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Happy 20th Birthday Mr. Freeman

Nominated to Labor of Love Steam Award 2024

Wonderful art and sound for a two or three hours tale about a girl that is remembering her own past.

This is sad story that shows us how some tragedies of your relatives could affect your life.

Developers seem to left the meaning of the tree house up to you, so I don't understand very well the end.

However, if it's true what i undestood, that end is a litlle bit dreadful.

The game is a point-n-click adventure where you have to rotate the stages to find ítems and clues to solve all coherent and logical puzzles.

The game has achivements but not trading cards.

I am Groot - This game could be Guardians Vol. 4
I am Groot - Very good story
I am Groot - Tons of dialogues and interactions between the members of the group
I am Groot - All characters related to the Guardians appear plus some surprises
I am Groot - Good graphics although there is some drop in frame rate in some areas of the game on SteamDeck, but of course its better to play it on 3070Ti PC
I am Groot - Excellent 80's B.S.O and references to pop culture - Did you find Samatha Fox?
I am Groot - Good third person fights, some puzzles and space combat battles

I am Rocket - "F..k you Avengers, this is the game you would have wanted to star in"

It's an excellent game, I enjoyed it a lot

This game is a clon of "Fall Guys" and it is better than the original in several ways.

The game has a lot of free content (skins and so on), more events and more concurrent users, so it is easier to begin to play.

It also supports cross platform play: pc and mobile, and soon you will play on switch and ps4.

Easy to play, more difficult to win any race but enjoyable and funny.

The game has achivements but hasn't trading cards.

Just a final thought... Mr.Epic, V-bucks are not everything in this life.

Happy 25th birthday... Gordon Freeman!!

Steam Awards 2023 nominated

I've been waiting 30 years for this moment... so guys thank you for making it possible

Steam Awards 2022 "Game of the year" nominated

Steam Awards 2021 nominated

This game is a game about war and how war can change a person,and how a person can go beyond his limits to achive a goal without caring about the methods.

The game is some sort of Gears of War, you have to advance shooting everyone and using everything to cover you of the enemy fire.
During a lot of time you have some companions that help you in the mission, and you can order to shoot and kill some speceific enemies in an easy way.
IA is not excellent but is quite good and two or three combats are a little bit challenging. The game have a wide variety of levels of difficult so you can adjust it depending of your skills.

The best of the game is its story, it began as a rescue mission in a distopical Dubai, and becomes in a personal revenge as events unfold. The game in some points put you in some sort of situations, moral and ethical, to show you how can change a person depending the enviroment, the risk or his survival options. This decissions are used at the end to explain the conclusion of your journey.

Just on comment here, I remember the tons and tons of pages written about the airport mission of Call of Duty where you could kill a lot of civilians... maybe it was an AAA game, maybe Activision is more mediatic that Missing Link or I could assume that all that people didn't play Spec Ops, but I think the choices you take in this game are more bloody and brutal and of course, there are a lot of civilians involved too no pages written.

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The game is 10 years old, so graphically, it feel the weight of years but they are quite good, and in my opinion light effects and climatolgical events like sand storms are the best of them.

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Sound is very good too, I played using headphones and I had the feeling to combat there, all weapons, explosions and dialogues between your teams members or between enemies are very very realistic.
The voice acting is excellent and music marvellous. The electric guitar playing the USA hymn in the same way Jimi Hendrix played in Woodstock 1969, while a torn flag flies in a crimsom sky let me the feelling that something was breaking inside the squad.

When I finished the game it came to my mind the song "War". I listened "War" for first time in Springsteen's Live 75-85 CD and I was atonished by its powerful sound and message. The song was written by The Temptations and Edwin Starr sang it in 70's against Vietnam War.

Lyrics fits very well in this game, so let me finish this review, writing some part of them below:

"War...I despise......It means destruction to innocent lives
War means tears...To thousands of mothers' eyes
When their sons go out to fight.....And lose their lives

War, huh, yeah........What is it good for?......Nothing
War, huh (whoa, whoa whoa Lord) ...What is it good for? ..(Alright) Nothing

War, it ain't nothin' but a heartbreaker......The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest... In the younger generation
Who wants to die?"

Great game, highly recommended

Gorogoa is a charmy puzzle game.

The game seems a hand made drawn storybook where the autor explains an onirical story in four panels that you have to combine, zoom in, zoom out, lift or drag and drop to progress in the story.

All puzzles are brilliant, a pair of them a little bit difficult, but not impossible if you change a little bit your way of thinking.

Graphically is suberb, all pictures are very well detailed and trasitions and animations flow like a movie.

Music and sound have the same level of perfection and fit very well in every moment of the story.

The game has achivemnts (not difficult for achivements hunters) and drops cards

A two hours great experience... but... you know... good things come in small packages

Recommended

Maybe the shadow of Shepard was so wide and big or maybe some decissions of design and technical bugs throwed away the great hype the fans had about the game but beyond all those things Andromeda is a good game to play

This time the humanity needs a new land to live, new planets to establish colonies and progress, and your main goal as a pathfinder is to achive thess goals.

The story is a little big boring at the beginning, it seems that developers would want to explain again all the universe, races and relationships between them to the newcommers. Luckyly the story turns more interesting when you meet Ankaras and Ketts appear.

Ketts are the main enemies of the game, they are powerfull and try to obtain by the force the secrets of the ancient technology that is hidden in the planets of andromeda, but they never seems a true rival for us, may be because are less frightenning than the reapers of the original trilogy and thier goals are focused to rule all the galaxy instead of destroy it.

Graphics and sound are quite good, Frostbite engine shows its power, an all planets and locations are different and very well detailed. It's true, that some cutscenes or interactions with NPC show less detailed textures and some irregular animations but in general all looks fine. Maybe if developers had forgotten multiplayer or all the squad missions to gain xp that they have no sense, and don't add something to th plot, they had had more time to refine and improve them

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Combat is too easy, all you need to progress is your biotic habilities to throw your enemies away , a good shotgun with telescophic lens and a good sniper rifle. All you have to do is increase you head-shot counters. In some areas there are some big bosses that need some extra habilities, but in general you can wait that your companions have the dirty job for you and help them from the distance

In my opinon one of the worst things of the game is the inventory and the crafting system, its very unuseless, plenty of sub menus and very difficult to understand. You have a lot of materials, a lot of objects to invetigate, to discover, to built, different shields, kinds of bullets, perks, armors and helmets and so on. At last, I only use the objects I found in the quests, and I killed perfectly all enemies and bosses... it is something that developers would have to think about.

The game has a long main quest and a lot of side quest, too many irrelevant, too many interesting. I recommend the krogan's world quests and the rescue of the sarien spaceship, and of course the Pebee's quest because as it happened in other Bioware's games, the relationship with the other members of the crew is very important.

As it happened in their previous games, if you play well your cards, you also fall in love with one or two of them. I established a lesbian relationship between Ryder and Peebee. They repeted the formula of the original Mass Effect (Shepard and Liara) but as I said in other reviews, times have changed and nowadays this fact doesn't surprise anybody.

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In summary, MassEffect Andromeda is a good game, not perfect but a good game.

Finally, one thought. Bioware sold its soul to the devil long time ago, but somewhere, inside it there is a glowing light that still wants to tell us good stories. I think its last chance to do it is far from the space, near the dragons... and near them I hope its magic light will shine powerfull again.

PS: Thanks to EliasKir for this Secret Santa's gift