Recent reviews by Maxine T. Tigress

At this current time, loading times are insane. You may end up going over your 2 hours waiting for a good portion of it while playing very little and realising it may not be for you.

When I do play, it's pretty mindless fun. Sucks that it takes so long to load anything.

Yes! Loved all the lore tidbits I came across that painted a greater picture of the world of Elden Ring. Bosses are as difficult as expected and the new weapons and gear are deliciously worth it!

I think I'm a good chunk into this story, but I'm already blown away by the telling of it. I'm rooting for Kara and I'm sympathising with Markus and his crew.

So many complicated feelings.

Very much a chill-out sort of game to play after a stressful few rounds of any other on your daily rotation. Wash some things and laugh at the wacky story.

So I went back and gave this game a more honest shot up until getting the Mystic Spearhand class, which is probably the must-have class for this game to start being fun.

This game is just poorly optimized for PCs. I meet recommended settings and this game still gets stuttering and intermittent freezing at random times that last anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes.

Combat in the game's kind of meh up until you get the special classes. Enemy variety is pretty bleak, as I seem to mostly be running into the same non-boss archtypes with very little deviation. Most of the time it's mashing the same button and letting the NPC party do most of the heavy lifting. Bosses are pretty cut and dry, too. Mostly fought cyclops', trolls, and minotaurs, with the odd chimera and griffon showing up with the latter flying away. The magic-slinging dragon is cheap as hell and I nearly put this game down for good after dying when the game started to stutter during all the meteors.

Questing in this game is very much a chore, especially when you may not be given accurate instructions as to where to locate targets and have to trek back up a path you came down on with a freshly spawned lich-thing slinging spells at you.

I can't really recommend this game in the state it's in, especially when you've got two different anti-piracy programs running at the same time, likely causing the slow-downs with redundancies.

MTX is whatever. I've gone 17 hours and easily found everything off shopkeepers. You can get rift crystals casually by sending your personal NPC on quests and hope others recruit them. No idea why Capcom insists on it when all it does is give terrible optics.

Also I'm getting super annoyed with dialogue in the game, running around as a clearly feminine character and constantly getting called "ser." I get that it's a period thing, but it really pokes me the wrong way. Also, before people laugh at me and my minor dysphoria, I would like to add that your pawns like to talk smack behind their owner's back. Apparently a lot of you like all-male or all-beastren teams and your pawn questions your taste. :P

Like with all things, Ubisoft really shot itself in the foot by removing this game from the Steam store and making it impossible to download legally.

They have since moved to a subscription service, making Rocksmith no longer the cheapest way to learn guitar and bass effectively.

Ubisoft, you suck.

Not recommending because the community has kind of taken the satirical fascism in the game and embrace the literal sense of it. Devs have not taken a solid stance against all sorts of phobias, allowing this game to become something of a safe haven for some pretty vile individuals.

Have been shot at, called "sub-human trash", and then kicked for having a furry and/or feminine name within seconds of dropping in to a low-difficulty run, even with a kit that most would deem "meta."

Serious, devs. You kind of do need to make it clear sometimes that this behaviour is 100% intolerable within the community.

Still in beta, so expect bugs.

Aside from that, it's an entertaining mix of a lot of AAA games from the past year, as I'm seeing hints of influence from Elden Ring, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon (very obviously), Monster Hunter, Fortnite... That said, I feel it takes a little bit too much inspiration from Pokemon and Fortnite in particular. While I understand that it's parody, I just think it's skirting the edge a little too close for comfort.

Additionally, the matter of maturity comes up. With guns being a major thing in the game and some locations having some very grim or adult themes (guillotines here and there, pal butchering, and the sexual harassment lizard), I feel like it's also, still, skirting the edge. What direction does the game really want to go? it's like it's all heavily implied, but at the same time it's not being used to the dev's advantage. Kind of just feels like it's just assets they used to fill in an area for shock value, and it's barely even a static zap.

Very easy to lose track of time, but the resource gathering bit can be a bit tedious when trying to build up parts of your base.

The tadpole in my brain is telling me to tell you to buy this.

Do it now.

People take WAAAAAY too long to do their turns. 6 minute turn timer is too long. Game is very much "Pay-to-win" as is the physical card game. If you don't want to spend money, then expect to have one deck in mind you actually enjoy playing and start saving up all the hundreds of card-creation tokens for it.