Recent reviews by Score Magala

It's incredibly fun, but it's oh so short and can be janky. Probably the closest we'll ever get to playing an actual RPG with xenomorphs and yautja. So, for what it's worth, yeah, I recommend it. Gives a nice ten or so hours of solid gameplay that left me wanting more

Mesa update is just too much of a problem for me to recommend the game as a whole. A genuine fifth of the game is now a bloated mess. Too much in too long of a zone kills the entire thing. Homing scorpions(that are a death sentence if you get stung by), tumbleweeds, proximity mines, tornadoes, sun damage, cacti, sand storms, total resource burning dead ends, a bottomless chasm, dune sand worms, no clear way to progress upward so just guess instead of plan, list goes on.

It's a time sink and too much artificial difficulty bloat to keep me invested any longer. A laundry list of things to avoid does not make a hard level. It just makes it tedious and boring. I can't believe I'm saying this but the alpine is a better designed zone than the mesa. And I've beaten this game solo, many times.

And that sucks because I do love PEAK. It's fun to play with friends or solo. It's cute, it's charming, and a great game to just vibe to, but the mesa fully ruins that

Cute aesthetic, but way too reliant on luck to be properly fun

The best management sim I've ever played. It's funny, it's creative, filled to the brim with charm. An absolute blast through and through

Thanks for not making this $70+, Bethesda. I know that took restraint

Monster Hunter: It's Wilds How Bad It Runs

WB really launched the game, took it out for a year or so, brought it back with NO warning or fanfare, then threw up their hands and decided to shut it down

What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disappointment.

I'm going to be real. I don't care if NetEase says EOMM does or doesn't exist. Whatever they call it isn't working. Their matchmaking is genuinely so terrible that everyone I talk to that used to play Rivals, has dropped the game BECAUSE of the matchmaking. They can gaslight us as much as they damn well please, but since every one of these reviews is talking about it? Not going how they want it to.

Unless they overhaul the matchmaking system, they will continue to bleed players. At this point, even I'm considering bailing. It's just not fun anymore.

NetEase can call their matchmaking system whatever they want, because we call it what it really is. Garbage.

Edit: Don't believe me? Take a good look at your friends list on Steam and in game and tell me how many don't play anymore or haven't been online in months. There's your answer. NetEase will continue to lie and gaslight until Rivals is well and truly dead, because hey! A new skin is out, so why should they care when they're making buckets of money? If only they put even a fraction of that much time, effort, and money into fixing their game... Like that will ever happen.

For a game that's been in development for almost a decade, that rose from the corpse of a widely loved monster breeding game(Breeding Season), there's an incredibly shocking lack of content. QOL, things to do, depth, interactions with other characters(even just casually), etc. Sure, it's got some of the prettiest pixel art, but, right now? The farming, breeding, exploration, it's all surface level. I got completely caught up with content in some five or six hours.

I really have to emphasize the lack of content. If the game just came out in early access, in the state it's in, it's understandable. Yet Cloud Meadow started in early 2016, got put on Steam in 2020, and is THIS barren in 2024? I know game development is hard, but eight years is a long time, ESPECIALLY for an indie game. I don't like to compare, but to give reference... Stardew Valley, THEE indie farming game, also came out in 2016.

I'm curious what the full release will look like in 2025, because if the price jumps up and there's not much difference? This will be the hardest pass I give on an indie game. Honestly, a part of me wonders if the game will ever actually be finished. So, here's hoping it proves me wrong, delivers in the end, and I get to rewrite this for a positive recommendation.

I platinumed the game in an hour and a half. It's really good, especially for free

Also, after investigating myself, I have cleared myself, the werewolf janitor, of any wrong doing