Recent reviews by Azimuth

Season 2 has you taking on the role of Clementine this time. In the zombie apocalypse apparently 11 year olds are considered adults and are supposed to be responsible leaders for a rag tag group of survivors. On a positive note you can be as ruthless and as much of a sociopath as you wish because most of your fellow survivors aren't very likeable. You survive this season with a bunch of incompetent, overly emotional fools and sycophants.

That all said, it was much the sameness from the first season and it was enjoyable, just not to the same extent that the first season was.

The Walking Dead could have been named 'Father Simulator' as you take on the role of Lee a convicted murderer who is thrust into the role of father figure to a cute little girl, Clementine. You have to protect her as you trek your way across the United States mainland in search of her actual parents. In your cross country trip you quickly learn that life in the zombie apocalypse is much like life prior where you're just moving from one ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up situation to another and that you need to be prepared to deal with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at every turn.

This game will make you feel dem feels, and has a good art style and an interesting story and atmosphere, if you don't mind the slower pace you'll enjoy this game.

The Wolf Among Us is an interactive story based on the eponymous comics. In a world where fables walk among us, you play the role of Bigby, the Big Bad Wolf, sheriff of Fabletown. The story begins with you investigating a disturbance involving your arch-nemesis Woody where you end up rescuing a prostitute from beating. After which, you try to slay that ♥♥♥♥♥ yourself, but before you can seal the deal you find her head laid at your doorstep. The story twists and turns as you follow your investigation to find out who is ♥♥♥♥-blocking you at every turn by murdering each and every lady you hit on. You will need to unravel the mystery before Fabletown unravels. "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you..." -- Friedrich Nietzsche.

The gameplay is the fairly standard affair for a Telltale game, with plenty of dialogue and differing moral options set on a timer along with a few quicktime events and point and click adventure mechanics mixed in. If you enjoy this style of storytelling then you will enjoy this game.

A short but interesting game in which you play the imaginery(?) friend of a young girl who seems to have been neglected by her parents and running amok a somewhat barron town late at night. You phase in and out of the shadows to bypass obstacles and help the young girl Didi prevent her father from being killed by some thugs with whom he is indebted to by helping get his latest get rich quick scheme a circus to actually run successfully. Through this adventure Didi will discover the truth about her parents and her heritage. I would recommend picking this game up when it's on special as it's worth playing but not at the $15 price point.

One of my main problems with the Action RPG genre is that they tend to be repetitive and boring, which is something that Path of Exile managed to surprise me with, especially so when you consider it's Free to Play (and not Pay to Win -all in game purchases are vanity purchases or stash spaces). The game can seem a little overwhelming at first with it's enormous and deeply complex skill tree and its myriad of skills. The combination of the two mean that you can make hundreds, even thousands of different combinations of characters and still find fresh and new builds.

The game content (storyline) itself is rather short with it being easily possible to move through the story on all three difficulties within 10-15 hours before reaching the endgame content known as Maps. Maps have endless possibilities and are actually item drops much like weapons and armour which can also be enchanted using the various orbs in the game which also double as the currency as Path of Exile relies on a barter trade system rather than gold which is an interesting solution to the currency sink/inflation balance issue that plagues many games which rely on an economy.

Path of Exile also has multiple leagues running at once, there are standard and hardcore leagues which are the life-long leagues which will run till the servers shutdown for the game which have economies that never get reset. Along side the two long running leagues there are 'mutation' 4 month leagues which will add a flavour onto the standard gameplay model and also allow players to start in a fresh economy on a regular basis which gives newer players an equal chance to acquire wealth. Once these leagues come to an end the player's wealth will be moved to the respective parent league (standard/hardcore). Further more Path of Exile also challenges players in short term leagues known as races where players will compete to reach the highest level or the furtherest through the content with different modifiers on each short term race, from turbo enemies, to endless monster farming zones ranging anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 week. Players will earn points during these races which get added up over the course of a race season to earn valuable unique items as rewards.

That said, the thing that stopped me from playing the game was issues with ping spikes and lagging out, albeit most likely due to my connection, it seemed to be exacerbated by their lag compensation methods with consant desyncs and disconnects something I rarely suffer from in most other games I've played. That aside I would still strong recommend Path of Exile to anyone even remotely interested in ARPGs or looking for something new to play but don't want to spend much money.
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tl;dr
-F2P not P2W.
-Complex and deep. High replayability
-Interesting economy.
-Lag/internet issues seem to be more noticeable in this game compared to most other games.

You goat to play this game.

The original Baldur's Gate is one of my favourite games, second only to its successor and is a game any rpg fan must play. Due to its art style for a game that came out in 1998 it still holds up well today. Graphically this game still looks beautiful due to 2d painting-esque backdrops and thirdperson isometric viewpoint.

The gameplay also has an incredible amount of depth to it and the combat is very tactical and varied depending on the class you play and the party setup you choose. The game is also from an era when games were unforgiving and actually provided the player with a challenge. The combat is similar to Dragon Age: Origins where it can be free-flowing and action oriented but it is highly recommended that players take it slowly and utilise pausing to setup properly between rounds during combat.

The game being built upon the ruleset of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons has a lot of depth to classes and the classes will all playout and feel very different which offers a lot of replayability ontop of just choosing and adhering to different alignments.

Also due to the game being built upon AD&D and being set in a D&D realm the game has an incredible amount of history and backstory in there that the world feels real and is incredibly dark and gritty which ties in great with the dark tones of the main story.

Without spoiling too much of the story it starts with very humble beginning and quickly thrusts the player into a world descending into turmoil with bandits and bad guys wanting to kill you at every turn you must uncover the sinister plot that is unfolding and discover your own dark heritage in the process.

I would wholeheartedly recommend this game although I will warn that there is a lot of reading involved and that the combat is designed to played slowly (unlike diablo and games of its ilk) and very tactically but for those that love a game with a great story this game is undoubtedly one you should play.

More of the same fun that the first game entailed, but a tad short, finished the whole game on elite difficult in a little over 3 hours.