Recent reviews by Admiral Daviour [JSSG]

Join me on a journey where the challenges came in the form of hunger, thirst, heat, deadly rabbits but for the most part; lag, lots of lag.

The journey begins in a small garage out in the middle of nowhere, a magazine tells me it is 1970 or thereabouts and a small sedan from the era is waiting for me to jump on the road and begin The Long Drive...

First however I give this car a new shine with the provided brush and sponge by scrubbing it and washing it, at least until they run out of... whatever it is that keeps them going.
Now it is night time and the rabbits, with their terrifying red eyes, are trying to knock down my garage door. I go to bed but the killer rabbit screams haunt me throughout the night.
When I wake up I grab a BB gun and proceed to hunt down the rabbits ...only to find out it has partially glitched through the door and died.

With the rabbit stretching and shaking demonically like a possessed puppet, I open the garage doors, get in my car and drunkenly start swaying down the long road ahead of me.

Shortly after I come across a small gas station filled with poo, there isn't much else there besides a fridge and some rusted car parts so I quickly sort the Italian sausages from the other kind... and move on.

As I'm driving down the road that is long, I spot a fuel tanker mysteriously run aground in the middle of the desert and decide to investigate.
The drive to the tanker is much longer than expected and so I put on the radio where a DJ reflects on the state of the apocalypse and its effects on the lives of every day people like myself, driving through the wasteland scavenging for parts and fuel.
Once fuelled up at the tanker, I drive back to the road and set in for another long drive.

When I stop at another gas station, a UFO passed overhead and for some reason it doesn't even look that out of place. I find a trailer for my car and nearly get eaten by a killer rabbit, my strategy for dealing with them is to simply wait until they get killed by a wall and I can move on.

On another off-road adventure I come across a small factory of sorts where a larger trailer is parked outside, I attach this to my existing trailer and now I'm driving a train.

The lag has picked up at this point so I feel like playing some music as a distraction. I tune into the custom channel where it plays music from my hard drive and I immediately start laughing at the strange distorted tunes coming from the radio in perfect sync with the lag-spikes. Song vocals change pitch as I make turns with my car and the whole game freezes as the radio changes tracks. I turn it off shortly after but that was bloody hilarious.

I keep driving a little further but at this point the game has become unplayable due to excessive lag so I decided to call the adventure finished for now.

In conclusion;

Yes, it's fun and oddly addictive but still a little too broken at the end of the day to keep playing.

The visuals are passable at times but can also be an eyesore and borderline headache-inducing at other times.

Content-wise I hope there is more to come but right now the game primarily needs a bit more of a boost in technical fidelity so it runs better and so the world feels a bit more reliable to move around in.

Great idea for a game though and I've enjoyed what I played so far.

The Stanleu Parable is a game where a character named Stanleu traverses the multiverse of narrative game design resulting in a final epilogue of true beauty and wonder. Now keep in mind I only played through it once and I can only imagine there being one ending and one ending only so yes, I would recommend this game as it's a true master piece of narrator experience and I love it.

10 out of 4 arbitrary game award points,

Me

This is the only game that made me feel European (because apparently no one else plays this but Europeans)

Whatevs, cool racing game. The grind is real, see you when I have 10000 hours in the game.

A fun tactical shooter with in-depth weapon customisation. Although weapon variety is a bit lacking and the game feels a bit clunky to play but is overall an entertaining experience for any tactical shooter fan.

This is an early access review so I do expect the game to improve over time, what is there will keep you occupied long enough to justify the price however.

I give this game four rogers out of five.

I'm really enjoying my time with Timberborn, wow! Love it.

The idea is fun and the atmosphere and narration are great but the game is let down by poor combat mechanics, static animations for attacks, repetitive gameplay and most annoyingly of all the inability to use foliage and depth to hide which kind of takes the fun out stalking your prey whether it's the hunters or an unsuspecting victim, the AI just seems to be a little too basic.

Jaws simulator this is not.

It is a mindless action-gore fest, which is fine for a rainy day with nothing else to play but I can't help but think this game could have been so much better if the developers had set the bar for the gameplay a little higher.

I'm on the fence whether I should give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down. I'll give it a thumbs up because sharks, but only because sharks.

5/10

Ah yes, cookie clicker. My favourite game to almost break up with my girlfriend over!

Bought it instantly I saw it was on Steam, played this ages ago and it's still one of my favourite videogame universes ever created.

777/10 - Would click again.

While it has its flaws, it is still a Mass Effect game.

I had heard about the flaws and seen the videos of poorly animated characters but I decided to get it on a Steam sale and give it a go anyway. This was a few years after release and it seems like most of the issues it originally had have at least been fixed, not all, but most.

It's a different perspective and even a different galaxy from the previous Mass Effect games. You play as Ryder, one of many colonists that set out to find a new home in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Obviously things don't go according to plan and you find yourself in a very hostile galaxy indeed.

Things are tough for Ryder as from the very start they are given all of the privileges of a "Pathfinder", including a brand new luxurious ship of their own to cruise the galaxy in.

Without spoilers, the storyline kicks off with some questionable writing and dialogue but has its moments as you explore the cluster. The main storyline also feels very cliche, there's nothing in there you haven't seen before.

The writing is just a bit all-over the place at times. Some moments feel just as immersive as the previous Mass Effects, while others feel like bad fanfiction somehow made it into the official script.

Mechanically the combat has improved but the world itself is now entirely open-ended. Gone are the intricately designed linear levels of the previous games and instead you get massive maps full of copy-pasted buildings and enemies. On top of that there are also countless side-quests and objectives, most of which in hindsight I could have easily ignored, which is fine if it wasn't for the fact the game doesn't really let you know how important a quest is. This means that by the end of the game I ended up ignoring some important quests while having spent more time than I would have liked on simpler xp-grinding quests with little to no story that just weren't relevant to the main story at all.
While I loved the side-quests in the previous Mass Effect games, arguably they were the best parts, this game is bloated with needless busywork and really could have been trimmed down to a more engaging over-all experience.


The Good:

• Companions are quite diverse and interesting
  
• Soundtrack is alright
  
• Improved combat system
  
• Still feels like Mass Effect

The Bad:

• Repetitive
  
• Loads of repetition
  
• A lot of the game feels the same
  
• Lack of enemy types
  
• UI is a mess at times
  
• Boss fights are terrible
  
• SAM is annoying as hell, I wish he had a mute button

This game is not Kerbal Space Program. The developers clearly set out to make a game with a different style and a different goal.
Boy, did they succeed... unfortunately.

There's hardly any customisation, there's not a lot of strategy to running your space agency and worst of all; there are gameplay mechanics that feel like they were made for a phone game, these are the mini-games through which you "control" your spacecraft during a mission and they feel completely out-of-place on PC.

There's a good game in here somewhere but ultimately the developer took the route of relying too much on RNG and the aforementioned mini-games that just end up turning an otherwise nice game, albeit somewhat lacking in depth, into a mix of frustration and boredom.

You may just as well pull up a Wikipedia article on the history of rocketry while playing Candy Crush on your phone, I don't imagine the experience will be much different.

Broken mess of glorious fun!