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Mart Donkey goes hard. Man I love blooning. I think I'm gonna bloooooooooooon

Frozen milkshakes my beloved

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

ASTRONEER is a very enjoyable space exploration game with a colorful artstyle to match the arcade-y gameplay. Progression is well thought-out and difficult enough to make it challenging but not annoying. The features in the game allow for building unique contraptions to improve your base, especially regarding automation. Exploration is fun and each planet is sufficiently large that it does not feel like you are running in circles. However, this game's biggest flaw is the lack of content. After about 10-20 hours in a world, it feels like there is not much left to do. The "story" elements provide no significant reason to be pursued beyond satisfaction or achievements. The game is definitely still worth picking up, especially if you can play with friends.

Overall: 7/10

In typical Horizon fashion, Playground offers another fun arcade racing game. The environment is interesting enough and there is lots to do in the game; however, the Festival playlist concept especially continues to feel like a grind and can be very FOMO-inducing. The DLC are expensive for what you get and the AI does not really feel balanced, especially on Unbeatable. However, the game is still fun to drive around in aimlessly for hours while listening to music.

Overall: 7/10

Being one of the most hyped and sought-after game releases in recent history, this game had a lot of potential to live up to. Fortunately, I think that it has done exactly that. The game captures the feeling of the Harry Potter world perfectly and it is very easy to immerse yourself within the world and identify with your character. The story is reasonable though definitely not the game's strong suit; that being the exploration. The game looks beautiful and that only adds to the feeling of exploring Hogwarts and the surrounding areas. Combat is fun and you can customize your playstyle to some extent depending on the spell you want to use. Completionist gameplay is lacking as there are many repetitive tasks needed for the achievements, such as the Merlin Trials. Additionally, you are encouraged to play through the Story once as each house, despite very little changing in the way of NPCs, surroundings and quests. It should also be noted that the game still has some performance troubles, although most have been fixed.

Overall: 8/10

Timeless classic that you can keep coming back to, even if just for a short while at a time. It's fun with friends or alone and the amount of content will keep you hooked for a good while. Lots to do and lots of different ways to approach these to-dos make Terraria infinitely worth it, especially for such a cheap price.

Overall: 10/10

SOTTR provides a decent story with unique and interesting albeit often linear environments. The puzzles are reasonable and usually not challenging though still rewarding. The combat is definitely a weaker aspect of the game and usually feels "clunky" and not very responsive, especially when using weapons other than the bow. It seems that most of the work for character design went into Lara, leaving other main story character appear emotionless and bland in many of the cutscenes. Nevertheless, I enjoyed playing the game in its entirety and there is enough content to keep you busy for a while, especially if you enjoy hunting achievements.

Overall: 8/10

el gato

One of the all-time great games to pass the time mindlessly and still lose your mind in the process.