Recent reviews by jier

Hades is a stylized isometric roguelike with Greek mythos as a theme where death is a frequent events but you will rarely hear a repeated lines due to its massive amount of unique dialogues. You play as Zagreus, a lesser known God, who wants to get out of the underworld.

Gameplay: satisfying, super responsive, hard as hell (heh) but there's an 'accessbility' option that you should not feel ashamed to use if you find the game too challenging.

Graphics: very stylized, comic-book style.

Sound: SFXs are satisfying and musics are amazing

Nice heartfelt (and somewhat relatable) little stories about various kinds of people that visit a futuristic bar. While the background drop doesn't change, the writing makes up for it. Great VN, really enjoy it even for me who's not a big fan of the genre.

Can't even play. Always error login to xbox live. Not used to be like this.

Bad port

oof, loved the first one for it's simple, clean, clear, snappy, and "impactful" hits. This one feels like too much cluttered and slower (even though it's harder?), maybe it's the animation. There are improvements, from the graphics, new weapons, mechanics, more options, better controller support, etc. but ultimately feeling less satisfying to play than the first one.

1/3rd of my play time is trying to defeat a boss

it is a short hike, there's no false advertisement or hope here, you can finish the game in a single sitting, I suggest a relaxing sitting, like when you finished all chores and there's nothing else need to be done and you just wanna chill. Tight & easy control, cute character design, graphics style reminiscent of PS1 era games, a small open world but filled to the brim with extra stuffs to find, rewarding exploration, very forgiving gameplay (no fall damage!!), and a lighthearted story.

it's a feelgood game, and I'm feeling good.

+ a really enjoyable game set in a very big world of Ancient Greek, complete with its legends

- not really a good Assassin's Creed game.

I love this game, just not as an AC title. It's really lacking in Assassin's Creed qualities.

+ the songs slaps
+ really like the aesthetic

= the control... need some get used to

- while the aesthetic is really good, some gameplay elements need to be clearer
- there are some animation bugs, like when Beat got stuck on top after hitting a top note

Really simple (two-buttons) rhythm game, I dig it.

+ Freedom of approach, 99% of the missions you have an enormous amount of freedom on how you want to complete them.
+ Super fun gameplay, this is a game that I can appreciate the gameplay loop, do missions > get money > develop toys to make future missions more fun > do missions.
+ D-Dog
+ Quiet

= Tailored open world, it's... not an open world similar to FarCry 3 (and up) with safe points here and there (there's no "safe" area in MGSV playing field) or The Elder Scrolls (it's not full with NPCs you can talk to or do sidequests, there's no bustling cities full of people, everyone in MGSV playing field are either enemies, prisoners, or wild animals). It's an open world tailored for freedom of gameplay--mainly stealth, imagine all you have is FarCry's outposts everywhere.
= Repeated missions in later game which kinda makes you feel the game is rushed. I'd rather have them as optional challenges (like ticking extra difficulty options) than a new standalone mission that clutter the missions list screen. Others may like the extra challenge, but it's just a bit above my skill.

- Not a lot of cutscenes (compared to previous games, at least. MGS games are known for it's plenty and lengthy cutscenes, no? CMIIW), especially for developing certain characters.
- Protagonist is a bit of a silent type, he talks but not too much, I find it weird especially after knowing that in the previous games the protagonist is a pretty talkative guy. Though to be fair it's a different guy anyway.
- Story is a mess... or is it just Metal Gear in general ? I still don't quite understand the objectives and plans of the big bad.
- FOB is an extreme, it's either a walk in the park or stupidly difficult, and the bases are a damn labyrinth to traverse.

The negatives are just nitpicking, I know. This is a very enjoyable game, even if you don't like stealth games since you can throw stealth out the window with this game and just go full rambo, though be careful as in almost all of the missions you'll be severely outnumbered, so guns blazing isn't a recommended tactic.

Don't play this if you prefer a more linear or restricted gameplay, empty open world with nothing but enemies, and if you just don't like it when things go wrong during missions and the last checkpoint is 20 minutes ago.