verison of the game with all DLCs.