Recent reviews by Owl

Samurai Shodown V Special (or Zero in Japan) is a very fun game, and one of the best in the franchise. It has a huge cast of characters so it's very likely one of your favorite characters will be here. Also, it has rollback netcode and what that means is that you can play someone miles away (like, Brazil to Japan) to seemingly no lag. It has quite active fan base, so you can find people on Discord, reddit or twitter who is up to play and also tutorials about the characters aren't hard to find. Since it's a 2D game, you don't need a super GPU to run this.

If you never played Samurai Shodown before, I must tell you it's a slow-paced game, the kind of game that one or two hits might decide the match, so you play careful and use the opponent's mistakes in your favor.

In short, it's a cheap game, lots of players and tutorials, good netcode, runs basically any computer, dope game.

About ten years ago I was deep inside the Ragnarok Online fever. Unfortunately many of my friends stopped playing a few years later and they migrated to the popular World of Warcraft. The '3D' WoW aesthetic did not please me, I liked the Ragnarok eastern visual. Aura Kingdom is a combination of both aesthetics: despite the 3D setting, it tries to get the artistic style of the East.

MMORPGs have changed a lot in recent years (especially because of WoW) and I didn't follow this progress, so I don't like to play through so many quests that seem to almost take my hand and guiding me step by step as a newb; you can reach high levels just talking to NPCs and killing not that much of monsters. I like to grind at RPGs (Final Fantasy, Pokémon, etc), but to reach a larger audience, it's okay nowadays MMOs being so "tutorial until lv99".

Nevertheless, the game is very friendly, has a satisfactory amount of jobs, and it is perfect to play with groups of friends. You should try, but don't hold your hope so high.

After finishing the first game in just one day and take a few hours of sleep, I started the second game. The story begins right at the point where the story of the first one stopped and the situation that I had played about twenty hours of the first title the day before, I was really in the game's spirit and emotionally connected with the protagonist. There were over twenty straight hours playing without sleep and I had another rewarding experience, an adventure among hate and love for some characters, governed by tough decisions, which often conflicted my emotional against my morals.

The Walking Dead has a great story, but if you want a tip, I would suggest to play each season only when all chapters have been released. Playing each chapter at a time (at intervals of months between them, perhaps) can be much more suffering. When the third game was released, I'll wait all chapters to be release then I'll play the entire game in a row. Once more.

It is one of my favorite franchises, and I played the game before watching the TV show or read comics and books. Thank you, Telltale Games.

"400 Days" tells stories that take place between the first and the second title in the franchise. Although it's not essential to play the second game, it isn't an waste of time.

You have the opportunity to play stories told individually that are all connected in the end of the game and when you are playing the second game, you'll understand the background of members from a specific group, their past, their motivations to take some actions.

Strengthening: it's not necessary to play this DLC to understand the history of the second game, but you certainly will be greatly rewarded with a deeper and more engaging story there. About soundtrack, visual quality and script, the DLC is nothing less than the first game; however, shows that Telltale Games has learned some new little things and added that to the DLC.

Each story takes about 15 or 20 minutes to be complete, and about an hour to complete the entire content. Worth it if you loved the first game so much.

Child of Light is one of the best games I've played in 2014. Its art and soundtrack work harmoniously and smoothly, you can spend HOURS playing without getting tired. Unlike AAA titles, CoL has no explosions, blood, violence - that kind of action. At the same time, it finds a balance where there will be a game that you won't sleep because of the lack of action. Even more if you are familiar with turn-based RPGs.

The rhyming story is well constructed and developed by charismatic characters with unique characteristics. Some details about the game interface has bothered me (like not being able to organize my party) but it weren't enough to discourage me or took away my interest in knowing what would happen next in the story.

I finished it in PS4, Vita and I also got a copy on Steam. And I'm not sick yet. Not even close to be.

When I finished the first game, I knew it would get a rightful place in my heart as one of my favorite games of all time. Portal brought a good story (ruled by a rather charismatic villain) and innovative mechanics -- and those are two elements that we see in many games, but there is hardly harmony between these two as there is in Portal series.

Portal 2 surprised me not only about visual improvement, but by expanding a story that I thought was complete and well done. This universe showed me that I did not know everything already, I still had much to learn and if you played Half-Life (especially the second one), you will plunge in this universe and will be very pleased by the divine surprises.

"Portal 2 being better than the first one" does not mean that the former game is bad or inferior in some way. It means exactly what I said: Portal 2 is better, and only that. I strongly advise you to play the first game and then the sequel, 'cause there are moments of history that will have much more meaning in that way.

In short, Portal is a piece of a cake, a cake stuffed with pleasant surprises. And we all love cakes, right?

Skullgirls got me before the launch day because the way that the developers talk to players on social networks, always asking questions, asking for opinions and whenever in their spare time if they were making something to the game, they would stream and they would answer questions willingly.

I had my childhood ruled by King of Fighters, and in recent years I have played a lot of BlazBlue, so I'm used to the four-button system and avoid games with six buttons (except for Marvel vs. Capcom and Street Fighter) but Skullgirls, with the developers' love, made me give it a try -- and I'm not repentant!

Among the strong points of the game, there is the tutorial. It's simple enough and intuitive for those are just starting out, but pretty solid for those who already have some experience. The animation's good mood helps to forgive any small flaw that the game might have, because it isn't pretentious or arrogant, it is a friendly and simple game. Because of all this, the game is enjoyable to play even at online matches, unlike most of the fighting games.

This game made me return to PC gaming after a decade. A "FPS" with no enemies "to kill", you progress through the puzzles that have no single solution. This game is great, everyone should try it.