Recente recensies door Chiken_Sammich

If you're bored and want to stay that way.
If you would like to destroy your mouse, in a single afternoon.
If you want to punish the hand that gave you sooo much pleasure over all those years since grade school.

This is the game for you.

I voted this up on Greenlight & have been waiting on this release. The wait was worth it. This game is a blast & a fun little challenge. You also receive the emotional reward of bringing those little dudes with the waving arms home to their little ladies(presumably also with waving arms??).

There are some tricky/frustrating parts. Mainly on "Cargo" retreival stages, where the cargo gets out of control & starts revolving around the chopper. This is due to the game's physics, but is rooted in the pilot's (MY) crappy flying. Also trying to land in the trees. tends to result in flipping the chopper, which then drives you into the ground(again faulty operator). My crappy piloting did however make me "kamakaze" into a tank & accidentally blast those VC bastards into the ground. I then proceeded to laugh maniacally & then write this review.

I highly recommend this one.

Edit - There are a lot of nice little features in this one too. Things like degradation of handling due to the increased weight of hostages & having to battle against wind during storms. Invictus kept an eye on detail.

I'll come right out & say it, "I really didn't give this game a chance." Feel free to take my review with a grain of salt.

Thank you to Tripwire for the free weekend. However, after 18 minutes of gameplay, rather than the initial feeling of new game excitement. I just felt annoyed. I can't really pin it down, but I felt like this is not the game I need to spend my time on.

This might be a great title for shooter fans, but something drove me away fast.

Not entirely sure why there are so many mixed reviews for this game. Sure Hydrophobia isn't the greatest game out there. The visuals aren't incredible, by any means. The audio is "meh" at best. I saw someone mention that the water physics were good. They've CLEARLY NEVER actually seen water before(you will open doors & see a 3 ft wall of water that will take about 30 seconds to level out). But there is a fairly good story here. The setting is pretty good. The mechanics are above average. And the price is to what an "ok" game should be set at.

Lego LotR is everything you'd expect from the digital Lego franchise. This is an excellent retelling of a story we're all familiar with, laced with kid friendly humor. This is the staple of the series & TT Games delivers. However, this entry into the Lego series is problematic.

Platforming is TERRIBLE. Most notibly are spots where you are forced to do the balance beam jumps. There seem to be force fields in the air that stop you from jumping far enough or into the right spot. you will repeatedly fall into the water on these sections & have to repeat the whole set of jumps over again.

The stage "Osgiliath" is extremely buggy. The Ents will randomly rocket up into the air because of their shoddy clipping with the ground. There is a pit where if you get too close with an ent. He will go into a minute long trance & just walk toward it. The thunderous footsteps of the ents changes to clicks when the ent has both Pippin & Merry in possession. When the ent attempted to rip down the dam wall at the end of the map, the game seized all control & all I was permitted to do was change between the hobbits.

On the stage "Cirith Ungol" there is a bug that will not allow you to trade items, between characters. If you happen to pick up 2 helmets or 2 armors with 1 character. You will be forced to restart the section.

Basically this is an ok game, but it's not up to snuff. Glad I bought it on discount. I recommend you do the same if you're considering this.

Venetica is far from perfect, but there are many more RPGs worse than this. This has a low budget, more linear Amalur feel to it. The combat system isn't amazing, but it's passable. The camera can be claustrophobia inducing at times. Quest objectives are vague & sometimes just take a bit of stumbling into. There are the occasional game crashing bugs. Through all the cons I just listed I'm still entertained by this game. Buy it on sale like I did.

Seems alright. The handling is a little annoying at first. You can only move forward & are constantly trying to compensate for momentum & gravity, but that's to be expected. I only played about a half hour of this, but 1st impressions are promising. And unless it's laced with malware(scan came up clean), you can't go wrong with free.

After almost an hour of playing this, I realize I'm terrible at it. However, my poor skill level doesn't make it a bad game.

Blue Flamingo's game assets are beautiful. The people behind the modeling & music are to be commended.

The game itself is not terrible, but there's not a lot to it. Overall Blue Flamingo is an alright Atari-esque shoot'em up(only goal is high score). With a little bit of a gambling gimick(bank points? or spend them on upgrades?). The people that are claiming the controls are terrible are just heavy on their thumbs. The controls ARE sensitive. The ship will move, when you touch the stick. If you touch the stick TOO HARD, your ship is going to move TOO FAST. After a few runs you will get used to it.

I don't think a lot of people will stay around & play this as a long term game. Blue Flamingo doesn't offer a ton of replayability unless you're the type that can rack up a massive score & enjoy defending it. To the mediocre of us, there's not a lot of point.

I do recommend this if it's on discount. However at $4.99 the gamer isn't getting their money's worth. I feel like crap saying this. I feel like the team that worked on the assets deserve this money.

Not bad, but not great either. It's an alright game, but there's not much to it. Literally all you do is just run around & buttstomp when prompted. There are a few Hidden coins to find & you are rated after each stage. The ratings are based on finding the coins, stage transformation & completion time. There are no acheivements so it kind of makes it pointless. The game has some charm, but not alot to make it worth paying for. I haven't played the other episodes, so I can't say if there are more interesting mechanics later on. However, if episode 1 is any indication, you'll be paying for more of the same(just a different fairy tale base).

I recommend episode 1 ONLY because it's free & SEEMS to be a good representation of what the other 22 episodes will be.

This game is all about the charm. The story isn't the same ol' derivative RPG story. The characters & setting are very enjoyable. I especially enjoyed playing this during Halloween, It put me in the holiday spirit.

As an RPG there's nothing truely ground breaking here. The combat is ok, It's a class based system. Classes are selected through a series of costumes. Some costumes have healing abilities, some are damage/crowd control & others are defensive. It may sound unique & interesting, but the battles generally all go the same way due to the fact that your abilities are not able to be activated till the 3rd round. Damage for 3 rounds, if the enemy is still up, stun heal & damage battle over.

I'm a fan of Tim Schafer's work, but I'm going to rate his work on it's own merits. This game is fun & charming & I would recommend it, but I would say wishlist it & wait for a sale.