Recent reviews by 🏝️Jon(athan)🌅

Controller Companion is an excellent use of $2.99 USD.
It allows me to seamlessly use my Xbox One controller to play old console games that have had controller support (obviously) for their console versions, but not readily available for their PC versions.
There are many games from the PlayStation 2/Xbox Original era that I remember playing with a controller that I've later come across on Steam, only to find out that controller support wasn't available without some kind of program hack.

Here's a list of games I've found that Controller Companion works with right away.
I will continue to add game titles that work with Controller Companion to this list as I find them.

COMPATIBLE GAMES:
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Penumbra Overture
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Freedom Fighters (w/ the same awkward layout like the trigger button to jump)
Call of Duty 2
Project: Snowblind
Hitman: Contracts
Hitman: Blood Money
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

While, I'm giving Oxenfree a positive review, there are flaws that I feel might hinder the enjoyment for the average person.
Pros are the artwork, the direction of the story and it's short enough that one could beat it in a few hours, This is a great game for people who are too busy to dedicate many hours to one game in order to beat it.
There are multiple endings that reward the player with completely different outcomes based on how they choose to interact with the NPCs in the game.
BUT one would have to look past some of the flaws to access the different game endings. and looking past these flaws could be too much for the average gamer to play Oxenfree more than one time.

Main problem I found is that there is no option to adjust the game's sound settings. FX, Voice, and Music should have all been sound setting categories, but there is no way to change to the sound of the game outside of turning the volume up/down or muting the game altogether.

The music ranges from awesome to obnoxious. The beginning musical score while walking to the beach area is repetitive, loud and by the time I got the characters to the beginning of the town, I was beyond tired of the musical score for the area.

Another blaring problem in that area, as well as occasionally throughout the game, is the voice acting volume is either too low or too high. The characters, while not terrible, aren't exactly likable and spend the majority of their screen time griping about things nonstop while lacking any real ability to come to resolutions. I found it hard to care for any of the characters and didn't care one way or the other if they lived or died.

The controls are wonky and aren't always responsive and I'd actually say that the game plays much better with a controller than it does with a keyboard/mouse.

It's worth a look and this game is cheap when on sale here or other sites. The flaws hold the game back too much to deserve the heaping amounts of praise from the mainstream critics. I applaud the vast majority of the game, but the NPCs all sucked to interact with.

I still look forward to Part II and hopefully the storytelling and characters mature, otherwise I probably won't care to play a part III. If the point of the game was that privileged teenagers suck, then message received.

FINAL UPDATE:
Fanatical fixed the problem and reissued new Overfall activation keys. Fanatical emailed me that my new key was in and it activated just fine.
THANK YOU @ Fanatical.com for handling this so fast.
SUCK IT @ Pera Games

UPDATE:
Looks like Fanatical is getting to the bottom of Pera Games's petty temper tantrum and here's the link to Fanatical's direct response for this ongoing issue.
https://support.fanatical.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018863437-Overfall-key-revoked-from-your-order


ORIGINAL REVIEW:
How in the hell can Steam and this whack Pera Games developer revoke a game purchased LEGALLY and purchased YEARS ago??
Pera Games is complaining YEARS later after they ALLOWED Fanatical (at that time it was Bundle Stars) to sell this game in 2018 bundle?
Isn't this something that should have been settled at that time?
Is Fanatical going to compensate people who purchased that bundle with a Overfall replacement key?
AND is this type of behavior from developers going to be considered acceptable?
There should be a statute of limitations on how long a developer can revoke keys when they were LEGALLY purchased.

@ PERA GAMES: I genuinely hope and pray that every gamer illegally downloads and pirates every single title you have developed/published and any (hopefully never) future titles. I at least take some comfort in knowing you all only were able to push one game out over 5 years ago and nothing since.