Recent reviews by WearyBeJimbo

I liked him

Heavy Rain is pretty stupid but it is significantly less stupid than Fahrenheit. Soundtrack is significantly less annoying, controls better, actually gives you time to think about dialogue options. There's a good amount of funny injokes and fun to be had by missing every QTE segment, but the more serious beats of the story are mostly lost to bland characters (except the GOAT Nahman Jayden) and David Cageisms. Fun for $7, definitely not for full price.

Fahrenheit goes from an exceedingly shallow character study to the most ridiculous and nonsensical plotline I've seen in months. It's like if Crash (2004) suddenly devolved into a Neil Breen remake of The Matrix halfway through.

Gameplay wise this is "interactive storytelling" at its worst. You have five seconds to pick a dialogue option and you're only treated with a vague Fallout 4-esque one-word description on what the option entails. QTE segments boil down to Simon Says gameplay which seems to have no correspondance with anything that happens on screen.

Might've paved the way for the genre but it also demonstrated how badly you could screw it up.

Worth it for the soundtrack alone. Kelly Bailey is one of the greatest to ever do it.

the only live service game that doesn't actively waste my time constantly

Dead Space 2 is the greatest thing ever invented since the invention of sliced bread. It is the absolute pinnacle of the entire sci-fi horror genre, across every form of media imaginable. Humanity peaked with Dead Space 2. All that's left for us now is to watch our world rot until we can no longer play Dead Space 2, at which point we will all collectively commit suicide en masse because there's no point in living in a world without Dead Space 2. 10/10, made me whole again.

The level design is up there with the list of games that don't have good level design... but hell, I'm a sucker for this game's story. A lot of people consider it worse than the first but for me this thing rocks.

RERUNNER is a remake of RUNNER that includes some new gameplay mechanics, a big repository of bonus content, and fixes some of the issues that plagued the original. Certainly won't change your mind if you don't like autorunners but it's still a neat little thing for fans of the original.

Aside from the myriad of performance issues (seriously, your shader caching is kind of terrible) this is sort of just a straight upgrade to the original. I never knew I needed Isaac swearing in my life. 8/10, made me whole again.

It's a lot like hockey