Recent reviews by Jr

Likely the best game I've ever played. I have notes, of course - it's impossible for me to sink three hundred hours into a game and have no thoughts on how it could be improved - but, in my mind, it's pretty close to as-perfect-as-a-gaming-experience-can-be.

BG3 has:

- A wonderfully detailed world to explore. (And burn, if you like.)
- Incredible NPCs to interact with. (And burn, if you like.)
- Brilliant voice actors out the wazoo.
- An intuitive and fun combat system.
- Several hundred hours of replayability.
- Genuinely good queer representation.
- Hundreds of little optional lore details.
- Ongoing major improvements and updates.
- Frankly absurdly good graphics.
- Scratch, the Goodest Boy in the Realms.
- Depressing backstories in spades.
- The option to kill Barcus Wroot.

Would I recommend this game to other players? Unequivocally yes.

About to try Honour Mode. Wish me luck.

Behind the viral hype and joke reviews is an earnestly good game. It's got style, humour and horror in spades - and it seems to be just getting started. Highly recommended. Don that orange jumpsuit, grab a shovel and I'll see you in there.

It's a good party game for friends and family, but for fifteen dollars there are better options.

I lack the words to describe just how good The Outer Wilds is. It's the type of game that wouldn't be out of place in an art gallery, and it's an awful shame that it's confused with The Outer Worlds, because the two just aren't comparable.

I'm not going to say anything else, because it's best if you fly in blind. Say hello to Gabbro for me.

Great fun, even today - a good decade after the game's release. There are a million reviews of this game already and I don't really have anything original to add, so I will keep it short.

Good game. If you like sandbox games, you will like Terraria.

I love DRG. Wholeheartedly recommend. Amazing game to play with friends. There are very few games that are this close to true perfection. Nothing else to add. Rock and stone.

Mushroom!

A good puzzle game. Brilliant graphics, sound design, funny humour, sci-fi effects - all grand. Very novel premise, and interesting mechanics that make for fun game play. I assumed that the 'time travel' gimmick would get old fairly quickly - it did not. Reversing a collapsing structure back and forward was just as fun in Act 2 as it was in Act 14, and it is very fun.

My negatives -

- Regrettably shallow story and lore - felt like nothing but filler to pad out the space between the puzzles. The game delivers most of its exposition through computer terminals, which breaks the immersion at times and can be a bit of a chore. Yes, the earth is currently exploding and we need to rush to rewind time, but look, there's an email I need to read first. Oh, and don't forget to read all 76 emails for an achievement.
- Buggy at times and completely unstable at some points of the game - prone to crashing or lag when a box collides with terrain awkwardly, jump pads are uniquely frustrating in their inconsistency, and Act 12 crashed about ~30 times before I could get through it. (Especially in cut scenes and that one recursive office sequence.)
- The puzzles themselves were generally easy and straightforward - with the notable exception of #1003, which made me feel like an especially dull, sluggish cat trying to understand quantum physics.
- The locked doors! This is just a pet peeve. So many locked, interact-able doors that are there for display only.

Insert inevitable comparison to the Portal franchise here - very similar concept and feel. Definitely not a rip-off - The Entropy Centre definitely has its own unique flavour - but a there's a quite a bit that's been borrowed.

TL;DR: I would recommend it to you if you enjoy puzzle games.

Half mix between the Portal franchise and Getting Over it With Bennett Foddy. Some good things - it's interesting, self-aware, clever, undeniably funny and very well made. As much as the game insists that his droning is tiresome, the narrator is a delight to listen to. A handful of times I paused in my rampage to find all the endings and just listened to him ramble for a bit, even though I had the option to skip the dialogue. (Though I did read one negative review that said 'the bucket should replace the narrator' and I completely agree.)

Some bad things.

- The tags are a little deceptive - I wouldn't describe it as a 'psychological horror', nor 'mystery'. The 'choices matter' tag is very ironic.
- I would have liked a 'gallery' of some sort to keep track of the endings I'd found - even if the gallery was in the game itself.
- The philosophical commentary was a little too much for me, personally. If you're looking for a game to unwind with, look elsewhere.

Overall, I enjoyed the Stanley Parable. If I had a time machine I'd tell myself to avoid playing it, but I don't really regret my purchase either. If you're like me, and want to finish a game, you might not like the experience - but, generally, I recommend it. Was fun to ponder my existence for a bit.

Does what it says on the box. Easy to use and provides a broad range of games. Can't ask anything more of a free product. If you're looking for a hit of nostalgia, give RetroArch a go.

Lots of fun with friends. Surprisingly good quality voice acting, great combat, interesting premise, a big open world with lots to explore - a lot of positives. Some things are dumb - selling items can be very tedious, fighting the Kraken is entirely anticlimactic, some things requiring an inane amount of Googling, etc - but overall a good time.

Don't do the Pirate's Life Tall Tales. They are not worth your time. Buggy, boring, LONG. The amount of times I re-spawned because I ran into a wall the wrong way... wish I could have those hours of my life back.