Recent reviews by Dapper Raptor

I actually hate tower defense as a genre... but I love factory building games. And for some reason that fixes the whole tower defense part. Apparently theres a mobile version of the game, and a few of the controls kinda make it feel a little like a mobile game at times, but especially given its price, its a good time. Looking forward to stressing over the later levels!

Easily one of the most stylish and sleek shooters I've ever played. Enjoyed it thoroughly - completing it in a single sitting with a grin from ear to ear through the entire thing. Easy recommendation!

I've never really been a fan of games that limit you to sniping. I enjoy sniping and playing as a sniper, but usually I get a little bored of JUST sniping. That is, until I played the first Nazi Zombie Army game (which was later remastered and made part of the Zombie Army Trilogy).

ZAT is a hilariously pulpy game, with incredibly well designed mechanics and gameflow. Sniping feels amazing in this and even with the difficulty ramped up to maximum, it never feels unfair. I am sad that the trilogy seems to conclude in a story "ending" because I would love to see more of these games - but I will continue to replay the trilogy many times over and over again!

Borderlands has always been one of my favourite franchises ever since I first played it, and Borderlands 1 still remainds, to this day, my favourite entry in the series. This enhanced edition of the GOTY release is great in a number of ways - adding a mini map, a slightly less clunky inventory, and a new coat of paint. However there's also a lot of issues - this release seems to have a LOT more bugs than the original, players get caught on world collision a lot more, and the progression of the game can be straight up broken using the golden keys on the chest (due to the fact that the game simply wasn't built with them in mind, so the guns you get from them are almost always more powerful than ANYTHING you get from just playing).

I'm still going to give this a thumbs up, because - at the end of the day its a great time. But if you don't mind a game looking a little more dated and can deal without some quality of life features such as a minimap, I do think you would have a better time playing the original version of the game (I started my current playthrough on there, the day before the enhanced edition dropped and it definitely has less bugs in my experience).

I was relatively new to the Monster Hunter franchise, having only dabbled in a single PSP title back in the day when that platform was relevant. I would have had, maybe, 8 hours in that title, and it was so long ago that it was basically meaningless.

After all the hype MH:W received on console, and already being interested in a full PC release of the franchise, I ended up pre-ordering the game. Upon launch I jumped in and enjoyed it quite a bit, but I tired of it quickly. There were a number of server issues at launch, and even when you were playing solo you would constantly get popups telling you the servers had disconnected.

Beyond that, the game is incredibly overwhelming to a newcomer - there are so many hidden systems and mechanics that just aren't explained in the way a "normal" modern title explains them. This is usually something I love, but the menu system in MH:W is a little cumbersome, and between that and the constant disconnect errors, I just gave up after about 20 hours of playtime.

A few months later, after several patches, I picked up the game again and started a new character - this time playing with a friend. The disconnect errors were gone, I had done a little research on how the games' systems worked, and I had someone else going on the journey with me. These things made all the difference and I fell in love with Monster Hunter. I still haven't gotten nearly as many hours in the game as I want to - but that's more due to my friends' schedules and wanting to progress together.

There's still some annoying things - you can't start a story quest with your co-op partner/s... you have to start it and progress to a certain point (because apparently watching cut-scenes together is something Capcom just couldn't work out?). The menu system is still very cumbersome and feels straight out of early JRPGs. But once you start to understand the sheer depth in the game and how all of the various systems work, all of that kind of fades away.

Monster Hunter World (and I imagine the rest of the franchise) is unlike anything else I've played - you feel incredibly powerful, but also so damn vulnerable. I'm looking forward to the DLC later this year, but I can see hundreds of hours of content already waiting for me in the base game. Definitely a good purchase, and one I shall continue to play for quite some time!

Snakeybus is a blast. Its a pretty novel idea that is executed very well. Combine crazy taxi and snake and you got yourself a snakeybus!

At the moment content feels a little light, but its also a very cheap game so I think that the amount of content on offer sits well with the price for sure. Read the blurb, watch the trailer - if it looks like your sorta game, you'll have fun. If you are the sort of person who needs direction on how to play a game and that, then you might be better off looking elsewhere, as a lot of the fun here comes from just trying to beat your own high score and such.

Amazing game. Shame its only on Steam and not on the Epic Games Store though. Would be even better then!

Honestly... I don't even know how to express how well Hopoo managed to take Risk of Rain (the first game) and translate it into 3D. This is an amazing base and already has more than enough content to keep you happy for hours and hours. I can't wait to see what they add to it. Easy recommendation.

I just played this entire game in a single sitting. Its about 4 hours long which might be a little short for some, but it was a very entertaining puzzle game with a nice narrative to add meaning to it all. Would love to see more from Dan Smith after finishing this. Definitely a good puzzle game for people who like games like Portal, The Talos Principle, Antichamber, etc.

Thoroughly enjoyed the game on release but ended up running out of content. Came back about 8 months later and its like a different game entirely! Devs have added a lot of cool content and I'm enjoying the heck outta this game. Amazing!