Recent reviews by Conditional Love

TL;DR I wish there was a "maybe" button. If you have the spare money for this DLC, go ahead, otherwise don't.

The new industry system add a whole new dynamic to the game which is very welcome. The supply requirements for your new industries increases the importance of your transportation network which leads to fascinating transportation micromangement, although this supply system is still far more simple dynamic than any ANNO game. Overall, the new industry system feels like a well made mod since the new industry is not fully intergrated with the existing employment/transport/industry-zone systems. "Industries" is pretty good, but not worth full price.

Not much content and you don't need this DLC.

A good game which requires you to use the cancer named "UPLAY".

I use Steam because I couldn't be bothered messing around with CDKeys and all that ♥♥♥♥. Except with this game you need to set up UPLAY, reset your password with UPLAY (because you probably maybe it a year or two ago), update UPLAY, ..... , figure out how to get your CDKey from STEAM, check updates on the game,...., can't play offline (yet??),....., try to launch the game AGAIN...., wait for a minute for it to synchroize your achievements then save game files (But I haven't played the game yet), then get into the game to spend more time re-doing all the awful video settings.

♥♥♥♥ UBISOFT.

Root double is a visual NOVEL which tries do everything. It's a light-romance, it's a disaster survival, it's a murder-mystery, it's a slice-of-life high school comedy, .... it's long. Some parts of the story are much better than other parts (PART-A is good, Part B is incredibly dull).

It has a strange choosing system where you choose how much you like a character, and most of the time those choices have no real impact.

As a game, this Visual Novel has all the features you want from a modern Visual novel.


- fully voiced in Japanese, not useful at all
- approx 8.2gig download
- really long: at least 30 hours
- you have to play through the game multiple times to get the good endings

A worthy purchase if on sale.

Thoughts
* it's rogue-like platformer with controls like a fighting game
- no mouse menu :(
- it's easier to control with my keyboard than my mouse, weird.
- enemies punish you with an unstoppable combo
- getting caught in your own combo lock, sigh
- game crashes
- some enemies ignore solid walls, the rest ignore the temporary walls you can't see through
- enemies attack you from offscreen
- enemies don't hit hard enough and don't have enough HP, especially once you level up a bit
- 2 characters to choose from, plus one hidden. I think more variety would have be awesome
- End boss is too simple
- I finished the game in one sitting, and I didn't feel like finishing it again


The game wasn't as annoying once I understood the quirks of the game and I unlocked a character which suited my style and I leveled up my character simply by playing the game more. Then the game became too easy.

I'm giving this the thumbs down because this review is about how annoying this game is, not how beautiful or interesting the gameplay is - and there are many good qualities to the game.

So you are this SCUBA Guy swimming through beautiful ocean areas while wonderful orchestral music plays and ..... yeah. That's about it. You swim around to activate the next door, activate the thingy to go to the next area - you aren't doing much but it's all lovely while you are doing whatever you do. If the breezy pace of ABZU is too much for you, take a break to meditate on scenes of various sealife swimming about. hmmm. Put the controller down, you can get to the next checkpoint later. You can't fail in ABZU.

- 2-3 hours or so to complete the game, much more time if you are "chillaxing"
- you don't need a gamepad, it just makes it much easier to control = less stressful
- Child friendly
- mildly educational (learning the names of real Sea Creatures)
- the first time you activate the game you need to be online
- Approx 1.1gig download

Recommended when on sale for 50% off or more.

A voodoo themed twin-stick shooter. Rogue-like, in that you'll eventually die and start over with a few more bonuses unlocked, except that it's not fun start over in Full Mojo Rampage. It's not pretty, it's not that fun to play, and starting over after each death is a huge waste of time.

This would be an awesome game to play on my mobile while waiting in real life: it is it's a good sailing&trading game although basic in features. The basics are good, buying&selling and upgrading your ship, but that's all it is and it doesn't lead to anything. Once you get your first pirate base or a decent trading ship then getting phat profits is easy. You can upgrade your ship and towns a little, but I lost interest - there wasn't anything more I could achieve. This game is too simple & easy until it becomes impossibly hard (attacking towns solo, getting the best ships without paying real money,...)

Free and fun for awhile, then find something big&better to spend your time on. I gave it a thumbs up because there is no "hmmm, it's alright" option.

7 nihilitic scenarios to choose your way to victory, or accidentally fail because random luck was not on your side, or fail because it takes awhile to figure out how to play each round by ear (with the random threats, it's not enough to have guidance from a Walkthrough Guide). And after each failure you have to replay through all the stupid dialogue at the start, then all the tedious steps to get back to where you reached before. My review sounds angry because this game is so frustrating and boring when it didn't have to be.

I don't recommend Gods Will Be Watching unless there is a 80% + discount and you are in the mood to to enjoy failure.

- Sound track is OK
- I like the art
- approx 420mb

A pretty good tower defense game. Not worth full price, a decent purchase when 50 to 90% off.

- 450mb download
- click on the easter eggs in the backgroud
- towers are built on one of the limited fixed locations
- "slow towers" are braindead troops
- Heroes are fairly weak
- as you progress the campaign, the difficulty goes from too easy to far too difficult