Recent reviews by GaimeGuy

This is a retro game collection, like the NES Classic, SNES Classic, SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics bundles, or Namco Museum, except this collection is for a fictional game company called UFO Soft. It contains 50 (yes, 50) games of varying length. Some you can pick up and play for 10, 15 minutes at a time, while others are 10-15 hour long campaigns.

Every game has a clear objective, which, when completed, will turn the game's cartridge icon gold, and a cherry objective, which, when cleared, will turn the icon red. For instance, a clear objective in a racing game might be to just win the racing tournament, while the cherry objective might be to come in first in every race in the tournament. The clear objective in a tower defense game might be to beat all stages, while the cherry objective might be to beat all stages without allowing your base to take a single HP of damage.

As you can probably tell, the cherry objectives are quite challenging, and only a true master will be able to conquer all 50 games.

I've mentioned that there are racing games, and tower defense games. There is also an action/adventure game insppired by Metroid, and a dungeon crawling RPG inspired by Ultima. There is a tennis-like game with samurai, and a score attack game where Snake meets Pac-Man, and dozens more.

If that's not enough for you, there's also a larger meta-game within the game, which I've yet to truly dive into.

Buy UFO 50. It's a masterpiece.

There is a ton of content here, but the game has a truly horrible user interface. I still don't really understand the mechanics of the various game modes, classes, or power ups, or why some runs go deep. It's hard to follow what's going on, and the writing is deliberately awkward to parse info from, even if you turn off the old english.

It's a real shame. There's meat here, but the presentation gets in the way. It's like stumbling your way through an old school Rpg in a language you can't read

This is the perfect 3 dollar game. Think of it as Smash TV with autofire and roguelite elements. The hours just disappear, and there's no reason why you shouldn't buy this game for less than the price of a drink and candy from the gas station.

I am currently playing through the 3DS copy of Zero Time Dilemma.

999 and Virtue's Last Reward are some of the greatest pure experiences I've ever had in any medium (book, video game, movie, anime, whatever). Zero Time Dilemma is shaping up to be the same way. If you're looking for an open-world experience, this is not it. If you're looking for tight gameplay mechanics ala Super Meat Boy or Mario, this is not it.

What you get from the Zero Escape series is an incredible journey, a series of interactive novels with room-escape puzzle segments. The games take full advantage of the interactive nature of video games to tell stories that are both fantastical and intimate. You will wonder just what in the world is going on at times, but bit by bit, piece by piece, the story of each individual title comes together.

And then the games take everything you've learned and proceed blow your mind with it.

These games are experiences I will cherish for the rest of my life. If you take this journey yourself, you absolutely must do everything in your power to play them in order: 999, then VLR, then ZTD. You absolutely must do everything in your power to NOT read spoilers about the characters or plot points - this includes looking up random wiki profiles on the characters, since you may accidentally stumble across spoilers in a page title or hyperlink.

999 is available for the Nintendo DS and makes full usage of the device. A stripped down version of 999 which removes the puzzle sequences from the game, as well as the Nintendo DS elements is available on IOS. Virtue's Last Reward is available on the 3DS and Playstation Vita - both versions are the same, although the 3DS version contains a save-corrupting bug which can be avoided as long as you save only during the story sequences (not the puzzle sequences).

Both titles are reportedly going to be coming to Steam, so for those of you who haven't been exposed to this series yet, if you wait a while, you should be able to experience the complete series on your PCs. Trust me when I say you don't want to play the games out of order. Because once you do, you've had earlier titles spoiled for you, and there's no turning back from that. You will have missed out on the once-in-a-lifetime experiences of the earlier title(s).

Enjoy the music. Connect with the characters. Take in the stories. Scratch your head on the puzzles. It's one hell of a journey.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to playing this game.

With Valve and Bethesda making a move to destroy one of the greatest aspects of PC Gaming (The modding scene) this week, turning mods into 3rd party DLC that has none of the quality assurance, compatibility, testing, or support that an official product has (yet 75% of the revenue goes to valve and bethesda), I urge everyone reading this review to NOT buy Skyrim. I've owned the game since launch, I own all the DLC, I've played over 200 hours (and basically done nothing in the process) with countless (free) mods... but what valve and bethesda are doing with the paid workshop is pathetic and terrible for consumers and the PC gaming community.

Do not support it with your money.

It's the GC REmake, ported to the PC. This is what Resident Evil used to be, before Resident Evil 4. One of the greatest remakes of all time, and one of the greatest survival horror games of all time, you can't go wrong with a purchase.

Just make sure you have a decent computer - the PC version isn't really well optimized , as my 2009 laptop with a Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz and a GTX 260M won't run it. There's really no excuse for a Gamecube game having such poor performance. I will enjoy the experience of the game on my gamecube, and I look forward to playing it on Steam once I get a new computer or laptop.

I just finished perfecting the game after a little over 2 hours (some may finish prior to this).

A great little puzzle game for those who enjoy Picross (nonograms), sudoku, minesweeper, or logic in general. A tad short, a tad easy for 2/3rds of the game, but a good mechanical introduction into the Hexcells world. I will be playing Hexcells Plus tomorrow for an additional fix.

Note: There are one or two puzzles in the game which are incorrect - IE, following the clues correctly will result in you ruling out a cell, but the game will tell you that the cell should be filled. As I recall. 5-3 was one of them.

I started the prologue.

So the Soviet Union is invading Western Europe, and wants Switzerland-Estonia's resources. And I've been arrested by a waifu.

Thanks, fish.