Recent reviews by cieldeamon

“The best defense is more offense.”
-Johnny Lawrence

Quotes stolen...carefully collected to give a glimpse of what Rimworld can be:

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard.
"Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last, "Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree."
— Gertrude Stein

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
― Stephen King

Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger
— Yann Martel

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
― Jim Butcher

“That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms.
“Real love, real friends, real body parts…”
― Jess C Scott

It was the day my grandmother exploded.
— Iain M. Banks

For the better part of my childhood, my professional aspirations were simple–I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.
— Janet Evanovich

Plaque Edition
The best "rats-are-a-fluid-simulator" I've ever played.

Omensight

45% Zelda: Link's Awakening
30% Groundhog Day
25% The Wolf Among Us

How many First-Person-Shooters did you already play? How many vivid memorys do you still have of them? Maybe 2 or 3 each; beginning, favourite weapon and the final battle?

Bioshock Infinite is different. When others try to impress with never ending explosions and proclaim that as highlight, Infinite sows brilliant, but sometimes confusing, ideas in your mind mixed with deep emotions and complements it with a good dose of gunfights, high speed skyrailing and more or less supernatu...biogenetic powers.

First of all, the game is a thought experiment...a thought experiment with quite good graphics and amazing sound as well as music. The developers from Irrational Games (quite fitting name, right?) will send you and Booker DeWitt (the Hero) through atmospheric and panoramic landscapes...cloudscapes, maybe? Because except for the beginning the whole story takes place in Columbia, a town in the clouds with bright sunshine and never before seen technology. Speaking of story...where the bright sun dwells, it casts long and dark shadows...
To speak more detailed about the plot and its twists would ruin the experience playing it, so I will leave that aside.
Just two words:Unfolding ingenuity.

But what stands out most is the Lady in blue and white, Elizabeth. It isn't even her fantastic voice actress or her animations, which are on a enormously high standard, rather it is that A.I. of her.
In battles she takes cover, shouts the position of dangerous enemys, is never in your way, supports with ammunition or with some abillitys of her, reacts to your actions...etc..
In more peaceful moments she gives additional information on the environment or on her life so far, picks locks like Houdini, searches places for useful items nobody would even consider to look for...and hands it over!
Moreover she feels complete. It is the way she moves around or idly stands, the way she brings a smile on your face or most important: She talks to you in situations, you would talk to her in real life. She is a companion done right...and that is rare.

One tip along the journey, play on hard difficulty. In nearly every situation DeWitt is superior to his foes, so in order to die you have to do it deliberately (most of the time...yeah I know there is this one...you will see).

A last question to start the thought experiment...
...bird or cage?