Recent reviews by pulec

This game is worth it on sale once it is below $20 or so ( maybe in 2026?).

The hype is neat, it promises to be great open world adventure in interesting and beautiful world based on real island and events. But in reality it's a big walking simulator in too big world. Granted, it's not as bad as Starfield where you spend minutes before encountering the map event, and lots of it here can be done by smart fast travelling. Discovering all the "?" can be fun but finding all the tiny things like records and banners, that's just boring. Especially when the only reward for all that is some cosmetic crap.

The yellow bird is worse at this, no way to ignore it, always yapping and in majority of times, leading you to total BS, what an annoying flying pikachu. The amount of charms has to be made with intention to give the player a headache. If you're having big fun and trying different approach for each fight, you can switch around. But I just picked what seemed decent in first 10 hours and stick with it for the rest of game.

There is no way how this can compare to Witcher, only thing it shares with Witcher is huge world with lots ? on map. There is maybe 1 choice in whole game + dlc, you're stuck on a silly story on rails for the whole time. What a bore. Instead it serves as a trigger to give me 20 facepalms throughout the story. Very predictable outcomes and so awkward it was just laughable. The writers and people who thought such bs is ok should give themselves facepalm each morning for 20 years.

Except one miserable character there is no joy, no fun, main hero smiles ONCE in a cutscene and laughs in dialogue maybe 3 times. This is too serious bs, it becomes boring very quickly.

There could be nice focus on realism and survival but besides fast travelling there is no way how to skip time (if you want to liberate a place during day and not in night e.g), character is seen eating probably only once in the whole game and I won't even mention other things. But the fact you have to wait for every lite silly animation from sheathing your sword to have 3s delay after petting a thing or those DLC things, oh god, how annoying that can be. And hopefully you won't have to redo any dialogue cutscenes, cause they can't be skipped, maybe in new game+ so... At least the Japanese dabbing is great as far as I am concerned, especially to the English one which seems not good at all from the little I heard.

Fight works well, IDK how on gamepad, the switching of stances via two buttons (T and scroll or numbers) is just too slow, maybe you can get fast on gamepad, but switching 1-4 on keyboard seems fastest. And I have no idea how people can use gamepad for shooting bow, in normal combat without "arrow time" or the challenges.

All in all, for $20 or less it's interesting experience and must play if you're into Japan and it's history. But I really don't recommend trying to find everything, it's a chore and steals the time you will never get back.

I loved first Hades, I was probably lucky to miss out on EGS exclusivity because there the EA was not as smooth maybe. I gave it over 100 hours and made my thumb bloody from dashing a number of times. Loved the story, the voice acting, the grindy but rewarding unlocking of a few items for the house, it is perfect. So I started playing a new run few months ago, with tools to unlock 21:9 proper and got back to it just few days back and sequel releases in EA.

And I am glad to say that everything is perfect as it is and it will only get better in time soon. Story makes me wanna dive into the ancient stories, voice acting is amazing especially since I recognise the previous character's voice and for those who know the background well it's like getting a new season of great TV show that aired a decade back.

21:9 works flawlessly now, except the dialogue, which is fine, it's important for the game and what action it is already. No loading times (Hades I could be slower to load, especially on slower drive), all works great via Proton on Linux.

Ready to make my thumb bloody again and spend great 100 hours achieving my witch task.

- Overpriced terrible PC port
- Questionable story with almost Bedhesda quality writing with full of massive facepalms
- Waste of time

With over decade in development as freeware and many many many updates and many "DF clones" out there (many great ones) it's great to see somewhat polished version with nice UI and graphics and everything all in one. For players who spent dozens of hours in Fortress mode already it's like riding a bike, dig, farm, build brewery workshop. It's all basic, without booze dwarfs die, it is known. But even with O'Reilly "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress" book in your head there is plenty to discover.

I can't wait for more Boatmurdered stories, more Kruggsmash episodes and generally all the great content and frustration this great gem is going to generate.

Strike the earth and remember that loosing is fun.

It's a stressful way of being.

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The fact that this exists is a disgrace to the developers. Shame! Shame! Shame!

I got this only because it was in the complete pack DLC.

After 5 hours in game and completing one region + few other cups I was ok with the amount of credits I have on easy + 'realistic' driving model. The big issue is that this is payed DLC priced at the same amount as few bikes or a track. There is no fricking content! It only changes one constant somewhere.

Ridiculous shame, as the top review says *** you Milestone.

This game is a misery simulator, nobody sane would want to be in Anton Rayne's shoes.

There is a big hope in the beginning, you promised reasonable goals, there is enough budget and you seem to have excellent team to do the job. But then...
The strive to make every important person happy while trying to get the country to modern democratic (in my case, be a dictator if you want) state without ancient nonsense turns out to be utopia.

No saves, an ironman mode if you will, but it can be very frustrating. Game reminds me a lot of 80 Days around the world which I like but it's so easy to not being fast for 5 seconds and you miss the whole game, brutal autosaves. Here at least you can 'restart' the current dialogue by plain old alt+f4 rage-quit or maybe going back to menu and resuming.

It would be awesome if game was narrated it would make for smoother and enjoyable first run and add personality to each character. But obviously it's load of text and it would be costly nightmare to do a good full covered quality narration of this scale.

There is still some work to be done, most of the decisions are well discussed with others, but some are done with short tooltip and there is no discussion or confirmation about them. All the laws passed by the assembly you can veto or sign are never discussed before they land on your table, only news mention it. This adds to the frustration of no easy reload and resulting to annoying save scumming.

I had 2 unhealthy gaming days of this doing two runs, I wish I would have taken breaks and split up the game, but the story and 'what will happen next' thing is too strong, damn it. Immediately after finish first run I continued on other.
It was very frustrating as ... I tried to avoid same mistakes in economy, but economy needs a lot of help and single mega project won't help and avoiding -3 budget is a scary nightmare where you almost have to have a list of items regarding budget to plan it properly.

The constitution change vote is also terrible, people tell you they have no problem with you proposal, you try the safest solution and yet a tiny mistake brings the whole thing down. And once it's done it's basically a ride to hell, very depressing.

Happily uninstalling it to avoid to get the 'best ending' and I will be glad to come back to this in future years when I will forget most of it. And I would recommend this to anyone even slightly interested in the game idea. It looks thousand times better than Crisis of Kremlin, which is only similar good game I can think of.

Both games offer a good look about how politics can be terrible headache and perhaps how can we perhaps respect those we elected up there, taking the $.

Ignore the butthurt haters, this is great space friggin fun and this DLC and devs definitively don't deserve negative reviews.

I'm getting the rare feeling I got as a teenager in Freelancer (2003). Chris Roberts can only dream about product like this (it's great though that there is concurrency in this crazy complex "genre").
Yes there are bugs and possible crashes, that is IMHO standard these days with such complex structure.
And rather this, decently priced DLC with tons of content and bit of a rough launch then years of waiting and expensive testing/polishing what Rockstar and (old) Blizzard does.
I haven't played a ton before this DLC, got 60h and minor progress in the game before and there are many UI changes from what I recall, but for me coming to it years later I don't have any complaint. So take the veterans opinion who are very used to something with a grain of salt.

It still needs optimisation and lots of patches, but Frontier Devs can deliver and with little bit of patience and setting tweaking you can get decent performance. Runs great (same or better than on Windows) on (Arch) Linux without any tweaking, massive plus for me.

There is nothing else like this right now, go on and JUMP IN!

Bionic Commanco Rearmed is a nice reboot from the 1990 NES game.

Control's are sometimes brain melting though, it requires some patience and practice. Game has funny vibe overall, except the end, just ******* why??? She could have nice future and then the gore, well, not for kids.

It's a nice warmer up for the full 3D Bionic Commando mainly the settings and few characters and such. I remember grinding through it for hours on normal, so I just gave it 2h run on easy. No regrets.