Recent reviews by CJBael

Space, Ships, Space Ships, explosions, unlocks, lots of unlocks, maybe the best idle game around!

Hey you, yes YOU, this PC game you're thinking of buying, HELLDIVERS 2? Yeah don't unless you can make a PSN (Sony's Playstation account) AND live in a country where you can link it to Steam. And even then DON'T, this type of behaviour isn't acceptable.

Was an Ok idler (for most part) game... until today where it's just shown zero respect for players and screwed over all the time and effort we've put in to the game (790hrs for me, though been kicked back by about half of that progress at best I feel).

Was frustrating with one sad event after another for stupid things, but now this?

Don't waste your time on it like I did.

Queue, get matched with 2 players, dropped in solo. Rinse and repeat.

Previously this was a positive review, however FragLab completely ignore some major feedback and release updates in a sorry state.

The reason for the change to a negative review is how they've added seriously broken DLSS support and ignored feedback on how bad it is.

DLSS results in terrible image quality and DO NOT change your VSYNC setting with DLSS enabled else you'll get the most nauseating menu ever.

Beat Blitz feels heavily inspired by The Impossible Game, but with a musical twist to it.

As you go along you have to collect notes (in the form of different shapes) to add to the music, and the layout of the levels and positions of said notes are synced to the music too.

It is a short game, I finished it in approximately 2 and a half hours, although at least 1 hour of that was from being stuck in hell... I mean on the last level. Apex is a horrible one, feels a bit out of sync with the music and a bit at the beginning (3 jumps that don't feel in-time at all), but also a fun one due to the challenge of it.

Apex does feel like a MASSIVE leap in difficulty to the previous level, as the previous ones all felt like the difficulty went up a notch each time and felt right.

Some of the music is awesome, some of the visuals are awesome (although I wish it was possible to turn the effects off as those do make things insanely hard at times like a false difficulty added).

Some nice visual touches too like your Avatar changes the visual style of the level which was a really neat idea!

Overall for a couple of quid (I received my key for free, although I did also buy a copy for a friend) I definitely recommend Beat Blitz. It has replayability to it if you want to get an S on all the levels.

Worth checking out :)

This was a fun and silly, yet interesting puzzle game. A few puzzles really tested me, then when I worked them out I felt stupid for not having realised sooner.

It's free, if you like puzzle games give it a try. If you don't like it then it just took a little bit of your time and nothing else at least :)

If you enjoyed and loved classics such as Space Harrier, Afterburner, Star Fox, then you'll love this!

I don't often find 'retro' style games really capture the feel of the classics, but Ex-Zodiac most definitely does capture that feeling and I had a lot of fun playing it.

There's 2 options for the visuals, old school and a modern take on old school, to be honest though I preferred playing with the old style and felt it looked much better that way.

The audio is also great, everything just fitted how it felt it should.

Overall I definitely recommend it, though be aware it is quite short however there are secrets to find which will add some replay-ability!

Just finished The Room: Old Sins and woah, most trippy of the Room games and the best too!

Graphics are wicked, detail in the setting is so nice, sound is great, and the puzzles... well, I don't envy the people that came up with them and had to implement them in to the game, that's some impressive brain-power!

Mouse controls in this one was so much better than in the 3rd, had major problems in the 3rd game and there's still some fine-tuning I feel they could do if they make another (not VR) one but the changes in this one really helped.

100% recommended by me if you like puzzle games.

The Room Three is mostly a fantastic puzzle game with some amazing visuals like the previous two games.

However there's one massive problem that makes some of the puzzles a major headache... the mouse controls.

Opening items, scrolling things, they're so incredibly tedious and infuriatingly bad.

For example: Near the end of the game there's a huge sphere you have to rotate, it takes a full swipe of the mouse over the screen distance to move the sphere even a tiny bit. And opening boxes, full swipe again and then you need to move back down and TRY to catch the lid to try and open it the rest of the way but sometimes it just won't click.

I'm really hoping the mouse controls are vastly improved in The Room 4 as I love these games, think the developers have done an amazing job (except for mouse issues) and hope for more of the games in the future.

I still 100% recommend the game, and the previous two, however!