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This is the only game where people can say "I wish I could re-experience a game for the first time." and they really do so. I did not even take 5 minutes to take into account that I finished my first playthrough before I immediately started a second one. My mind had to many branching paths and ideas it wanted to explore, and man it's a whole new game. I'm halfway through my second playthrough, not one single story beat has been similar. It is a brand-new game, it is someone else's first playthrough. I already have ideas and story paths ready for a third one. The level of freedom and decision-making you have here is absolutely insane. They have set a standard for RPGs I hope other games follow. This is a masterpiece. Makes me legitimately want to play D&D.

If there was one game to bring to a deserted island, it's this one. Someone will come and rescue you before you get to see everything this game has to offer.

An interesting storyline of the mysterious suicide of a broken girl who may or may not be roaming the halls of the hotel as you play quickly turns into a story that glorifies pedophilia.

Bad writing and voice acting, deaths that made no sense with the choices we took, incredibly short game

Still a fun game to play with friends, get it on sale

This game was absolutely amazing. The characters felt real. Their relationships were authentic and well thought out. The characters felt like they actually existed, like they actually lived through all of it. That's what I wanted from this game, and that's what I got.

A big selling point of this game was that your choices matter, and unlike multiple games from this genre, your choices actually count. What you decide to say, what actions you decide to do, what you don't see on your way to the next objective, everything matters in a big way.

You cannot mention Life Is Strange without mentioning its story. This is what makes this game a masterpeice for many. The first few episodes had the role of placing everything, making us as the player understand the world that we got brought in, and the characters populating it. As I was playing, I found it kind of boring at times during these episodes, but I was still hooked. I needed to know what would happen next. Wowser, not only did the story reach my expectations, but it blew it out of the park. It made the wait built up from the first episodes worth it. And now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have had the same impact if those few boring moments hadn't happen.

This game is not far from a masterpeice, people actually consider it so. This is a must if you haven't played it yet.

As the game is a walking simulator, I came in expecting a great story with amazing characters. Firewatch was exactly that. The characters have a set backstory and personality. Their ever growing relationship felt real like they were actual people talking through a walkie-talkie. It was a fun and pleasant journey you got to experience alongside Henry and Delilah.

The only problem I have with it is that it gives the player the illusion that your choices matter. The ending stays the same no matter what you do. There was this one time in the game where I listened to recording of what my character had supposedly said beforehand. I specificly remember the dialogue options for that recorded conversation and I hadn't chosen the dialogue option that was said in the recording. So that kind of threw me off a bit.

Firewatch is a brilliant game that can be finished in one sitting. It isn't worth full price, but if it's ever on sale it would be a shame to miss out.

Alien: Isolation had plenty of potential to be a good game, and at the beginning it really was. The game was creepy because of its atmosphere and it didn't have to rely on cheap jumpscares to get under your skin. The environment of a destroyed space spation really immersed me as a player, and I really felt like I was in danger when the Alien was slowling lurking near me. The motion tracker was a unique touch that added to the creepy factor.

However, the game loves itself too much that it starts getting repetitive really quickly. It's always the same thing. A door you need to cross is locked either by a keycard or a password. You must navigate through this well-constructed level in order to find said keycard/password. Sometimes the power fails, so you must turn on the generator. It's this back and forth throughout the same level that makes it dull the more you play. Add that to the Alien's questionable field of view and the horrid placements of the save points and the game becomes a chore as you replay the same thing over and over again. Furthermore, the game doesn't know when to stop. It just keeps getting stretched out to the fullest extent clearly putting quantity over quality as I felt the last few missions had no point to them other than making the game longer. As for the story, it's there, but it's really not important. The game has a few subplots that you don't really care about since the game just forgets about them until the end when they resurface all of a sudden.

The game had amazing ideas that actually worked for the first few hours, but it got stretched out and repetitive until it became a chore to play.

Fun and relaxing party game, much better with friends but still enjoyable alone.

Hitman Absolution is a game you play in whatever way you want. You can take it slow and steady and utilize stealth or just run guns blazing. It's your choice and everyone plays it a different way. The contracts mode is pretty fun, but with the community pretty much dead, and no friends who have the game, I wasn't able to play much of it. The story is where everything went downhill for me. At the start, I had a lot of fun, but it quickly felt like a chore as the story was stretched out and was just filled with filler episodes. What I hated the most and brought me to give it a negative review is the final encounter with the main antagonist. There's no actual fight, absolutely nothing memorable. After hours of being tormented throughout the game by this man the way you end up killing him is by walking through some fog and getting up behind him. Here you either shoot, or backstab JUST LIKE ANY OTHER ENEMY. The story couldve easily been shortened to just a few hours, but was stretched out far too long.

This is what a horror game should be like. It outshines its predecessor with a much more varied environment, more indepth characters and two gripping story lines in parralel of each other. The game's storylines touches multiple disturbing and eerie subjects that we don't talk about enough these days, making the players feel emotions towards the main cast. The game's horror aspect is perfect. Outlast 2 is able to freighten and scare you with it's atmosphere, characters and environments without the need of jumpscares. There are a few jumpscares here and there, but they aren't what makes the game scary. Outlast 2 builds up tension and is nerve-racking to play. The graphics are gorgeous and photorealistic and the game is very well optimized that my 2007 potato was able to run it perfectly. The price of this game is incredible as Outlast 2 looks, feels and plays as a AAA game, but is given to the price of an indie. If you are a horror fan, you need to get this game immeadiately.