Recent reviews by Rickstail

It's a cute quirky game of its time. Can be a little tough, but fun too. If you like old school, with all its high pitched sounds, this is for you :)

10/10 I came

It's a fun game. Loved playing spy and bunny hoping all over the maps. Having a taste of what TF2 was inspired by, because they differ in a lot of things gameplay wise with the removal of grenades on every class for example.
Conc jumping is I think the greatest mechanic on the game that let's you go incredibly fast in the air. Watching veterans go zooming from base to base and not messing it up each time is astonishing. Sadly I suck at it, I have a case of skill issue. cough cough
Even if you can't bunny hop or conc jump, it's still cool. Hope you have a good time on it if you're curious!
There's a cool movement mechanic you can try to master waiting for you and just good old classic gameplay of its time.

SMALL INTRODUCTION
Assassin's Creed 3 is a good sequel of AC: Revelations set in the revolutionary times of America (USA). An engaging campaign, with its ups and downs.
Out of the Animus, ohh that really does get interesting as we've been looking for more information about what's going on and this one delivers, but you may not like what you'll find. I personally enjoyed it.

GAMEPLAY
It feels a bit weird because of the new engine, a total rework of the movement. You full sprint or get to be a snail because you only need to hold mouse button 2 to sprint, as in previous games, you used it to just jog. You also get to walk a bit faster with w key + space when you need to get close fast in stealth. But you get used to all that.
You go on killing sprees because you carry a momentum after dealing a takedown on an enemy, executing less skillful or weaker soldiers on an instant. Bulky or skillful enemies, will not let you do that most of the time.
There's good things like tree climbing, that's so fun! Sadly there's not a lot of oportunities to be had on the trees.
Naval battles! You feel like an actual captain. They're very epic, though can get tedious when surrounded by tough ships with lots of cannons. But you'll enjoy them!!

OPINIONS
The engine improves a lot on the graphic aspect. The lighting, faces, the forest area, clothing, cities. It does feel like a sequel. But there's still civilians who have lowpoly faces or pop out of nowhere. Get stuck inside things, like rocks, though it's rare.
Enemies appear on the map, but there isn't anyone where it points out.
You get attacked out of nowhere by soldiers, when you didn't do anything to get their atention. Probably because you trespassed a restricted area by the game, but how could I know? If there's no red zone on the minimap.
Getting chased by enemies, it's a pain, trying to escape the zone to be left alone, it's a pain too as I feel there's too many enemies going around.
Civilians don't feel alive as in previous games imo. Before they reacted appropriately, but in this game sometimes they begin to run away and it does not make any sense at all.

VERDICT
Overall, it's a great game, with a lot of love in it. From the treeclimbing, the amount of content after finishing the main campaign and the introduction of naval battles!

INTRODUCTION
Asassins's Creed 2 is an adventure parkour game set in Renaissance Italy. It has a lot and I mean, A LOT of content compared to its prequel. The maps are beautiful to look and move through. It feels more alive.

GAMEPLAY
You have even more ways to assassinate and new tools too. New mechanics to climb. And some new interesting side missions and such.

OPINION
Well, the game really took me a while to get through because I kept just wanting to complete those icons on my minimap, those quests. I can't stand them polluting it. So yeah, been a while. But still, even if some of it is repetitive, at least it's something to do to enjoy a little more of the game. It's optional too. I just had to do most of them for pure obsession. I didn't 100% the game though. Thought I didn't play the dlc so I tried to get a save file just to realize that I've already played the DLC. It was in the base story.
So I lost all my progress for a save that I couldn't nor wanted to get to work either. Maybe I'll play through all of it another day, I really enjoyed this experience, the characters, the ambience, music, paintings, all just beautiful.

VERDICT
If you liked Asassins's Creed 1, let me tell ya, this one is a blast. The game feels less clunky, there's a lot more to do and you can even choose in which order you want to do each of its missions. More freedom. More fun.
If you never played Assassin's Creed, you should try to play the first in the series, but I think you can play through this game and kind of get an idea of the story. If you like adventure, stealth and an immersive story, this one is for you! There's even content out of the game on Youtube too as an introduction.
I recommend this game, it's just a pleasure to play through, besides guards having eagle vision when I'm near to then get chased all over the city.

INTRODUCTION
Assassin's Creed is a third person adventure game with parkour (which is a lot of fun) and the task to assassinate people, who could've guessed that one right?
Set in the times of the Crusades, those infamous holy wars.

GAMEPLAY
You have a variety of options. You can climb houses and buildings, use the enviroment to escape in a multitude of ways, you can walk between monks to go in and out of towns, you can engage in combat to save people from guards.
You can ride a horse for long travels. Use certain weapons to dispose of enemies be it close or in a ranged manner without alerting anyone. There's some guys that stop guards from getting to you when you have to escape a crime scene and I think when you're already on the run too. You can reach certain highlighted "eagle altitudes" on the minimap to gain info about the surrounding area.
All these interactions make the game more immersive.

CONTROLS
They can be a bit tricky to get used to but it works. You have a few actions divided in certain controls. F to target an enemy. 1, 2, 3, 4 to select weapons. Left click to engage in combat, Right click to jog and holding Right click + Space to sprint. Right click to hold against a wall. Right click + Jump to climb. Shift to not slam against people when you walk, using your hand to send them away. In combat you can grab people with shift and throw them away. The E key gives you a certain focus vision where you can discern between enemies and alies highlighting them. Those are just to name a few. You can even impersonate as a monk when you walk and hold space.

MY OPINION
After finishing the campaign, this game had me searching for The Crusades history. And there's a lot of it. I was searching on google for 2 days about it just to know more about this game and its context. I tell you this just to show you how engaging it can be. You hear about the saracens, rafiqs. Had to look that up, what that meant. Maybe certain words you'll do too. It's fun. Learning about real history. I may have never investigated as much as I did if it weren't for AC 1.

VERDICT
A very good introduction to the series. It still holds up in terms of graphics in my opinion. It's decent. If you like history, an intriguing story, action and an immersive experience, pick this one up.

Tex Murphy is an engaging point and click game. Thing is, it gets tedious to redo conversations over and over again until I find a specific item or realize that I could already ask for questions. But hey, if you would like to try an old school point and click adventure, this is a cool one.
This genre just isn't for me or I just get stuck and can't get myself to play more, at least with this Tex Murphy game.
Also, I played just a bit of hours, maybe you like it more than I do.

The game is fun and very immersive. It has a dedicated and nice community. That's why I'm giving it a thumbs up. But, I can't recommend it at the state it is right now, unless you can bear with a bot kicking you out of the servers from time to time. EA is selling a game where players can't play when they want (this being a multiplayer focused game, besides Frontier Defense which you can do solo though) and I would call this as it is, a scam. I bought this game expecting at least stable servers. Nope.
I guess they abandoned all suport on this game but want to cash in anyways. It sickens me.
I had a decent amount of time where I enjoyed my stay. Had a solo walk in the maps on FD in search of lore. Battled titans, grunts and spectres in FD with other players. Had the luck to explore the very short campaign with some players.
I guess I got my money's worth. I wanted to play today. Got in a game where a player said he waited 40 min for this game to fill up (you need 2 players to start an atrittion mode which is the most popular). Minutes later the server went down. Made a new lobby and got kicked out again.
Keep in mind, if you buy this game you're helping the game to be alive, even if you're able to play for a few hours. Also, you can find in the discussions a discord server where people hold private matches.

VERDICT
If, only if, you have the patience to play when the bot or whatever it's bringing down the servers decides, you have a cool game in your hands. In comparison to Titanfall 2, you enter titans in first person in a lot of ways and you can customize the loadout of your titans too. I didn't played TF2 yet, but I know in this one you don't have a lot of mobility options besides walljumping which gives you a boost and stim that grants you a little bit more speed and health recovery. So it's a more grounded and skill based game. It all depends in your timing. You also have burn cards which gives you a lot of options that adapt to your playstyle. Stronger weapons, cloaked indefinitely, enemy player tracking, call in a titan whenever you want and a lot more. You can even respawn where you died if you picked that burn card (it's called "Rematch"). They work until you die, you can pick 3 per game.
So in short, small but dedicated playerbase riddled with a bot kicking people out of servers. An interesting look at the building blocks of Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends. Of course, an experience that only this game holds.

INTRODUCTION
Paganitzu is a puzzle game, sequel to Chagunitzu, with a developing story between 3 chapters, each containing 20 levels to solve.
Alabama Smith is your main protagonist who is passionate about archeology and about what's inside Paganitzu, "the temple of the gods". Could it be treasure?

GAMEPLAY
As a puzzle game, it all comes down to wits and a little bit of timing too, because of the monsters.
You move with your arrow keys, use the space or enter to activate or use things and that's about it. Then you'll navigate each room with a new challenge, or kinda because some tactics will be used again.

MY OPINION
I'm gonna say it now. This is a hard game or at the very least, challenging. It begins easy enough, but overtime it starts to pick up on difficulty and for me, it got worse and worse, beside some levels that were quite a relief.
I really wanted this game to end, because I don't like puzzles that much and get stuck a lot. I had to watch walkthroughs for some levels because they just took too much time to figure them out.
Beside this, it's a game that of course, it's really old, old school. For example, when you move, your character makes a screeching sound, like someone is putting its nails on a chalkboard and there's other examples of very annoying sounds too.
Oh, and let's not forget that like some other old school puzzle titles, you can checkmate yourself if you do things as they weren't intended.

VERDICT
If you enjoy puzzles and a painful challenge (in my opinion), go for it , if you can overlook its sound effects, which you can mute if it's too much to bear.
You can check it out if you're interested in old school gaming too, but it's not a must.

Overall, it's a good game for its time, quite challenging and with some pop references that probably won't make you laugh. Or just some bad puns that won't either.

I played a bit while the free weekend was on. I think this is a really neat concept and a very competitive game. The player doesn't have to just aim good, he has to keep in mind what he has done, what the enemy has done and what the future will be. You have to think fast and be aware at all times so you don't miss out on anything.
It all relies on aim, memory and good strategy.
If you want a challenge to your mind, while pvping, this is the game for you.
I hope this game succeeds :)