Recent reviews by Harmacist

This is a nice little clicker type game. If you're familiar with the genre, then you'll know what to expect: click the bubbles, make money, buy upgrades, that start the idle process, rise and repeat. It's a simple but effective formula that makes the brain go "brrrt" due the numbers getting bigger.

Also cats. Can't say no to cats.

I came for the powerwashing and stayed for the plot.

Quite enjoyable.

I discovered this game after a youtuber I subscribe to played it. While not typically the type of game I play, I found it enjoyable.

Starting out, things have be a bit hectic since there's a limited amount of items you can buy/sell, but the game really starts opening up once you begin being able to craft items. Then, you're able to buy supplies, craft, and resell for a higher price. While it can kept hectic at times when the shelves need to be restocked, it's still a pretty fun game. I look forward to seeing what else the devs come up with.

tl;dr: It's not a rehash of Jurasic Park: Operation Genesis but it's still loads of fun.

Pros:
It is absolutely gorgeous and I don't really have any issues running it on my laptop. I have just about all the graphical settings maxed and it's not taking up much in way of resources.
If you like micromanaging, you'll love it. You need to manually assign tasks to your crew when things pop up.
So much information on how your park is doing.
Clean UI.

Cons:
Don't walk into this expecting JP:OG, because it's not. It takes some features, but adds a bunch of different.
Micromanaging. It can get annoying at times to have to pop around the park doing things, especially when you're trying to build.
The tutorial segment is a tad hand holdy.

But what do I think?
I've been watching this game since it was announced since I'm a massive JP and dinosaur fan. While it's no JP:OG, it's still a fun game. I'm still on the first island, but I'm having fun dabbling with what will affect my park numbers. Not the mention being amused by the interaction and random comments of the characters. The only "technical" issue I encountered was an issue with my anti-virus being overprotective. Once that was handled, absolutely no problems.

I played the first Evoland and throughly enjoyed it, despite how short it was. Evoland 2 took all the good things of the first game and expanded on it. It has a coherent plot line with a few unexpected twists, and the dialogue can be downright amusing at times with the campiness, tongue in cheek references to overly used game plots, and the occasional 4th wall break. The characters are well done in such a way that you miss their little quirks when they leave the party.

The game play is varied and ranges from the side scroller, 2D platformers of the 90s, to turn based RPG combat. There's also a nice bunch of puzzles that require some mental gymnastics to complete if you get tired of chasing after monsters...Or you can just explore the map and see what sort of things you can find.

The game is fun, quirky, and absurdly addictive and as of this writing, I've managed to clock 11 hours in two days. I'm still not done with the game, if that says anything.

I played the facebook version of this, and it's basically just a direct port. If you want to get anywhere on the game, either you play it several times a day and grind for diamonds, or you buy diamonds. Honestly, I'm already bored of it.

In theory, the game sounds great since I'm a big fan of the original neverwinter nights (not the MMO, the one that came out the the 2000s). However, in practice, things are a bit more lackluster. While I'm getting a definite NWN vibe, the controls for movement feel laggy and clunky. There's a decent bit of delay between clicking, the target circle showing up, and the characters actually moving. It jut doesn't feel as responsive as it could be.

The camera controls are also a bit annoying. Intuitively, one would think that moving the cursor to the edges of the screen would cause the camera to move when it's not actively following the characters. Nope. WASD. Very frustrating.

The story seems to be the usual fantasy fare, but it wasn't enough to really grab my attention. In NWN, you're essentially thrown into things. You're training at a guild that's safeguarding magical animals to help try and stop a plague that's ravaging the city of Neverwinter. Immediately, you know there's big stuff going down. SCL? So, I'm in a guild and I'm escorting a caravan and been having nightmares. Ok.

I will say that I liked the enviroments and the character customization. It was realtivly painfree to create my character, and I like that there was enough explaination that I knew what each option would do. Handy since I've never played a DnD tabletop game and only know the bare basics about it.

Overall, the game isn't bad, but it's not great. It's just kind of...Meh. Not really a game I'd recommend buying unless it heavily goes on sale.